David Garrett Byars made his directorial debut at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival with No Man’s Land (Tribeca 2017, Independent Lens), a documentary about the 2016 militia occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge that sparked international headlines. Byars also produced and lensed Massacre River (Hot Docs 2019, ITVS) Suzan Beraza’s film about statelessness in the Dominican Republic.

Jeremy Hunter Rubingh is the producer of Public Trust. He is also a self-made thousandaire and caffeine-dependent life form that has spent the majority of his time on earth working and playing to protect mountains, powder snow, wild fish and wild landscapes. The rest of the time he tries his best to look busy and awesome.

Yvon Chouinard is an itinerant adventurer, environmental activist and iconoclastic businessman. His company, Patagonia, has sued the Trump administration for its drastic rescission of Bears Ears National Monument. Chouinard is the cofounder of 1 % for the Planet and has been an executive producer of the award-winning documentaries DamNation and Artifishal, as well as of Public Trust.

Robert Redford is acclaimed as an award-winning actor, producer, director, and champion of independent film. He is also the founder of Sundance Institute, where he has nurtured generations of innovative voices in independent culture through the Institute and Film Festival.

A noted environmentalist, Redford has been an advocate for climate change awareness and clean energy for over 40 years. In 2016 he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama. He has served as a trustee for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and is the cofounder of The Redford Center with his son James.