John e. Kilberg
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John e. Kilberg

John e. has always been inspired by people and their pets. They are from Latnix and Jewish descent and a graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2013.

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Nona Catusanu
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Nona Catusanu

Born in Romania and raised in NYC, Nona Catusanu-Popp is a cinematographer and visual artist. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and TV and went on to study in the Cinematography Master’s Program at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in the Czech Republic. She is a recipient of the ASC Vision Mentorship Award.

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Katherine Castro
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Katherine Castro

Katherine Castro is a New York City-based Cinematographer. After studying architecture and photography while living in the Dominican Republic, Katherine returned to Boston in 2008, where she began working in film and TV as a Local 600 Camera Assistant.

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Hiran Balasuriya
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Hiran Balasuriya

Hiran Balasuriya is a Sri Lankan filmmaker based in New York who has worked for several production companies of note, including Kontent Films and Remedy Editorial in San Francisco, as well as BBC Films and Ponda Films in London. 

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Liza Gipsova
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Liza Gipsova

Liza Gipsova is an award-winning NYC-based cinematographer fascinated by humans, light, and stories of identity, location, and the why. She draws from an exhaustive background in traditional, digital, photographic, and theater arts, before coming up in the ranks of the camera department and co-founding Curiouser Creative Studio, a visual media production company.

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Henry Kinder
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Henry Kinder

Henry Kinder is a filmmaker from Berkeley, CA, seeking to explore the messy ways in which humans rub up against their environments. His short documentary Desert Mourning (2020), investigates the love three very different individuals have for a shared, contested landscape in southern Utah. The film premiered at the Mountainfilm festival, and went on to play festivals across the country. He has experience producing and directing shorts, music videos and commercials, and is actively working to find creative solutions to decarbonize the film industry.

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Lexi Tannenholtz
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Lexi Tannenholtz

Lexi Tannenholtz is a filmmaker based in NYC. She is currently in post-production on Chestnut by Jac Cron starring Natalia Dyer with Utopia Films and Shudder’s Bad Things by Stewart Thorndike starring Gayle Rankin and Molly Ringwald. She also just wrapped production on Booger by Mary Dauterman starring Grace Glowicki which took part in the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Creators Market.

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