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...
Shuchi Talati
Shuchi Talati is a filmmaker from India whose work challenges dominant narratives around gender, sexuality, and South Asian identity. Her short film, A Period Piece, about an afternoon of period sex, was selected for SXSW. Her previous film, Mae and Ash, won numerous awards before becoming a Vimeo Staff Pick....
Tamar Glezerman
Tamar Glezerman is a writer & director from Tel-Aviv, living and working in Brooklyn. Her dark comedy short “Fill Your Heart with French Fries” - starring Lindsay Burdge - won Short of the Week’s comedy of the year, and has racked up over two million online views. She has directed...
Lorena Alvarado
Lorena Alvarado is a Venezuelan director and editor based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an alumnus of Fabrica Research Center in Italy, where she made her short film Beatrice, which premiered at DOC NYC, screened at 15+ festivals around the world, and had its public television broadcast on PBS's...
Nathan Fitch
Nathan Fitch is a filmmaker and visual journalist based in Brooklyn, New York. Nathan is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective; his award-winning work has been published by The New Yorker, The New York Times, TIME magazine, NPR, and The National Film Board of Canada, to name a few....
Ankit Poudel
Ankit Poudel is a Nepali filmmaker based in New York. He completed his MFA in Cinematic Arts at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA. He was awarded the Chancellor's Award at University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee 2019 and 2020; the Adoor Gopalakrishnan Fellowship, 2020 ; and Infinite Scholarship 2017 by Infinite Studios, Singapore....
Dónal Foreman
Dónal Foreman is an Irish filmmaker living in New York City. He has been making films since he was 11 years old. Since then, he has written, directed and co-produced 3 feature films and dozens of short films. The Irish Times has called him “one of our very best young...
Kana Hatakeyama
Kana Hatakeyama is an award-winning Japanese + American filmmaker and actor based in Brooklyn. "FITNESS! or a story about SWEAT," her second film as writer-director, has screened at MoMA, Brooklyn FF, Cucalorus FF, DC Shorts, CAAMFest, Asian American IFF, San Francisco Short FF, San Diego Asian FF, Austin Asian FF,...
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg
Jay Arthur Sterrenberg is a New York based filmmaker and a co-founder of Meerkat Media, an award-winning arts collective & worker cooperative production company that prioritizes shared authorship and consensus in their creative process. Since 2005, they have produced collaboratively-directed feature documentaries, independent short films and hundreds of commissioned media...
Katia Repina
Katia Repina is a Russian documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual artist. In 2009 Katia moved to Barcelona where she studied photojournalism and documentary photography and video. Based in NYC since 2016, Katia focuses her documentary projects on intimate stories and spotlight the issues of gender, identity, human relationships and sexuality. Her...