MEET THE MENTORS
SDF’s next round of mentors will be announced in February.
Please contact our Program Manager, Christopher Everett at chris@southerndocumentaryfund.
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The SDF Mentorship Program is designed to pair established filmmakers and industry experts with emerging and new filmmakers. We provide support, which includes one-on-one mentorship, roundtable discussions, and feedback on work samples.
SDF’s next round of mentors will be announced in February.
Please contact our Program Manager, Christopher Everett at chris@southerndocumentaryfund.
Andrew has spent the last decade living & working in sub-Saharan Africa; first as a humanitarian and then as a filmmaker. Most recently, Andrew was the co-director, cinematographer, producer & editor of BETWEEN THE RAINS (awarded Best Feature Documentary and Best Cinematography at Tribeca Festival 2023; IDA nomination for Best Cinematography; Cinema Eye Honors nomination for Best Production). In 2023, Andrew was also the editor of the National Geographic/Disney+ documentary PATH OF THE PANTHER (executive produced by Leonardo di Caprio). Before that, Andrew was the producer (p.g.a.), cinematographer & editor of KIFARU (Audience Award at Full Frame 2019). Prior to that, Andrew spent three years building relationships within northern Kenya’s poaching network, unveiling the intricacies of the illegal ivory trade as the producer of WHEN LAMBS BECOME LIONS (winner of Best Editing at Tribeca Film Festival 2018).
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Rob Hill, 3-time Emmy Nominated Documentary filmmaker, majored in Motion Picture and Television Production at the University of Southern Colorado. With a small grant in 1999, he produced, directed and edited the non-fiction film Live In It To Win It, which screened at numerous film festivals nationwide. Rob directed, edited and wrote the Emmy nominated documentary, The Fort Fisher Hermit. That film also won Best Documentary Feature at the Hollywood Digital Film Festival and is distributed internationally by American Public Television and Cinetic Media. The National Academy of Television Science nominated Rob for the prestigious Rising Star Award in 2007. In 2011 Rob received his third EMMY nomination for the PBS documentary BATTLESHIP NORTH CAROLINA: The Showboat Legacy. Rob is the Creator & Executive Producer of the documentary series REPLAN IT, for KCET, the nation’s largest independent public television station.
AREA OF EXPERTISE
Southern Documentary Fund
P.O. Box 3622, Durham, NC 27702
info@southerndocumentaryfund.org
919-308-3714
One-on-one mentorship sessions and mentorship roundtables are only available to SDF supported makers at this time. An SDF supported maker is someone who has received a grant through SDF, or is fiscally sponsored by SDF. We will be hosting a limited number of mentorship webinars in the future that will be open to all.
