Iva Radivojevic
Iva Radivojevic was born in Belgrade and spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. She is an artist and filmmaker who currently divides her time between subarctic Alaska, Brooklyn and Lesbos. Her work presents itself as a collection of fragments {observations, poetry, images, sounds, melodies, languages} which collage together to connect into a ruminating […]
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 REMEMBER, premiered at the 1998 […]
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 2021 Finalist in Film for […]
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 development, representation, academia and social […]
Johnny Ma
Johnny Ma was born in Shanghai, China, and immigrated to Toronto, Canada at age 10. He is a graduate of the Columbia University MFA program and an alumni of the Sundance screenwriting and Venice Biennale College Labs. In 2016 his debut feature OLD STONE premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and won the Best Canadian First Feature Award at the […]
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 photographic novel. Allweis staged and […]
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 Fellow at the Jacob Burns […]
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 Directors’ New Films Film Festivals. […]
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 the American University of Beirut […]
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. Shuchi is working on her […]
