Persons

Victoria Montero is an award-winning photographer, filmmaker, and art director. Born and raised in Argentina, her work is centered on historical memory, gender, and social issues. She is the co-author of "Guerrilleras. Tradición y rebelión en la guerra civil de El Salvador", a photo book about Salvadoran Civil War. Based in San Francisco, she collaborates with independent film and photography projects. She holds a BFA in Graphic Design from the University of Buenos Aires. Guerrilleras Guerrilleras is a documentary film about the Salvadoran Civil War from a gender perspective: the female experience within the anti-government Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front [...]

Originally from New York City, Sisa Bueno is an Afro-Latina film & multimedia maker who is fascinated by people of all cultures and seeks to awaken our own empowerment. The NBC Network named Sisa an NBC Latino Innovator for her filmmaking, and she is a recipient of the ITVS-PBS Diversity Development grant and HotDocs CrossCurrents grant. Sisa is also a member of the NEW INC tech incubator program within the New Museum working with Augmented Reality (AR) technology. For Venida, For Kalief "For Venida, For Kalief" is an empathetic cinematic essay film with visual poetry that pays homage to the [...]

Robie Flores grew up on the U.S./Mexico border. She’s an independent filmmaker and video editor based in New Orleans. Her work has appeared on CNN and Bloomberg and has been featured by Teen Vogue, Fusion, Allure and i-d Vice. Her latest project The In Between, has received support from Chicken & Egg, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, ITVS and participated in IFP’s Documentary Lab, the Points North Fellowship and Camden / TFI Labs. The In Between is her first feature film. The In Between Through the eyes of children unencumbered by border politics, The In Between visits the characteristic moments of growing [...]

Reid Davenport is making his sixth documentary that explores the perspective of people with disabilities. Davenport is a 2017 TED Fellow and gave a TED Talk at the annual conference in Vancouver. His film awards include the Artistic Visions Award at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Festival (“A Cerebral Game”) and Best Short Documentary at the 2013 Awareness Film Festival (“Wheelchair Diaries”). He received a Master of Fine Arts in Documentary Film & Video from Stanford University in 2016. I Didn't See You There Spurred by the spectacle of a circus tent that goes up outside his Oakland apartment, a [...]

Milton Guillén (Director and co-producer) is an award-winning Nicaraguan filmmaker who dwells in the realm of docufiction. His most recent works gravitate around the cinematic intersections of de-colonial ethnographic research and the affective image. Milton's films have screened globally at Hot Docs, CPH:DOX, DOK Leipzig, and more. In 2018 his debut feature, The Maribor Uprisings, co-directed with Maple Raza, received the Society for Visual Anthropology's Best Feature Award. He was recently named a fellow at the Points North Institute, the Bay Area Video Coalition, Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Documentary, and is the recipient of several artists residencies and grants internationally. [...]

Maya Cueva is an award-winning director and producer. Her work has been featured on NPR's All Things Considered, Latino USA, The Atlantic, Teem Vogue, and National Geographic and has screened at SXSW, Palm Springs International ShortFest, Full Frame Documentary Festival, and DOC NYC. Her short documentary, The Provider, won an Emmy at the College Television Awards. She was a 2019 Sundance Ignite Fellow, a 2019 Film Independent Documentary Lab fellow, and a fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Center. On the Divide On the Divide follows three Latinx people living in McAllen, Texas who are connected to the last abortion [...]

Angelo Madsen Minax is an artist and filmmaker whose projects explore complex queer intimacies and chosen and biological kinships. Madsen's works have screened and/or exhibited at spaces including the the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, European Media Art Festival, Anthology Film Archives, REDCAT, BFI, Kurzfilm Hamburg, Chicago Underground Film Festival, and others. He is a recipient of the Tribeca Film Institute's All-Access Fellowship and the Sundance Film Institute's Documentary Fund. North By Current Filmmaker Angelo Madsen Minax returns to his home town after the mysterious death of his two-year-old niece and the arrest of his [...]

Hanna Miller is a documentary film director and director of photography from Collins, Mississippi. Her background is in Russian language and culture, southern and rural identities, and sexual assault crisis response. Hanna's career has introduced her to diabetic Samoan writers, civil war fighters, and southern Russian mail order brides. In 2018, Hanna's short documentary "We Became Fragments" was considered for an Oscar nomination, and in 2021, she will premiere her first feature-length film. In her spare time, Hanna enjoys pickling foods and learning taxidermy. Mississippi Mercedes Down in Magnolia, Mississippi, pro-Trump, anti-immigration, anti-gay marriage, lesbian, once-"illegal" Colombian immigrant Mercedes Ricks [...]

Colette Ghunim’s passion lies at the cross section of social impact and visual storytelling. Her first documentary, The People’s Girls, received 2 million views for its spotlight on street harassment in Egypt. She is in development with Kartemquin Films on Traces of Home, a feature-length film documenting her journey back to Mexico and Palestine to locate her parents' original homes, which they were forced to leave decades ago. She is also the co-founder of Mezcla Media Collective, an organization supporting 400 women of color filmmakers in Chicago. Traces of Home Filmmaker Colette Ghunim takes her parents to find the ancestral [...]