Director Martine N. Granby is a nonfiction filmmaker, producer, and video journalist. She produces films that weave between documentary, experimental nonfiction, hybrid, and essay forms. Granby is an Assistant Professor of Journalism at the University of Connecticut, with a focus on documentary filmmaking. She holds a joint appointment in the Africana Studies Institute and is an affiliate of UConn’s Women’s Gender and Sexuality Studies Program. Her creative research focuses on interrogations of and material experimentation with family and collective moving image archives, ethical considerations of found footage usage, and discourses around mental health in BIPOC communities. Her work has been shown at the Centre Film Festival, Out On Film, Reeling Film Festival, Newark LGBTQ Film Festival, and Cinekink Film Festival. She has worked as a documentarian, producer, editor, video journalist, and educator for The New York Times, Kartemquin Films, and The DocX program at Duke University’s Center for Documentary Studies, The New School, City Bureau, UnionDocs, and BRIC TV.

Arielle Knight is a New York-based filmmaker and creative producer. Mining the absurd, the mythological and the mundane, the work of her life and practice seeks to center and recover the multiplicity of human experiences and the narrative possibilities therein. Through her own filmmaking practice and in collaboration with like-minded creators, Arielle aims to inundate the world with the dreams, visions, and beauty of diverse perspectives on screen. Arielle has directed emotionally resonant short form and commercial projects for clients like Lexus, Audible and eBay. She has also worked to champion progressive political issues and candidates through her work with Everytown Against Gun Violence, the Stacy Abrams campaign and ActBlue. Her work has been sustained through the support of The Sundance Institute, Chicken and Egg, NYC Women’s Fund for Media in association with the New York Foundation for the Arts, If/Then and Field of Vision and Catapult. She is currently developing her first feature film project.