Persons

Laura Green is a Bay Area-based documentary director and editor, whose short documentaries have played numerous film festivals across the country. She is also a lecturer at Stanford University, the Graduate School of Journalism at UC Berkeley, and California College of the Arts. Human Conditions is her first feature-length film. The doctor shortage in rural America has reached its crisis point. But at El Centro Family Health, a rural community clinic in New Mexico, healthcare providers offer care to all who walk through the doors, regardless of ability to pay. Human Conditions takes a character-driven, verite look at the journeys of three primary healthcare [...]

Kristina Motwani is a San Francisco-based editor whose work includes the feature documentaries First Friday, After Tiller and An Honest Liar as well as documentary shorts and media for nonprofits. She has also worked on ITVS's Independent Lens and for Discovery, and is currently editing a six part series of short docs on guns in America for AJ+. What Happened to Amos? is a feature length documentary film that marries interviews, vertié scenes, and animation to tell a story of a journalist and a missing man and how their intertwined stories could help each of them reach peace.

Isabel Alcántara is a Mexican documentary filmmaker with a background in photojournalism from the Newhouse School of Public Communications. She has produced award-winning content that has screened at SXSW and major television networks such as A&E and History Channel. She has also shot photographic and multimedia content for Paper Magazine and The New York Times, and is a staff writer for the GLAAD Award-winning queer website, Autostraddle. The Age of Water tells the story of Nely Baez, a young woman spearheading a grassroots effort to investigate the frequent death of little girls in her Mexican town. Nely soon discovers that the water in her [...]

Emelie Mahdavian is a filmmaker, dancer, musician, and Fulbright scholar whose work frequently deals with gender, media, and global politics. Previously, she was Director of the Davis Feminist Film Festival, Panels Coordinator for the Mill Valley Film Festival, and Assistant Director of Ballet Afsaneh. Her documentary After the Curtain premiered at Lincoln Center as part of Dance on Camera 2016 and her experimental motion-capture short film Intangible Body is currently installed at the Los Angeles Craft and Folk Art Museum and the Czong Institute of Contemporary Art. Emelie studied filmmaking at London Film School and has Ph.D. in Performance Studies with an emphasis in [...]