Doors 7:30p
Program 8:00p

UnionDocs
352 Onderdonk Ave
Ridgewood, NY

You’re invited to UnionDocs’ Summer Lab Pitch Bingo Night. Come through to catch a sneak peek from our brilliant Summer Doc Lab artists as they take a moment to practice their project pitches with a supportive audience. Here you will have plenty of time to mingle and meet in the wider UNDO community.

Folks often ask what exactly goes on in these labs at UNDO? Here’s your chance to find out what’s going on inside. Each artist and project was selected from an incredibly competitive pool of applicants, and participants are joining us from around the world — Bogotá, Seoul, Florence, Taipei, London, Quito, and some from right here in NYC!

After weeks of deep focus and work, we’re inviting you to meet and celebrate this incredible group for how far they’ve come.

Pitching a doc is usually a scary, competitive business, but does it have to be? To make things extra fun, we decided to turn the tables just a little: Grab a bingo card at the bar to engage in a friendly competition with fellow audience members. We’ll see who can listen along keenly enough to circle their way to Bingo stardom and win some grand prizes!

Come on out to learn about this work while it’s in early phases of development. These folks are looking for supporters, team members and more, so it may be the start of a beautiful collaboration.
Doors open at 7:30, show starts ~8:00 with celebratory festivities to follow!

Program Duration: 80 mins

Meet the Summer Lab!

Nadia Acevedo
(she/her)

Born in Quito, Ecuador, Nadia began her career as an actor in the 2012 film No Robarás (A Menos Que Sea Necesario). She later moved to France to study film at Université Paris 8, deepening her knowledge and craft. In 2016, she worked as an assistant director on the feature film Solo es Una Más. Currently based in Lisbon, Portugal, she serves as Head of Filmmaker Engagement at the documentary virtual event platform Show&Tell, now in its fifth year.

Emily Graves
(she/her)

Emily Graves is an award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her short documentary ‘The Goats of Monesiglio’ (2022) screened internationally (DOC NYC, SIFF, Sebastopol) and was nominated for a Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary. She is currently in development on her first feature documentary ‘Becoming a Landscape’ (working title), which was selected to participate in the DOC Institute’s Breakthrough Development Lab in 2022 and the Hot Docs-Netflix Incubator 2024/25.

Minji MA
(they/them)

Minji Ma is a Korean director and essayist based in Seoul whose work merges research-based practice with a queer, feminist, and class-conscious lens. Their films resist binary categorizations, instead weaving together personal and political narratives to expose the layered complexities of identity and history. Their storytelling uncovers the nuances often overlooked in dominant discourse by intertwining micro-histories with broader social structures.

Their debut feature documentary, Family in the Bubble (South Korea/Finland), received awards at the EBS International Documentary Festival and an honorable mention at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. The film was also broadcast on Yle and NHK World. They are an alum of IDFAcademy and Chicken & Egg Pictures.

Cyrille Phipps
(she/her)

Cyrille Phipps, a NYC based media educator/filmmaker with 30yrs of production experience, working on short films, documentaries and collaborating on projects that aired on PBS and HBO. A co-founder of Black Planet Productions, which produced the award-winning series Not Channel Zero- the revolution, televised. Currently, an Associate Professor of Communication Arts at Marymount Manhattan College, who recently, wrote/directed the short, Mama Duke, which premiered at the Pan African Film Festival.

Eugenio Pizzorno
(he/him)

Eugenio Pizzorno studied Philosophy in Florence, and Media Studies in London, where he had his first forays into sound and video art. He now works for universities in NYC, translating academic content into short documentary formats. In his independent work, his main areas of interest are grassroots politics and urban anthropology. His recent films are Only Dark From The Outside, a Super8 poetry film, and Comida Gratis, a medium-length documentary on mutual aid, forthcoming in late 2025.

Louisa Rechenbach
(she/her)

Louisa is an award-winning documentary filmmaker whose work explores the intersection of art and social commentary through intimate, character-driven storytelling. She is drawn to narratives that challenge the status quo and offer new ways of thinking about identity, community, and the shape of contemporary life. An active member of a housing co-op in central London, Louisa’s own experience of communal living deeply informs her filmmaking practice and her focus on collective models of living and support.

Hanz Rippe
(he/him)

Hanz Rippe is a Colombian director, producer, and cinematographer based in Bogotá. As a partner at Páramo Films, he collaborates on social, cultural, political, and environmental documentaries, focusing on remote communities in Colombia and Latin America. His work is marked by a strong aesthetic exploration tailored to each story’s unique universe. His films, Unless We Dance and Páramo, La Siembra del Agua, have won awards at festivals like Oberhausen, Bogoshorts, and São Paulo Curta Kinoforum.

Gaby Sant’Anna
(she/her)

Gaby Sant’Anna is a filmmaker and theatre director based in Brooklyn. Previous directing work has been presented by Lauren Records, Victory Gardens Theater, the Agnes Nixon Playwriting Festival, and Northwestern University. Her work as a producer and 1st AD has been featured at Queer Fear Film Festival, Queens World Film Festival, NYLON, Vulture, and NoBudge. Gaby was a 2024 Spring Guest Resident at Woodward Residency and a member of the 2019 SDCF Observership Cohort.

Chloe Taylor
(she/her)

A storyteller at heart, Chloe is driven by a curiosity about human connections in our rapidly changing world. Her documentaries explore how technology and social dynamics reshape personal narratives. Born in Australia and currently based in New York, she brings a global perspective to her work, seeking to uncover the nuanced stories that often go untold.

J Triangular
(he/him/they/them)

 I am a gender-expansive creator, experimental filmmaker, multimedia poet, and spiritual artivist, crafting spaces for trans liberation and collective healing through film, new media, and activism. Born in Colombia and split between Taiwan and Medellín, my work weaves together queer collective creation, mental health advocacy, and the fight against HIV stigma. For me, cinema is a sacred act of resistance—a transformative space for amplifying marginalized voices.

Emmanuele Allamani
(he/they)

 I am a film industry professional, trained anthropologist, and community organizer raised between Italy and the Bay Area. I move through queer, multiple, and ever-shifting identities shaped by life across borders. I seek to work on projects that challenge reductive understandings of the world and delve into the complexity of our social realities, finding universal meaning through the layers, nuances, and contradictions that shape all stories.

Stevie Ann DePaola
(they/them)

Stevie Ann DePaola is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles. With a background in community and text-based projects, her work explores the evolution of queer language within multiple lineages. She is interested in how language both reveals and conceals, shaping identify and belonging. Through film, she continues her inquiry into the ways words carry history, resistance, and transformation.