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Hillia Aho, Grad
Uprooted
Hillia Aho is an artist and filmmaker, originally from Midcoast Maine, and currently splitting her time between Brooklyn, NY and Vancouver, Canada. She received her BA in Media Arts, with minors in Environmental Policy and Studio Art, from Occidental College, and was awarded distinction for her thesis film, Almira.
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Blanche Akonchong, Grad
Mercury Afrograde
Blanche Akonchong is a writer, director, and actress from Riverdale, GA. A first generation American, her parents immigrated to the U.S. in the early 90’s, from Cameroon, a country in West Africa. She studied Music Business at New York University’s Steinhardt, and graduated in 2017 with a Bachelor of Music.
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Lin Que Ayoung, Grad
Cracked
Lin Que is a writer/director/producer from New York City. She started her career as a Hip Hop Performer and Lyricist. After three major record deals, the growing misogyny and homophobia caused her to go back to school with the hope of transforming her verbal poetry into visual lyricism.
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Julian Alvarez, Undergrad
Techno Scrap
Julian Alvarez is a filmmaker based in New York City. After finding himself as an apprentice to documentary photojournalists, Julian quickly developed a love for visual storytelling and enrolled in Tisch School of the Arts to further concentrate on narrative filmmaking. He continues to work full-time in production today.
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Carmen Antón García, Undergrad
Hijas Mías (Daughters of Mine)
Carmen Antón García is a Spanish filmmaker born in Seattle. In addition to working as a writer/director, Carmen is experienced in a myriad of positions from assistant director to editor. She has worked on various short films and commercial projects in both Spain and the US.
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Gregory Barnes, Grad
The Touch of the Master’s Hand
Gregory Barnes is a queer filmmaker and artist based in New York City and Los Angeles. Raised a faithful Mormon in Oak Park IL, his films have been greatly influenced by the comedic absurdity of exiting that strange jello-obsessed-desert-religion.
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Ramzi Bashour, Grad
The Trees الأشجار
Ramzi Bashour (1988) is a Syrian-American filmmaker and multimedia artist who grew up in Beirut, Lebanon. He’s worked in kitchens, on farms, in journalism, as a teacher, sound designer and videographer.
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Alexander Bendo, Grad
Rubber Gun Club
Alexander Bendo is a New York City filmmaker currently enrolled as a Graduate Film Student at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Since graduating from Boston College in 2017, where his senior year sci-fi short STATIC was awarded Top Prize at the university’s annual film festival equivalent.
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Joachim Besançon, Grad
Massacre
Born in Paris in 1995, Joachim quickly developed an unsatisfiable passion for films, which he thinks came as a sort of natural side effect of chronic boredom. At the age of twelve, he timidly tried his hand at directing with his mother’s mediocre camera and went on to direct a 32-minute mafia film with his two brothers and four friends, which he humbly called New York 1962.
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Martin Blanco, Undergrad
In Passing
"Martin Blanco is a Venezuelan director, cinematographer, and photographer fascinated by themes of identity, memory, and context, as well as how these ideas intersect and collide to define the present self.
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Elegance Bratton
BUCK
Elegance began making films as a US Marine after a decade spent homeless. Today, he holds a BS from Columbia University (2014) and MFA from NYU Tisch Graduate Film (2019).
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Leah Chen Baker, Grad
Parent Trip
Leah Chen Baker is a thesis student pursuing an MFA in film at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a mom. Her writing and directing work has been awarded by AT&T, WIFTA and selected at Oscar-qualifying festivals.
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Dante Capone, Undergrad
Wolf Pup
Dante Capone is a recent NYU Tisch graduate, currently employed as a production assistant on commercials and television shows in the New York area. His favorite films are Fingered, Pixote, and Querelle.
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Austin Chen, Undergrad
Winner
Austin Chen is a director, writer, and producer from Fort Lee, NJ. He has worked as a Junior Assistant at Scott Rudin Productions and has experience working for management companies like Untitled Entertainment and MANAGE-MENT.
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DaeQuan Collier
Before I Let Go, Undergrad
DaeQuan Collier is a filmmaker, born and raised in Bronx, New York. As an artist of color, DaeQuan believes that his identity is an indisputable part of his artistry that cannot be avoided in his work, and he strives to create work that properly illustrates their humanity.
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Hannah Crane, Undergrad
Dori The Donor
Hannah Crane is a filmmaker from Chicago. She currently works as a Script Assistant for Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. She hopes to one day work for herself.
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