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April Hayes

April Hayes is a Los Angeles-based documentary director, producer, and creative director. As a producer, her recent projects include the Emmy and Sundance Film Festival award winning feature documentary The Sentence, an intimate film about the longterm impacts of mass incarceration and mandatory minimum sentencing on one family; Rolling Thunder: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, which premiered on Netflix in 2019; and LYNCHING IN AMERICA, a multimedia documentary project with the Equal Justice Initiative on the history of lynching and racial terror in America that has won a Bronze Lion award at Cannes, two Webby awards, and went on to become a traveling exhibit at Brooklyn Museum and EJI’s The Legacy Museum: From Enslavement to Mass Incarceration. Recent directing projects include a short documentary as part of Google’s #ShowUp campaign documenting the current state of Pride movements around the country, "Respond & Rebuild," about Occupy’s post-Hurricane Sandy relief efforts in the Rockaways that was featured on Democracy Now! in 2013, and directed with Katia Maguire, God is a Garden (2015), about an order of environmentalist nuns. April also works as an archivist, most notably managing Bob Dylan’s media archive for seven years, and working as an in-house producer for his film and video projects. She is currently working at Google's Brand Studio, where she develops documentary and nonfiction storytelling projects. (10/19)

Katia Maguire

Katia Maguire is an Emmy-nominated documentary producer and director. Most recently she produced FRIDA, the 2024 Sundance Film Festival award-winning documentary about Frida Kahlo. She was post-production supervisor on the hit documentary RBG, about Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, that was nominated for the 2019 Academy Awards. Her longtime association with public television includes co-directing the PBS film Home Truth, a ten-year longitudinal film about a domestic violence survivor and human rights advocate. She also produced Kingdom of Shadows (PBS/POV) and The Graduates/Los Graduados (PBS/Independent Lens) and was a senior associate producer on PBS' Women, War & Peace. Katia worked with veteran journalist Bill Moyers on several of his weekly PBS public affairs television programs. She was an associate producer on Quest for Honor, a documentary about violence against women in Iraq that was short-listed for the 2010 Academy Awards. Over the course of her almost twenty year career she has been selected for producing fellowships with Impact Partners, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Union Docs, the National Association of Latino Independent Producers, and the Flaherty Film Seminar. She lives in New Jersey and is a mom of two. (7/31)