Mediamaker Fellows
Reid Davenport
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 Guillen
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
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 [...]
A. Madsen Minax
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
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
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 [...]
Clarke Lyons
Award-winning, Director / Producer / Screenwriter Clarke Lyons is a Baltimorean Filmmaker who received her B.A. from Temple University in the Film & Media Arts and her Dual-Masters in Business & Writing for Film & Television from Johns Hopkins University. Lyons is a storyteller emphasizing the value of perspective and how human nature deals with trauma while challenging stereotypes. To date, she has won four fellowships, been awarded multiple grants, been featured in several publications and is currently Co-Directing / Co-Producing the Feature Film, Squeegee. Squeegee While Baltimore continues to struggle with the reputation of being one of the most [...]
Rodrigo Reyes
Mexican director Rodrigo Reyes makes films deeply grounded in his identity as an immigrant artist, crafting a poetic gaze from the margins of both cultures, using striking imagery to portray the contradictory nature of our shared world, while revealing the potential for transformative change. In 2020, Rodrigo's latest film "499," won Best Cinematography at Tribeca, as well as the Special Jury Award at Hot Docs. He has screened at festivals such as Morelia International Film Festival, BFI London, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York, receiving great reviews. Rodrigo's work has received the support of The Mexican Film [...]
Vicky Du
Vicky Du is a Taiwanese-American filmmaker based in New York. Her short film GAYSIANS (Frameline, 2016) screened at 35+ film festivals around the world, had a public television broadcast on KQED, and was distributed to 1000+ middle and high school LGBTQ student groups. She is a worker-owner of Meerkat Media and has a BA in Biological Anthropology from Columbia University. Vicky is currently working on her first feature documentary with support from Points North Institute and CAAM. In Light of the Setting Sun, the filmmaker investigates how trauma has proliferated throughout her family since the Chinese Communist Revolution of 1949 [...]
Taimi Arvidson
Taimi Arvidson is a director with over a decade of experience telling human stories for critically acclaimed documentaries, television series, and commercials. She recently directed the National Geographic Channel series MARS, which was executive produced by Ron Howard and Brian Grazer. Her other television work includes Oprah Winfrey's BELIEF about human spirituality around the world, National Geographic's Emmy-nominated series HARD TIME about the lives of inmates. Her work has additionally been featured by clients such as CNN, Apple, Ulta Beauty, NBC, Esquire Magazine, and more. Hossian tells the story of a six-year-old boy growing up in the middle of the [...]
