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SUMMARY:UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects — Day 1
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nShow 7:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”FREE RSVP” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”left” css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fluma.com%2Fl6a09aiu”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]UnionDocs is thrilled to invite you to a night celebrating the incredible artists supported by our Fiscal Sponsorship program! Come through and tune into a special showcase of work with the following artists in attendance: Bernardo Ruiz\, Helena Kincaid-Nalladurai & Daniel Nalladurai\, Jess Shane\, Ruoyen Chen\, Kyuri Jeon\, David Osit\, Joseph Stankus\, Ashley Connor\, Katherine Heiserman\, Elana Meyers\,  Margaret Vatterott\, Mitra Kaboli\, Aaron Edwards\, Adam Seth Golfer\, Ester Casey\, Kaelyn Lynch\, Brian Becker\, Andree Ljutica and Simon Liu! \nTheir work traverses extraordinary terrain — from the fragile myths of American masculinity to the lives of Chinese poets navigating migration and political divides\, and the enduring influence of childhood encounters with poetry. These projects move through New York’s housing system and across its five boroughs by bus\, unearth the buried histories of sanitation workers’ strikes\, and reimagine a beloved American play as an intimate act of collective listening. They explore the politics of time through jet lag and colonial histories\, chart Hong Kong’s shifting landscape through experimental moving images\, and imagine a visitor from the future guiding immigrant families to safety in Queens. Elsewhere\, they trace the improbable political resurrection of Jeremy Corbyn\, follow families through the small rituals of everyday life\, and find unlikely defenders of truth in the volunteer editors of Wikipedia. They journey along the militarized US–Mexico border and the volcanic slopes of Sicily\, reckon with illness\, memory\, and the changing bonds between loved ones\, and follow a group of Swedish rappers chasing music\, friendship\, and the possibility of making it. \nThis is a free community event. Come through and toast these pioneering artists and their budding projects! \nAll of the presenting artists in this program received a 2026 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nPeople’s Republic of Letter by Ruoyun Chen\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Across China\, the United States\, and Australia\, five Chinese millennial poets come of age from their twenties into their thirties as lockdowns\, migration\, and political divides reshape their lives. As the dream of a borderless world fades\, they turn to poetry to sustain connection\, navigate loss\, and find new ways to belong.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nWhat’s Inside the Moon by Jess Shane\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Kenneth Koch’s book Wishes\, Lies and Dreams changed how kids learn about poetry. More than half a century after its publication\, Jess Shane tracks down Koch’s students to ask what it meant for their lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nChanging City by Helena Kincaid-Nalladurai & Daniel Nalladurai\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Changing City is a three-part portrait of New York’s housing system\, told by the New Yorkers caught inside it.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nT_T_T_T: travel_time_translation_through by Kyuri Jeon\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]T_T_T_T: travel_time_translation_through is a hybrid experimental nonfiction film and drawing project that uses jet lag as a temporal-political framework. Beginning with Korea’s colonial history of standardized time\, the work follows the ways temporal dislocation moves across bodies\, languages\, migration\, and historical memory. Rather than treating time as linear or universal\, T_T_T_T asks: What time is it now\, and for whom?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSplits in Two by Simon Liu\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Expanding my artistic preoccupation of dynamically depicting my homeland of Hong Kong’s rapid cultural evolution through experimental documentaries\, alternative darkroom film practices\, and distinctive uses of projection technique\, Borrowed Time is an immersive moving image exhibition depicting the city’s rapid political shifts of recent years whilst investigating my ancestral relationship to the land. Through interactive technology\, attempts to modernize avant-garde film language\, and idiosyncratic approaches to editing and sound design\, this mixed media projection and sound installation\, in conjunction with a series of live expanded cinema presentations\, aims to subjectively catalogue the city’s mutation into an uncertain future.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Low Season by Bernardo Ruiz\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A woman from the future arrives in present day Queens\, New York in order to lead immigrant families to safety as bounty hunters prey on them.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMan on the Left by David Osit\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Man on the Left follows the meteoric rise\, the unbelievable fall\, and the present-day improbable resurrection of Jeremy Corbyn – one of the most beloved and reviled left-wing politicians in the Western Hemisphere\,[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIt Goes That Quick by Joseph Stankus\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A trip to the grocery store. A drive to work. The planting of a tree. These are a few of the “trivial” events that make up IT GOES THAT QUICK – a hybrid documentary that follows two families over the course of eight years. Set against the drab highways and nondescript suburbs of the American Northeast\, the film begins as two filmmakers set out to capture the everyday lives of their own family members by casting them in their own short films. But as the years progress and the lines between fact and fiction blur\, what starts as a humorous documentation of normalcy soon transforms into a poetic meditation on the act of filmmaking\, the passage of time\, and the simple tasks and chores that end up defining our lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nDirty Days in Fun City by Katherine Heiserman\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]An archival documentary that unearths two sanitation worker strikes and their little-known connection to the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Through its exploration of labor and waste\, the film examines what and who society deems valuable or disposable.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nTime Travel Translation by Margaret Vatterott\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Amid a confusing and divisive internet\, a collection of unlikely heroes maintain the last good place online: Wikipedia. Their mission – free access to knowledge – faces unwavering challenges as misleading AI\, disinformation and rising authoritarianism erode the concept of fact. As greedy corporations and oppressive governments use information as a weapon\, regular people find power in this community-driven encyclopedia.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRide Along by Mitra Kaboli\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Ride Along is a series of five place-based audio documentaries that follow a specific bus route in each borough of New York City.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOur Town by Aaron Edwards\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Pulling from traditions of radio drama\, installation and live theater\, Aaron Edwards’ production of Thornton Wilder’s classic play Our Town presents one of the most enduring pieces of modern American theater through a hybrid of live actors\, pre-recorded performances\, foley and sound design — all experienced in the audience’s headphones. The production is a love letter to audio\, a deepening of the call to imagination in Wilder’s minimalist text and a ritual of close\, communal listening.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nMagic Valley by Adam Seth Golfer\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Along the US/Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas\, the militarization of the riverlands is having devastating effects on one of the most biodiverse ecologies on earth. Overheard conversations about wildlife migration\, surveillance\, the movement of people and climate change swirl together\, asking who and what is permitted to move across a landscape whose borders have been imposed by man\, not nature.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nOutside of the Mind by Ester Casey\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]‘Outside of the Mind’ is a film and video installation taking its name from the Latin roots of the word ‘dementia’. A scientific and poetic chronicle of the breakdown of the brain\, body and heart\, the observations of a daughter are paired with a continually transforming image of her mother\, as a girl in the Philippines\, a brilliant chemist in Chicago\, and a passionate naturalist throughout. A reflection on love\, humor\, loss\, and ultimately a transformation that expands connection with each other\, the self\, and the outside world.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nHen House by Kaelyn Lynch\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Dianna Cowern was an MIT-educated physicist and YouTube star with over 3 million followers to her Physics Girl channel. Then she came down with a mysterious illness that left her immobile in bed in a dark room 24 hours a day\, unable to even communicate with her husband except through rudimentary hand signals. This film follows Dianna’s multi-year journey through the medical system\, her fight for a cure\, and the ongoing grappling between maintaining hope and finding a place of acceptance.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nYeah I Love To Laugh by Brian Becker\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Yeah I Love to Laugh is a verité film about a group of Swedish rappers and best friends creating music\, partying\, exploring an archipelago\, going to a farm\, tracking out in the studio\, staying up until sunrise\, and trying to make it.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRare Animals by Andree Ljutica\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Rare Animals follows one man’s harvest from frozen vine to Brooklyn bar — tracing a year on the slopes of Europe’s most active volcano\, where the ancient labor of natural winemaking collides with drought\, volcanic eruption and the steady encroachment of venture capital on a disappearing way of life.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]All of the presenting artists in this program received a 2026 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166404″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Ruoyun Chen is an independent filmmaker and curator. A former fellow at the MIT Open Documentary Lab. Her work has been showcased at film festivals and art galleries. Chen is currently directing her first feature-length documentary\, People’s Republic of Letters. The film has been selected to UnionDocs Production Lab\, and IDFA Forum 2024\, FIRST Documentary Lab 2025 and supported by NYFA\, NYSCA and Asian Women Giving Circle. Chen is also developing an immersive interactive sound installation\, Day 41\, supported by LMCC.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166405″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jess Shane is an audio producer\, artist and educator from Toronto. Her award-winning audio documentary work has played at conferences and festivals internationally\, including New Orleans Film Festival\, Prismatic Ground\, True/False\, and Open City Documentary Festival. Jess’ podcast Shocking Heartbreaking Transformative from Radiotopia Presents was lauded as one of the best of 2024 by the New York Times. She is a graduate of the IMA MFA program at Hunter College.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166407″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Daniel Nalladurai and Helena Kincaid-Nalladurai are documentary filmmakers and co-founders of Sixty First Productions\, a production company based in Queens\, New York. Their films focus on working people\, affordability\, and social justice\, telling stories that often go overlooked. Daniel\, born and raised in Queens\, began his career as a camera operator and editor before moving behind the camera; on their most recent documentary\, The Cost of Living\, he served as cinematographer\, co-director\, and editor. Helena spent several years in the art department for film and TV and now serves as producer\, co-director\, and audio recordist on their projects. Their work has been featured at the Queens World Film Festival and nominated for Best Documentary Cinematography. They live in Flushing\, Queens with their son\, where they continue to tell the stories of the city they call home.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166409″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kyuri Jeon is a South Korean artist and filmmaker based in New York. Jeon works with video\, essay\, drawing\, and installation to explore time\, vision\, and its implications for the future. Through the lens of intersectionality\, she questions ongoing transnational discussions about identity\, feminism\, decolonization\, and cultural translation. Jeon’s work has been featured internationally at KINDL – Centre for Contemporary Art\, Berlin; MassArt Art Museum\, Boston; Mimosa House\, London; Konsthall C\, Stockholm; Artists’ Moving Image Festival\, Glasgow; Festival Film Dokumenter\, Yogyakarta; Women Make Waves\, Taipei; and DMZ International Documentary Film Festival\, Seoul. She is an award winner in the Asian Shorts Competition at the Seoul International Women’s Film Festival\, a recipient of the Contemporary Visual Art Award from the AHL-T&W Foundation\, and a 2025 MacDowell Fellow. Jeon holds BFA from Korea National University of Arts and MFA from the University of Pennsylvania and Seoul National University.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166411″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Simon Liu (b. 1987\, Hong Kong) is an artist filmmaker whose practice catalogues the rapidly evolving psychogeography of his homeland of Hong Kong through material abstraction\, speculative history\, and subversion of documentary cinema practices via short films\, multi-channel video installations\, 16mm expanded cinema projections\, and audiovisual performances. His installations and performances have been exhibited at institutions including the Whitney Biennial 2024\, MoMA\, MOCA LA\, M+ Museum\, Carpenter Center\, and Moderna Museet. His films have screened at festivals globally including the Toronto\, New York\, Berlin\, Rotterdam\, BFI London\, Edinburgh\, Jeonju\, Melbourne\, San Francisco\, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals alongside the Sundance Film Festival\, ND/NF\, Cinéma du Réel\, TIDF\, and CPH:DOX. Profiles of his practice have featured in Hyperallergic\, Art in America\, Art Asia Pacific\, Cinemascope\, BOMB Magazine\, and the New York Times. He is an educator at Cooper Union\, NYU\, and Pratt Institute and is currently in Post-Production on his first feature film Staffordshire Hoard.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166413″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Bernardo Ruiz is a three-time Emmy®-nominated director and producer. His films were the subject of a mid-career retrospective in November 2025.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166429″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]David Osit is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning director and editor. His most recent film PREDATORS premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival where it was acquired by distribution by MTV Documentary Films and Paramount+\, was released across the US and UK in 2025\, and was named one of the best films of the year by The New York Times and The Guardian. His film MAYOR won a Peabody and Emmy Award\, was a New York Times Critics’ Pick and holds a 100% Certified Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. David directed\, produced\, edited\, filmed\, and composed THANK YOU FOR PLAYING\, which was broadcast on POV in 2016 and was nominated for three Emmy awards\, winning for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166430″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Joe Stankus is a Brooklyn based writer/director whose shorts have screened at festivals including The New York Film Festival\, International Film Festival Rotterdam and Doc NYC. His work has been featured on The Criterion Channel and online at Short of the Week\, Le Cinema Club\, NoBudge and as Vimeo Staff Picks. Joe is an alumnus of the New York Film Festival Artist Academy and The Gotham Fiction Filmmaking labs. This is his first feature film. \nAshley Connor is a New York based Director of Photography. Nominated for a 2019 Independent Spirit Award for Josephine Decker’s MADELINE’S MADELINE\, she has leant her unique breadth of a style to a genre-spanning list of features and television shows\, most recently in Tim Robinson’s HBO series THE CHAIR COMPANY and Olivia Newman’s REMARKABLY BRIGHT CREATURES starring Sally Field. She has also shot and directed music videos for artists including Angel Olsen\, Sharon Van Etten and Sleater Kinney.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166433″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Katie Heiserman is a filmmaker and public historian passionate about preserving and publicizing overlooked histories. In her media-making practice\, she uses archival material to examine collective memory and urban histories of resistance.Her work has been supported by Tribeca\, Chicken & Egg\, the Brooklyn Arts Council\, and more. She is the co-director and archival producer of the short all-archival film Survival Without Rent\, which screened at DOCNYC\, Rooftop\, Jihlava\, and more. \nElana Meyers is a documentary filmmaker/editor from NYC. She co-directed and edited the short documentary\, Survival Without Rent\, which screened at DOC NYC\, Big Sky\, Ji.hlava\, Rooftop Films\, and more. The film was supported by Chicken & Egg\, AmDoc\, UFO\, and more. She was an editor on the PBS/Amazon Prime series\, Citizen Nation\, which won an IDA Award for Best Episodic Series and was nominated for a News & Documentary Emmy for Best Editing. She is a BRIClab TV + Film Resident with her current project\, which is also supported by the Tribeca Creators Market\, NYSCA\, Brooklyn Arts Council\, and the Lepage Center.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166435″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Margaret Vatterott is a Brooklyn-based documentary filmmaker. She’s an experienced story producer and field producer with work on documentary series streaming on Hulu\, Netflix\, Discovery+ and Peacock. She’s worked for award-winning production companies including Fifth Season and Barnicle Brothers. Meg was a 2018 Pulitzer Center for Crisis Reporting fellow and participated in UnionDocs’ 2020 Research and Development Lab. Rabbit Hole is Meg’s feature directorial debut.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166438″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Mitra Kaboli is an award-winning audio producer\, sound designer\, and multimedia artist. Mitra was one of the original members of the Peabody Finalist podcast\, The Heart. Her work has been featured on ESPN’s 30 for 30 Podcasts\, the BBC\, Making Contact and NY Mag’s Tabloid. In 2022\, she hosted and produced the critically acclaimed podcast\, Welcome to Provincetown. Currently\, Mitra is an adjunct professor at the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism and at Hunter College.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166443″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Aaron Edwards is an interdisciplinary director\, story editor and writer working across text\, live theater and narrative audio. His work has appeared in places like BAM\, the Brooklyn Public Library the Tribeca Festival and Lincoln Center. He was a 2023 MacDowell Fellow and is the Lead Artist and Show Director for the Audio and Performance Lab at UnionDocs.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166446″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Adam Golfer (he/him) is a filmmaker and artist based in New York. He holds an MFA from Hunter College\, and works on commissions as a cinematographer. Golfer’s studio practice spans essay films\, photography and artist books\, and he continues to explore the ambiguous boundaries between personal and collective memory. Between 2025-2026\, he directed two film commissions for Art21 about Camille Henrot and the collective “i wanna be with you everywhere.” In 2025\, the short film DIVERS (which he DPed)\, premiered at Visions du Reel and went on to play at TIFF\, Camden and DocNYC. He has directed\, “A Matter of Opinion\,” (2022) and co-directed\, “It is a Soul: A Portrait of Hailu Mergia\,” with Lorena Alvarado (2021). His monograph “A House Without a Roof” (2016) was shortlisted for the Aperture First Book Award\, and his self-published “Kaddish” (2024) was celebrated with talks at Bungee Space\, and Bildband in Berlin.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166448″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Esy Casey is a Filipino American filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist. Her work has screened in competition at festivals including IDFA\, Camden\, AIVFF and the Busan International Video Art Festival\, and has been distributed nationally on PBS\, The Criterion Channel\, Kanopy and Ovid. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from organizations including NYSCA\, The Ford Foundation\, The Flaherty Seminar\, The New York Film Festival\, MacDowell\, Yaddo\, The Center for Asian American Media\, The Ms. Foundation\, The National Gallery of Art and The Princess Grace Foundation USA.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166451″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kaelyn Lynch is a journalist and filmmaker who has worked for publications like Outside Magazine\, National Geographic\, and Vox. As an incoming graduate student studying Marine Science and Policy\, Kaelyn hopes to focus her future work on environmental and wildlife film and translating complex scientific topics to the public to inspire action. As a queer and chronically ill person\, she is also passionate about telling stories from historically marginalized and underrepresented communities.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”159595″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Brian Becker is a New York-based filmmaker who directed and produced Time Bomb Y2K (co-directed with Marley McDonald) which premiered on HBO in December 2023. The film’s lengthy festival run included True/False Film Festival\, Hot Docs\, Sheffield DocFest\, IDFA\, Camden International Film Festival\, and DocNYC. Brian served as archival producer on Free Chol Soo Lee\, MLK/FBI\, Spaceship Earth\, and The Fourth Estate\, and as co-producer on Bobby Kennedy for President. He began his career on the Oscar-winning O.J.: Made in America. Brian is a DocNYC 40 Under 40 recipient\, Impact Partners Producing Fellow\, Points North Fellow\, JFI Fellow\, and FOCAL Jane Mercer Researcher of the Year award nominee.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166455″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Andree Ljutica is a Montenegrin-American filmmaker and photographer based in New York. His work spans documentary\, narrative\, and commercial film\, marked by a deeply intimate visual language and a commitment to observational rigor. His debut feature documentary Taksi — a formally rigorous film set inside a New York City yellow cab over a single night — is currently in post-production\, with festival submissions underway. His commercial and editorial work has appeared in Vogue\, Nowness\, and beyond\, and his films have been recognized by Sundance Labs\, Guanajuato IFF\, and Palm Springs IFF.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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SUMMARY:UNDO Spotlight: A Showcase of Supported Projects — Day 2
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text css=””]Doors 7:00p\nShow 7:30p[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][vc_column width=”1/2″][vc_column_text]UnionDocs\n352 Onderdonk Ave\nRidgewood\, NY[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_btn title=”FREE RSVP” style=”outline-custom” outline_custom_color=”#ffffff” outline_custom_hover_background=”#adadcc” outline_custom_hover_text=”#0000cd” shape=”round” align=”left” css_animation=”bounceIn” css=”” link=”url:https%3A%2F%2Fluma.com%2Fm9j9o3h3″][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/851422192″][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]UnionDocs is thrilled to invite you to a night celebrating the incredible artists supported by our Fiscal Sponsorship program! Come through and tune into a special showcase of work with the following artists in attendance: Elise Ahrens\, Will Coley\, Katie Halper\, Kalli Anderson\, Brent Chesanek\, Emma Francis Snyder\, Nathan Fitch\, Sarah Friedland\, Alice Arnold\, Danya Abt\, Francesca Trianni\, Armand Yervant Tufenkian and Tamer Hassan\, Jennie Butler\, Akeema-Zane Anthony\, Crystal Kayiza\, Jessica Bardsley\, Shabtai Pinchevsky\, Claudia Zamora-Valencia\, Felix Endara and John Hulsey! \nTheir work traverses extraordinary terrain — Their work traverses extraordinary terrain — from the lives of queer men exiled under Italian Fascism to the legacy of a pioneering transmasculine photographer\, and the intimate negotiations of bodily autonomy\, identity\, and belonging. These projects follow Holocaust survivors protesting the genocide in Gaza\, investigate the expanding machinery of digital surveillance\, and question how a self-driving car might navigate the segregated roads of Palestine. They move through the sonic imagination of an experimental composer\, the landscapes of Washington Irving\, and the shifting streets of SoHo\, while uncovering the strange economies of American antiques and the quiet labor of rug restoration between Queens and Armenia. Elsewhere\, they trace the enduring spirit of Carnival in Trinidad and Tobago\, the guardians of a historic Black cemetery in Mississippi\, and the changing relationship between conservation\, tourism\, and livelihood on the coast of Oaxaca. They reckon with dementia\, terminal illness\, and the mysteries of mortality\, explore the unexpected bonds of family and the pressures of reproduction\, and find connections between personal loss and ecological crisis. From the looming promises of technological salvation to the intimate act of posing for a figure drawing class\, these projects invite us to reconsider how we inhabit our bodies\, care for one another\, and imagine our collective futures. \nThis is a free community event. Come through and toast these pioneering artists and their budding projects! \nAll of the presenting artists in this program received a 2026 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nProgram \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nEmbodied by Elise Ahrens\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Embodied is a short documentary about a model in figure drawing classes and her path to reconciling a contentious relationship with her body through her participation in the arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIsland of Exiles by Will Coley\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Nearly a century ago\, Benito Mussolini set out to create Fascism’s “New Man:” a warrior\, a husband and a father reproducing for the state. Those who failed this test of manhood could be imprisoned\, committed to asylums or banished to remote corners of Italy. Among them was a gay man known as Maruska\, exiled to Ustica\, a tiny island in the Mediterranean. The regime intended his exile to erase him. Instead\, Maruska built a life. Older residents still remember him with affection and point to the house where he lived. Yet much of his story – and the history of the other men banished alongside him – has nearly disappeared. Producer Will Coley travels to Italy to recover this lost world. Through the memories of islanders and emigrants\, historians\, official records and the writings of the exiles themselves\, he reconstructs Maruska’s life and uncovers the machinery used by Fascism to police masculinity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nNever Again by Katie Halper\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]As Holocaust survivors protest Israel’s assault on Gaza\, Jewish American journalist Katie Halper marches alongside them\, documenting their effort to reclaim the meaning of “Never Again” in the face of virulent opposition to their courage\, experience\, and Jewish values before it’s too late.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Most Alive Sounds  by Kalli Anderson\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Annea Lockwood has spent a lifetime listening very closely to sounds that for most of us\, slip by unnoticed. The New Zealand-born composer and sound artist is deeply attuned to the sound of her environment: the trickle of a stream flowing under a bridge\, the resonance of a pane of glass\, the rhythm of her wife’s breath. A contemporary of Pauline Oliveros and other avant-garde composers of the 1960s and 70s\, Annea turned 87 this year and is still making new work\, often collaborating with artists half her age. Sound artist and documentarian spent the past year following Annea down slippery river banks\, into concert rehearsals in Glasgow\, ..and to her home in rural New York state. Along the way\, she opened a portal to a new way of being in the world. The Most Alive Sounds invites you to step through it too.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nRip Current by Brent Chesanek\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In New York and Florida\, a builder explores landscapes as imagined by early American writer Washington Irving.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAnatomy of a Life by Emma Francis Snyder\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]When her father is diagnosed with dementia\, filmmaker Emma Francis Snyder turns the camera on their shared caregiving journey through America’s flawed eldercare system. Through humor\, heartbreak\, and imagination\, ANATOMY OF A LIFE is a tender portrait of love and loss\, and a timely call to rethink about how we provide care.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nIakwe: Hello\, Goodbye by Nathan Fitch\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Based upon real events\, Iakwe: Hello\, Goodbye is the story of Jacob Aija Aini Hawkes\, a young traveling salesman who after being adopted at birth\, meets his blood relatives for the first time by chance while knocking doors in Northwest Arkansas. The film explores the power and complexity of family bonds from a Pacific Islander/Marshallese perspective.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Chickening by Sarah Friedland\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]The Chickening is a feature-length\, hybrid documentary about my decision not to have children and the familial\, religious\, and societal pressures to reproduce. Through interviews\, archival footage\, animation\, and mythical re-enactments\, THE CHICKENING lays bare the roots and resurgence of reproductive nationalism in the United States.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nSoHo in Flux: Art\, Real Estate and the Housing Crisis by Alice Arnold and Sharon Zukin\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In the 1970s\, a gritty factory district in Lower Manhattan was rezoned for artists’ lofts and became the center of New York’s avant-garde cultural innovation. Five decades later\, SoHo is a center of shopping\, tourism and gentrification—and the target of another rezoning that connects it to the city’s housing crisis. SOHO IN FLUX is the first documentary film to tell the in-depth story of this unexpected transformation through intimate conversations with artists and art dealers who created the fabled neighborhood and urban planners and activists who want to reshape it. As the ideals of the Jane Jacobs generation are challenged by the demands of a new\, pro-growth coalition\, SOHO IN FLUX asks what price the city will pay for change. Can rezoning an historic district in today’s Gilded Age really solve the housing crisis?[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAntique Antique Road Show Show by Danya Abt\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Fingers are pointed and fortunes are made in this reframing of a legacy PBS program that inspects and evaluates American’s antiques.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Predator Project by Francesca Trianni\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A secretive global industry has built its business on a single promise: it can crack any smartphone. As the Trump administration trades restrictions for expanded surveillance budgets\, this project investigates how these powerful tools are acquired and deployed against people inside the United States.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nԿապ Կար (Knot’s Keep) by Armand Yervant Tufenkian and Tamer Hassan\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Between two workshops — in Queens\, New York and Yerevan\, Armenia — artisans repair a variety of rugs from Western Asia and beyond\, creating a space for the maintenance of both material objects and cultural sensibility. The film uses extended observational sequences that linger on the meticulous processes of rug repair. These long takes allow viewers to become immersed in the textures of ornamentation and the labor of attention\, where the act of mending becomes a quiet form of cultural transmission. The images in the rugs register particular worldviews that emerge from place\, showing how the cultures that produced them sustain a mode of attention attuned to complex ecological cycles. In the film’s final section\, what we learn from the rugs begins to shape our approach to filming beyond the shop—we leave Yerevan for a wildlife refuge where conservationists work on the reforestation and rehabilitation of endangered native species.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Last Trip by Jennie Butler\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]A suburban mom with terminal cancer turns to psilocybin therapy to confront her fear of mortality.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCarnival Baby\, De Fever Forever In My Soul by Akeema-Zane Anthony\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Carnival Baby\, De Fever Forever In My Soul is an experimental documentary which surveys the landscape of Carnival Culture in Trinidad and Tobago while invoking the story of her maternal family’s migration and labor histories as the catalyst for (re)birthing a new generation of Carnival practices and practitioners.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Gardeners by Crystal Kayiza\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]As keepers of one of the oldest Black cemeteries in Mississippi\, The Worthy Women of Watkins Street nurture the liminal space between past\, present and future. The labor of these aging worldbuilders becomes a blueprint to navigate memory\, legacy and mortality\, revealing the divine spirit residing in their daily lives.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nAnother Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jessica Bardsley\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Part art history\, part memoir\, part environmental lament\, this essay film/experimental lecture weaves together the personal and the ecological through the story of my aunt’s sudden passing. The mantra that everything is connected guides a fluid journey from my own family history to the climate crisis\, from punk rock to green burials\, and from the limits of eco-art to the science fiction of Jules Verne.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nCan a Self-Driving Car Navigate an Apartheid Road? by Shabtai Pinchevsky\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]Can a Self-Driving Car Navigate an Apartheid Road? is a multi-channel video essay that stages a collision between navigation as an algorithmic problem and navigation as an embodied practice shaped by identity\, restriction\, and survival. In the Israeli apartheid road system in Palestine\, even an autonomous vehicle must self-identify before it is able to make a single move. As people’s own movement through physical space is being delegated to automation\, the project asks how algorithmic processes represent or complicate human navigation as a mode of expression\, and of survival. By disassembling the algorithmic stack of autonomous driving\, the work investigates what identity a self-driving car will embody when navigating segregated territories\, whose position the system treats as normative\, and how it will model the nuanced strategies of movement tied to its adopted identity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nThe Lure by Claudia Zamora-Valencia\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]THE LURE is a 60-minute essay film that explores the transformation of a region on the Pacific coast of Oaxaca\, Mexico\, and how narratives of development intertwine with memory. Shot over the course of twenty years\, this longitudinal portrait begins when the government banned sea turtle fishing in the 1990s\, forcing a slaughterhouse to close and leaving fishers and their families searching for alternative livelihoods. New notions of conservation merged with an expanding market for tourism\, shifting relationships among residents\, capital\, and nature. Narrated by me\, an Oaxacan director and anthropologist\, the film draws on my ethnographic research and a personal archive. Field notes\, photos\, manuscripts\, observational footage\, and recordings with locals\, scientists\, entrepreneurs\, expats\, and tourists serve as registers for my intimate and evolving connections with people and the environment\, as well as the dispossession of land disguised as progress.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nBody Alchemy by Felix Endara and Tony Zosherafatain\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]BODY ALCHEMY explores the legacy of transmasculine trailblazer Loren Cameron\, a visionary photographer\, bodybuilder\, and activist who sparked the imaginations of generations of trans men\, propelling them on their own radical journeys.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””] \nFutureproof by John Hulsey\n[/vc_column_text][vc_column_text css=””]In trying to protect ourselves from our darkest fantasies\, are we inadvertently bringing them to life? FUTUREPROOF follows the would-be technological visionaries and rogue pioneers who are working to outmaneuver climate catastrophe – even as their advances take us closer to the point of no return.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”40px”][vc_single_image image=”147742″ img_size=”full”][vc_column_text] \nWatch the conversation between Presenter1\, Presenter2 and Presenter 3 on the UnionDocs’ Membership hub. \n[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_column_text css=””]All of the presenting artists in this program received a 2026 Support for Artists grant\, administered through UnionDocs’ fiscal sponsorship program and made possible by the New York State Council on the Arts with support from the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature[/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nBios \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166462″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Elise Ahrens is a Hudson Valley based\, Emmy-Nominated filmmaker. As a documentary editor\, her work has premiered at Sundance Film Festival in 2025 and Woodstock Film Festival in 2026\, winning the audience award for best documentary with Sydney Cash Makes Too Much Art. She is also a former Karen Schmeer Fellow and recipient of a New York Council of the Arts grant. Elise completed her directorial debut Embodied in 2026\, a short documentary about figure model Jenna Krasowski. The film explores how participation in the arts created a healing environment for Jenna to navigate a contentious relationship with her body\, told through the lens of a female gaze.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166464″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Will Coley is an independent audio documentary producer based in Lenapehoking (Harlem\, NY) with more than 15 years of experience. For many years\, I coordinated programs to support people in immigration detention centers. For this work\, I received the Reebok Human Rights Award. To help refugees and immigrants share their stories\, I then created digital storytelling and narrative change projects for nonprofit organizations and philanthropic organizations. Since attending the Transom Story Workshop\, I have produced audio stories for NPR News\, 99% Invisible\, and the BBC World Service\, among others. As a producer at Condé Nast\, I worked on podcasts for The New Yorker and Vanity Fair. The Ecco selected my short “Savor” for its 2024 summer edition. My Audio Flux documentary short\, “A-Z Luggage Repair” recently premiered at the Smithsonian’s Hirschhorn Museum. I am currently serving as a board member of the Association of Independents in Radio.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166467″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jewish American journalist Katie Halper\, who was fired for calling Israel an apartheid state\, travels from Detroit and Washington to Vancouver\, London\, Brussels and Vienna to meet people Israel would rather you didn’t know about: Holocaust survivors who oppose its war on Gaza and refuse to let one genocide justify another. \nAt the heart of the film are survivors Marione Ingram\, René Lichtman\, Stephen Kapos and Dr. Gabor Maté\, and historian Haim Bresheeth\, the son of survivors. The film also features Rep. Rashida Tlaib\, Jeremy Corbyn and historians Ilan Pappé and Avi Shlaim\, along with Katie’s own confrontations with Alan Dershowitz and IDF spokespeople. \nBlending intimate interviews\, archival footage and frontline protest\, including the arrest of one of its subjects\, Never Again Is Now reclaims Holocaust memory as a call for solidarity and insists that “never again” means never again for anyone\, not just Jews. The film is in post-production.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166469″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Kalli Anderson is a Canadian sound artist\, documentarian\, writer and educator based in Brooklyn\, NY. She is an associate professor and director of audio journalism at the Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY. She is also the founding editor of Sound Fields\, a journal and event series about the art of audio documentary. [/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166472″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Brent Chesanek is a New York based filmmaker raised in Florida. His work involves narrative\, documentary and experimental practices. He has screened his films at CPH:DOX\, FIDMarseille\, DOXA\, Singapore IFF\, Big Sky\, NovosCinemas\, RIDM\, Visions.MTL\, and more.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166475″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Emma Francis-Snyder (she/her) is a New York-based activist turned award-winning documentary filmmaker. Her directorial debut\, TAKEOVER\, was nominated for a News and Documentary Emmy® and shortlisted for an Academy® Award. TAKEOVER was part of the New York Times OpDoc series and shortlisted for the IDA and Cinema Eye Awards. Emma was chosen as one of Vimeo’s Best New Creators. Emma was the Movement Speaker at the 2023 Alzheimer’s Association Imagine Gala. TAKEOVER is part of Connecticut’s State Education Resource Center Curriculum for African American/Black Puerto Rican/Latino Studies. She has been invited to screen and speak at Georgetown University\, Princeton University\, and the NYC Department of Education.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166479″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Nathan Fitch is a filmmaker and Assistant Professor at The New School University. A member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers Collective\, Nathan’s award winning films have been published by The New York Times Op Docs\, TIME\, The New Yorker\, PBS/America ReFramed\, and NPR\, to name a few. Nathan’s feature length directorial debut\, Island Soldier\, won a number of film festival awards\, and was broadcast on PBS in 2018. Nathan’s latest short film\, IN EXILE\, won the Reel South Award at it’s world premiere at the Hot Spring Documentary Film Festival in 2023\, and was broadcast on PBS in 2024. Nathan holds an MFA from the Integrated Media Arts program at Hunter college\, where he was the recipient of the James Aronson Award for Social Justice Journalism\, and a Picture of the Year International award. Nathan served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia\, and has an enduring fondness for Breadfruit.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166480″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Sarah Ema Friedland is a filmmaker\, artist\, and educator whose work is rooted in non-fiction\, often drawing on the vocabularies of speculative fiction and fantasy to re-imagine reality. Her films have screened at Lincoln Center\, Anthology Film Archives\, Hot Docs Cinema\, The Cannes Film Festival Doc Corner Pitch\, and PBS\, and have been supported by fellowships from Jerome\, Ford\, NYSCA\, the MacDowell\, New Jewish Culture\, the Palestine American Research Seminar\, and others. Her recent feature documentary LYD\, co-directed with Rami Younis\, premiered at the 2023 Amman International Film Festival\, where it won the Jury Prize for Best Documentary and the FIPRESCI Prize. She was the founding Director of the MDOCS Storytellers’ Institute at Skidmore College and currently serves as Director of the Liberal Studies Global Media Lab at NYU. Friedland is also an active member of the Meerkat Media Collective and is on the board of the Flaherty Film Seminar.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166483″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Alice Arnold is a documentary media maker and educator. Her film and photography projects explore the urban environment and visual culture\, from street art to advertising and from sidewalks to electric signs. Her films are in the collections of university libraries and have screened at The Museum of Modern Art and other festivals. Her photographs of nightlife and hip hop culture have been widely exhibited and published in books and magazines. She is a NYSCA Grantee (2026)\, a New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellow (2003); a Fulbright Fellow (Film\, Hong Kong\, 2007); and an adjunct professor at the City University of New York. \nSharon Zukin is professor emerita of sociology and of earth and environmental sciences at Brooklyn College and the CUNY Graduate Center\, and writes about art\, architecture\, and real estate in New York City. Her books include Loft Living\, The Cultures of Cities\, Naked City: The Death and Life of Authentic Urban Places\, and The Innovation Complex.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166488″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Danya Abt is a Brooklyn-based film director and editor. She keeps one foot planted in the documentary art world and one in more broadly distributed documentary forms. Her films have played at MoMA’s Documentary Fortnight and the True/False and Camden film festivals among others.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166491″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Francesca Trianni is an investigative journalist and filmmaker with the New York Times Opinion section. Her work has been shown at film festivals\, galleries and institutions worldwide\, including DOC NYC\, the Fotografiska Museum in New York and the Taormina Film Festival in Italy. She recently received a Chicken & Egg development grant for her reporting on the rise of cybermercenaries. As a senior editorial producer at Vice News\, she spent nearly a year investigating an automotive supplier that knowingly released PFAS\, or forever chemicals\, into the environment. The reporting became “Toxic Farmland\,” a one-hour VICE Special Report nominated for a news Emmy. Francesca previously spent nearly a decade at TIME\, where she directed and filmed “Paradise Without People\,” a feature-length documentary about two pregnant Syrian refugees in a Greek refugee camp. It won Best Documentary at the Taormina and AmDocs festivals. In 2018\, she filmed and produced “Finding Home\,” an interactive project that won more than a dozen awards\, including a World Press Photo Award and an Emmy nomination.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166494″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Armand Yervant Tufenkian is an artist\, filmmaker\, and writer based in New York. His moving-image work has been presented internationally at venues including Jeu de Paume\, Film at Lincoln Center\, the Thailand Biennale\, IDFA\, Open City\, the Viennale and Courtisane. Tufenkian’s debut feature In the Manner of Smoke received the International Award at Cinéma du Réel in 2025. \nTamer Hassan has screened his films at festivals and venues including Viennale\, Cinéma du Réel\, Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real\, Courtisane\, and Punto de Vista\, and galleries including Lithium (Chicago)\, Mana Contemporary (Chicago)\, and Articule (Montréal). He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and Parsons School of Design and was Artist in Residence at the Critical Media Lab in the Department of Anthropology at McGill University. He also works regularly as an editor on short and feature films.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166497″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jennie Butler is a documentary filmmaker who has worked with companies like Condé Nast\, Radical Media\, Amazon Studios\, Topic Studios\, and Hearst Television. Her award-winning documentary short Georgie screened at festivals around the world\, including DOC NYC\, Rooftop Films\, Palm Springs Shortfest\, Aspen Shortsfest\, and was selected for Vimeo Staff Picks and American Airlines flights. Jennie was an Associate Producer on the feature documentary Tell Them You Love Me\, which premiered at #1 on NETFLIX in 2024. She recently completed her second documentary short\, The Last Trip\, collaborating with the production company Voyager\, and is a Story Producer on a NETFLIX doc series premiering in 2027.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166498″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Akeema-Zane is an artist\, strategic arts administrator\, advocate\, and educator whose work spans literature\, film\, performance\, movement and music. Her practice explores narrative\, ritual\, and collective memory through embodied forms as well as moves between artistic\, educational\, historical\, and social forms of inquiry\, with an enduring interest in the systems and relationships that organize collective life.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166499″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Crystal Kayiza is a Ugandan-American filmmaker raised in Tulsa\, Oklahoma. A member of the New Negress Film Society\, she is a recipient of the Guggenheim Fellowship\, Creative Capital Award\, Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship\, Film Independent Amplifier Fellowship\, and Sundance Ignite Fellowship. Her most recent film\, Rest Stop\, won the 2023 Jury Prize for Best US Short Film at the Sundance Film Festival. Her previous shorts have screened at BlackStar Film Festival\, MoMA and Toronto International Film Festival and appeared on The New Yorker\, NOWNESS and PBS. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film\,” Crystal is currently in post-production on her first feature film.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166501″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Jessica Bardsley is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow in Film-Video. Her films have screened across the world at venues like Sundance\, CPH:DOX\, Visions du Réel\, RIDM\, True/False\, and on the Criterion Channel. She is the recipient of various awards\, including a Princess Grace Award\, Grand Prize at 25FPS\, the Eileen Maitland Award at the Ann Arbor Film Festival\, Best Short Film at Punto de Vista\, and more. Her films have received support from NYSCA\, If/Then Shorts\, the LEF Foundation\, the Points North Institute\, the Harvard Film Study Center\, and the Mellon Foundation. Her research and writing have been supported by the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study\, the Terra Foundation for American Art\, and the Henry Luce Foundation/American Council of Learned Societies. Her book Fluid Materiality: A Media Theory of Water in Contemporary Art is forthcoming from MIT Press in Fall 2027. She is Assistant Professor of Experimental Film and Media at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166504″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Shabtai Pinchevsky is a photographer and digital media artist whose research-driven work examines the relationship between photographic technologies\, contested landscapes\, and political power. Working with 3D modeling\, mapping\, aerial photography\, archival materials\, and computational tools\, he reconstructs sites and images to investigate histories of colonialism and displacement\, particularly in Israel/Palestine. Pinchevsky’s work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including the Tel Aviv Museum of Art\, the Israel Museum\, Jerusalem\, Singapore Art Museum\, Open Eye Gallery\, Liverpool\, and Hyde Park Art Center\, Chicago. His work is held in the collections of the Centre Pompidou\, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art\, and the Block Museum. He is a recipient of The Gérard Lévy Prize for a Young Photographer from the Israel Museum. He holds an MFA from Northwestern University and a BFA from Bezalel Academy. Pinchevsky is an Assistant Professor of Photography at Parsons School of Design\, The New School\, NY.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166506″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Claudia Zamora-Valencia uses ethnography and visual arts to examine social and historical processes. Her work focuses on the relationships among development and nature\, infrastructure and the Mexican state\, and migration and labor markets in the U.S. She has presented her research and films at international conferences and festivals\, including the American Anthropological Association\, Latin American Studies Association\, Society for Visual Anthropology\, Camden Film Festival\, Ambulante Film Festival\, DOC NYC\, UnionDocs\, and PBS. Institutions such as the New York State Council on the Arts\, Temple University\, the Robert Lemelson Foundation\, the Flaherty Film Seminar\, and Latino Public Broadcasting have recognized her work with fellowships and grants. Claudia earned an MFA from Hunter College (CUNY) and is a Ph.D. candidate in anthropology at Temple University. She is a member of Meerkat Media Collective and an Assistant Professor at the State University of New York (SUNY) at Old Westbury.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166731″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]Félix Endara\, (co-director and NYSCA individual artist grant recipient) an Ecuadorian-born trans immigrant and independent documentary filmmaker\, is dedicated to authentic storytelling. His short films have graced prestigious festivals including Berlinale\, DOC NYC\, NewFest\, and Mill Valley. He produced “NORTH BY CURRENT” (2021\, Dir: Angelo Madsen Minax)\, which premiered at Berlinale and aired on POV in November 2021\, earning acclaim from Rolling Stone and Filmmaker; and “UNSEEN” (2023\, Dir: Set Hernandez)\, which was featured at the 2022 Gotham Documentary Feature Lab\, premiered at HotDocs in May 2023\, and aired on POV in March 2024. Félix advocates for trans filmmakers\, advising the 2023 Sundance Institute’s Trans Possibilities Intensive\, founding the Trans Affinity Group within the Documentary Producers Alliance\, and promoting authentic queer and trans storytelling in outlets like the Hollywood Reporter. He chairs the Board of Working Films and serves on the Board of Chicken & Egg Films. \nTony Zosherafatain (co-director) Tony Zosherafatain is an award-winning director\, producer\, and writer. He most recently produced “AFFIRMATION\,” which was an official selection at several film festivals\, including NewFest\, Out on Film\, and the New York Short Film Festival. He also directed “TRANS IN TRUMPLAND\,” which was Emmy-shortlisted and nominated for a GLAAD Media Award and is streaming on Prime Video\, Apple TV\, and Tubi. His films have screened at domestic and international film festivals\, including Nashville Film Festival\, Richmond International Film Festival\, OutFest\, Inside Out\, and NewFest.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=”1/3″][vc_single_image image=”166509″ img_size=”full” css=””][/vc_column][vc_column width=”2/3″][vc_column_text css=””]John Hulsey is an artist and filmmaker. He has screened and exhibited his work internationally\, at venues such as The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts\, the U.S. Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennial\, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. His first film\, This Side of History\, premiered at Cinéma du Réel in 2019\, where it received the Prix International de la Scam. His work has been supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, the Foundation for Contemporary Art\, Points North Institute\, the Film Study Center at Harvard University\, and LEF.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=”vc_hidden-lg vc_hidden-md vc_hidden-sm vc_hidden-xs”][vc_empty_space height=”30px”][vc_separator][vc_column_text] \nFrom the Event \n[/vc_column_text][vc_separator][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][/vc_column][/vc_row]
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