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David Osit is a documentary film director, editor and composer. His work has appeared on HBO, NBC, PBS, TLC, Al-Jazeera America, Channel4 and Arte. David’s first feature documentary film was Building Babel (2012); he produced, directed, shot and edited the film, and composed its score.  Building Babel was a recipient of ITVS Open Call funding; it was broadcast as the series premiere of PBS America Reframed in 2013, and played at film festivals worldwide, including True/False and DocNYC. David was co-producer and composer for Where Heaven Meets Hell (IDFA, Hot Docs), which broadcast on PBS Global Voices in 2013. David was also the editor of Live From New York!, the opening night film of the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival, which broadcast nationwide on NBC in Fall 2015. He received his bachelorʼs degree at the Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies at the University of Michigan, and studied Refugee Law at the American University of Cairo. David is a recipient of the Anthony Rhodes Vice Presidential Scholarship and received his MFA in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts in New York.

Alenda Y. Chang is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. With a multidisciplinary background in biology, literature, and film, she specializes in merging ecocritical theory with the analysis of contemporary media. Her writing has recently been featured in Ant Spider Bee, Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment, and Qui Parle, and her current book project develops ecological frameworks for understanding and designing digital games. She also maintains the Growing Games blog as a resource for researchers in game and ecomedia studies and the environmental humanities.