After a 30 year business career, Randy created RandomGood with the vision of improving quality of life and environmental conservation around the world, sparked by his passion as a wildlife photographer. Before launching RandomGood, Randy was an entrepreneur and consumer behavior expert. He co-founded Quantum Health, a Coordinated Health/Care company that uses behavioral science to help patients navigate the healthcare system. Randy spent 18 years as an international business strategy consultant and has co-authored two university textbooks on consumer behavior and marketing.

Christopher Gebhardt is a pioneer in harnessing storytelling to drive social impact. He developed his strategic framework at Stir, his impact consultancy, and as EVP at Participant Media, where he built digital communities and launched the agency Tag—serving clients including Disney, Intel, American Express, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Gates Foundation. Before Participant, Christopher helped shape the early field of branded entertainment at Pepsi, Ogilvy (as head of emerging technology and innovation), and as co-founder of Integrated Entertainment Partners. He began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers and holds an MBA from Northwestern’s Kellogg School. An Edmund Hillary Fellow and Fellow of the RSA, Christopher teaches at UCLA’s Anderson School and has chaired the Ad Council’s Issue Advisory Board. His career sits at the intersection of media, strategy, and mission—where powerful stories become levers for lasting change.

Rebecca Dreyfus is a critically-acclaimed filmmaker whose work legendary film critic Stanley Kauffman called "a testament to what film can do in the hands of a good documentarian: convert fact into truth." Dreyfus has a strong ability to cultivate intimacy wherever she is shooting and has filmed a wide breadth of subjects from celebrities to those living on the fringes of society. Her docu-series, ON MEDITATION, is about well-known personalities and their meditation practices, including David Lynch, Peter Matthiessen, Giancarlo Esposito and others. This unique project premiered on PBS and Netflix. Dreyfus is also the director/producer of the art house sensation STOLEN, a feature documentary about the largest unsolved art heist in American history. STOLEN was released nationwide and was included in the PBS Emmy-Award winning series, Independent Lens and released on Netflix. She created the TV special CLOSE UP: Photographers at Work for Ovation TV portraying notable photographers including Albert Maysles, Mary-Ellen Mark, Gregory Crewdson, Sylvia Plachy and Timothy Greenfield Sanders. She has received grants and fellowships for her work from The Sundance Film Institute, The Jerome Foundation, as The New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts and Women in Film.

Megan is responsible for managing RandomGood's digital and impact strategies. Megan works closely with RandomGood's filmmakers on conceptualizing campaigns meant to drive impact, awareness and systems-change, and build communities around critical issues. Megan has dedicated her career to fighting the climate crisis, protecting wildlife and natural places, and advancing environmental justice. She’s an expert environmental communicator, activist, storyteller, and strategic thinker. Megan spent 5 years developing advocacy campaigns around environmental and public health issues for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). Before that, she worked at Participant Media where she managed a NGO partnership program of 160+ orgs, developed creative ways for storytelling to drive impact, and planned large-scale events including a slam poetry salon and an event around stopping the dolphin slaughter in Japan. Megan has done freelance writing for Billboard Magazine, the LA Weekly, and the Huffington Post. She’s an avid scuba diver and received a grant to do underwater climate research and sea turtle rehabilitation work on the Great Barrier Reef. Megan is an aspiring beekeeper and is passionate about seeing live music, writing poetry, practicing yoga and meditation, and traveling. She’s fluent in French, and studied International Affairs and Philosophy at George Washington University.

Harry Bartle is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker born and raised in New York City. His short films and music videos have premiered at the New Orleans Film Festival, Indie Memphis and VICE. He completed an MFA in Screenwriting in 2021, where he received faculty honors for his feature script “The Last Electrician.” His pilot script “Jason” won Columbia’s 2020 Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award. He lives in Brooklyn.

When he is not filming documentaries in some far flung corner of Africa, David is an avid nature enthusiast who spends his time discovering the lesser known parts of the world. His favorite country he keeps coming back to is Madagascar. David is passionate about using storytelling as a tool to drive social impact while helping preserve our environment.

Natalie's goal is to bring together like-minded members of the public to create strength in numbers for ongoing marine conservation efforts. She currently resides in Hawai’i and actively participates in legislation aimed at combatting plastic pollution, creating stronger protection for sharks and rays, and phasing out cetacean captivity throughout the islands. As a Cressi ambassador, Natalie is an avid free diver and uses her time spent under the surface to document and share the visible impacts humans are having on marine life. She believes that each individual holds the power to create immense change in their lifetime and finding creative ways to inspire people to take action for the ocean is the key to saving it.

Cody Sheehy is an award-winning filmmaker whose films intimately tell the stories of characters challenged by our changing world. He has lived on a sailboat for decades and is the founder of Rhumbline Media. As a filmmaker, he is best known for the film Make People Better, which was an official selection of HotDocs and the winner of DocVille. He's also the director of the film The Last Dive, premiering at Tribeca.

Chelsea Greene is a filmmaker with a passion for documentary storytelling focused on wildlife and Indigenous guardianship. Growing up in the forests of Vermont, Chelsea's deep connection to nature led her to pursue a BA and MFA in Environmental and Wildlife Filmmaking from American University. Her work as a cinematographer and editor has been featured on Nat Geo WILD, PBS, Maryland Public Television, NBC Universal, and CNC. In 2018, Chelsea served as an associate producer, editor, and cinematographer for 'Trending China,' a TV show broadcast on NBC Universal, Bravo, and CNC, showcasing life in China through human interest stories. Chelsea's first award-winning documentary project, titled 'Borneo's Vanishing Tribes,' is a half-hour film that sheds light on the devastating impact of the palm oil industry on Borneo's rainforests and the Dayak people's efforts to preserve their way of life. Premiering at the Carnegie Institute for Science as part of the DC Environmental Film Festival and airing on PBS, the film has made a significant impact, with one of its main subjects, Wendi Tamariska, winning the Whitley Award and securing over $80,000 USD for his organization's orangutan and rainforest conservation efforts. 'We Are Guardians' is a milestone in Chelsea's filmmaking career, representing her directorial debut for a feature film. Collaborating with Robert Grobman and Indigenous filmmaker Edivan Guajajara, Chelsea dedicated four years to immersing herself in the Brazilian Amazon. The film follows the lives of Indigenous people at the forefront of Amazon deforestation, offering a multifaceted view that includes perspectives of illegal loggers, farmers, and scientists. Through this experience, Chelsea has strengthened her dedication to storytelling that highlights the essential role of Indigenous nature protectors. Her goal is to cultivate a shared sense of stewardship for the diverse life on our planet and the promising future we can build together.

Zander is a Cape Town-born photographer and videographer. After completing his degree in Mechanical Engineering, he started taking photos and videos professionally. Zander is excited by projects that allow him to meet interesting people and film beautiful wildlife. These human-wildlife conflict stories are important to share in the hope that the awareness that they create can help in the pursuit of a future of harmony.

Rudi Gremels, born and raised in the sleepy suburb of Noordhoek, Cape Town, is a South African photographer & cinematographer. He captures natural spectacles in an elegant, genuine, and reverent light. Rudi produces exquisite and luxurious black and white art prints to contrast the natural guise with the human eye.

As a snow leopard expert, naturalist, conservationist, and tour guide, Imran started his own travel company. He’s gathered a great deal of experience in adventure tourism for more than a decade, but with the passage of time, he also managed to become a wildlife filmmaker. Today, he is the Founding Director of Shan Production Company (the first production company, based in Ladakh, India).

Katla is an inventive, wry, aesthetically driven, and distinctly feminine writer-director with a diversified background in advertising, mostly scriptwriting, and editing. Preceding her masters, she spent four years as a full-time editor at a competitive advertising firm working on everything from commercials to documentaries and music videos. She’s currently in her thesis years at Columbia's illustrious MFA film program. Her first short, Að Vori or With the Arrival of Spring, went to festivals worldwide, winning awards in directing in Detroit and St. Petersburg. Her current short, Make a Wish, Benóný starring A24’s Lamb’s Björn Hlynur is in post-production. She has two shorts in development, one a textured environmental film about the rising sea levels, The Old Woman and the Sea, starring Edda Björgvins (fully funded by The Icelandic Film Fund), and ger thesis from Columbia, the fantastical and feminist fable Embla supported in part by the Indian Paintbrush Fund. Deeply curious, an avid reader, and an aestheticist through and through.

Cyril Aris is a Lebanese Director & Screenwriter and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences® . His first fiction feature film, ‘A Sad and Beautiful World ’ (2025), produced by Abbout Productions (Lebanon) & Diversity Hire (USA) is set to premiere at the 82nd Venice Film Festival, in the Giornate Degli Autori competition. His previous feature documentary Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano (2023), received a post-production grant from the Sundance Institute and premiered in the main competition at Karlovy Vary, where it won a jury special mention. The film screened at BFI London, CPH:DOX, DOC NYC, and over 80 other festivals, winning awards in Rotterdam, Valencia, Rome, San Francisco, Marseille, and beyond. His debut feature documentary, The Swing (2018), also premiered at Karlovy Vary and won multiple awards across Europe and the Arab world. His fiction short film, The President’s Visit (2017), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), won oscar-qualifying awards and played in over 70 festivals. He holds an MFA from Columbia University in the City of New York, and also works as an editor, with credits including Costa Brava, Lebanon (2021), directed by Mounia Akl, which premiered in the Orizzonti section of the Venice Film Festival, won the NETPAC award at the Toronto International Festival, the audience award at the BFI London Film Festival, and the FIPRESCI award at El-Gouna. Producing credits include short film Submarine (2016), directed by Mounia Akl, official selection at the 69th Cannes Film Festival (Cinefondation competition), as well as TIFF, SxSW and over 100 festivals worldwide.

Peter is the Former Director of the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences and Willaman Professor of Biology at Pennsylvania State University. He is an internationally recognized research biologist and Fellow of the Royal Society. Peter’s love of biology, wildlife, and wildlife photography started at a young age. His research focuses on the ecology of wildlife diseases, especially those transmissible to humans. His research group uses a mixture of fieldwork, laboratory studies, and mathematical modeling to explore disease dynamics. Peter’s work has implications for the control of wildlife diseases and emerging zoonotic spillovers into the human population.

Angus is an ecologist with over 20 years of international experience leading and delivering multidisciplinary environmental management projects across culturally and ecologically diverse landscapes. Originally from Papua New Guinea, Angus has worked in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australasia. He is passionate about environmental stewardship and the complexities associated with achieving conservation outcomes through the lenses of traditional owners, environmental managers, project sponsors, regulatory agencies, and other key stakeholders. As a photographer, Angus strives to capture the mood and character of people, habitats, and wildlife by exploring their relationships through imagery.

Dr. Paula Kahumbu, CEO of WildlifeDirect, is a Kenyan ecologist committed to transforming conservation results in Africa and the world through storytelling, science, advocacy and education. She is one of Africa’s best-known wildlife conservationists and uses film for nature campaigns to educate mass audiences and motivate Africans to take conservation actions. Paula produces and presents Africa’s first wildlife documentary series made by Africans, Wildlife Warriors, highlighting the continent’s conservationists on free channels and in schools across Kenya, and Africa’s first children’s nature series presented by African children, Team Sayari. She holds several awards and honors, was listed among the 25 most influential women of 2022 by the Financial Times, and is a presenter for National Geographic documentary series Secrets of the Elephants.

Kartiki Gonsalves is an Indian director, documentary filmmaker. She is the first Indian Film Director to have ever won an Academy Award in the history of India, A historic milestone in Indian cinema. Elizabeth Olsen and Pedro Pascal presented The Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Film to ‘The Elephant Whisperers’ at THE 95TH ACADEMY AWARDS | Sunday, March 12, 2023, held at the Dolby Theatre at Ovation Hollywood. Alongside that she received the prestigious The Paul Harris Award from Rotary International at a ceremony in India in December, 2023. Kartiki Gonsalves, the debut Oscar Winning director of the acclaimed documentary 'The Elephant Whisperers,' was presented with the prestigious Tara Award by their Majesties, King Charles III and Queen Camilla at the Lancaster House, London in June of 2023. She was honoured by the Royals for making significant contribution to human-wildlife co-existence. The Tara Award, inspired by the sacred bond between elephants and humans, recognises extraordinary achievements in storytelling and advocacy for coexistence. She is also one of the first women chosen as a Sony Alpha Artisan of Imagery in India. An associate fellow at the iLCP (International League of Conservation Photographers). Kartiki Gonsalves was honoured one of GQ India’s Most Influential Young Indians of 2023. She is also associated with brands like Peak Design, Swarovski Optik Nature Explorer 2021, and photojournalist currently based out of the Nilgiri mountains in the Western Ghats of Southern India. Kartiki infuses her passion for adventure to bring new perspectives and a deeper public understanding to the environmental and humanitarian issues that define our times. She strives to document our natural world and to help others better understand the profound connection that we share with it. On the cultural side, she focuses on capturing the diversity of cultures and tribes across the world where she seeks to give a platform to women and indigenous tribes, especially those working to conserve nature. Kartiki focuses on solutions and highlight projects that show success stories where conservation is working to give hope.

Rudolph Michel de Girardier is a documentary cinematographer and director who specializes in environmental conservation, natural history, and social impact.

Eva was born and grew up in Germany but left Europe in 2004 to fulfil her childhood dream of living in the wild places of Africa. Trained in tourism she worked in places like the Okavango Delta in Botswana as a lodge manager for several years where her knowledge, love and passion for wildlife deepened. Over the years she became a strong ambassador for wildlife conservation and the last truly wild places on the continent. It is her heartfelt wish to create awareness around the importance of the protection of these wild places for all of humanity and to assist the people that live in these areas and are doing the important conservation work. Further, she would like to help deepen (or re-awaken) our relationship with Mother Nature and to get people all around the planet involved in conservation. Eva is also a professional photographer and now works as a freelance/independent producer for RandomGood, responsible for the content on the African continent.

Filmmaker and photographer David Wright has worked in over 65 countries on projects commissioned by National Geographic, PBS, and the BBC, as well as streaming services such as Apple, Disney and Netflix. Originally from the United Kingdom, he started out producing natural history content at Oxford Scientific Films. Since then he has spent extended period working in Norway, Australia and finally settled in the US. David was the recipient of National Geographic’s 100th Emmy for his work on a polar bear film and has since won two more for BBC science and wildlife shows. He also received BAFTA and a Jules Verne award for his work in the Arctic. David also works for charitable organizations covering environmental and humanitarian stories across the globe, from the mountains of Tibet to the deserts of eastern Senegal.

Ethan Mermelstein is a writer/director living in New York. As a director, he pushes the boundaries of the narrative and documentary form, often blurring the lines between the two. His shorts have starred Tony and Golden Globe nominated actors, as well as his grandmother, his dentist, and a taxi driver he befriended while he was working as a hotel doorman. Ethan was the script coordinator on Girls and Nurse Jackie. His films have screened at festivals around the world including Palm Springs ShortFest, New Hampshire Film Festival, NoBudge, Omeleto, Indie Memphis, Seattle International Film Festival, and Mammoth Lakes. His screenwriting has received recognition from the following institutions and fellowships: Panavision New Filmmakers Grant, Sloan Science Foundation, Austin Film Festival, Nantucket Film Festival, and CineStory. He has an MFA from Columbia University where his screenwriting received the highest distinction in the program.