is a French Filipino Chinese writer-director born and raised in Paris and based in New York. Her first short film, THIRSTYGIRL, was an official selection of Sundance ‘24 among 50 other festivals worldwide. Her first screenplay, the THIRSTYGIRL feature, was selected for the 2025 Sundance Screenwriters and Directors Labs, the 2024 Black List Projects Lab, the 2024 CAPE List, and received the 2024 Gotham Week Honors. She was named one of Vimeo’s 10 Breakout Creators of 2024. Before working in film, she had a decade-long career as a software engineer, a prison reform activist, and an international public speaker. She is the founder of Emergent Works, a nonprofit that teaches formerly incarcerated people digital literacy and coding skills, and she is the co-founder of Justice4Caesar, the collective that freed Ornell Caesar from Rikers Island after he was unjustly incarcerated in 2021. She is represented by Atlas Artists and UTA. 

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is a feature film programmer for the Sundance Film Festival, focusing on US and world documentary features. Prior to that she was the Sales & Acquisitions Executive for the documentary sales agency, Autlook Filmsales, and Senior Director of Acquisitions for the NYC-based agency, Visit Films. Aside from her work at Sundance, Ania runs Sands: International Film Festival of St Andrews, Scotland. She was also the artistic director of the Off Camera IFF (Krakow, Poland), which she programmed between 2008-2020. She trained in production and post-production at the BBC and the British Museum, and holds a Master’s degree in film studies as well as an M.A in Digital Culture and Technology.

is a New York-based independent producer and the founder of Third Place. They produced Jane Schoenbrun's sophomore feature I Saw The TV Glow, which was released by A24 to critical acclaim and received an Independent Spirit Awards nomination on behalf of their work on the film. They have also produced John Early’s directorial debut Maddie’s Secret, Lucio Castro’s After This Death starring Mia Maestro, Lee Pace and Gwendoline Christie, and Ben Mullinkosson's documentary The Last Year of Darkness. They’ve held executive positions at Kindred Spirit, Animal Kingdom, and FilmNation.

is the director of BETWEEN THE TEMPLES, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Sony Pictures Classics. The film was nominated for Best Screenplay at the Gotham Awards and won the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actress (Carol Kane). Silver's most recent film is the medium length documentary CAROL & JOY, which premiered at the Telluride Film Festival and was distributed by Janus Films. Silver’s previous work has played venues and festivals around the world, including MoMA, La Cinémathèque française, Berlinale, and the Venice and New York Film Festivals. The New Yorker has said that “Silver proves himself to be one of the most original American independent filmmakers working today.”

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is the Director of Programming at NewFest, New York’s leading LGBTQ+ Film & Media Organization and one of the largest LGBTQ+ film festivals in the world. Nick has been with NewFest since 2016, where he oversees curation and impact of NewFest’s year-round
programming including flagship festivals Queering the Canon, NewFest Pride, artist development and educational initiatives, as well as to the annual international New York
LGBTQ+ Film Festival, which was founded in 1988 and features over 130 films from more than 30 countries every October. Nick has spoken at universities and served on juries around the world to support filmmakers and spread the word on the vital role of queer film, including GAZE in Dublin, Pink Apple in Zürich, Inside Out in Toronto and the Melbourne Queer Film Festival. Prior to NewFest, Nick served as the Film Curator at The Tank in New York City, and worked in academic publishing and international media production. Prior to NewFest, Nick has written about film & media for publications including Slant Magazine, Time Out New York, the Boston Phoenix, and NBC News.

is a writer and director living in Brooklyn. He is one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” 2022. His film directorial debut, Chaperone, held its World Premiere at Sundance in the Midnight Shorts category, and it was listed as one of IndieWire’s “10 Must-See Shorts” of the festival that year. The film has played over three-dozen festivals internationally, winning a Jury Special Mention for Best U.S. Short at Palm Springs, a Jury Special Mention for Best Short at Turin Horror, and the Horizon Award for Most Promising Filmmaker at 24fps. The film was subsequently acquired for distribution by Altered Innocence. Sam’s second short, Ticks, was commissioned by Hulu and stars Jack Haven. It held festival premiers at Palm Springs and NewFest. Sam is currently developing new projects with Luca Intili, Kindred Spirit, and New Line Cinema. He is under commission for the stage from Deutsches Theater Berlin, where he holds the position of Guest Director, and his work plays consistently in the ensemble’s repertoire. His most recent play, Double Serpent, was selected for the prestigious 62nd annual Theatertreffen at Berliner Festspiele. He is represented by CAA and Untitled.

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is an Emmy nominated director for the HBO documentary The Stroll (2023), and an Emmy nominated producer for the docuseries This Is Me (2015). She was a producer on the Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show Transparent (2014 - 2019) and produced the film Biosphere (Duplass Brothers Productions / IFC, 2022). The Lady and The Dale, her 4-part series and directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in 2021; it was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award in 2022. The Stroll won a Peabody Award in 2024 and a Special Jury Award: Clarity of Vision at Sundance 2023. Her standalone directorial feature QUEENMAKER: The Making of an It Girl was released on Hulu in May 2023. Her latest documentary feature, Enigma, debuted at Sundance 2025 and premiered on HBO worldwide in June.

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co-wrote and starred in Pete Oh’s genre-bending THE TRUE BEAUTY OF BEING BITTEN BY A TICK which premiered at SXSW 2025. She was named one of Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch in 2024. Film: THE ROSES written by Tony McNamara, directed by Jay Roach (Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch), IF YOU WERE THE LAST (opposite Anthony Mackie), NIGHTBITCH (Amy Adams), YOUR PLACE OR MINE (opposite Reese Witherspoon), DOWNHILL (opposite Julie Louis Dreyfus and Will Ferrell), LONG WEEKEND (opposite Finn Wittrock), and more. TV: James Gunn’s DC’s CREATURE COMMANDOS, PARTY DOWN (Starz), THE AFTERPARTY (Apple), LOVE LIFE (HBO Max), MODERN LOVE (Amazon). Born and raised in Providence, R.I. B.A in Art History from Brown University and M.F.A in Acting from UC San Diego.

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