Anisa Hosseinnezhad, born and raised in Iran, is an artist, cultural worker, and organizer based in Los Angeles. She was a 2021 Flaherty Fellow and joined the Flaherty team in 2022. Her work addresses displacement and the Orientalist imaginary. Her research on representations of Iran in Western media has been published in Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media. She is a union organizer at Documentary Workers United and a member of Communications Workers of America Local 9003. She holds a master's degree in Film and Media Arts from Temple University.

Sun Park is an artist and cultural worker based in London. She has been producing public programs with moving image artists at LUX since 2020, alongside creating DIY art projects with various collectives. Through Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR), a peer learning community, she facilitates study groups, researches cosmotechnical storytelling through writing, and develops collective divination and filmmaking workshops. She currently runs a home gallery, Working From Home.

NYU Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) Intern Julita Pratiwi, or Juju, (she/her) is a film scholar and researcher who is interested in broadening her knowledge in the archive field. Based on that, she enrolled in the Moving Images Archiving and Preservation Master’s Program at New York University Tisch School of Arts. In 2021, she co-created Kelas Liarsip, a collective focused on tracing the involvement of women and their work in Indonesian film history. Recently, the collective worked to reactivate the memory of Indonesia’s first first female director, Ratna Asmara. Julita taught World and Indonesian Film History in Jakarta Institute of Arts 2018–2021. 

Shu Wang (she/her) has a master degree in Cinema Studies at New York University and currently resides in New York City. During her graduate years, she studied film history/theory, queer theories, film curating, etc. Since 2019, she has been working for non-profit organizations like the Flaherty Seminar, Women Make Movies, Third World Newsreel, etc. At the Flaherty, she uses social media platforms like Instagram to attract more participants. At Women Make Movies and Third World Newsreel, she helps distribute films related to activism and minority groups to the educational market, such as public libraries, universities, colleges, etc. Her areas of interest include activism and LGBTQ films. In 2017, she volunteered for Shanghai Queer Film Festival. In 2020, she was an intern at CineCina Film Festival and acted as a screener for the Project Horizon department.

Katarina Docalovich is a film writer and programmer living in Brooklyn. She recently received her Bachelor’s degree in Cinema from VCUarts in Richmond, Virginia, where she programmed the film series “For a Dollar Name a Woman” dedicated to queer women directors and women directors of color. She has volunteered at the Cannes Film Festival, Sundance, and the Brooklyn Film Festival. She produced the short film “Here Lies Beatrice” (2019), which was officially selected to Shortie Film Festival, James River Short Film Showcase, and Queens World Film Festival. You can find her writing in the online film journals Much Ado About Cinema, Screen Queens, and Flip Screen. 

Krystalle MacQueen is an academic and artist currently focused on the preservation and distribution of experimental cinema. Originally from West Palm Beach, Florida, Krystalle is currently based in Brooklyn, New York and will be graduating with a BA in Screen Studies from Eugene Lang College in 2020. Having made experimental work herself, Krystalle's main area of study and practice revolves around the usage and understanding of motion picture moving image, specifically through 16 and 8mm film as the chosen medium of viewership. Krystalle's interests lay in the groundworks of preserving, archiving, and projecting all non digital forms of media as well as understanding the importance of its place amongst experimental and ethnographic forms of cinema. 

Aidan Kaye is a New York City-based artist, photographer, and experimental filmmaker with a focus on documentary. Graduating with a BFA in Film from SUNY Purchase in 2020, he has worked on several award-winning documentaries, including Alex Gibney’s Steve Jobs: The Man in the Machine, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise Fall of James Brown and won an award for best experimental film at the SUNY Wide Film Festival in 2019 for his film Read @ 12:35AM. While freelancing in several creative industries he continues to make experimental films that deal with themes of youth, fatherhood, and masculinity.

Ben Titera is an academic, artist, and writer from Milwaukee, Wisconsin and is currently based in Ridgewood, Queens.  Ben is a student of media, taking interest in queer theory and philosophy, and holds a passion for the avant-garde as it manifests across music, image, and text. He recently earned his BA from Eugene Lang College with a focus in culture and media studies. He is currently working on his master’s thesis, which is exploring the output of aesthetic experimentation in the wake and in the break of climate change. Ben seeks spaces that facilitate the collective exchange of ideas, especially within the contexts of moving image media.

YueYing Feng is a filmmaker and writer based in New York City. Originally from Shenzhen, China, she received an M.F.A. in Film from Syracuse University, NY. As part of her master's thesis on sexual violence against women in contemporary China, she completed the short documentary What I haven’t Known About Her. The film deals with a public topic from an intimate perspective, featuring two important female members of her family. During her undergraduate studies in China, she volunteered for three years at one of the largest student film festivals; International Student Film Festival. Along with her teaching assistantship in grad school, she is interested in making documentaries that convey universal emotions from an autobiographical and intimate perspective.

Alec Lane is an archivist, filmmaker, and academic raised in Cold Spring, NY and living in Brooklyn. His interests are primarily in film preservation, philosophy, and formalist avant-garde and underground art, especially minimalist and queer cinemas. He has assisted with several film digitization projects at his university’s archive and produced writing on film in academic and critical contexts. He is finishing his senior year as a Cinema Studies major at New York University

Anthony Chassi is an academic, video editor, and occasional photographer born in Queens, NY and raised in Newburgh, NY. His interests include Latin American cinema (particularly Colombian) and radical political documentary cinema. He has produced videos for organizations such as History UnErased and has assisted in teaching classes on photography for The Josephine Herrick Project.  He holds a BA in Film Studies and Anthropology from CUNY Queens College and is currently pursuing his MA in Film Studies at Columbia University.

Andrea Nappi is a filmmaker born and raised in New York City. She works with both analog and digital filmmaking techniques, and has a passion for experimental and independent cinema. Andrea also has a background in music, and has played the flute for over ten years. The experiences she's had with music heavily influence her filmmaking practice, and she takes delight in directing music videos. Andrea currently attends The New School, and is pursuing both a Bachelor’s degree in Screen Studies with a minor in Gender Studies, and a Master’s degree in Media Studies.

Bedatri Datta Choudhury has assisted in commissioning, researching for, and disseminating independent documentary films made under grants from the Government of India. She has also helped program and organize India's largest documentary film festival and workshops. Her interest in films stems from her study of literature and largely focuses on South Asian studies, Gender and Post Colonialism. Born and raised in India, she is now pursuing her post-graduate degree in Cinema Studies at the Tisch School of Arts, NYU.

Patrick Offenheiser is a filmmaker, editor and multimedia artist. Originally from Boston by way of Dhaka, Bangladesh and Lima, Peru, he graduated with a BA in Film & Electronic Arts and History from Bard College and went on to produce documentary work for non-profit organizations and television, focusing on marginalized and displaced communities, particularly in Latin America and the United States. In his work he pursues questions of memory, homeland and diaspora as well as cultural erasure and globalization and recently completed the 2016 Collaborative Fellowship with UnionDocs. He is based in Brooklyn, New York.

Patricia Arellano is from Mexico and relocated to NYC while she interns for The Flaherty and UnionDocs. She has worked and volunteered for various film and music festivals in NYC and Mexico, including the Brooklyn Film Festival and AMBULANTE the documentaries tour (Mexico), the Morelia International Film Festival as a Print Traffic Assistant and the Morelia Music Festival as a Venue Coordinator. She holds a BA in Humanities and Social Sciences with a focus on arts management by the Tecnologico de Monterrey.

Nina Jerslev Svendsen is from Denmark and is interning at The Flaherty during July and August, after she will return to Copenhagen where she resides. She is studying Political Science at Copenhagen University and will begin her third year of undergraduate school in the fall. Following completion of her Bachelors degree, she wants to study American Politics and Culture or Film and Media Studies. Between her studies she is a Student Assistant at the PhD courses held at the Department of Political Science in  Copenhagen. While living in New York she has also volunteered for Rooftop Films.

Rahmah Pauzi grew up in Kajang, outside of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. She recently graduated from Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute at New York University, where she completed a short documentary "Welcome to Malaysia” as part of her master’s thesis on modern Malaysia’s immigrants. Her past works include virtual reality piece “Return to Chernobyl” (PBS Frontline), “Not my heaven: 5 Years in America” (Five College Film Festival 2014), radio documentary series “Far From Home” (BFM Radio Kuala Lumpur), and Malay-Muslim millenial web-show “Sekilas” (BFM Radio Kuala Lumpur). Rahmah is a proud bilingual, migrant, and Malaysian citizen.