Filmmakers A - C

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  • Roya Alidjani

    Roya Alidjani

    Family Business

    Roya graduated from Tisch in 2021, majoring in Film and Television and minoring in Producing. Roya has dedicated her time to pursue her passions in directing, producing, and writing by working on numerous short films, music videos, features, and working at production companies.

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  • Kayla Arend

    Kayla Arend

    Leaving Yellowstone & Lost Beyond the Stars

    Kayla Arend is a writer-director whose work has found recognition both nationally and internationally. With her roots still embedded in the nature of the Rocky Mountains but her creative voice being sculpted by New York City, it is clear that her work commands attention.

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  • Ifeyinwa Arinze

    Ifeyinwa Arinze

    August Visitor

    Ifeyinwa Arinze is a neuroscientist-turned-filmmaker from Nigeria and is currently based in New York City. Her work draws inspiration from human behavior and prioritizes intimate portrayals of Black women and girls that are grounded in generosity and care.

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  • Sara Balghonaim

    Sara Balghonaim

    Me & Aydarous

    Sara Balghonaim is a Saudi filmmaker based between Riyadh and New York. She is currently in her thesis year at New York University’s graduate Film & Television in Directing and Writing. Sara recently produced Sweet Refuge, and is currently in post production on her directorial debut, Me & Aydarous.

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  • Sophia Bennett Holmes

    Sophia Bennett Holmes

    Synchronicity Story

    Sophia Bennett Holmes is from Brooklyn, New York. She studied fine art at Cooper Union where she painted and made melodramas starring middle schoolers. Now she writes and directs narrative films, getting her inspiration from strange online forums.

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  • Jacob Boblitt

    Jacob Boblitt

    What is This?

    Jacob is a rising Senior majoring in Film and TV. With a love for post production, Jacob looks at filmmaking as an intricate puzzle that can be solved in an unlimited amount of ways.

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  • Lana Bolycheva

    Lana Bolycheva

    Let My Grandpa Into Heaven

    Lana is a writer/director currently based in NYC. Lana was born in USSR three years after her birth, the country ceased to exist. Growing up during restructuring and reforming of the country Lana in early age was attracted by theater, where she could hide in the imaginary world.

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  • Zach Busch

    Zach Busch

    Acid Noir

    Zach Busch is a director, writer, actor, & artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a rising 3rd Year MFA student at the Grad Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.

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  • Andrei Captan

    Graphite

    The night before his girlfriend leaves for college, a boyfriend decides to spend their final hours together drawing her portrait. But in doing so, their conversation leads him to question whether preserving her memory is better than enjoying her company.

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  • Nicole Cone

    Nicole Cone

    Alexandra McGee

    Nicole Cone is a filmmaker based in NYC and Newark, NJ. Nicole was born and raised in Miami FL, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a scholarship from the Posse Foundation. She is currently a student in the Graduate Film Program at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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  • Gloria Cook

    Gloria Cook

    A Love Song for a Haunted Home

    Gloria Cook is a Mississippi-born senior studying Film and Television at New York University. Gloria uses experimental film to explore her own inner life with a focus on mixed media and effects-based editing in order to tell her stories by any means necessary.

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  • Chandler

    Chandler Crump

    Color Him Son

    Chandler Crump is an emerging filmmaker and screenwriter whose work focuses on maximizing Black and female voices. She was born and raised in San Francisco and currently resides in New York.

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