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 […]
Kiana Rawji
Canadian writer-director from Calgary, Alberta based in Brooklyn. She studied Film and History & Literature at Harvard College and through film, she seeks to close distances between people while celebrating the differences among them. As a South Asian Muslim woman and daughter of East African Asian immigrants, she is drawn to stories of diaspora, identity, justice, […]
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, freelance writer / director, originally from New Orleans. Through his company, Black Boots NYC, he blends emotionally driven narratives with striking visuals inspired by fashion, surrealism, and art house cinema. Influenced by the French New Wave, high-fashion editorial ads, and art house films, Darek Dylo juxtaposes a 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 Shapiro
A Brooklyn—Tel-Aviv-based, Israeli-Romanian 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, […]
Lydia Cornett
Lydia Cornett is a Baltimore-born filmmaker currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Her films have screened at Sheffield DocFest, AFI Fest, Slamdance, BAMCinemaFest, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs International Short Fest, Hamptons International Film Festival, DOC NYC and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where she was awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker in […]
Ifeyinwa Arinze
Ifeyinwa Arinze is a neuroscientist-turned-filmmaker from Nigeria and is currently based in New York City. Her work centers intimate portrayals of Black women and girls that are grounded in tenderness and care. She has received support through awards and grants from BAFTA, NYFA, NYWIFT and Video Consortium. Her short films have screened at the New […]
Sara Crow
Sara Crow is a filmmaker from Arizona based in New York. She is especially passionate about telling stories of subcultures, misfits, and those who operate on the fringes of society. Her debut narrative short film “Bluebird” was awarded the Black Family Film Prize at NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she is currently a thesis student. […]
