Q&A with director Paige Bethmann and producer Jessica Epstein, moderated by Tabitha Jackson

Thursday, Aug. 21 2025, 7:00

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• Paige Bethmann is a Haudenosaunee woman (Mohawk/Oneida) and first-time feature filmmaker based in Reno, Nevada. Over the last 10 years, Paige has worked in non-fiction television for various digital and broadcast networks such as ESPN, PBS, Vox Media, Youtube Originals, USA, and NBC. She is a graduate of Ithaca College, with a bachelor’s degree in Film, Television, and Radio from the Park School of Communications.
• Jessica Epstein has been working in documentary film and unscripted television for over 10 years. She has worked in the U.S. and abroad and has produced both long and short format content. Her work abroad demonstrates her capacity for collaborating across cultures. She has worked with documentary filmmakers and producers with a project recently premiering as part of DOC NYC.
• Tabitha Jackson is an arts advocate and consultant who has spent her 30 year career supporting the independent voice, championing the social and cultural power of artful cinema, and uplifting a more expansive set of makers, audiences, and forms. In 2020, as the first woman and person of color to be appointed Director of Sundance Film Festival, she re-imagined and led two technologically innovative and radically accessible pandemic editions which ‘expanded the possibilities of what a film festival can be, and who it can be for’. Between 2013 and 2020 she headed the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, launching the Art of Nonfiction initiative to rethink traditional project support in favor of artist-centered models, and to amplify institutional support of formal innovation in nonfiction cinema. In the UK Tabitha worked in production at BBC Television, as Arts Commissioning Editor at Channel 4, and Executive Producer of theatrical documentaries for Film4 including 20,000 Days on Earth (Iain and Jane), and The Arbor (Clio Barnard). Tabitha is also a member of the Jacob Burns Film Center's Industry Advisory Committee.