Shira Avni
Award-winning animation filmmaker Shira Avni is an Associate Professor of Film Animation at Concordia University in Montreal, Canada, where she is the proud recipient of a 2020 Distinguished Teaching Award. Her previous animated documentary films (John and Michael, Tying Your Own Shoes, Petra’s Poem), in partnership with the National Film Board of Canada, garnered over […]
Kate Russell
Kate Russell is an Australian filmmaker and video artist currently based in rural South Gippsland working across video projection, theatre and film installations. Her practice is to film and record landscapes, wilderness and seascapes in Australia and abroad. This has now extended to filming projections for community art projects and working with (It’s no) drama […]
Silvia Rossi and Elena Mazzi
Silvia Rossi is an Italian filmmaker based in Oslo. She earned a bachelor’s degree in cinema and theater at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice and studied directing at the National Film School (CSC-Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia) in Milan. She is a co-founder of “BOM Films,” a directors’ duo specializing in advertising, and “Peggy Høy,” a […]
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Bernardo Cubría & Michael John McCarthy
Bernardo Cubría is a Mexican writer. For film, he penned the feature screenplay ‘Copa’ that Eva Longoria is set to direct for SONY and Guerrero which Gina Rodriguez is attached to direct and star in with One Community. He is also currently writing the Untitled Juan Gabriel Biopic that Gaz Alazraki is set to direct […]
Ben Ramsay
Ben Ramsay is a writer and director of film and theatre from Kirkcaldy, Fife. He adores genre-driven storytelling, and his work often revolves around darkly comic circumstances, commentary on contemporary life in Scotland, and works that explore pockets of history that are often overlooked. Recent works include: ‘A Concrete Topiary’, produced by the Almeida Theatre’s […]
Arwa Aburawa & Turab Shah
Arwa Aburawa and Turab Shah are an artist duo based in London. Their work is focused on gathering people together to talk, to learn and to create films. This gathering is facilitated through a project they established in 2019 called ‘Other Cinemas’ which regularly hosts community screening and discussions in Brent, which centre Black and […]
Michael Kho Lim
Michael Kho Lim’s career trajectory lies at the intersection of industry and academia. He has extensive experience in the management of cultural and creative industries — assuming various leadership roles such as being a film producer, executive director, general manager, and holding creative and managerial positions in content writing and editing for different publications. He […]
Mica Georgis
Mica Georgis is a filmmaker and writer based in London. Their films have screened at international festivals including Outfest LA, Leeds International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, Aesthetica and LSFF. Their work has been exhibited at galleries including the Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris and the ICA, London. Their first film ISHTAR is available […]
Diane Devlin
Diane Devlin was born in Leith, Edinburgh, in 1956 and grew up in a working class family with a love for music and storytelling. A former nurse, she is passionate about amplifying marginalised voices, especially older women. She has worked on community driven film projects tackling health stigma around smear tests and mammogram uptake. A […]
Lucy Parker
Lucy Parker is an artist filmmaker and film educator living in London. Her film work explores spectrums of political and social practices that enable, or form barriers to, community led change. She is motivated by the desire to imagine and live in a way not built on dominance and extraction; this motivation informs her approach […]
Jonathan Johnson
Jonathan Johnson is a photographer and filmmaker whose work examines the idea of place and the shifting relationships between humans and the natural world. His practice weaves together autobiography and landscape, drawing from his mixed-heritage background, travel, and backcountry exploration. Through still and moving images, he reflects on how personal and collective histories shape our […]