DRIFTING CLOUD PRODUCTIONS is an Emmy®-winning production company founded by director Lana Wilson in 2014. Its productions include Look Into My Eyes (an A24 film that premiered at Sundance 2024 and is now streaming on Max), Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields (Primetime Emmy nominee® for Outstanding Directing for a Documentary), After Tiller (News & Documentary Emmy® winner for Best Documentary), The Departure (Independent Spirit Award nominee for Best Documentary), and A Cure for Fear (IDA Award nominee for Best Short-Form Series). Drifting Cloud Productions has produced films and series for broadcasters and partners including Netflix, Hulu, A24, First Look Media, Oscilloscope, and PBS, which have gone on to break viewership records and win numerous awards and extensive critical acclaim. Wilson also directed the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana for Netflix (Sundance 2020 Opening Night Film). Drifting Cloud Productions is currently in development on several documentary features and series.
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LANA WILSON is an Emmy-winning and two-time Spirit Award-nominated director and writer. Her most recent film, Look Into My Eyes, premiered at Sundance 2024 and was released by A24. It was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review, and nominated for three Cinema Eye Honors, including Best Nonfiction Feature and Best Directing. The retrospective Come Alive: The Films of Lana Wilson was presented by the Museum of the Moving Image (New York) in Fall 2024.
Wilson’s two-part documentary Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields premiered at Sundance 2023, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, and broke viewership records when it launched globally on Hulu and Disney+. Pretty Baby was nominated for two Cinema Eye Honors, including Best Broadcast Film, a Critic’s Choice Award, and two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Directing for a Documentary/Nonfiction Program.
Wilson directed the Taylor Swift documentary Miss Americana, which was the opening night film of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival and a Netflix Original. Miss Americana was a New York Times Critics’ Pick, an IndieWire Critics’ Pick, and named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review.
In 2017, Wilson’s film The Departure was called “a work of art” by the San Francisco Chronicle and a “genuinely spiritual experience” by the Washington Post. The Departure premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was nominated for the 2018 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary. Wilson’s first film, After Tiller (2013), which goes inside the lives of the four most-targeted abortion providers in the country, premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival. and went on to win an Emmy Award for Best Documentary. It was nominated for the Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary, four Cinema Eye Honors, a Satellite Award, and the Ridenhour Prize, as well as named one of the five best documentaries of the year by the National Board of Review.
Wilson created and directed A Cure for Fear, a four-episode series for Topic, which played SXSW and was nominated for the 2019 IDA Award for Best Short-Form Series.
Wilson has been awarded artist fellowships from the Sundance Institute, MacDowell, Yaddo, and Film Independent, and has taught at Pratt Institute. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
SHRIHARI SATHE is a New York-based director and producer. Sathe won the 2019 Independent Spirit Award – Producers Award and the 2016 Cinereach Producer Award.
His credits as producer/co-producer include Jamie Sisley’s Stay Awake (2022), Francisca Alegria’s The Cow Who Sang a Song Into The Future (2022), Mostofa Sarwar Farooki’s No Land’s Man (2021), Eliza Hittman’s It Felt Like Love (2013) and Beach Rats (2017), Partho Sen-gupta’s Sunrise (2014), Afia Nathaniel’s Dukhtar (2014), Bassam Jarbawi’s Screwdriver (2018), Ritu Sarin & Tenzing Sonam’s The Sweet Requiem (2018) amongst others. Sathe’s feature directorial debut – 1000 Rupee Note (2014) has received over 30 awards.
Sathe has received fellowships from Trans Atlantic Partners (2013), Cannes Producers Network (2014, 2015, 2016), Film Independent Producing Lab (2011), Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab (2013) and was most recently a recipient of the One House Filmmaker Fund (2023). Sathe has taught at various universities over the last decade and is currently the Head of Producing and Visiting Associate Arts Professor in the Graduate Film Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Sathe is a member of the PGA, IMPPA and AMPAS.
KYLE MARTIN is the founder of the independent film label Electric Chinoland. His most recent project, Dash Shaw’s animated feature “Cryptozoo,” won the Jury Prize in the 2021 Next section of the Sundance Film Festival and is currently in release by Magnolia Pictures. His latest documentary feature “Jagged” about Alanis Morissette premieres on HBO on November 18th. He’s currently in production on a two-part HBO doc about Paul Reubens with Director Matt Wolf and Executive Produced by the Safdie Brothers; a feature doc with Director Margaret Brown and Participant Media; a feature documentary about psychics with Director Lana Wilson; and a short doc with ESPN’s 30 for 30 and Director Lance Edmands.
His recent credits include the HBO Documentary series “The Vow,” and “RECORDER: The Marion Stokes Project.” His previous projects include the Independent Spirit Award nominee Donald Cried; the GKids 2017 release My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea; and Lena Dunham’s Tiny Furniture (Independent Spirit Award Winner 2011). He is a recipient of the Sundance Institute’s Mark Silverman Producing Fellowship, the San Francisco Film Society’s Kenneth Rainin Foundation Fellowship, the IFP/Cannes Marche Du Film Producer’s Network Fellowship, the Sundance Institute/Rotterdam Cinemart Producing Fellowship, and was named one of Variety magazine’s “Ten Producers to Watch.”