Ugo Arsac is a digital and visual artist based in Marseille. Combining urban and human, mythology and anthropology, he works in many mediums. He was a resident at the Villa Albertine and was an official selection of SXSW. He is once again a prize-winner on Chroniques Création.
* The Circle Participant

A co-production between XTR and People’s TV with directors Nicholas Bruckman and Yoni Brook. Produced by Jen Maylack, James Doolittle, Matt Cherchio, and Justin Lacob.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

As a photographer and video artist, Emeline Courcier’s works are entry points into her personal and collective memory of her family. Inspired by their experience of the Indo-China war, resettlement in France, and their suffering and resilience, she is the inheritor of their history and the medium of their memory.
* The Circle Participant

Maya Cueva is an award-winning director and producer. Her feature film, On the Divide, premiered at Tribeca Film Festival in 2021 and broadcasted on PBS in Spring 2022.
Daniel Tantalean is a Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning producer for In the Summers with work featured on The New Yorker. Daniel is a Film Independent Lab, NALIP Latino Media Market Fellow, and was shortlisted for the 2021 AT&T Untold Stories Competition.
Melanie Miller is an Oscar-winning producer known for timely, diverse documentaries with Fishbowl Films. Notable works include the award-winning Navalny, On the Divide, and Inventing Tomorrow. Melanie is a member of the DPA, PGA, ATAS, and AMPAS.
Diane Becker is an Oscar-winning producer and co-founder of Fishbowl Films. Her acclaimed documentaries, including the award-winning Navalny, tackle important issues and have been screened at top festivals. She is a member of the PGA, DPA, Television Academy, and AMPAS.

A boutique film collective with an eye for talent, a heart for indie, and a drive to make the good stuff often

Danielle is an Emmy award-winning documentary writer/producer, a former TV news reporter, and a Moth storySLAM champion. She helps companies tell stories with film and audio, and leads corporate storytelling workshops.
Galeet is a vocalist/composer and anthropologist studying Sephardi/Mizrahi Jews. In her new award-winning album, Monaiat, she duets with samples of her famed Iranian grandfather. She's currently a Fellow at UPenn.

Oliver Edwin is an Australian actor, writer, and director whose credits include a long list of Australian television, as well as roles in Rob Reiner's LBJ and HBO's Divorce.
Lizzie Shapiro is a New York producer who recently received the SXSW Janet Pierson Champion Award and the 2022 Independent Spirit Producing Award. She also notably won the Cassavetes Award for Emma Seligman's Shiva Baby.

Steven is an LA-based filmmaker who has directed numerous comedy projects and docs, including The Bitter Buddha, Please Understand Me, Bill Burr Presents The Ringers and Marc Maron's HBO Special From Bleak to Dark.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Lamin Leroy Gibba's award-winning short film Dogfriend, which he co-produced, wrote, and starred in, received critical acclaim and was screened globally. Black Fruit is the showrunner's forthcoming series.
Olivia Kpalété is a fiction producer who has gained extensive experience throughout the film industry by working for the German Film Institute and several German broadcasters such as ARD and ZDF.
FARAZ BIO FORTHCOMING.

Goat Rodeo is a creative team and production studio crafting award-winning audio stories in house and with partners. We make podcasts.

Katie Green and Carlye Rubin are are an award-winning filmmaking team with 10 years of collaboration. Our films have been screened around the world and broadcast on HBO, Discovery ID, and Sundance TV.

Kyle Hausmann-Stokes (LA, writer/director, SXSW Audience Award My Dead Friend Zoe, Morgan Freeman, Ed Harris, Sonequa Martin-Green, Natalie Morales) and Sean Quinn (Argentina, playwright) are co-creators and writers of Yanqui.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Experimento Lúdico, founded in 2010 by Lorraine Jones Molina and Cristian Carretero in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, crafts impactful cinema that fosters reflection and promotes social change through art.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Pop singer Camille Trust and writer-director Walker Kalan met in lower Manhattan during Hurricane Sandy, and they've supported each other through a decade's worth of bad decisions.

Elise Kibler is an NYC-based actor, writer, and director. She’s an O’Neill National Playwrights Conference finalist and a National Young Playwrights winner. Her screenwriting/directing debut Do It To Me If You Want world premiered at Tribeca.
James Udom is pleased to be making his cinematic directorial debut with Do It to Me If You Want. James has appeared on stage in over a decade’s worth of plays, films, and TV shows. He’s starring in the new Apple+ show Chief of War opposite Jason Momoa.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Eddie Kim is a Streamy Award and Webby Award-nominated filmmaker and writer from Los Angeles. Recently, he produced Liquor Store Dreams, an award-winning feature documentary acquired by POV.

Trisha Koury, Myles Kane, and Josh Koury are an award-winning documentary filmmaking team with 20 years of filmmaking experience and collaboration behind them.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Ivy Le is a flaming bi mom and comedian based in Austin, Texas. She won Resonate's pitch competition and made Spotify’s acclaimed comedy documentary podcast FOGO: Fear of Going Outside.

Mitchell LeBlanc is a genre-loving writer/director, a 2024 Rising Voices Canada filmmaker, and alumnus of both the Canadian Film Centre and Warner Brothers Discovery x Canadian Academy Writers Program.
*Indeed Rising Voices Filmmaker

Tallie Medel is an educator, interdisciplinary artist, and award-winning actor. They're 1/3 of comedy favorite Cocoon Central Dance Team and star as Becky in A24's Everything Everywhere All at Once.
Katherine Croft is an award-winning creative producer focused on stories about the everyday absurdity of life. Her work in film can be found on Amazon and Hulu, her writing in Sundog Lit, and her commercial production career through ByAssociation, where she serves as an Executive Producer and leads the film and television department.
Carly Hoogendyk is an LA-based talent manager and producer at Omnipop. She has established herself as a leading voice in identifying rising comedy talent as the editor of the Cramer Comedy Newsletter, an industry digest highlighting emerging work across live, digital, film, and animation.

Lauren Minnerath is a screenwriter and director currently developing projects at New Line Cinema, Shivhans Pictures, and Fifth Season. The proof of concept short for her feature, Clare, premiered in competition at SXSW in 2022.
Julia Kennelly’s producing credits include The Neighbors’ Window (Academy Award winner: Best Live Action Short). Films she produced have played Sundance, SXSW, and Tribeca. Julia is a 2023 Sundance Producing Lab Fellow.

Janet Rose Nguyen is a filmmaker, writer, and actress. Her work explores magic, horror, feminism, queerness, and the Southeast Asian diaspora. She is a Rising Voice with Hillman Grad.
*Indeed Rising Voices Filmmaker

Oanh-Nhi Nguyen is a filmmaker and activist with 10 years of working for gender and racial justice. She writes stories honoring Asian and Asian American women, specifically women and immigrants and how intergenerational trauma and resilience impacts the trajectory of their lives. She is currently a Directing Fellow at AFI.

Barret O’Brien is an award-winning author and actor from New Orleans. With producer Rory Schmitt, he created The Long, Long Night (Duplass Brothers), which premiered at Tribeca.
Rory O’Neill Schmitt is a writer/producer who has collaborated with Barret O’Brien on multiple film projects. She served as an executive producer for The Long, Long Night (Duplass Brothers Productions), which was shown at Tribeca Festival (2023) and SXSW (2024).

Hauwa Otori is a lawyer and tech professional turned radio journalist/producer. Her work has appeared in Elle Magazine and Forbes and can be heard on KCRW and Marketplace.

Urvashi Pathania (she/her) is a writer/director based in Brooklyn. Her films explore gender, sexuality, and cultural bereavement. Urvashi was selected for the 2024 Sundance Screenwriters Lab with her feature Skin.
Liz Lian is a producer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. She is a 2023 Sundance Producing Fellow and branded content producer. Previously, Liz was a writer and creative producer at Vox Media, where she wrote and produced a documentary short on the practice of yellowface makeup for Netflix.

Alan and Raúl are Latine/x filmmakers working on cinematic and socially oriented films exploring the changing landscapes of the American Southwest, highlighting BIPoC talent on both sides of the camera.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Kallen Prosterman (EP/Writer/Lead): Founded SoulStir Creative, created Able, a series on disability inclusion. Acting credits include Nashville and This Day Forward. Story Produced on A Case for Love and co-wrote the play Disarming Girls.
Olivia AbiAssi (EP/Writer/Lead) is a Lebanese-American writer and actress. She has appeared Off-Broadway and in the series Rock Me and film Nora. Olivia recently worked within production for HBO's Love and Death.
Emily Cohn (Director) is a Brooklyn-based writer, director, and 1st AD. CRSHD, Emily’s debut feature, premiered at Tribeca, and the New York Times called her “a filmmaker to have on your radar.”

Writer-director Matthew Puccini and producer Casey Bader first collaborated on "Lavender," which premiered at Sundance and was acquired by Searchlight Pictures. Their work has also screened at Berlinale and SXSW.

Sara is a director and writer dedicated to changing the narrative through powerful storytelling. Her award-winning short film Leveled is in feature development along with two more features and series.
*Indeed Rising Voices Filmmaker

Tisha and Jonathan are Philadelphia-based filmmakers in development on their narrative project High, the recipient of a Sundance/Knight Fellowship and a "Mega Grant" from Epic Games.
*Works-in-Progress Screening Participant

Sandra Rodriguez, Ph.D., is a director/producer and sociologist of new media technology. She is a Sundance Story Lab Fellow and MacArthur Grantee. She also leads “Hacking XR,” MIT’s first official class in immersive media creation.
Alexander Whitley is an award-winning choreographer whose pioneering work with digital technology has placed him at the forefront of innovation in contemporary dance. Founding Alexander Whitley Dance Company in 2014, his productions have toured internationally.
*The Circle Participant

Scott J. Ross is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker specializing in comedy and fine art film. His work has screened at Tribeca, Sundance, the Whitney Biennial, and the Venice Biennale.

Shanele Soares is a Jamaican-Canadian writer and director with over a decade of experience as a marketing director. She strives to craft nuanced, genre-bending stories that incite meaningful conversation.
*Indeed Rising Voices Filmmaker

Rachael Sonnenberg is a writer/director from NYC and is currently an MFA candidate at NYU Tisch. With hope and optimism, Rachael’s films seek the magic in everyday chaos. She is the founder of Winsome Pictures together with her partners Martin de Crane, Tatum Millet, and Farouk Al Salihi.

Simon is an award-winning documentary director, shooting in every corner of the globe.
Mat is an internationally renowned disabled actor, writer, and critical voice for disability in the arts.

Melina Valdez directed Weapons and Their Names, which premiered at the 2023 Sundance Film Festival and was produced by Raymond Knudsen and Paula Gonzalez. The feature screenplay Saca Tu Lengua was selected for the 2020 Gotham Week and the 2023 Sundance Producers Intensive.

Holly's work history in the film/television world spans two decades. From PA to producer, and curator to writer, each role has been pivotal in shaping her as a content creator.

Yhane Washington Smith makes audio dramas about smart women who do bad things to make things better.