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...
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...
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....