Nick Twemlow’s first collection of poems, Palm Trees, received the 2013 Norma Farber First Book Award from the Poetry Society of America. His film and video works have played SXSW, Slamdance, Athens, and many other film festivals.

Fabrice Lauterjung is a French film and video artist who currently lives and works in Lyon, France. He has participated in numerous shows and festivals.

Working in documentary and fiction, Eva Weber has found acclaim with films like the feature documentary MERKEL (“A revealing portrait of a woman who led ‘without ego’” – IndieWire), the 27-minute documentary THE SOLITARY LIFE  OF CRANES (“one of the most absorbing documentaries of the year” – The Observer), the mid-length film BLACK OUT (“An eye-opening doc…moves seamlessly between the straightforward and the poetic” – The Hollywood Reporter), and the fiction short FIELD STUDY (European Film Awards nomination). Eva’s multi-award-winning films have screened at 100+ festivals (including Sundance, Telluride, SXSW, and London), and she is the recipient of a Sundance Institute Mahindra Global Filmmaking Award; and a fellow of the Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Labs.

Yemane I. Demissie is an award winning independent filmmaker. He is an associate professor in the undergraduate department of Film Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Madeline Djerejian is a visual artist born in the U.S. and raised in Lebanon, Greece, and Saudi Arabia. Her videos, photographs, and text-based works have been exhibited internationally.