Christine Santora
Christine Santora is a filmmaker, director, and lifelong New Yorker. She spent 20 years in advertisingat agencies including Mother, Anomaly, and Wieden+Kennedy. Her work has been recognized byCannes Lions, D&AD, Clios, Webbys, AICP, and the Emmy Awards. She was also named one ofBusiness Insider’s Most Creative Women in Advertising in 2014. In 2020, she wrote […]
Samina Saifee
Samina Saifee is a filmmaker and writer based in Brooklyn and LA. She is a graduate of New York University’s Stern-Tisch Dual Degree Program where she studied film and business. She is a 2024/25 Sundance Building Bridges Fellow, a 2024/25 Sundance Ignite Fellow, and an Orchard Project Episodic Lab Fellow. Her first short, AMERIGIRL, is on NoBudge. Her second […]
Christopher Poindexter
Christopher Poindexter is the co-creator, writer, and producer of BRIC TV’s Brooklynification, a digital series The New York Times described as “sharper than most… well-acted and well-written… understated satire.” His latest project, Hotter in July, marks his directorial debut—a three-part romantic dramedy set in the world of Black Broadway. A graduate of Columbia Law School, Chris works as a […]
CARLEN MAY-MANN
CARLEN MAY-MANN (they/she) is a Brooklyn-based writer and director of bold, humanistichorror and drama films. Her debut short THE RAT, a haunted house film about genderedviolence, premiered at Sundance 2019. It went on to screen at the Champs-Elysées FilmFestival, the Maryland Film Festival, and more before premiering online on Gunpowder & Sky’shorror platform ALTER and […]
K.PAGE STUART VALDES
A New York-based filmmaker, writer, musician and educator. An award winning New York based writer and director. Her feature screenplay Midnight Oil (formally Borderline ’73) was an Academy Award Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship semi-finalist, Sundance Writer’s Lab finalist, and a second rounder at Austin Film Festival. Her short We Got This, which stars Jessica Frances Dukes […]
David Usui
David Usui has spent over 15 years crafting character-driven documentaries as a director and cinematographer. His work has been featured on PBS, ITVS, The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and VICE. His collaboration with the legendary director Albert Maysles on In Transit—a contemplative exploration of life on Amtrak’s Empire Builder—premiered at Tribeca […]
Darek Dylo
Darek Dylo is a New York City–based writer and director, originally from New Orleans. His work has been praised by ShowStudio’s Nick Knight as “seductive, unpretentious, and emotionally resonant,” and he served on the committee for the 2023 Tribeca Film Festival. Through his company, Black Boots NYC, Darek fuses emotionally charged, character-driven narratives with striking […]
Cecilia Delgado
Cecilia Delgado is a Venezuelan and Brazilian filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York. Her short film YOUNG MOM screened at InsideOut Toronto, Salerno Film Festival, and Future of Film is Female. It won the Audience Award at La Femme Independent Film Festival, premiered online on Film Shortage and Short Of The Week, and earned a […]
Yuval Shapira
A Brooklyn based filmmaker, Yuval Shapira is releasing two new projects in 2024: The Speed of the Distance Between Us, which had its national premiere at Docaviv International Documentary Film Festival, and Tears Tears Only Tears, distributed by Gargantua Film and pre-sold to WeShort streaming. His short film Gila Who Walks Alone (2022), funded by CNC and The Israeli New Fund […]
Carrie Hawks
Carrie Hawks confronts self-imposed and external assumptions about identity in order to promote healing, particularly in relation to Blackness, gender, and queer sexuality. They work in animation, drawing, collage, sculpture, and performance, often incorporating humor. Their film black enuf* was nominated for a New York Emmy, won Best Documentary Short at Trans Stellar Film Festival, […]