Co-artistic director of UNDO, which she joined in 2016 after learning with a variety of arts spaces and nonprofits. Has produced 600+ screenings, workshops, and public programmes, supporting initiatives like artist development labs, publications, an online membership platform, and the UNDO Fellowship. Has guest lectured at Columbia University and Bard College, and served on juries. Earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in cinema studies and English.

Founder of UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, which produces events, workshops, documentary projects, collaborative studios, summer labs for feature projects in pre-production, the UNDO Fellowship, publications and an online membership platform. The projects he has initiated, including Living Los Sures, Documenting Mythologies, Capitol of Punk and Yellow Arrow, have united hundreds of artists, documentarians and communities.

Ben Russell (1976) is an American artist, filmmaker, musician and curator whose work lies at the intersection of experimental cinema, visual anthropology and the documentary image. Russell was an
exhibiting artist at documenta 14 (2017) and his work has been presented at the Centre Georges Pompidou, the Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Modern, the Museum of Modern Art Chicago, the Venice Film Festival and the Berlinale, among others. He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2008), a FIPRESCI International Critics Prize (IFFR 2010, Gijón 2017), premiered his second and third feature films at the Locarno Film Festival (2013, 2017) and won the Encounters Grand Prize at the Berlinale Film Festival (2024). Curatorial projects include Magic Lantern (Providence, USA, 2005-2007), BEN RUSSELL
(Chicago, USA, 2009-2011), Hallucinations (Athens, Greece, 2017) and Double Vision (Marseille, France 2024-). He is based in Marseille, France.

Lee Anne Schmitt is an essay filmmaker; her projects have addressed American exceptionalism, the logic of utility and labor, gestures of kindness and refusal, and the history of racial violence in the United States. Her films have screened at Museum of Modern Art in NY, Viennale, Rotterdam International Film Festival, CInema du Reel, FICUNAM, FIDMarseilles, DocLisboa and many more. She is a recipient of a Guggenheim, Creative Capital, Graham Foundation Grant and multiple MacDowell Residencies.

Beatriz Santiago Muñoz is an artist and filmmaker based in San Juan, Puerto Rico. Her practice brings together cinema, art, and improvisation, developing solo and collaborative processes rooted in formal experimentation.
Her recent research explores the encounters between film and painting, the animal kingdom, feminist grammar, simultaneous narration, and the anticolonial unconscious. She is co-founder of Beta-Local, an artist-run space in San Juan, and a member of the artist cooperative Sociedad del Tiempo Libre.
Her recent solo exhibitions include Elogio al Disparate (Vienna Secession), Ottilia (CRAC Alsace), Oriana (PIVO, São Paulo), and Argos (Brussels). Her work is held in the collections of MoMA, the Guggenheim, Kadist, and FRAC-MECA. She received a 2026 Guggenheim Fellowship, the Herb Alpert Award, the 2021 Artes Mundi Prize, and a CARA Fellowship.

Simon Liu (Hong Kong, 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. His practice spans short films, immersive video installations, and expanded cinema performances, exploring material abstraction, speculative history, and the subversion of documentary form.
His work has been presented at the 2024 Whitney Biennial, MoMA, M+, SFMoMA, The Shed, PICA, Tai Kwun, MOCA LA, and the Carpenter Center. His films have screened at the Toronto, New York, Berlin, Rotterdam, BFI London, Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Sundance, New Directors/New Films, CPH:DOX, and Cinéma du Réel festivals.
Writing on his work has appeared in BOMB, Hyperallergic, MUBI, Cinema Scope, and The New York Times. Several films and installations are held in the permanent collections of MoMA and M+. He currently teaches at Cooper Union and Pratt Institute, and is editing his first feature documentary, Staffordshire Hoard.

Almudena Escobar López is a researcher, curator, and archivist based in Tkaronto. She is Assistant Professor of Film History, Film Preservation, and Collection Management at Toronto Metropolitan University. Her research focuses on documentary practices, visual historiography, cultural memory, and alternative moving-image ecologies. She is currently developing Ecologies of Rural Cinema, a project on community-based film initiatives in rural Europe and Canada. As a curator, she has presented programs at MoMA, TIFF, Lincoln Center, Arsenal, and Batalha Centro de Cinema. In 2022, she co-curated the Flaherty Seminar Continents of Drifting Clouds with Sky Hopinka and is a member of the programming committee of Diffusion in Tkaronto.

Phil Coldiron is a writer living in New York. From 2011-2024, he was a regular contributor to Cinema Scope. More recently, his writing on film and various other visual arts has appeared in publications including the New York Review of Books, New York Review of Architecture, and e-flux. He holds a Masters degree in Cinema and Media Studies from the University of California Los Angeles.

A poet and a media scholar, Tung-Hui Hu is the author of five books, most recently Digital Lethargy: Dispatches from an Age of Disconnection, A Prehistory of the Cloud, and Greenhouses: Lighthouses. A former Rome Prize and NEA fellow in literature, his research has been featured in CBS News, BBC Radio 4, WIRED, and e-flux. Hu is associate professor of Comparative Media Studies/Writing at MIT.

Jacqueline Feldman is a writer and researcher whose work in narrative and theory often has concerned the pressures placed on form by real-world situations. ON YOUR FEET and PRECARIOUS LEASE, her duo of books about the investigations of an American girl abroad, deal with, respectively, practical issues in translating far-right discourse and the gains of occupation culture; short-form reports have further explored activist practice in France, a lawsuit alleging indoctrination in Feldman’s Connecticut hometown, and contemporary quandaries within generative technology. A Fulbright and an Albertine Translation laureate, a graduate of the EHESS-Paris, she until recently taught first-year writing at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.