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Cameron Paradiso, UG
16 Valley Lane
Cameron Paradiso is a director and writer based out of Connecticut. With a passion for visual storytelling and audience engagement, he continues to develop compelling projects involving themes of isolation and longing that aim to start meaningful discussions.
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Kirsten Pasewaldt, Grad
Down the Shore
Kirsten Pasewaldt (she/her) is a queer filmmaker from New Jersey based in Brooklyn, New York. She is an alumni of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences “Academy Gold” Program, the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium, and the Rutgers University Mason Gross Filmmaking Program, where she was awarded the Dean’s Prize for Overall Excellence in Filmmaking.
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Eve Peters, UG
My Little Clopfic
Eve Peters is a filmmaker from Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. She has been writing, making movies and playing dress up ever since she gained consciousness in 2009 when they found the Craigslist killer and it wasn’t her uncle after all.
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Haleigh Phillips, UG
Cross Checked
Haleigh Phillips is a showrunner, director, and congressionally recognized writer based in New York City and Buffalo. She has worked with Hello Sunshine, Pegula Sports & Entertainment, FIT, and the Burbank International Film Festival.
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Lily Platt, GRAD
Crisis Actor
Lily Platt is a filmmaker from New York City. After starting her career in architecture and design curation at SFMOMA and the Eames Institute, Lily worked as a staff producer at Story Syndicate where she made docuseries for HBO and Netflix. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts. Crisis Actor is her debut short.
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Hudson Price, UG
All Tha Best
Hudson Price is a filmmaker whose work blends narrative storytelling with documentary texture, creating intimate portraits shaped by humor, place, and quiet tension. Raised in Woodstock, New York, he grew up surrounded by artists and musicians, a world that shaped his instinct for character-driven, atmospheric films.
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Hudson Price, UG
Hotspot
Hudson Price is a filmmaker whose work blends narrative storytelling with documentary texture, creating intimate portraits shaped by humor, place, and quiet tension. Raised in Woodstock, New York, he grew up surrounded by artists and musicians, a world that shaped his instinct for character-driven, atmospheric films.
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Joshua Pyun, UG
What A Flop
Josh Pyun is a graduate from NYU Tisch who loves animation and cartoons with all his heart. His passion and drive to create and make art motivates him to keep trying and provide his skills to anyone who needs it.
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Marcus Quinn, UG
The Lion of Teranga
Marcus Quinn is a French-American and award-winning filmmaker from Paris. His films have screened at the Yale Student Film Festival, New York Shorts International Film Festival, and NYU’s New Visions and Voices Film Festival. He now focuses on editing.
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Tess Rechtweg, UG
Three Thanksgivings
Tess Rechtweg is a recent graduate from NYU Tisch, where she earned her BFA in Film & Television, with a concentration in producing and the business of film. Her love of filmmaking came from Tess and her dad watching classic movies together as a kid, and she hasn’t stopped watching since.
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Anton Riehle, UG
Backyard Blues
Born on the Lower East Side of Manhattan and raised in Berlin, Germany, Anton is a 2025 graduate of NYU Tisch Undergraduate Film & Television. His first calling was screenwriting, having written two features and currently working on his third.
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Zane Rizvi-Riemer, UG
Debt I Owe
Zane Rizvi-Riemer is a director, writer, and producer who recently received a BFA in Film and Television at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. During his four years at NYU, Zane has worked on over thirty student projects. Of those many projects, he has written, directed, and edited eight short films and is now in a festival run of his thesis film.
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Cheyenne Robinson, UG
Parallelism
Cheyenne Robinson is a recent graduate of NYU’s Film & Television program, she is a storyteller at heart, driven by a passion for bringing imagined worlds to life. Whether working with nothing more than pen and paper or an entire production team, Cheyenne’s goal remains the same: to invite audiences into the stories that unfold in her mind.
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Amanda Sofia Rodriguez, UG
El Talismán
Amanda Sofia Rodriguez is a writer, director, and editor of Mexican and Peruvian heritage. She earned her BFA in Film and Television from New York University, where she honed her voice as a storyteller focused on underrepresented perspectives. Through her work, Amanda is dedicated to crafting nuanced, authentic narratives that center communities of color.
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Camila S. Rodríguez López, UG
Mareas a la deriva
Camila Rodríguez López is a Puerto Rican-Venezuelan filmmaker whose work engages decolonial narratives through women’s lives, memory, and community-rooted storytelling. She directed Mareas a la Deriva, recognized by NFFTY’s Story Starts Here, and Diaspora Sisters, winner of NYU’s Fusion Film Festival.
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Ryan Russo, UG
Chopping Wood
Ryan Russo is a director and editor in both narrative and commercial fields. His short films have been featured in film festivals across NYC and his commercial work includes clients such as The Comedy Cellar and California State Parks. Ryan graduated from NYU UGFTV in 2025 and hails from Bernardsville, New Jersey.
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Samer Saifan, UG
If Birds Believed in God
Alex Sassine is a Lebanese writer, director, and editor pursuing an MFA in Film at NYU Tisch, where he received the HEAR US 2025 award. With experience in public art installations and nightlife photography, he holds a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the American University of Beirut.
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Justin Scolnick, UG
Die by the Schtick
Justin Scolnick is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and writer, and a graduate of NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. His work is driven by an interest in characters caught between self-awareness and self-deception, often using humor to explore moments of emotional unease.
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Ardavan Sepehr, GRAD
Fanal
Ardavan Sepehr is an NYU producer/filmmaker whose work examines identity, visibility, and growing up between cultures. With a foundation in finance and a passion for human-centered stories, he supports directors through thoughtful collaboration, clear communication, and a commitment to elevating personal narratives.
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Sophie Seyd, Grad
Fanal
Sophie Seyd is a British-Australian writer, director, cinematographer, and producer of Iraqi heritage. She was born in Hong Kong and raised in Melbourne. She now lives in New York City where she is a candidate of the Graduate Film program at NYU Tisch School of the Arts.
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Abdullah Shahid, Grad
A House of Leaves
Abdullah Shahid is a Pakistani writer, director, and actor. An honors graduate of Pomona College, he is a third-year MFA student at NYU Tisch. His film Hot Soup premiered at ISAFF Canada, Rung Film Festival, and was shortlisted for BIFF. He’s currently in pre-production for his thesis film to be shot in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Abdullah Shahid, GRAD
An Alien (In America)
Abdullah Shahid is a Pakistani writer, director, and actor. An honors graduate of Pomona College, he is a third-year MFA student at NYU Tisch. His film Hot Soup premiered at ISAFF Canada, Rung Film Festival and was shortlisted for BIFF. He’s currently in pre-production for his thesis film to be shot in Lahore, Pakistan.
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Arabella Sharkey, UG
Truths from a Corporate Sellout
Arabella Sharkey is a half Taiwanese, half British writer and director based in NYC. She’s drawn to psychological drama, thriller and magical realism stories. Her films have screened at festivals worldwide. She has gained experience at companies such as Warner Bros., Partizan and Full Picture, and also freelance directs commercials.
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Zhaoyu Shi, GRAD
36 step
Zhaoyu Shi (b. 1999) is a director, writer, and producer based in China and New York. Having earned a Bachelor's degree in Film and Psychology from Emerson in 2022, she is now an MFA candidate in the Graduate Film program at NYU.
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Farrah Shikara, UG
A Pizza Me!
Farrah Shikara is a 2D animator and storyboard artist who loves bringing fun characters and exciting stories to life. When not glued to her computer, she’s often scribbling storyboards, debating whether to animate her breakfast, or wondering why her characters dance better than she does.
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Terrence Shu, GRAD
Quinnlyn, Whose Husband She Misplaced
Terrence Shu is a filmmaker based in New York. After studying business and working as a consultant, he decided to pursue filmmaking after watching The OA on Netflix. He is a recent graduate of the MBA/MFA dual-degree program at NYU.
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PJ Simeon, UG
ALWAYS YOU
PJ Simeon is an award-winning Afro-Indigenous director, animator, and graduate from NYU Tisch Undergraduate Film & TV. She studied at Waseda University’s School of Culture, Media, and Society where she researched classical history with visual and narrative storytelling.
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Mehak Singh Gill, UG
Amedican Dreams
Mehak is a filmmaker/composer from Portland, Oregon. Raised with the cultural customs of Punjab, India within the American framework, his works explore identity and the inherent similarities in the human experience with a focus on unity and harmony, through experimental drama and comedy.
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Julia Song, UG
Yellow Tinted Glasses
Julia Song double majored in Film & Television and Art History at NYU Tisch, and has been selected for multiple festivals around the world, and has worked with brands such as The Huntington Museum and Red Bull.
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Eliza Soros, GRAD
Part
Eliza Soros is a New York based filmmaker and artist. Her debut narrative short, LAST NIGHT, premiered 2025 at New Hampshire Film Festival, New/Next Film Fest, and The Downtown Festival. She previously directed VERSES., an experimental documentary short on Nowness.
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Salomé Sowa, UG
blue, like green
Salomé Sowa (they/them) is a New York–based writer, director, and multimedia artist whose films explore identity, grief, and embodiment through dream logic and body horror. Blue, Like Green is an elegy for healing—an inquiry into repression, transformation, and what it means to live beyond purgatory.
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Macdaleine St.Remy, GRAD
The Harvest
Macdaleine is a Haitian-American, hardware program manager turned writer/director based in Brooklyn. Her work focuses on the ordinary, daily struggles of characters that are traditionally ignored by mainstream storytelling. She is a Princess Grace Foundation Artist (Film 2023) and a Gotham Marcie Bloom Fellow (2023-2024).
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Rory Stevenson, UG
Hart Island
Rory Stevenson is an editor and director from San Francisco, California. His work as an editor has been featured in Mill Valley Film Festival, Palm Springs ShortFest, and Short of the Week.
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Kyle Stone, UG
antalya
Kyle Stone is a writer, director, & musical theater nerd originally from Philadelphia (Go Birds!). He especially enjoys working within the realms of dark comedy, horror, and musicals, with Singin’ in the Rain as his favorite film. Besides movies, a few things Kyle will talk your ear off about are roller coasters, football, and geography trivia.
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Ting Su, UG
你的城市 (Your City)
Ting Su is a documentary filmmaker and sound designer from Shenzhen, China, currently pursuing a BFA in Film & Television at NYU Tisch.
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Anooya Swamy, GRAD
Pankaja
Anooya is an Indian filmmaker and entrepreneur born and raised in Bangalore, India, currently pursuing her MFA at Tisch School of Arts in Film. She is an Ang Lee Scholar and a BAFTA Scholar. She has been awarded the Maurice Kanbar Scholarship along with the Matthew Myers Memorial Scholarship.
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