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 — from China to London to Australia, Berlin, New Zealand, Italy, Marseilles 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 and get the chance for a first look at a group of documentary projects in early phases of development that span continents, histories, forms and modes of inquiry. Through personal archives, overlooked memorials, endangered ecosystems, underground networks of care, experimental music, family histories, aging bodies, and rapidly transforming urban landscapes, these filmmakers investigate the forces that shape memory, identity, health, migration, belonging and beyond!

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!

Veronica Ciceri(she/her)

Veronica Ciceri is an award-winning filmmaker and creative director working across documentary, art direction, and design. Her work explores the relationship between humans and the natural world through a visually driven and research-led approach. Her short films The Last Skiers and Emme | A Wolf’s Odyssey have screened internationally and received multiple awards. In 2025, she founded The Cuddly Pets of Komodo, a Milan-based creative studio dedicated to exploring new forms of storytelling.

Bremen Donovan(she/her)

Bremen Donovan is a filmmaker, photographer, and researcher. Her first feature documentary is a collaboration with journalists, activists, and lawyers in the Republic of Guinea. A 2025 Fejos Fellow, Bremen has conducted visual reporting and engaged documentary projects internationally for years, including recent work on policing and the production of visual evidence in France. Bremen holds an interdisciplinary B.A. from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Anthropology. She lives in Marseille.

Melinda Jackson(she/her)

Melinda Jackson is a New Zealand-born filmmaker based in Brooklyn. She brings over a decade of experience producing and editing films, documentaries, music videos, and commercials. Melinda holds a background in Philosophy from the University of Auckland and an MA in Animal Studies from NYU. She aims to make documentaries that reimagine our relationship with the beyond-human world and wild spaces. Melinda is also a programmer for the Ridgewood Off-Kilter Film Festival, now in its fourth year.

Max Kerkhoff(he/him)

Max Kerkhoff is an Austrian–German–American filmmaker & editor based between Berlin & Santiago. His short A Day’s Work screened at 30+ festivals like Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, PÖFF, and FIPADOC. He produced the animated short RECORDARI, screened at Cannes Marché du Film and 40+ festivals. He has participated in international programs and labs including ESoDoc, IDFAcademy, Austrian ScriptLabDocu, and the Robert Bosch “Crossing Borders” program. His work explores how global structures become visible in everyday spaces.

Lucie McMahon
(she/her)

Lucie McMahon is a producer based in Melbourne, Australia. Lucie is currently producing several documentary projects including feature documentaries Trade Secret and Mosquitoes which recently won the Docplay Indie Booster Pitch at AIDC and documentary short Slow Hours (working title) commissioned by NITV and Vic Screen, and working as an associate producer on Mosquittoes Notable producing credits include the feature documentary Things Will Be Different and Jeanette is the Dog.

Alexis Kyle Mitchell
(she/her)

Alexis Kyle Mitchell is an artist whose work foregrounds how embodied knowledge interrupts narratives of history, health and personhood. Exhibitions and screenings include JOAN, LA; Peer, London; Glasgow International; MOCA Triennial, Toronto; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; International Film Festival Rotterdam, RIDM Documentary Festival, Montreal, and IndieLisboa. Mitchell was a postdoctoral fellow at Center for Disability Studies (NYU) and has an upcoming solo exhibition at Site, Sheffield.

Eric Schuman
(he/him)

Eric Schuman is an Emmy-winning director and editor. His shorts have screened internationally – including at TIFF Kids, Palm Springs ShortsFest, Montclair, Woodstock, and Filmfort. As an editor, his award-winning documentary work has played at festivals around the world such as Venice, Cannes, CPH:DOX, True/False, and Sundance. He is a third-generation Holocaust survivor, his paternal grandmother having survived Auschwitz, and a former member of the Tree of Life synagogue.

Linda Wei
(she/they)

Linda is a Chinese-American filmmaker and artist who had seven different names by the age of seven, given and imposed across families and institutions. This early instability informs her focus on narrative agency, memory, and authorship. Her work shifts across forms and between personal and collective worldbuilding. She holds an MFA in Film Directing from CalArts and a BS in Foreign Service from Georgetown. She is a 2025-2026 VC Archives Artist-in-Residence and a 2024 Flaherty Film Fellow.

Dexter Chuang
(he/him)

Dexter Chuang (Chuang Xu) is an award winning film director and producer hailing from China. Chuang is deeply committed to delving into the complex motivations behind human behavior. His storytelling approach seamlessly combines fanciful elements, nostalgic themes, and an intimate hybrid of styles, resulting in captivating and thought-provoking narratives.

Mika Yatsuhashi
(she/her)

Mika Yatsuhashi is an American filmmaker and editor based in Montréal, Canada. In 2021, her short film, An Uninterrupted View of the Sea, screened at HotDocs and the Smithsonian Museum of Asian Art, among others. She’s edited films shown at Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen and Images Film Festival. Her directorial work explores archives and family history, with multiple projects in development. She works in post-production at Cinema Politica, and holds a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University.