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Karen Long Krugler

• About Me

  I'm a film student working on a short documentary on "Belonging".
  

Danielle Poohar

• About Me

  I am a film student at NAU primarily interested in cinematography, screenwriting, and color grading. 

Ellie Konn

• About Me

  Editor & writer.
  

Kiril Kirkov

Instructor, Photographer, Filmmaker

• About Me

  I am an instructor in the NAU School of Communication. I am also photographer and filmmaker. My areas of research include social dynamics, based on global migration, transnationalism and migrant integration, and working with indigenous peoples of the American Southwest. My transnational team develops a long-term experimental visual research "New Roots" in Vienna, Austria with the support of the UN Refugee Agency and EGA - The Women’s Center of Vienna. My collaborative documentary films have been screened in the United States, France, Germany, and Austria. I have opened three personal photo exhibitions, including 2010's, "Earth Day", held at "Earth and Men" National Museum, Sofia, Bulgaria, 2008’s, "The Treasures of the Garden", held at Sofia University Botanical Garden in Balchik, Bulgaria, and 2007’s “Out Of The Way”, held at City Library, Sofia, Bulgaria. My photography work has been published in different media in Europe and the United States, including the Arizona Highways magazine, and a permanent installation at Flagstaff Pulliam Airport. As a former twenty-year solo dancer for the international traveling Bulgarian dance company, “Shopski”, I have traveled extensively throughout Europe, and Asia.
  

  Interests

  Ethnographic Documentary, Experimental Film And Art And Documentary, Socially Engaged Documentary

  Skills

  Photography, Cinematography

Kurt Lancaster

Professor

• About Me

  Kurt Lancaster is a filmmaker who has worked with clients and given workshops in the United States, Sweden, Turkey, Italy, and Jordan. He is a professor at Northern Arizona University, and wrote several books for beginning filmmakers in order to help improve their storytelling. Kurt earned his PhD in Performance Studies from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts.

  
  

  Interests

  Visual Storytelling, Directing, Sound Design, Documentaries

  Skills

  Documentary Production, Editing, Cinematography, Directing

Beatriz Carvalho

Production Manager, Executive Producer, Head Film Sales| Distribution | Production, Producer

• About Me

  I am a film and television producer and the company’s executive producer. She has been a partner at the company since 2012. With a Bachelor’s degree in Film by FAAP (São Paulo – 2002), she also studied Mise en Scène Documentaire at École Supérieure D’Études Cinématographiques – ESEC (Paris, France – 2004). She holds a graduate degree in Executive Education in Film and TV from FGV (São Paulo – 2006).
  

  She has more than 10 years of experience in the Brazilian audiovisual industry, working as executive producer and production manager of feature films and TV series at the country’s main production companies. She worked as executive producer in feature films like “On Wheels” (Mauro D’Addio, 2017), “A Marriage” (Mônica Simões, 2016), the feature documentary “All For Love of the Movies” (Aurélio Michiles, 2015), and the short films “Submarine” (Rafael Aidar, 2015) and “The Package” (Rafael Aidar, 2013). She worked as production manager of the feature films “Zoom” (Pedro Morelli), “Boca” (Flavio Frederico), “Estamos Juntos” (Toni Venturi), “Alice Especial, Part 1: The First Day of the Rest of My Life” (Karim Ainouz), “Alice Especial, Part 2: The Last Night” (Sergio Machado), “Carmo” (Murilo Pasta), “End of the Line” (Gustavo Steinberg), and the TV series “Passionais” (Henrique Goldman), “Contos do Edgar” (Pedro Morelli) and “Sound & Fury” (Fernando Meirelles).

  
  

Esther Hyneman

Cinematografer, Film Director, Producer

• About Me

  Esther Hyneman - Producer, Videographer. Esther Hyneman has been a feminist activist since the 70s. She taught feminist theory in a NYC university and upon retirement spent about six months a year in Afghanistan

  as a volunteer with the women’s rights organization Women for Afghan Women. 

  In 2011, Esther was named a Purpose Prize Fellow for her work on women’s and child rights in Afghanistan.
  

  Interests

  Nature, Social Activism, Photography, Painting, Documentary Films

  Skills

  Fighting, Organizing People, Promoting Social Change, Photography

Katherine Pfost

• About Me

  Entertainment Lawyer - Gender Equality Advocate - Storyteller

  
  

  Interests

  Female Film, Gender Equality, Creative Documentaries, Female Directors, Features

Anja Dalhoff

Cinematografer, Video Producer, Director

• About Me

  I'm a Danish film director and owner of the film company Danish Doc Production. I have 25 years of experience in the whole spectrum of documentary production. Including directing, development, financing, production and co-production international and national.
  My vision is to make documentaries of high quality mostly with a social focus. This, regardless of whether the film is about the weakest in our society, about cultural phenomenon or documentaries with an anthropological approach. Most of my documentaries are supporte by the Danish Television ( DR ), The Danish Filminstitute, private fundings and ministries.

  Interests

  Creative Documentaries, Feature Fictions, Documentaries

  Skills

  Screenwriting, Cinematography, Producer, Director

Rachel Prendergast

Video Producer

• About Me

  I am co-founder and producer at SubMotion Productions. 

  We make branded content and film around emotive storytelling. 
  

  
  

  Interests

  Narrative And Documentary, Narrative Drama, Action Films

  Skills

  Writing, Producing, Producer

Colin Peh

• About Me

  In the heart of Hollywood, Web Series Festival Global is a prestigious festival that started in 2015 to Celebrate Great Content and offers global content creators opportunities to advance their careers through awards, distribution and recognition. Web Series Festival Global is an online festival for the community of content creators that create Web Series, Web Series Pilots and Web Series Scripts. The festival accepts entries in all genres and formats.

  Web Series Festival Global is now accepting entries for the 4th Annual Web Series Festival Global. The judges are Industry leaders actively looking for the next break out hit show, this could be you. Winners will be announced on August 08, 2018. Further details can be found at www.webseriesfestivalglobal.com

  
  

  Accolades

  "It is a real honor to be awarded best Fantasy!!! In the name of all our cast and crew, THANK YOU! We saw the other winner, and there are some truly great series, congratulations! Thank you!!!- Rose of Dolls
  
  "Hello on behalf of the whole production crew myself and Yameen...we would like to express our gratefulness for recognition and acknowledgement for Best Cooking Show!" - Cedra Walton
  
  "From everyone at Skiptown Productions... THANK YOU from the bottom of our hearts for this award. The biggest prize was just being accepted and considered and I am entirely grateful for the experience. V. Carubia

  
  

  Interests

  Content, Web Series, Comedy, Drama

Marjan Riazi

• About Me

  Graduate student specializing in News & Documentary at NYU Journalism School

Danielle Bernstein

Camera Operator, Editor, Director, Producer

• About Me

  Danielle Bernstein is the founder of Clear Films, the full service, story driven production company that uses media to amplify social and environmental struggles affecting our global community. She is an award winning writer, producer, director, and editor of independent film. Committed to film as a form of activism, Danielle's mission is to positively influence the community around her one film at a time.

  Danielle's directorial debut, When Clouds Clear, attended over 50 film festivals and was the recipient of numerous awards. Her last feature documentary, Imba Means Sing screened at the United Nations, received two IndieFest awards and is distributed in over 37 languages worldwide by Sony Entertainment and Delta, and it is now available worldwide on Netflix. Her current feature project, Homemade, is the recipient of the 2016 Creative Vision Program Grant and will be released in 2017. She is a winner of a Cine Golden Eagle Award, Social Justice Award at the Santa Barbara film festival, recipient of the NYSCA grant, and was Nominated Best Environmental Documentary of the Decade for When Clouds Clear. She is also a Film Fatales and a member of NEXUS.

  
  

  Interests

  Commercial, Narrative Films, Documentary, Feature

Malia Scharf

Director

• About Me

  Malia Scharf is a director based in Brooklyn, NY. She studied film at the School of Visual Arts, and cultural studies at the New School. She is passionate about people and their stories and is called to find ways to uplift through filmmaking and art. Beyond filmmaking, she seeks to create a space where artists and healers alike bring education, healing, and art, to local communities.
  

  Interests

  Social Change, Art

Bianca Oana

Screenwriter, Script Consultation, Producer

• About Me

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  Bianca is a young Romanian screenwriter and producer. Since 2009, she has been working in developing, producing and promoting multi-awarded art-house films, including ‘Toto and His Sisters’ 2014 (San Sebastian IFF World Premiere, Won Angers Grand Prix, Zurich IFF Golden Eye Award, Best Documentary Warsaw IFF, Nominated for EFA Best Documentary), ‘Turn Off the Lights’ (World Premiere Tribeca Film Festival New York - Viewpoints, Won The Heart of Sarajevo for Best Documentary Sarajevo Film Festival, and Best Director Zagreb Dox),  ‘If I Want to Whistle I Whistle’ (Berlinale Grand Jury Prix and Alfred Bauer Award for Innovation 2011).

   

  ‘Toto and His Sisters’ was considered for the Lux Prize and was distributed in French cinemas with more than 15000 sold tickets, later being released on DVD. ‘Turn Off the Lights’ was the first Romanian documentary to premiere in Tribeca Film Festival.

   

  Since 2015, she started working with Adina Pintilie on her debut feature film ‘Touch Me Not’, a Romanian-German-Bulgarian-French co-production. She funded her own company Monogram Film where she is currently running two projects, ‘The Other Side of the Medal’, a feature documentary by Denisa Morariu, and ‘To Not See Flowers Without Colors’, a short film by Greek-Albanian director Neritan Zinxhiria, both set to premiere in 2017.

   

  Bianca is dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, regardless of the medium they choose to explore.

  
  

  Interests

  Art House, Auteur, Experimental Film, Hybrid Films, Documentary Films

Chantelle Landais

Actor, Writer, Producer

• About Me

  Writer/ Producer of the independent comedy series 'ALPHA HIPPIE'. Originally from Auckland, New Zealand, I moved to L.A. in 2011 to pursue a career in the film industry and make my projects with like-minded individuals. 

  
  

  I am particularly interested in bridging the gap between race, gender, religion and sexuality within the media, by helping challenge current stereotypes, and in turn an audiences view of how individuals from all different walks of life can be perceived within modern culture.

  Interests

  Television, Coming Of Age Films, Horror Films, Dark Comedy, Comedy

JEANNE MARIE SPICUZZA

Actress, Writer, Director, Producer

• About Me

  An actress, writer, director, producer, I began working in the arts at the age of two. I have not stopped since!

  Interests

  Motion Pictures

  Skills

  Art

Victor Layson

Director

• About Me

  I am a passionate film maker. 

Catherine Dudley-Rose

Musician, Actress, Writer, Director

• About Me

  It's important to me to investigate patterns and how we are all interconnected. I have dedicated my life to the arts and the pursuit of encouraging others to find their unique voice. I'm interested in films that explore under represented points of view in beautiful, unusual ways. And most of all, I am driven by the pulse of life, and the rhythm of exchanges, and I enjoy capturing and presenting this in film, stage, or music. I am a passionate lover of collaboration. I was trained as a classical musician, but I have the heart of an improvisor. 

  Interests

  Young People, Human Development, Surreal, Unusual Relationships, Arts, Experimental Film, Coming Of Age Films, Women, Narrative Drama, Women's Rights