First Run Film Festival

Filmmakers D - G

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Carley DeFoe

Cassie Online

Carley DeFoe is a senior at NYU studying Film and Television, originally from Watertown Connecticut. She is passionate about screenwriting and enjoys creating children's media and comedy.
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Sebrina Dement Semer

Friends in the Underneath

Sebrina Dement Semer is a creator of fantastical worlds and stories. Her aspirations are writing, directing, and being a show creator and story artist for fantasy animated and live-action film and tv.
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Runzhou (Edwin) Duan

Nirvana

Runzhou (Edwin) Duan, is a filmmaker, producer, photographer, and writer. Born and raised in China, Edwin received his B. F. A. from NYU Tisch School of the Arts, with minors in History and BEMT (Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology).
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Rhea Dudani

Bereft

Rhea Dudani is a filmmaker with a passion for feminism and politics, who specializes in creating female-centric narratives to break the glass ceiling. Rhea’s first film, recorded on her mother’s camcorder, featuring her sister and her mother’s house plants, debuted in 2008.
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Shoshana Ehrenkranz

Bildungsroman

Shoshana Ehrenkranz is a Jewish filmmaker interested in how comedy interplays with tragedy in Jewish storytelling. Shoshana grew up in a modern-orthodox Jewish household and thought everyone had a father who was a rabbi.
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Yasha Eskandar

Donuts

Noncommittal partners. Accidental murder. True love. All under the roof of one Brooklyn Airbnb.
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Justin Fargiano

Thumbtale

Justin Fargiano is an artist, filmmaker, and stop-motion animator. While attending New York University, his third year animation "Happy Little Fly" was awarded First Place at NYU’s 2018 New Visions and Voices Festival.
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Robert Fischer

You Said You Fixed The Leak

Fleeing from one fractured memory to the next, a lost woman is forced to escape her traumatic history and find refuge in her inner sanctum.
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Athena Gerasoulis

Emily

Athena Gerasoulis is an emerging filmmaker, creative writer, and recent alumnus of the undergraduate film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is a five-time national award-winning recipient of Scholastic Art & Writing Awards, with more than 30 literary publications, in genres such as personal memoir and poetry.
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Manya Glassman

Acquiescence

A director, screenwriter, producer, and editor, Manya Branham Glassman has devoted her life to filmmaking. She believes that the medium of film has the ability to touch individuals and communities, to ultimately transform the world.
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Áine Gleeson

Above the Fold

Áine Gleeson is a 2D Animator that graduated from NYU Tisch in 2021. She currently lives in New York working at a small animation studio, and enjoys baking in her free time.
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Amanda Gordon

Crush(ed)

Amanda Gordon is an award-winning filmmaker who aims to explore self-acceptance through the lens of Black femmes. She is a recent graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and is currently a Creative Strategist at TikTok.
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Jennifer Greco

Cat Person

Latina filmmaker which has been one of her biggest inspirations for storytelling. Jennifer's vision is looking through the lenses of real stories that highlight social-cultural issues and women empowerment.
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Xavier Griffiths

B-Box

Xavier Michael Griffiths is a writer and filmmaker. Born and raised in the Bronx, New York, Xavier received his B.A. from Fordham University. He spent a semester abroad at Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan where he studied Japanese language and literature.
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