Alina Taalman (US) is a filmmaker based in North Carolina. Her films have shown at festivals such as Antimatter [Media Art], Mimesis Documentary Festival, Imagine Science Film Festival, Riga Pasaules Film Festival, ANALOGICA, Cosmic Rays and the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival.

Kelly Sears (US) creates hybrid speculative fiction and nonfiction photo-collage animations. Her films have been screened at festivals including Sundance, Slamdance, South by Southwest, American Film Institute, International Film Festival Rotterdam and museums such as MOMA, The Hammer Museum and the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam. Solo programs of her films have screened at Pacific Film Archive; Anthology Film Archives; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and San Francisco Cinematheque. Her films have won awards at festivals including Slamdance, Ann Arbor, Black Maria, Chicago Underground and Oak Cliff. She’s an Associate Professor in Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Colectivo Los Ingrávidos (Tehuacán) is a Mexican film collective founded in 2012 to dismantle the commercial and corporate audiovisual grammar and its embedded ideology. The collective is inspired by the historical avant-gardes and their commitment to using both form and content against alienating realities. Their methods combine digital and analog mediums, interventions on archival materials, mythology, agitprop, social protests and documentary poetry. Their radical experimentations on documentary and cinematographic devices produce images, both visual and auditory that are political possibilities in their own right.

Elizabeth M. Webb (US) is an artist and filmmaker whose work is invested in issues surrounding race and identity, often using the lens of her own family history of migration and racial passing to explore larger, systemic constructs and the renegotiation of their borders. Elizabeth holds a dual MFA in Film/Video and Photography/Media from California Institute of the Arts and is an alumna of the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio Art, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and the Core Program at the Museum of Fine Arts Houston. She is currently working on her first feature length film, Artificial Horizon, which is supported by a Ford Foundation JustFilms Development Grant and a Graham Foundation Production Grant.

Kevin Jerome Everson (US) (b. Mansfield OH, lives and works in Charlottesville VA) is the Commonwealth and Ruffin Foundation Distinguished Professor of Studio Art and Director of Studio Arts at the University of Virginia. Recipient of the Guggenheim, Heinz Award, Berlin Prize, Alpert Award, Rome Prize and Creative Capital grants, Everson’s art practice encompasses photography, printmaking, sculpture and film, twelve award-winning features and over 200 solo and collaborative shorts. His work has been featured in mid-career retrospectives and solo exhibitions at Cinéma du réel/Centre Pompidou; Harvard Film Archive; Tate Modern/Film; Whitney Museum of American Art; MMCA, Seoul; Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz; Cinematek Brussels and presented at the Whitney Biennial, Sharjah Biennial, Carnegie International, Contour Biennale and the Thailand Biennale. (photo credit: Sandy Williams III)

Lydia Marie Hicks is a professional filmmaker and multimedia artist known for her video and place-based installation Black in the Water (2018) and her experimental documentary Rediscovering the Scientist (2016). She holds an MFA in Film/Video from the California Institute of the Arts and a BS in Zoology from Humboldt State University. Her projects seek to explode identity-based historical narratives and promote healing by historicizing alternate concepts of western culture and celebrating the overlooked and undervalued contributions of marginalized groups. Her work has been featured on National Geographic and premiered at Sundance Film Festival. She has been supported by the EarthFire institute, WildSumaco Biological Station, Interlochen Academy of Arts, Guild Hall and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown.

Tristen Ives (they/them; US) is a filmmaker who works in diaristic and experimental modes. They are an MFA student in the Film, Video Animation & New Genres Department at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. They are the recipient of Public Space One’s Free Studio Residency (2019-2020) and their work has been featured in Analog Cookbook. Their films have screened at ICDOCS, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, CURRENTS New Media, Montreal Underground Film Festival, Light Matter Film Festival, Film Diary NYC and more. Tristen has worked as the Head Projectionist at Block Cinema in Evanston, Illinois, as an Assistant Head Projectionist at FilmScene Cinema and as a projectionist at SIFF and Northwest Film Forum in Seattle, Washington. They are currently the Head Projectionist at Union Cinema in Milwaukee.

Parinda Mai (Thailand/US) like many of her generation in Thailand, grew up with the story Twelve Sisters, communicated across platforms, from oral history to soap operas and cartoon animations. The project 12 Kalpas Tales is the artist’s personal search and reinterpretation of the moral of this story and its implications for the interconnected humanity. Blinded by Centuries emerges from this project and is intended to capture the core energy of this myth that involves invading, exploiting and destroying something, then leaving it behind to later try to rescue it with one’s ethics. In Blinded by Centuries an esoteric folktale is played out globally in contemporary terms.