Rahi Hasan (they/them) is a formerly undocumented dancer, multimedia documentary artist, educator, and impact strategist challenging power on all fronts to create space for healing and radical imagination. They immigrated to Queens, New York from Dhaka, Bangladesh before moving to Durham, NC. Rahi was a Firelight Media Impact Producer fellow in 2018. Rahi is the […]
Day Al-Mohamed is a writer, independent filmmaker, and disability policy strategist. She is passionate about authentic representative storytelling and its ability to reframe history and promote culture. Al-Mohamed is author of two alternate history fantastical novels, Baba Ali and the Clockwork Djinn and The Labyrinth’s Archivist, as well as comics and critical essays, including, most […]
Ragini Nath is a documentary filmmaker and photographer. Her first independent documentary production, Bar and Girl (2018) premiered at national and international film festivals, and she has also had experience working on Bollywood projects. Her photography work has been exhibited in the Kuala Lumpur Photography Festival, Angkor Photo Festival and India Photo Festival. Our Hoolocks […]
Poorva is an emerging documentary filmmaker and editor in India who believes documentaries are cinematic tools to understand ourselves and the world around us. Borrowing elements from fiction cinema, Poorva makes engaging narratives that can popularize nonfiction in India so that the pursuit to find the truth has a larger audience. She is an alumna […]
Nathaniel is an Australian/American director and editor based in Adelaide, South Australia. He spent six years in Minneapolis filming a series of stories about midwestern life in a six-month winter climate. From there, he directed the award-winning short documentary Ice Ball (2021) with renowned polar explorer Will Steger, which won Best Documentary Short at Minneapolis […]
Natalie A. Chao is a filmmaker and cinematographer who completed her B.A degree in Film Production at USC in Los Angeles. Born, raised and currently based in Hong Kong, she is interested in bridging the gap between realism and poetry in order to tell stories through a more engaged and intentional gaze, one that can […]
Gabriela Díaz Arp is a documentary director-producer who is passionate about re-imagining the documentary space through hybrid, immersive and participatory filmmaking. She has produced films and interactive experiences for news organizations, non-profits, cultural spaces and commercial clients. Some of her clients include The New York Times, CNN International, Univision, International Rescue Committee, the United Nations […]
Documentary filmmaker and visual artist. His work explores the tensions between topics such as gender, territory and violence. Since 2019 he’s supported by the Mexican System of Art Creators to make his webdoc “Beyond Gender”. In 2018 he obtained funds from the Mexican Film Institute to make “The Siren Song”, his first feature. In 2017 […]
Divya Kharnare has worked for YouTube channels as a writer and director for three years and has represented India at the Thailand International Film Destination Festival 2019 as a writer, director and editor. He is currently working on two feature-length documentaries, including Letters To My Grandma, for which he received the DOCAVIV Award at DocEdge […]
Brenda Matthews is a proud Wiradjuri woman living with her husband Mark in Bundjalung country, Queensland. Brenda is an emerging director, making her feature-film debut with The Last Daughter, a documentary about Brenda’s life. As part of her journey, Brenda penned her first book, also titled The Last Daughter, which she’s currently editing with Text […]