Joanna is a filmmaker and actor based in Brooklyn. Her past films include "Bad at Dancing" which won the Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize, "Laying Out" and personal documentary feature "i hate myself :)" Her films have screened at other festivals including Rotterdam, New York Film Festival and Hong Kong...
Kira Dane
Kira Dane is a half-Japanese filmmaker and native New Yorker, currently based in the Kansai region of Japan. Having been shaped and informed by clashing cultural upbringings, she gravitates towards gray areas -- and as a storyteller, she's most interested in exploring stories that dig for unexpected nuance. Using her...
Xavier Cousens
Xavier Cousens is documentary filmmaker and journalist based in New York City. His short documentary HUSTLE screened at the 2021 St. Louis International Film Festival and the 2021 Woods Hole Film Festival. He has also worked as an archival researcher for the BAFTA-nominated documentary The Great Hack (2019) and as...
Avi Zev Weider
Avi is the director and producer of the feature documentary WELCOME TO THE MACHINE (SXSW 2012), story producer of GHOSTBOX COWBOY (Tribeca 2018), producer of DANLAND (Slamdance 2012), and was the associate producer on the films SCOTT WALKER: 30TH CENTURY MAN (BAFTA Nominee) and Cinemania. His award-winning short film, I...
Anaiis Cisco
Anaiis Cisco is an award-winning filmmaker and a 2021-2022 Mellon fellow and professor at Smith College. Her films BREATHING FREE, DRIP LIKE COFFEE (the short), and BREATHLESS have screened at numerous festivals and have won an array of awards. She is a recipient of a 2018 Princess Grace Award, a...
Kareema Bee
Kareema Bee is a content creator from New York City. She is a graduate of SUNY Albany (Phi Beta Kappa) and Syracuse University's Newhouse School where she received a Master’s in TV, Radio, & Film. Her professional background as a producer spans from major TV and film productions, to creative...
Stavit Allwis
Stavit Allweis is an Israeli-born, New York-based visual artist who’s journey has taken her from painting to the moving image. As her works became progressively narrative, she began to experiment with sequential art and comics. In 2010, intrigued by the language of cinema, she launched the production of Isness, an epic...
César Martínez Barba
César Martínez Barba is a San Antonio, TX born filmmaker and editor living in NYC. He is a graduate of Occidental College with an Honors B.A. in Media Arts and Culture. César has been selected as a Sundance Institute 2020 Art of Editing Fellow, the Fall 2018 Social Justice Filmmaker...
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...
Dania Bdeir
Born in Montreal, Dania Bdeir is a Lebanese-Canadian award-winning writer & director with an intense love/hate relationship with Lebanon which she finds to be her biggest heartache and sincerest inspiration. Dania, who’s originally Syrian and is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective, has a BA in Graphic Design from...