Jessica Oreck makes projects across mediums in an effort to re-inspire a sense of wonder about the world of the every-day.

She’s made several feature films (Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo, Aatsinki: The Story of Arctic Cowboys, The Vanquishing of the Witch Baba Yaga, and One Man Dies a Million Times).

Jessica also works in stop-motion animation, creating educational content for TED and other online networks (Mysteries of Vernacular, In a Moment of Vision, and Memoirs of Vegetation).

Jessica currently curates a museum/exhibition space in Las Vegas called The Office of Collecting and Design.

Exploring themes of memory, landscape, and relationships of people to places, I see my practice as an archaeology of silences, digging at sites characterized by trauma - material and psychological. Recent work focuses on reconciling memories and experiences of the Partition of Punjab (1947) to current times. Films include Pichla Varka (The Previous Page) and Ikrarnama (WIP) supported by the India Foundation for Arts (IFA).

Toma Peiu is a filmmaker, visual and media scholar with an ethnographic practice. He has written, produced or directed several short documentary or fiction films and media installations in collaboration with his partner Luiza Pârvu. Documentary credits include Civilians - Audience Award Winner at Mimesis 2019; Sisyphus 2.0, Arabidopsis Thaliana, or Seven Scenes from a Neighborhood Cafe (media installation). He is currently a PhD Candidate and instructor in the Department of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Kelly Sears is an animator and filmmaker based in Denver, CO. She uses experimental animation techniques to move between fiction and non-fiction as she reframes imagery of American archetypes and institutions to reimagine our social and political legacies.

Her films have screened at Sundance, Slamdance, South by Southwest, American Film Institute, Los Angeles Film Festival, MoMA, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Off+Camera Film Festival, Poland, Festival International de Films de Femmes de Créteil, France, and Tricky Women in Austria The Hammer Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art Houston, and Union Docs. She has been awarded Honorable Mention in Experimental Cinema at the Slamdance Film Festival, Special Jury Mention in Documentary Shorts at the Oak Cliff Film Festival, and an Honorable Mention at the Ann Arbor Film Festival. She has had solo programs of her work at the Pacific Film Archives, Anthology Film Archives, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Portland Art Museum, and the San Francisco Cinematheque.

She teaches in the Cinema Studies & Moving Image Arts Department at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Jim Supanick is a videomaker, writer, and educator born in Cleveland, OH. SEMI, his collaboration with Jason Livingston, is an experimental documentary (currently in production) that explores the labor realities and future of long-haul trucking. His essays have appeared in publications such as Antennae, Film Comment, The Brooklyn Rail, Millennium Film Journal, The Wire, and Cineaste, in numerous exhibition catalogs, and accompanying DVD releases. He is the recipient of a Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant, NYSCA Grant, and the NYFA Grant for Nonfiction Literature. Jim is also a member of Synthhumpers, a shape-shifting electronic musical duo with Joshua Gen Solondz (and occasional guests); they have performed at the Ann Arbor Film Festival, VIDEO_DUMBO, Parsons Hall Project Space, and at various clubs and DIY spaces. He holds a BFA from the Cleveland Institute of Art, an MFA from Rutgers University, and is currently a PhD candidate at the European Graduate School, where he is writing a dissertation on the field and laboratory investigation of nonhuman animal sensoria and their technological corollaries. Prior to his recent relocation to Denver, Jim has taught film production and critical studies at City College, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn College, Hunter College, and The New School. He is also a longtime Advisory Board member of UnionDocs, a non-profit Center for Documentary Art at the forefront of presentation, production, and publication in the field of contemporary nonfiction media.

Rachel Chanoff has been working in performing arts and film for 35 years and is the founder and director of THE OFFICE performing arts + film, her New York City-based programming, consulting, and production company. She is the Curator of Performing Arts and Film for the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Director of Programming of the CenterSeries at the '62 Center for Theater and Dance at Williams College, Consultant to the Feature Film and Theater Programs for the Sundance Institute and to the RAWI screenwriters lab in Jordan, Curator of The New York Jewish Film Festival and The Margaret Mead Film Festival, Senior Artistic Advisor to the FreshGrass Foundation, and the Artistic Director of the BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival, New York’s longest running free outdoor performing arts festival. Rachel is proud to serve on the board of the 52nd Street Project and Working Films. She is also a long time participant in the Theater Development Fund’s Open Doors program, which introduces underserved high school students to the theater.

Maura Axelrod is a director and producer of news and documentaries. She began as a writer and producer at ABC News In New York, and as a producer for AP Television News based in the Middle East and Caribbean. Axelrod has reported from conflict zones around the world, from Haiti to Egypt to Afghanistan and beyond, with a focus on the effects of war and violence on civilian populations. Her work has aired on networks worldwide, including ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC, ITN, Al Jazeera, PBS News Hour, National Geographic Channel, The New York Times and Dan Rather Reports. Most recently, Axelrod produced and directed a documentary on the contemporary Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. The feature length Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival as a special presentation at the Guggenheim Museum and aired recently on the BBC on their Imagine series.

Was the Executive Director of the Marmion Center for the Arts in Boston from 2016-2018.
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Kelsey White’s first home was in Los Angeles, the city where she encountered cinema and developed a passion for moviegoing. She now lives and works in New York City, finding joy in observing the changing seasons, listening to small talk on street corners, and projecting experimental and repertory films for the city’s cinephiles. In her spare time, she occasionally writes, plays music, curates film programs, and appears in her friends’ films.