Persons

Eugene Yi is an award-winning editor, filmmaker and journalist. He has edited documentary and narrative feature films, including Out of My Hand, which premiered at the 2015 Berlinale, was nominated for an Independent Spirit Award, and won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Los Angeles Film Festival; and Farewell Ferris Wheel, which premiered earlier this year at AFI Docs, and was selected to be part of the 2014 Film Independent Documentary Lab. His video work has been featured in The New York Times, where he worked as a video editor, and at other online outlets, including Frontline and Deadspin. He served as assistant editor on Inside [...]

Based in Oakland, Tracey Quezada is a documentary filmmaker, editor and journalist. She currently owns and operates a full service media production company that works with educational institutions and nonprofits to produce short documentaries that advance their missions and policy goals. As a journalist, Quezada has covered stories on immigration, communities of faith, women's issues, and LGBTQ civil rights. In 2014, she was recognized by the San Francisco International Women's Film Festival for her achievements in media and activism. You, Me and the Fruit Trees is a multimedia project that explores the possibility of healing and transformation in the lives of [...]

Nyjia July has dedicated her career to telling the stories of the people who otherwise would go unheard. She has worked on Through a Lens Darkly, Freedom Riders and Brick City. As a producer, her credits include BET, WeTV, TLC, and the Center for Asian American Media. She has been a Corporation for Public Broadcast diversity fellow and her second feature, Listen to My Heartbeat, has been awarded development support through ITVS's Diversity Development Fund. The SOURCE Magazine listed her as one of their "25 women to watch" in 2014. Part rock doc, part political thriller, Listen to My Heartbeat examines the gentrification of Washington, D.C., the people who [...]

Laura Green is a Bay Area-based documentary director and editor, whose short documentaries have played numerous film festivals across the country. She is also a lecturer at Stanford University, the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. Human Conditions is her first feature-length film. The doctor shortage in rural America has reached its crisis point. But at El Centro Family Health, a rural community clinic in New Mexico, healthcare providers offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of ability to pay. Human Conditions takes a character-driven, verite look at the journeys of three primary healthcare [...]

Kristina Motwani is a San Francisco-based editor whose work includes the feature documentaries First Friday, After Tiller and An Honest Liar as well as documentary shorts and media for nonprofits. She has also worked on ITVS's Independent Lens and for Discovery, and is currently editing a six part series of short docs on guns in America for AJ+. What Happened to Amos? is a feature length documentary film that marries interviews, vertié scenes, and animation to tell a story of a journalist and a missing man and how their intertwined stories could help each of them reach peace.

Isabel Alcántara is a Mexican documentary filmmaker with a background in photojournalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has produced award-winning content that has screened at SXSW and major television networks such as A&E and History Channel. She has also shot photographic and multimedia content for Paper Magazine and The New York Times, and is a staff writer for the GLAAD Award-winning queer website, Autostraddle. The Age of Water tells the story of Nely Baez, a young woman spearheading a grassroots effort to investigate the frequent death of little girls in her Mexican town. Nely soon discovers that the water in her [...]

Emelie Mahdavian is a filmmaker, dancer, musician, and Fulbright scholar whose work frequently deals with gender, media, and global politics. Previously, she was Director of the Davis Feminist Film Festival, Panels Coordinator for the Mill Valley Film Festival, and Assistant Director of Ballet Afsaneh. Her documentary After the Curtain premiered at Lincoln Center as part of Dance on Camera 2016 and her experimental motion-capture short film Intangible Body is currently installed at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art. Emelie studied filmmaking at London Film School and has Ph.D. in Performance Studies with an emphasis in [...]