Focus Forward: Short Films, Big Ideas is an award-winning series of 30 three-minute stories about innovators—people who are reshaping the world through act or invention—directed by the world's most celebrated documentary filmmakers.
Cast
Crew
Katy Chevigny
Director
Lixin Fan
Director
Liz Garbus
Director
Alex Gibney
Director
Steve James
Director
Ross Kauffman
Director
Albert Maysles
Director
Stanley Nelson
Director
Lucy Walker
Director
Jessica Yu
Director
Jessica Edwards
Director
Gary Hustwit
Director
Eddie Schmidt
Director
Phil Cox
Director
Steven Cantor
Director
Paul Wedel
Director
David White
Director
Viktor Kossakovsky
Director
Jeff Reichert
Director
Farihah Zaman
Director
Heloísa Passos
Director
Michael Tucker
Director
Petra Epperlein
Director
Supriyo Sen
Director
Nelson George
Director
Michèle Ohayon
Director
Fredrik Gertten
Director
David W. Leitner
Director
Ricki Stern
Director
Anne Sundberg
Director
Jeremiah Zagar
Director
Kief Davidson
Director
Senain Kheshgi
Director
Morgan Spurlock
Director
Leslie Iwerks
Director
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