Kathy Davidov

Kathy Davidov is an award-winning television executive. She led production teams at National Geographic, Discovery Channel, TLC, and Al Jazeera America. For more than three decades, Kathy created innovative, character-driven, documentaries across a range of media from film to television to virtual reality. Among her career highlights; revamping National Geographic’s flagship series Explorer, launching Al Jazeera America’s documentary showcase AJAM Presents, and overseeing the hugely popular Trading Spaces franchise. Kathy is now a certified executive coach, working with clients from her base in New York City. Additionally, she serves on the Board of Directors of 100Reporters which presents the Double Exposure Investigative Film Festival and Symposium.

Participating Sessions

FACING GOLIATH

Investigative filmmakers and journalists are committed to holding power to account and following a covert trail of misdeeds wherever it may lead. But what happens when the trail lands them on the doorstep of the most powerful governments, corporations, and institutions in the world? In three remarkable films in this year’s lineup, filmmakers and their subjects dare to stand up to powerful, perhaps even untouchable institutions. The Grab, by Gabriela...

The Future (Disappearance?) of Digital Abundance

NFTs and digital currency were once celebrated as offering a futuristic, if barely understood, path forward, both for countless people trying to get rich and for content creators including filmmakers and journalists. Creators saw a way for their followers to support their work, often through the purchase of NFTs, creating a kind of membership base to fund their work. The collapse of cryptocurrency erased $2 trillion in wealth, 80 percent...