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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Erin Muroski</image:title>
      <image:caption>Erin Muroski is a comedy writer and actor who prefers hurricanes to earthquakes (she's from Orlando, but currently lives in LA). She writes about real, multifaceted women who try really hard to keep it together, but end up screwing it up in some way... just like her! Erin has performed improv and sketch all over LA, and several times at San Francisco SketchFest. She won "Best Original Comedy Pilot" for her pilot Level Up at the UCLA Screenwriting Contest and won the PAGE International Screenwriting Award for "Best Comedy Pilot Script" for her script Game, based on her years of experience as a 'Dating Coach'. She's a two-time finalist at the Austin Film Festival and was chosen as a fellow by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer in "Imagine Impact Content Accelerator Program.” Her latest pilot Munch won first place in the Script Pipeline 2021 TV Writing contest. Erin is currently shopping her holiday feature Dumped on Christmas with Kimberly Montini at Cranium Entertainment.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Daisy Rosato</image:title>
      <image:caption>Daisy Rosato is a filmmaker in Brooklyn NY. Originally from New Orleans, she is drawn to creative work that rewards collaboration. After receiving a BA in Theatre &amp; Performance/German Studies from Bard College, Rosato founded a theatre company, during which she premiered original work in Ars Nova’s ANT Fest and BAX’s Upstart Festival. Her feature screenplay "Dancing Soldier" is a current Semifinalist in Scriptapalooza’s International Screenplay Competition and was a Quarterfinalist in The Script Lab’s 2020 Screenplay Contest. Her short screenplay "Rockaway" was a 2020 Scriptation Showcase Semifinalist. Rosato believes creating and consuming are collaborative, her work playing a part in how she forms community. This labor of love is reflective of her working-class background. As a queer woman, Rosato knows her art exists outside of assumed binaries just as she does. Across all her work, Rosato is committed to pushing storytelling forward and making the art of doing so more inclusive.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Courtney Hope Thérond</image:title>
      <image:caption>Courtney Hope Thérond is an award-winning screenwriter and director who has screened films at festivals such as BFI London, New Orleans, Outfest, Nashville, and St Louis. Her latest short Rehearsal, which tackles the grey areas of consent, premiered online on Short of the Week, received a Vimeo Staff Pick, and was featured in RogerEbert.com, Fast Company, and No Budge. As a screenwriter, Courtney has twice been a finalist at Austin Film Festival. Her pilot Between Us Girls was a finalist in the Screencraft Pilot Launch, a semi-finalist (top 50) for the ISA Fast Track Fellowship, and won its category at Cinestory. Courtney is currently a fellow in the inaugural Constellation Incubator and one of eight filmmakers selected for the Open Door Project. Her fictional podcast Persistence of Memory was recently selected for the Gotham Week Project Market. Courtney is a graduate of NYU, Tisch School of the Arts, and was a Cinereach Film Fellow. She writes and directs narrative and branded content in Los Angeles and New York.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Josh Copeland</image:title>
      <image:caption>Josh Copeland is a writer and filmmaker from Nashville, TN. He formed DIY-production-collective Giantkiller in 2005 while still in college, and has been expending most of his free-time on making no-budget movies whenever professional video-editing gigs have paid him well enough to ever since. His current projects are the shorts SERIOUS MATTERS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, which he wrote and directed, and BOGO, which he directed from a screenplay by Rebecca Haden. His work as a writer/director has screened at film festivals like San Francisco's Another Hole In The Head, the Academy-award qualifying Nashville Film Festival, Cucalorus Film Festival in Wilmington, VA, Other Worlds Film Festival in Austin, TX, and many more in the U.S., the U.K., and Canada. His work as an editor has been featured on Hulu, MTV, ESPN, CMT, Noisey, Tidal, RollingStone.com, Vevo and in skippable ads on Youtube. Josh resides in Los Angeles and is glad to be finished writing in the third person.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Martin Barshai</image:title>
      <image:caption>Houston, TX born, American/Thai filmmaker. Barshai directed Light on Her Feet, nominated Best Short Doc at Austin Film Festival (2017). His writing placed as a ScreenCraft Finalist (2019), Austin Film Festival 2nd Rounder (2019), and Slamdance Semi-Finalist (2020). Currently, he’s in post-production for his first feature film, Ether's Paradise, while developing a biopic about composer Philip Glass.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - EVAN GLODELL WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER/ACTOR</image:title>
      <image:caption>Raised in Wisconsin, Evan Glodell moved to the west coast in 2001 to pursue filmmaking. After many years working as a director and cinematographer on shorts and music videos he began work on his feature-film debut Bellflower in 2008. Bellflower was made over the course of three years on a minuscule budget of $17,000 with Evan taking on major roles as writer, director, producer and actor. Bellflower’s premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011 was met with much attention and critical acclaim. The film was shot on custom cameras and made use of many practical effects including explosives, custom cars and flamethrowers, all built by Glodell. Bellflower was theatrically released in the United States on over 100 screens and found international success in France, Japan and the United Kingdom. Mr. Glodell was nominated for a 2012 Spirit Award for best low-budget film and a 2011 Gotham Award for best new director with the film winning prizes both domestically and internationally. Evan has a number of projects in post production: Canary with AGBO (Russo brothers) and Coatwolf producing, and Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins produced by Coatwolf. Glodell is represented by Creative Artists Agency..</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Patricia Vidal Delgado is a Sundance Institute FilmTwo Fellow and is represented by the talent agency Luber Roklin. 'La Leyenda Negra', her feature film debut, premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT category and is currently streaming on HBO MAX. The 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards nominated the film for the John Cassavetes Award and the GLAAD Media Awards also nominated the film for Outstanding TV Movie. Patricia is the writer and director of short films 'Bué Sabi', 'Isa', 'Ico', '88', 'The Hood' and 'Caroline'. Her work has screened at both national and international film festivals including the Raindance Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, Curtas Vila do Conde and the IndieLisboa International Film Festival. To date, Delgado's films have garnered a total of 15 wins and 50 nominations.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Azadeh Nikzadeh</image:title>
      <image:caption>Azadeh Nikzadeh is a Middle Eastern writer, director and producer. She works on rarely-heard political, human rights and women empowerment stories with the expertise on building dramatic narratives based on true events and characters and blurring the lines between fiction and documentary. She is the sole Iranian recipient of 2010 Asian Film Academy Fellowship and Her political drama feature script “Dandelion The Messenger of My Grandma Batul” is a 2021 Sundance Writing Lab Finalist. Azadeh wrote and directed highly-acclaimed short films including “Vida”, “X” and “The Girl Sitting Here” with the focus on concepts and characters that are misunderstood and judged by the society such as prostitution and the archetype of divine feminine.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Mateo Márquez</image:title>
      <image:caption>Mateo Márquez is a director and writer from Queens, New York City. His body of work includes narrative fiction, non-fiction, and music video content that have all garnered recognition throughout the U.S and abroad. He holds a Masters in Directing from the School of Visual Arts and a BA in Film from Hunter College. He was a 2015 BAFTA Scholarship recipient and a 2019 School of Visual Arts’ Alumni Scholarship Award winner. His short films The Invaders and The Quiet have screened at over 30 festivals worldwide including the BFI London Film Festival, Fantasia, HBO NY Latino Film Festival, and Nantes Utopiales Festival International de Science Fiction. They have also been featured on the online horror channel ALTER as well other prominent online platforms such as Film Shortage, Beyond the Short, and Retrospective of Jupiter. Mateo infuses his love of genre films and traditional dramas to create an intimate visceral storytelling experience.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Chris Vanderhorst</image:title>
      <image:caption>Chris Vanderhorst is a self taught writer/filmmaker in Los Angeles. After moving to LA from a small town in North Carolina, he wasted no time working and creating. He viewed every job and professional relationship as a lesson in his self-created masterclass. He has been teaching Film at the high school level to support his own creative film endeavors. His most recent film, Lifelike, is a romantic sci-fi thriller with a shocking ending that will leave the audience talking well after the film's credits. Chris always looks forward to the next project and creative relationship and has no plans of slowing down.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2021: StudioFest VR - Ramiel Petros</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ramiel Petros is a NYC based writer/director who was born and raised in California. A first generation Iraqi-American Ramiel fiercely believes in the power filmmaking has to depict universal narratives. Ramiel has been shortlisted for a student BAFTA Award, a Semi- Finalist for the Student Academy Awards, and is the recipient of the Akhtar-Bhutta production award, the Russell Hexter filmmaker grant, the Thomas William Gidro-Frank award, and the Pond5 filmmakers first award.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Conall Pendergast is a writer, director, and illustrator. Conall has created animated content for numerous corporate clients and edited television series, documentaries, dramatic shorts, and the dramatic feature "The Basement." He designed and illustrated the educational comic book "Pipe Dreams," which won the National Canadian Public Relations Society’s Gold Award for Print Projects.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Millie Rose Heywood</image:title>
      <image:caption>Australian LA-based director Millie Rose Heywood began her film career as an actor in TV productions for ABC and Netflix and as the female lead in the feature film Convict. She started her own production company to produce content with an emphasis on boundary pushing, sociallyly-minded, female-driven narratives. Her debut short film Spirit Stones, which she produced, acted in and co-wrote with Richard Green, was a finalist at Tropfest, the world’s largest short film festival. Her latest short film, Girl Falling, was selected as a Programmer’s Favourite in the Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival 2018.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Kitty Percy</image:title>
      <image:caption>Kitty specializes in character-driven drama with a comedy edge. Her credits include the short film Kismet Diner, which won first prize in the Manhattan Short Film Festival, and Together Apart, which won a Silver Lion at Cannes and a D&amp;AD Pencil. She is currently working on several feature films and TV serials, including an original TV drama written for the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting Course. She has won awards in the BlueCat Screenplay Contest, the Bafta Rocliffe New Writing Forum, and the Shore Scripts Screenwriting Competition. She has an MA in Screenwriting from the University of the Arts London.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Anna Mikami</image:title>
      <image:caption>Anna Mikami (三上杏奈) is a Chinese-Japanese writer/director and actress based in New York City. She has lived in both Tokyo and Hong Kong, and speaks fluent English, Japanese, Mandarin and Cantonese. Mikami holds a B.F.A. in Drama from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Journalism. She is managed by Invictus Entertainment and represented as an actress by Buchwald.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Daniel V. Masciari</image:title>
      <image:caption>Daniel V. Masciari is a filmmaker and editor based in New York. He focuses on telling untold stories of everyday life through its hidden moments. He has been honored by the Smithsonian, acknowledged in Filmmaker Magazine, and was recognized in Variety Magazine's 110 student filmmakers to watch. His most recent short film, Crawling to Paradise, screened at the Syracuse International Film Festival and the New York State International Film Festival where it won best Drama.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Rolv Lyssand Bjørø</image:title>
      <image:caption>Rolv Lyssand Bjørø is a Norwegian director, editor and screenwriter. He has made numerous award winning shorts and documentaries that have been screened internationally, including a Gullruten (Norwegian Emmy)-nominated documentary and the acclaimed 2018 short film Another World.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Sachin Mehta</image:title>
      <image:caption>Born and raised in Los Angeles, and a son of Indian immigrants, Sachin is a trial attorney and former public defender for the U.S. territory of American Samoa. He received his certificate in screenwriting from UCLA. He is also a recovering actor and voiceover artist. Sachin's screenplay Westchester was a finalist in the 2017 BlueCat screenplay competition.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Liz Nord</image:title>
      <image:caption>... is a documentary filmmaker and multi-platform producer who has created and shown work across the globe. She is also the Editor-in-Chief and Lead Producer at No Film School, the world's largest online filmmaking community, where she co-hosts the popular Indie Film Weekly podcast. Projects have included Emmy-winning election coverage for MTV News and a documentary for Wyclef Jean's NGO Yele Haiti. Liz is also an active member of Film Fatales, and has spoken and written extensively on a wide range of creativity and media-related topics, notably as a TED speaker at TEDxDumbo and as a multiple-time SXSW presenter.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Jennifer Robbins</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jennifer loves a good story. She has translated that joy of reading and storytelling to writing. Her screenplays include romantic comedy From Shiksa to Mikvah, thriller Doe Network, and a coming-of-age tale Decade of Discomfort. She is interested in the long-form writing opportunities of television and has recently completed a dark comedy pilot, The Port. She is a few chapters away from completing her first novel, psychological thriller Her Madness. She lives in NYC and is currently working as a Post Producer with a focus on documentaries and independent films. She dabbles in music and stand-up comedy.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Andrew Wonder</image:title>
      <image:caption>... is a connoisseur of emerging filmmaking technology and style. Enlisted by MTV at the age of 17, he was primed in under-the-gun filmmaking when he had to shoot, produce, sound mix, and edit an episode of Made. He has won Cannes Lions, Clios, and his own debut feature film premiered at SXSW.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Becky Burkhard</image:title>
      <image:caption>... has been producing commercials and short films for the past 15 years and is currently an Executive Producer at BBDO in NYC. For the past 14 years, Becky has been active in the Off-Broadway theater community and has written and directed several successful Off-Broadway shows. She is currently producing a documentary short about endometriosis with Studiofest co-founder Jess Jacklin. She received her bachelor's degree from Georgetown University and a masters degree from New York University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Stephen H. Foreman</image:title>
      <image:caption>… earned his BA in English with minors in Philosophy and German from Morgan State, and an MFA in playwriting and dramatic literature from the Yale School of Drama. He has had careers as a social worker, professional stage manager, teacher at various colleges, universities and writers conferences, screenwriter, director and is developing his career as a novelist. His film and TV credits include The Resolution of Mossie Wax, The Jazz Singer, The Unknown American, and Cougar. He has authored three novels: Toehold, Watching Gideon, and Journey. He now lives and writes in the Catskills.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Matthew Sorvillo lives and works in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has penned multiple feature-length film scripts and original television pilots, has several comic book projects in development, and also stars in a soon-to-be streaming reality TV/talk show. There aren't enough hours in his day.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2018: StudioFest Phoenicia, NY - Jamie Donnelly</image:title>
      <image:caption>… is most popularly known as “Pink Lady” Jan in the film Grease, a role she also played on broadway seven years before the film version. She made her broadway debut at age seventeen as Lulu in Kander and Ebb’s first show, Flora the Red Menace. She also originated the role of Ethel Levey in George M! Her television credits span from the The Six Million Dollar Man to recurring roles in Ray Donovan with Liev Schreiber, as well as the web series All Downhill from Here.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>... is an award-winning filmmaker and recovering media executive based in New York City. She has made several feature films and VR films that have gone to Sundance, Venice, Berlin, Telluride and AFI. Shruti has directed music videos and shorts that premiered on MTV, NYLON, Paper Magazine, Conde Nast, and crafted the #MySentence series on prison reform for the Obama Administration, featuring Tim Robbins, Pusha T and Gabourey Sidibe. In the fall of 2017, she launched her own production company, honto88, which focuses on scripted film and television, VR, and narrative features and videos with strong, often under-represented voices and through a socially responsible lens. Shruti wrapped production on a feature with Keanu Reeves called Green Dolphin, and is developing several other scripted films and TV series, including The Women Who Made New York with Killer Films and Girly with Refinery29 and Rashida Jones.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>A child of a Cambodian refugee, David grew up listening to his father’s stories of surviving the Cambodian genocide that claimed the lives of at least 2 million people. After graduating from the University of Michigan’s film school in 2015, David moved to Los Angeles to pursue filmmaking and gain the experience needed to share his family’s stories with the world. David has gone on to produce several short films and work on numerous TV shows, commercials, documentaries, and features. In his directorial debut Year Zero, David brings to life the brutality of the Khmer Rouge regime and the resilience of the Cambodian people.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Daniel is a Canadian Screenwriter and Actor born in Windsor, Ontario and now living in Toronto. He has placed in over ten international screenwriting competitions, including placing fourth in the Canada Film Fest and reaching the Quarterfinals of the Nicholl Fellowships in Screenwriting Competition. Daniel's biggest passions in life have always been screenwriting, antiques, and the 1980s.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Suzi Yoonessi’s film “Unlovable” premiered at SXSW, winning a special jury prize. The Duplass brothers production was theatrically released by Orion Classics and stars academy award winner Melissa Leo, academy award nominee John Hawkes, and comedian Charlene deGuzman. Her award-winning first feature film “Dear Lemon Lima” was released by Phase 4 Films, HBO, Showtime, and the Sundance Channel. Yoonessi directed “Daphne and Velma” for Warner Bros., the origin story of two female super sleuths from Scooby Doo. She was nominated for an Outstanding Directing Emmy for “Relationship Status” and directed Snapchat’s most successful original series, the Webby-nominated “Dead Girls Detective Agency” for Indigo. Yoonessi also directs branded, short, and commercial spots. She was nominated for a Streamy award for her international women’s day spot #ownyourvoice. Yoonessi received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and her MFA from Columbia University where she was a recipient of the FMI Directing Fellowship.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Katherine was homeschooled, studied at Oxford, and worked the Sochi Olympics. She concerns herself with the dramatic, philosophical, and futuristic. Her short “The Stranger” screened at San Diego Comic Con, TCL Chinese Theater, the Atlanta Film Festival, and the Florida Film Festival, and won a bronze Telly for directing and the Grand Jury Prize for Best College Short at Gasparilla Film Festival. Her feature script “The Stranger” was an American Zoetrope Screenwriting Competition Quarterfinalist. She’s worked as a story consultant for PlayStation's Emerging Filmmakers program and Asbury University's feature "Damaged Goods." She’s taught an undergrad and graduate level Directing Narrative Film class at Asbury and holds an MFA in Film Production at Florida State University.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Wendy Jean Wilkins</image:title>
      <image:caption>Wendy is a screenwriter, filmmaker, and comedian named one of ISA’s Top-25 Screenwriters to Watch in 2019. Hailing from New York, she’s lived and worked in Hollywood for over 25 years. She’s been a participant or finalist in writing workshops and contests held by Warner Bros., ABC/Disney, Final Draft, Women in Film: NY/Meryl Streep Writers Lab, and Austin Film Festival, plus 40 other competition placements and awards. Her original pilot script “Hometown” won the ISA Fast Track VI Fellowship and the Space &amp; Time Film Festival’s screenplay competition. Her feature script “Where the Men Are” won Best Comedy Script at the Creative World Awards and was a Richmond International Film Festival finalist. Her short script “Insignificant” won Best Dark Comedy short screenplay at both the Houston Comedy and Austin Comedy Short Film Festivals. Her latest, “A Short Burst of Infatuation,” was a semi-finalist for Table Read My Script: Park City and Austin. She’s currently a staff writer/director for the satirical news website Omnarchy.com.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Jessica Liu</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jessica points her lens at slice of life, character-driven stories like her short "Memory Blocks" about the transition of three young adults in Singapore, and "oRaNgEdReAmS," an exploration of tongue-in-cheek middle school moments. Since graduating from UCSC with degrees in Feminist Studies and Film &amp; Digital Media, her work has screened at such festivals as National Geographic All Roads, Cinequest, Dances with Films, Newfilmmakers LA, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Her latest, “Prom Time!,” is a magical realism film revolving around cross-generational desire. It won the Best Women’s Empowerment award at Anaheim Film Fest. She’s a member of the Alliance of Women Directors.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Douglas Cushnie</image:title>
      <image:caption>After getting his start at a young age in action sports cinematography, Douglas gradually moved to narrative and commercial film, eventually directing “Volar en línea recta,” a short based on the lives of, and starring, close friends of his in Nicaragua. This led to directing more projects in Latin America and the US. He was accepted to a Directing fellowship at the American Film Institute, graduating with his College Emmy-nominated thesis, “Neemkomok.” He's passionate about telling the stories of underrepresented people and places.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Patrick Phelan</image:title>
      <image:caption>Since escaping his imprisonment in the womb, cutting his own umbilical cord with a handmade shiv, Patrick has been living a life of danger and lawlessness. Raised in the Middle-Of-Nowhere, Massachusetts, Patrick got his kicks by living on the edge. You could often find him illicitly jaywalking. Once he loitered right in front of a “NO LOITERING” sign. After Unearthing his family’s camcorder, Patrick began documenting his antics, creating hours of footage playing ding-dong-ditch, thus beginning his cinematic oeuvre.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Ryan Oksenberg</image:title>
      <image:caption>Ryan is an LA-based writer/director from Toronto, Ontario and a School of the Art Institute of Chicago grad. He got his start with online cult favorite "Cease To Exist," a doc exploring the music motive to the Manson murders. His docuseries "Life Line Booth" aired on Participant Media's TV network, Pivot. "Damage Control" premiered at the Fantasia Film Festival and was awarded Best Thriller, Best Director, and Best Actor by Top Shorts Film Festival. He worked with the team behind “The Hunger Games” trilogy on “Bermuda Triangle,” a feature he co-wrote. “The Whip,” a screenplay co-written with author Karen Kondazian based on her award-winning historical fiction novel, is in development. His latest, “Together,” premiered at the Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival. Adventuring, playing drums, and helping others where he can keeps him inspired and grounds an overactive imagination he's had since he can remember.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>2019: StudioFest Ojai, CA - Lowam Eyasu</image:title>
      <image:caption>Lowam immigrated from Eritrea at 2 years old to the small town of Barstow, CA. She earned a BA in performance at California State University Long Beach and studied under Jeff Perry and Alexander Billings at Steppenwolf Theatre West. She eventually began to write and produce her own content. After living in LA and NY she learned that the industry wasn’t quite representing women like her, so she started VKTRY Creative, a production company focused on narrative content for women, women of color, and other underrepresented groups. She’s passionate about narratives that uphold unique individual stories seldom told. With VKTRY, Lowam has produced numerous projects, written 2 features, and reached the 2nd round of Sundance’s Episodic Lab with her pilot “Habbish.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rachel is a screenwriter, author, and editor. She’s been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, received the Alice Brandt Deeds Prize for Excellence in Creative Writing, and was a Serena Kennedy Award finalist for her short stories collection. Her short story, “The God of Meat,” was performed at the Open Theatre Festival in Boston. Her screenplays have placed in writing contests and festivals held by Page International, BlueCat, Table Read My Screenplay, Circus Road, The Screenplay Festival, StoryPros, WriteMovies, Hollywood Screenplay Competition, and Bankable Script. Her TV pilot "The Lost Opera" won top place in the 2019 London International Filmmaker Festival and the Fade In Awards, and the Grand Jury Prize at the 2018 Sherman Oaks Film Festival, and more. Her feature scripts “The Joppa Flat” and “Fits” have also earned numerous awards.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>SHOOT Online named Rachel a 2019 New Director to Watch for “Hatched,” a short starring “Teen Wolf” series regular Melissa Ponzio that premiered at the DGA and is an official selection of Hollyshorts and the Louisville International Festival of Film. She was selected as a director for the Women’s Weekend Film Challenge sponsored by RED and Zeiss. She’s produced, edited, and directed over 150 online ads and branded videos for clients like Macy’s, Pepsi, and more. She’s the co-creator, exec. producer, writer, and character designer for "Cape Kids," a children's TV show starring David Faustino, Keith Powell, and Suzy Nakamura. She’s guest starred on TV shows "The Knick," "Law &amp; Order: SVU," and more. In 2009, she became the youngest producer in Broadway history to be nominated for a Tony Award. She’s an NYU Tisch School of the Arts grad.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>is a filmmaker and industry professional based in Mexico City. He’s currently producing “499 years” - a documentary feature on the legacy of colonialism in Mexico directed by Rodrigo Reyes - which has received support from the Sundance and Tribeca film institutes. He’s also consulting producer on Reyes’ “After the Raid,” a short doc for Netflix. He produced “Swallowed” for director Lily Baldwin, which premiered at SXSW and was distributed by the Criterion Collection. He forms part of the teams of the Berlinale’s European film market and the DocsMX documentary festival in Mexico City. Previously, he oversaw Tribeca’s TFI co-production market and worked for the Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP) in New York, producing the Gotham Independent Film Awards, and has collaborated with the Los Cabos and Brasília International film festivals. Andrew started his career with Open City Films, Killer Films, and Likely Story. He’s been a jury member for Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ film festival and a programming consultant for the Nantucket Film Festival. In 2018, he directed his first film, “Juan de las Brujas,” which premiered in competition at Guadalajara International Film Festival.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jamie Donnelly is most popularly known as “Pink Lady” Jan in the film “Grease,” a role she also played on broadway seven years before the film version. She made her broadway debut at age seventeen as Lulu in Kander and Ebb’s first show, “Flora the Red Menace.” She also originated the role of Ethel Levey in “George M! ” Her television credits span from the “The Six Million Dollar Man” to recurring roles in “Ray Donovan” with Liev Schreiber, as well as the web series “All Downhill from Here.”</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Chiara was was raised in Erfurt, Germany. After high school, she spent six months in Cuba and studied psychology in Freiburg before finally deciding to become a filmmaker. She began studying documentary directing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg where she made two short documentaries about the German prison system and an experimental short about a triathlete. Recently, she has dedicated herself to fiction storytelling. Her short films have screened and won awards at several film festivals. Her latest short film was screened on the European Culture Channel ARTE.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michael Bofshever has sustained a distinguished acting career for over forty years. He made his stage debut in Al Pacino’s “Richard III” for the Theatre Company of Boston and went on to be a founding member of the Actors Producing Company in NYC. His stage career has included the Actors Studio, Circle Repertory Company, the Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Taper, Too festival, and West Coast Jewish Theater, to name only a few. He has an extensive list of guest starring TV roles, most recently on “How to Get Away With Murder,” “Barry,” “Scandal,” “True Blood,” “The Shield,” and dozens more. He is perhaps best known for his recurring role as Mr. Pinkman on “Breaking Bad,” as well as a series regular on the Disney Channel’s”The Jersey” in the role of Larry Lighter. His many film credits include Lasse Hailstorm’s “A Dog’s Purpose,” Paul Greengrass’ “United 93,” Mark Rydell’s “Crime of the Century,” and R.J. Daniel Hanna’s “Miss Virginia.”</image:caption>
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