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. […]
Joanna Arnow
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 International. She currently is in […]
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 background in painting and illustration, […]
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 a production assistant on the […]
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 […]
