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Jack Lacy, UG
BUNTIS?!
Jack Lacy is a mixed-race Filipino American originally from Richmond, Virginia. As a writer/director, Jack’s work focuses on the nuances of masculinity and culture, with a commitment to amplifying minority narratives within projects in association with the No Homo group.
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Noah Laforest, UG
Ti Blan
Noah Petion Laforest (he/him) is an up-and-coming Haitian-American writer, director, and producer from New York, who has recently graduated from NYU Tisch School of the Arts with BFA in Film & Television, and a minor in Business, Entertainment, Media & Technology. He is passionate about telling authentic, character-driven stories.
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Xinying Lao, GRAD
A Trapped Dog
Xinying Lao is a director, writer, and editor who graduated from the Graduate Film program at NYU. With a background in journalism, her films often gaze through a child’s perspective. Her second-year film, Xiaohui and His Cows, was awarded Special Mention at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2023.
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Hashim Latif, UG
Zaban
Raised in San Antonio, Texas, Hashim is a filmmaker at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. Having grown up in a Pakistani-American household, he wishes to tell intimate stories focused on non-white, underrepresented communities across the country.
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Matthew Levine. UG
The Roswell Report
"Matthew Levine is a writer/director from Los Angeles, passionate about high-concept and emotional films. At NYU, he studied directing with Jon Watts, pursued screenwriting in London, and was a Semi-Finalist for the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films competition.
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Zhenyi Li. GRAD
Adventure Underground
Zhenyi Li is a Chinese writer-director and producer based in New York and Beijing, China. After completing a Bachelor’s degree in Cinema Studies from New York University, he is currently an MFA candidate in the NYU Graduate Film program.
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Jessica Li, GRAD
Peace Corps
Jessica Li is a New York-based filmmaker from New Jersey currently pursuing a joint MBA/MFA at NYU Stern and Tisch, where she's been awarded the Story Mining & Supply Scholarship at Stern and the Tisch School of the Arts and Yunni & Maxine Pao Memorial Scholarships at Tisch.
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Jeremy Lu, UG
Monkey Drum
Jeremy Lu is an award-winning California-born and NYC-based director and cinematographer. Raised in the crossroads between Filipino, Chinese, and Japanese cultures, as a filmmaker, Jeremy is drawn towards intimate stories that challenge visual norms and explore themes of culture and identity.
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Lauren Luke, UG
Sons Are Not Earthbound
Lauren Luke is a Native Hawaiian, 2nd-Generation Filipina, and Chinese filmmaker from Honolulu, Hawai'i whose work is deeply shaped by her home and multicultural upbringing. She sees filmmaking as a vessel of preservation—of culture, of place, of feeling—and strives to illuminate the beauty in transience.
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Shaha Magdiev, UG
Hullabaloo
Born in 1997 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Shaha Magdiev grew up immersed in a wide range of influences, from Soviet cartoons and Persian folklore to American films. His work seeks to explore uncomfortable, soul-crushing emotions through a grounded, realistic lens.
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Ali Pervaiz Malik, UG
rishta
Ali is a Pakistani-American writer, director, and producer whose work lingers in the quiet corners of heartbreak—searching always for the silver lining. His films explore the tenderness of human connection through an intimate, visual language shaped by lived experience.
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Naa Adei Mante, GRAD
The Titty Trip
naa adei (nah • aday) is a writer, director and producer based in NYC. she is currently pursuing her MFA at NYU Tisch, and is a proud recipient of the 2025 Spike Lee Production Fund Award. she loves to tell stories that explore those internal and unspoken emotions that Black women struggle with in a post-colonial era.
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Katie Mclean, UG
The God of Grand Central
Katie McLean is a recent graduate of NYU, with a degree in Film & Television. She’s an animator specializing in 2D character animation, and has previously directed 3 animated short films. She has a YouTube channel where she uploads her animation projects, which as of December 2025 has over 15k subscribers.
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Nichole McMinn, GRAD
Thank You For Seeing Me
Nichole McMinn is a New York based filmmaker from East Tennessee. She is a Graduate Film candidate at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently working on her thesis. Before grad school, she worked professionally as a prop master, art director, and production designer.
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Nichole McMinn, Grad
You Won't Hear Me Leave
Nichole McMinn is a New York based filmmaker from East Tennessee. She is a Graduate Film candidate at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and is currently working on her thesis. Before grad school, she worked professionally as a prop master, art director, and production designer.
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Yara Melki, UG
Alya
Yara Melki is a Lebanese filmmaker based in London and an NYU Tisch graduate whose work explores the complexities of womanhood and Arab identity. Working across directing and producing, she has developed projects in Lebanon, Brazil, the UK and the U.S. Her undergraduate thesis, Alya, was shot in Lebanon.
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J. Mendoza, UG
MIMIC
J. Mendoza is a Queens-born Colombian American filmmaker and actor. He is a recent graduate of Tisch's BFA program in Film and Television. Jason has produced and directed over a dozen short films in addition to his debut feature, Good Friday, which premiered at DWF-NY 2024.
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Anjali Moorthy, UG
What Brings You Here Tonight?
Anjali Moorthy is a US-born, India-raised filmmaker-performer with a BFA in Film & Television from NYU Tisch. As a South Asian multihyphenate, Anjali aims to use her background in film, music and dance to make musical theatre more accessible through her films.
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Roxy Moskowitz, GRAD
Camera
Roxy Moskowitz is a writer and director from Brooklyn. She is currently an MFA candidate in NYU’s Graduate Film program and a fellow with the Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film. Raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish household, she spent her childhood smuggling books home from the Brooklyn Public Library.
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Roxy Moskowitz, GRAD
The Messiah's Daughter
Roxy Moskowitz is a writer and director from Brooklyn. She is currently an MFA candidate in NYU’s Graduate Film program and a fellow with the Marcie Bloom Fellowship in Film. Raised in an ultra-Orthodox Jewish household, she spent her childhood smuggling books home from the Brooklyn Public Library.
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Amir Moverman, GRAD
Remnants or A Way of Creating Possibility in the Space of Enclosure
Amir Moverman is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist whose work navigates memory, identity, and intimacy. Born and raised in Manhattan, his work seeks to blend connective cultural awareness with emotional resonance.
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Sundus Mustapha, UG
The Weathermen
Sundus Mustapha is a Trinidadian-Egyptian writer, director, and producer. She recently graduated from NYU’s Film & Television and is passionate about telling unheard stories, especially in the form of adaptations or in the sci-fi action genre.
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Jack Nunez, UG
Is it Bad to Become Bros with a God of Death (Even if He’s Really Chill?)
Jack Nuñez is an Afro-Dominican filmmaker from Washington Heights, New York. He earned his BFA in Film & Television at NYU Tisch. Jack has worked on feature films and short projects as a writer, director, and producer, developing compelling stories rooted in his community and creative vision.
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Jamie Kiernan O'Brien, GRAD
Gender Studies
Jamie Kiernan O'Brien is a filmmaker based in NYC, and a current MFA Candidate at New York University's Graduate Film Program. Her films have screened at Sundance, SXSW, Inside Out Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, World Pride in D.C., and many more. She received her BA in English Literature from New York University. Jamie is an openly trans woman.
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