The Producers
Sofian Khan - Director/Producer/Cinematographer
Sofian is the founder of Capital K Pictures, a New York-based production house. His short work has appeared on Field of Vision, The Fader, Al Jazeera, NBC and The Atlantic Selects. He is a 2016 MacArthur Documentary Grant recipient for The Interpreters — a feature-length documentary about Afghan and Iraqi interpreters who worked with US forces. The film was completed with support from ITVS, the Tribeca Institute and Firelight Media, and was released on the 2019-2020 season of PBS’ Independent Len series. His first feature documentary Gaucho Del Norte — following South American sheepherders who are recruited to work in the American West — made its broadcast premiere on PBS’ America ReFramed series in 2015. Currently, Sofian is producing An Act of Worship, based on a short he co-directed for Field of Vision about the 2017 travel ban. It has received support from Ford Foundation’s JustFilms, Chicken & Egg and Made in NY, amongst others. Sofian is a Sundance Institute Creative Producing Fellow and is developing several new projects under the Capital K Pictures banner.
Andres Caballero - Director/Producer
Andres is a public radio producer, journalist and documentary filmmaker based in New York. He’s currently a producer at NPR's Latino USA and his stories have appeared on NPR’s Morning Edition, Weekend Edition, PBS, Deutsche Welle, and other media outlets. He produced The Military Voices series for StoryCorps, about military personnel who served in post 9/11 conflicts. Andres is a former NPR/Above the Fray fellow, where he reported stories from Cameroon and the Central African Republic. He co-directed Gaucho Del Norte (2015), an observational documentary that follows the journey of a Patagonian immigrant sheepherder recruited to work in the American west. Andres is also a 2016 MacArthur Documentary Grant recipient for The Interpreters, a feature length documentary he is co-directing about Iraqi and Afghan interpreters who worked with US forces and are now trying to rebuild their lives in the aftermath of war. Andres is also on the board of the Americas Media Initiative, an organization that supports independent filmmakers in Cuba.