Mourning Sacrifice is a contemporary detective noir short film that explores how even the most altruistic love can turn monstrous.
Isabel Pask
Isabel Pask is a Brooklyn-based, Texas-born director, screenwriter, and actor. She is the recipient of the Paul Green Award from the 2023 National Theatre Conference and is an alum of Carnegie Mellon University. Goodnight (2025 Sundance Film Festival) is her directorial debut.
May Kindred-Boothby
May Kindred-Boothby is a 2D animator and director based in Bristol, U.K. She specialized in animation for documentary and music videos and is now moving more towards fiction. The Eating of an Orange is her first narrative short, created in the animation MA at the Royal College of Art.
Daisy Friedman
Daisy Friedman is a writer-director whose history as a multi-organ transplant recipient has drawn her to create work that centers on the intersection of tradition, intimacy, embodiment, and disability. Her debut short film, As You Are, was awarded the NewFest Emerging Filmmaker Award and Outfest Grand Jury Special Mention Award.
Quinne Larsen
Quinne Larsen is a Chinook cartoonist and writer living in Los Angeles. They’ve worked on animated shows for Sony Pictures, Cartoon Network, Netflix, and Disney TVA, among others. They’re a 2023 Sundance Native Lab fellow and are currently completing an original graphic novel for First Second Publishing.
Claire Titelman
Claire Titelman is a filmmaker, actor, and Andy Kaufman Award-nominated comedian. Named one of LA Weekly’s “Eight L.A. Artists and Art-World Figures to Watch” and a regular on Chelsea Lately, Titelman’s acting credits include Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire, Parks and Recreation, and I’ve Got Issues (2020 New York Times Critic’s Pick).
Aline Höchli
Aline Höchli is an artist specializing in animated film and illustration. She studied film in the animation department at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts HSLU, graduating in 2015. She founded KOLOSS Studio in 2016. Höchli currently lives and works in Bern, Switzerland.
Aurora Brachman and LaTajh Simmons-Weaver
Aurora Brachman (2020 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellowship) is an Emmy Award-winning documentary director, producer, and cinematographer. Her films use poetic storytelling to witness intimate relationships within Black, brown, and Queer communities. Aurora is committed to ethical and collaborative filmmaking and holds an MFA in Documentary Film from Stanford University.
LaTajh Simmons-Weaver is a producer and director in both the narrative and documentary spaces and is an Oakland, California native. In their work, they are dedicated to reclaiming and telling the overlooked stories of Black and Queer intersectionality and exploring ways these communities learn to cope with everyday injustices.
Sofia Camargo
Sofia Camargo is a Colombian filmmaker with an MFA in film from NYU. She directed Al Lado del Río (2020 Cartagena Film Festival, 2020 NALIP Jury Award, and Vimeo Staff Pick) and Nostos (2024 Cartagena Film Festival). Her cinematography won the 2023 Vienna Shorts Jury Prize for Best Cinematography.
Amanda Strong
Amanda Strong (Wheetago War, 2020 Native Filmmakers Lab) is a Michif (Métis) artist, writer, producer, director, filmmaker, and mother. As the owner and executive producer of Spotted Fawn Productions Inc., her collaborative creations serve to amplify Indigenous storytelling and ideologies.
Sara Khaki
Sara Khaki is a director, producer, and editor. Her co-directed film Our Iranian Lockdown received an International Documentary Association nomination. Her co-directed Netflix original, Convergence: Courage in a Crisis, received a 2022 Emmy nomination. Khaki is a 2020 Sundance Institute Documentary Fund grantee and Chicken & Egg alum.
Megan Griffiths and Mindie Lind
Megan Griffiths is a writer-director working in film and television. She has directed 8 features and 17 episodes of TV and is a member of the director’s branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She resides in Seattle, Washington, with her husband and cat.
As a musician, director, and writer, Mindie Lind has received accolades in Seattle and beyond. She’s currently contributing her unvarnished takes on the crip experience to outlets such as Vice and The Stranger, adding much-needed nuance to stories around disability.
Grace Glowicki
Grace Glowicki is a writer, director, and actor who won the 2016 Sundance Film Festival Short Film Special Jury Award for Outstanding Performance. Her award-winning debut feature, Tito, premiered at the 2019 SXSW Film Festival, followed by Dead Lover. Her third, The Glob, is part of the Sundance Producers Lab.
Erin Williams-Weir
Formerly an international sales executive, Williams-Weir emerges as a first-time filmmaker as co-showrunner and producer of Never Get Busted! With a background in selling television series and feature films at major global film markets, Williams-Weir brings a unique blend of strategic insight and market acumen to her filmmaking endeavors.