The Workshop was conducted by Carl Kesser, is an award winning filmmaker who has worked in the film industry in Miami for the past 44 years. His documentary, "Miami, The Magic City," has been running on TV for the past 28 years winning him 3 Emmy's for that project.

The Miami-Dade Parks and their G.E.M (Girls Empowerment and Mentoring) arts program participated in FFI's documentary film program at the Women's Park. The participants for this program were all-girls from the ages of 11 to14. The program ran three days a week for six weeks as part of the G.E.M summer camp. The girls produced documentaries based on accomplished women leaders in the local community. The camp covered the basics of documentary filmmaking which includes: researching the women, writing the story, filming each interview and editing the footage to create a final project.

FFI's instructors also included Arturo Sande, a film professional who works for The Center of Cinematography, Arts and Television. His credits include "Nickelodeon's Creative Summit" and "VH1's Behind the Music," among others. Philip Colodetti who has worked on several films in the field of recording and post production, handling Dialog editing, ADR, Sound editing, and Mixing Surround Sound was also an instructor.

The film 'Ancestral Voices' featured Elizabeth Cozad, Carol Stanfil and Lydia Rubio.