Category: director

Director Bio: Elizabeth Ebbert (I AM MEANT TO BE THIS WAY)

After the birth of her child four and a half years ago, Ms. Ebbert started creating video edits in an attempt to obsessively preserve every fleeting moment of her daughter’s childhood. She has now extended this obsession into documenting family stories, and amplifying the voices of women.   Director Statement This documentary is based on… Continue reading Director Bio: Elizabeth Ebbert (I AM MEANT TO BE THIS WAY)

Director BIO: Jamal Joseph (WE THE CHILDREN)

JAMAL JOSEPH A former Black Panther Party leader, today Jamal Joseph is a full Professor of Professional Practice and former chair of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program. He is the Executive Artistic Director of New Heritage Films and the founder of the acclaimed Impact Repertory Theater. He is an alumnus of the Sundance Directing Lab.… Continue reading Director BIO: Jamal Joseph (WE THE CHILDREN)

Director BIO: John Moody (REDEMPTION SQUARE)

John Moody is a filmmaker, planner, and designer who uses film to understand people’s lived experiences and help them reimagine their physical environment. With a background in Hollywood (including four seasons on the set of New Girl) and a master’s degree from MIT’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning, John champions the idea that media… Continue reading Director BIO: John Moody (REDEMPTION SQUARE)

Director Biography – Dennis Zaidi (CONNECTION IN CRISIS)

Dennis Zaidi is an award winning short film maker who has a passion for films about animals and nature. This project is the culmination of over two years spent researching and filming different types of Animal Assisted Intervention techniques. Director Statement When I set out to make this project, I did not expect to be… Continue reading Director Biography – Dennis Zaidi (CONNECTION IN CRISIS)

Director Biography – Noah Sheldon (TAOBAO)

Noah is a filmmaker, photographer and artist based in Shanghai and New York City. Noah started his career as a photographer and brings a strong eye for clean and compelling composition and natural story telling to his films. He favors an observational approach to capturing subjects; authenticity is a hallmark of his work. Noah’s work… Continue reading Director Biography – Noah Sheldon (TAOBAO)

Director Biography – Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman (PERSON OF THE FOREST)

Documentary filmmaker Melissa Lesh (Co-Director) founded Emerging Earth Films as a way to bridge the gap between the arts and sciences, focusing on natural history and conservation stories. Her first award-winning documentary, James River Sturgeon, was a collaboration with scientists to uncover the uncharted migration of the endangered Atlantic Sturgeon. Lesh is the Co-Director and… Continue reading Director Biography – Melissa Lesh, Tim Laman (PERSON OF THE FOREST)

Director Biography – Cynthia Hunt (ICE FLOW)

Cynthia Hunt, first came from the big city of Toronto to the quiet of the Yukon Territory in the northern part of Canada, in 1983. Countless adventures and an ever growing family later, this move proved to be a wonderful decision. She and her family live part of the year along a river in the… Continue reading Director Biography – Cynthia Hunt (ICE FLOW)

Director Biography – Matthieu Vinel (NAMIBIA)

Matthieu Vinel grew up in Lorraine in the east of France, a region marked by the steel crisis. Early on he discovered a passion for the seventh art and devoured the film selection at his local library – Wilder, Clouzot, Murnau, Walsh, Renoir, Hitchcock, Füller, Kazan, Mann, Kurosawa, Clayton, Spielberg, Polanski…In parallel he cultivated his… Continue reading Director Biography – Matthieu Vinel (NAMIBIA)

Director Biography – Blaze Hunter (WAY OF LIFE)

Blaze Hunter is a director from Lisbon. Born in Portugal in 78, studied design, photography and cinematography. For the past 5 years has been working mostly in filmmaking for a Portuguese production studio, Lobomau. Besides filmmaking and photography, surf and travel is where he charges his criativity to put out on stories worth telling.