Aurora Brachman is an Emmy-winning documentary filmmaker named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Her film, Hold Me Close, premiered at Sundance 2025. Her shorts When the Revolution Doesn’t Come, Club Quarantine, Joychild and Still Waters were acquired by The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Guardian and POV. She co-produced Apple TV+’s Girls State (Sundance 2024) and A24’s Stephen Curry: Underrated (Sundance 2023). Brachman is supported by The Sundance Institute, Firelight Media, Film Independent, Chicken & Egg, The Gotham and is one of Vimeo’s Breakout Creators. She holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University.