Ryan Koo

Ryan Koo’s directorial debut AMATEUR is a 2018 Netflix Original Film starring Michael Rainey Jr. and Josh Charles. Vulture called the basketball film “a scrupulously researched defense of player’s rights — that is, the rights of the working class — [which] scores.” Koo’s screenplay for AMATEUR was selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab and receivedSundance’s […]
Desiree Akhavan

Desiree Akhavan the writer, director and star of the Hulu original series THE BISEXUAL. She co-wrote and directed THE MISEDUCATION OF CAMERON POST, starring Chloe Grace Moretz and Sasha Lane, which won the 2018 Sundance Grand Jury Prize. Her first film, APPROPRIATE BEHAVIOR premiered at Sundance and was nominated for Best First Screenplay at the […]
Iva Radivojevic

Iva Radivojevic was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages} which collage together to connect into a ruminating […]
Johnny Ma

Johnny Ma was born in Shanghai, China, and immigrated to Toronto, Canada at age 10. He is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program and an alumni of the Sundance screenwriting and Venice Biennale College Labs. In 2016 his debut feature OLD STONE premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Best Canadian First Feature Award at the […]
Deepak Rauniyar

Deepak Rauniyar is an award-winning writer, director, producer, and assistant professor for filmstudies at the University of North Carolina Wilmington. His works in film, television, and radioproduction span over two decades and have been featured at top international film festivals,including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, Busan, Sydney, andNew Directors’ New Films Film Festivals. […]
Russell Sharman

Russell Leigh Sharman is a writer, filmmaker and anthropologist. He has written for Hollywood since 2008, working for dozens of studios and production companies, including Warner Bros., Fox, Disney, MRC, DeLine Pictures, 21 Laps, Participant Media, Montecito Pictures and Real FX. He is the writer/director of APARTMENT 4E, a feature adaptation of his stage play, […]
Nicholas Weissman

Nicholas Weissman is an Emmy award-winning documentary filmmaker based in Los Angeles. As a producer, he has worked for a variety of media outlets including The New Yorker, The New York Times, PBS, HBO, and the National Geographic Channel. His first independent film, The Minutemen, about vigilantes along the U.S.–Mexico border, won the Silver Hugo […]