David B. Ambrose is a documentary filmmaker who generates impact by exposing clandestine crusades and delving into forgotten histories, linking them to contemporary societal issues to focus awareness and create positive change.
As director, he has helmed several feature documentaries in collaboration with investigative journalist Greg Palast, including The Best Democracy Money Can Buy (2016), about insidious endeavors to purge the voter rolls in predominantly Black communities; Vigilantes, Inc.: America’s New Vote Suppression Hitmen (2024), narrated by Rosario Dawson and produced by Maria Florio, Martin Sheen and George DiCaprio, exposing voter suppression campaigns around the country funded by anti-democracy forces; and the upcoming Long Knife: The Osage Nation, Koch Oil and the New Killers of the Flower Moon (2025), produced by George DiCaprio, which follows the story begun in Scorsese’s film Killers of the Flower Moon to the present day. David’s short film The Purged (2020), narrated by Debra Messing, was released by Entertainment Weekly to five million views. His feature filmmaking career began as executive producer of Monogamy (2010), which won Best NY, NY Narrative Feature at the Tribeca Film Festival. In 2011, he along with MoveOn’s Laura Dawn and Daron Murphy co-founded Art Not War, a cultural impact creative agency, through which he has produced, directed and/or edited more than 250 internet shorts that have garnered eight Pollies and six Reed Awards, including the viral Pay It Forward Pizza, which attracted more than 100 million views. He lives and works in Lisbon and Los Angeles.
Ananda Khan, producer, is a writer, researcher and with an extensive background in digital communications and media production.
She is a PhD candidate in Anthropology and her research focuses on Civic and State partnerships, migration and social integration. Previously she was researcher at the Arab Studies Institute and pursued Arabic language studies in Morocco and Lebanon, where she also taught English at the MA’AN Center of Tripoli, a non-profit which supports unaccompanied minors from Syria and North Lebanon.
