Filmmaker

Vikram Murthi is a contributing writer to the Nation and the editor of Downtime magazine. His freelance film writing has appeared in Filmmaker, Reverse Shot, Vulture, and sundry other publications.

Shai Heredia is a filmmaker, a curator, and the founder of Experimenta, the international festival for experimental cinema in India. Her programs and award-winning films have been exhibited worldwide, and she is on the curatorial team of the Berlinale Forum...

Ehsan Khoshbakht is the codirector of Il Cinema Ritrovato in Bologna, Italy. An architect by training, he curates films around the world and is also a filmmaker (Celluloid Underground, Filmfarsi). His most recent book as writer and editor is The...

Adam Piron (Kiowa/Mohawk) is a filmmaker and programmer based in Southern California. He currently serves as director of Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program and is a cofounder of COUSIN, a collective supporting Indigenous artists expanding the form of film.

Jane Schoenbrun is a nonbinary filmmaker and writer whose first narrative feature, We’re All Going to the World’s Fair, was released earlier this year. Jane is the cocreator of the ongoing touring variety series The Eyeslicer, the director of the...

Markus Nornes is professor of Asian cinema at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in Japanese film, documentary, and translation theory. He is also a filmmaker and film-festival programmer. His most recent book, the open-access Brushed in Light, is...

Blair McClendon is an editor, filmmaker, and writer. His film work has screened at film festivals around the world. His writing has been published in n+1, the New Republic, the New York Times Magazine, and elsewhere. He lives in New...

Nicolas Rapold is a critic and programmer. He is the host of the podcast The Last Thing I Saw, author of the book The Worlds of Hayao Miyazaki, and former editor in chief of Film Comment. His work appears in...

Alexandra Hidalgo is an award-winning Venezuelan filmmaker, theorist, and editor whose documentaries have been official selections for film festivals in fourteen countries and screened at universities around the United States. Her videos and writing have been featured by the Hollywood...

Michelle Parkerson is an award-winning filmmaker based in Washington, D.C., whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, the Berlin Film Festival, and the American Film Institute. She has documented the lives of LGBTQ icon Audre Lorde (A Litany...