Community

Mona Y Kassem

• About Me

  Education Technology Analyst

Steve Socki

• About Me

  Associate Professor at DePaul University in Chicago, College of Computing & Digital Media, School of Cinematic Arts, Animation Department.
  

  Skills

  Animation, Directing

Candace Egan

Professor, Scriptwriter, Editor, Director, Producer

• About Me

  I am a professor of video production specializing in corporate media. I am the Director of the MCJ Multimedia Production Service at California State University, Fresno.

  Interests

  Screenplays, Promotional Video, Documentaries

  Skills

  Production Coordination, Scriptwriting, Editing, Directing

Jinane Fardoun

• About Me

  You can call me Jano.

Daniel Cardone

• About Me

  Co-ordinator, Fiscal Sponsorship and Documentary Programs

Iman Paknahad

• About Me

  I have been a journalist for 15 years working in different desks mainly including society, arts, and culture. Having started as a reporter, I am now the senior editor at one of the most prestigious magazines on culture and society, namely Aftab Network magazine, in Iran. In recent years and due to ever-increasing limits on press freedom, I began to feel that I can reflect society’s voice through another medium, that is documentary cinema. I started working for a couple of projects as a researcher and screenwriter, and soon became the senior editor of the multimedia desk at IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency). We produced daily pieces of news in video format. With that experience, me and my wife, also an experienced journalist, decided to make our own documentary to tell a story about Afghan refugees living in Iran. The film is at its final stages of shooting and editing.
  

Chanel Stitt

• About Me

  Student

Lydia Sisko

• About Me

  Student who likes horror films a little bit too much.

Ellin Jimmerson

Researcher, Editor, Writer, Director, Producer

• About Me

  I am an emerging documentary film maker. My interest is immigration. My first documentary, The Second Cooler, explored root causes and larger issues surrounding immigration since the implementation of NAFTA in 1994. I am in the process of putting together proposals for an upcoming immigration documentary, entitled Shithole Country. I am interested in peoples affected by immigration and related policies. If I had unlimited resources, I'd do a big budget documentary about Honduras's Berta Cáceres and her legitimate complaints about then Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton. I'd do documentaries  also about people who have passed under the immigration and reporting radar, e.g. mostly white women married to undocumented men who live in fear of ICE. 

  
  

  Interests

  Animated Documentaries, Journalistic Documentaries, Immigration Documentaries, Feature Documentaries, Short Documentaries

  Skills

  Analysis, Interviewing, Research, Writing

Jacob Sussman

• About Me

  Jacob Sussman is a creative director and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. He is currently the lead Creative Partner at Diamond Hook, an agency he co-founded in 2019.

  Previously, Jacob led agile marketing teams on the American Express-account at Digitas while co-founding the production company Special Occasion.

  Jacob graduated from Wesleyan University with Honors, where he founded the school’s first and largest student film collective and was awarded the NNK Prize for Best Screenplay.

  
  

Chuang Xu

• About Me

  Chuang Xu is a multi-disciplinary film director and producer based in New York. After receiving his MFA degree in Social Documentary Film in School of Visual Arts, Chuang co-founded the film production company "Mrs. Skeleton." Since 2016, he has been working on his new documentary feature "Twinkle Dammit!" which features the celebrated pianist Margaret Leng Tan and composer George Crumb.

  
  

Stevie Waichulis

Tv Film Editor

• About Me

  Hybrid-Human here on Earth to help Humanity Evolve.

  Interests

  Film And Tv

  Skills

  Musician, Sound Design, Writing, Editing, Directing

Anna Weitz

• About Me

  Anna Weitz is a graduate of EAVE and Britdoc’s Impact Producers Lab. Her producing credits include the Swedish Film Academy Award winner DETAINED (2015, Dir. Shaon Chakraborty,Anna Persson), THE LANGUAGE OF SILENCE (2017, Dir. Frans Huhta) and she was the assistant producer of the Cannes-awarded INGRID BERGMAN IN HER OWN WORDS (Dir. Stig Björkman). In September 2017, SILVANA (Dir. Mika Gustafson, Olivia Katebring, Christina Tsiobanelis), which she produced together with Stina Gardell, will be released.

  
  

Yannis Lobaina

• About Me

  Yannis Lobaina (Cuba, 1979) Filmmaker, Producer, and Writer. Graduated from the International School of Cinema, Radio, and TV in Cuba(EICTV).
  More than ten years of experience in the field of audiovisual production, cultural events, and music production.
  
  She is a Recipient of a Micro –Grant 2016 in Toronto, currently working in her short Documentary Where the Magic Happens, as well as she is working on Production company Boromu Films INC with Chris Brown.
  
  

  Interests

  Ficcion, Experimental Film, Film, Documentary

Brianna McKinley

Screenwriter

• About Me

  I have a story to tell. I speak experiences. I'm just a storyteller that's making a change with her writing. 

  Interests

  Narrative And Documentary, Dramas, Romanic Comedies, Diverse Films, Female Directors, Social Change, Social Justice

Rahim Handy

Director, Producer

• About Me

  Dedicated to creating a particular look and delivering something different then most to our client base has always been the main focus of our company. It is without a doubt that we put together something completly original and captured from a different perspective then most.
  ​From video production to photography we are able to produce things that only your imagination could create.
  

  Interests

  Documentary Films

Jennie Mintz

Actress, Screenwriter, Director, Producer

• About Me

   An L.A. native, I attended UW-Madison, where I gained inspiration for my feature comedy, BIG BESS, which follows a tomboy high school wrestling coach from a small town in Wisconsin, who loses her job and moves to Los Angeles, where she transforms a group of highly privileged kids into courageous wrestlers.

    I’ve attended the Groundlings School, written, directed, produced, and starred in my web series, entitled MAKING IT, as well as developed a pilot and other shorts.

  Interests

  Sexism, Image, Class, Women, Society, Dark Comedy, Political, Comedy

Katherine Withrow

Video Editing, Videography, Producer

• About Me

  As an aspiring filmmaker, exploring people’s stories, relationships, conversations, and beauty fascinates me. Every individual has a story within and I want to be the one to make those stories come to life.

  In addition to producing stories, I strive to create experiences viewers will relate to through their emotions; whether it be joy, sadness, fear, anger, or motivation.

  With each video, the process becomes an exploration of not only new techniques, but of myself, others, and the story being told.

  
  

  Interests

  Promotional Videos, Documentaries

WEST LIANG

Actor, Writer, Director, Producer

• About Me

  Writer, Director, and Producer of ALL I WANT, an independent feature film about the anxiety of modern love and life among friends in a big city.
  
  More information available at:  www.westliang.com

  Interests

  Independent, Narrative, Drama, Documentaries

Rhiannon Fionn

• About Me

  Award-winning independent journalist currently at work on "Coal Ash Chronicles," a documentary film about America's number one source of water pollution. A non-fiction book on the same topic is represented by Lisa Hagan Literary and is under review by several top publishers.

  Interests

  Renewable Energy, Energy, Climate Change, Water, Coal Ash