Lael is a Writer & Director based in Seattle, Washington. Her award-winning films have been featured in publications such as Film Shortage, The Seattle Times, and Rolling Stone and have played at film festivals such as Fantasia, Fantastic Fest, Palm Springs Shortfest, and more. Her commercial work has won several awards including an Emmy™️. Lael […]
I am a writer, artist and multidisciplinary collaborator from dᶻidᶻəlalič. Experimenting with boundary-breaking performance art, installation and video, I co-founded interactive poetry collaborations Typing Explosion and Vis-à-Vis Society, and art collective Wa Na Wari, a residential reclamation project centering Black art and media in Seattle’s Central District. My work is deeply rooted in place: my public art pillar […]
Charles Tonderai Mudede is the Senior Staff Writer of the Stranger, and has collaborated with the director Robinson Devor on three films, two of which Police Beat and Zoo, premiered at Sundance, and one of which, Zoo, screened at Cannes, and the most recent of which, Suburban Fury, premiered at New York Film Festival. (Police […]
Alex Barsky is a multidisciplinary artist with a focus on narrative animation and printmaking works. She has been working in New York animation for the past decade, and her animations have been screened at South by Southwest, Animation Nights New York, and Animation Block Party. She is co-founder of micropress @zinehug, an indie press publishing […]
Charlie is a writer, director, and non-fiction cinematographer. He began his career shooting and producing theatrical documentaries including “Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead”, “Hey Bartender”, “Making the Boys”, “Fake It So Real” and others. His feature-length fiction debut, “Christmas, Again”, premiered at the Locarno Film Festival and went on to play at Sundance, the MoMA, and […]
Charles Sheaffer is a researcher and producer interested in the ever-changing relationship between globalization and cinematic storytelling. Sheaffer’s creative activities include narrative filmmaking and video essay production. Sheaffer’s scholarly writing has appeared in Postmodern Culture, and his current research explores classical tragedy and comedy as a means of mapping emergent developments in screen-based narrative. Sheaffer […]