Aemilia Scott is a filmmaker working in Los Angeles, Chicago, and Berlin. She began in sketch comedy, but over the years her films have gotten longer and less funny. She was a semifinalist for the Academy Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting for a feature, and she won a BAFTA LA award for a short. She just finished directing her first TV episode.

Chloé Alliez obtained a master’s in animation at La Cambre in 2015. Then, she started working on animation films such as Le petit pirate, directed by Studio TABASS co. Her collaboration with Violette Delvoye began in 2017 with the traveling and collaborative series World in (Stop)Motion.

Violette Delvoye obtained her master’s in animation at La Cambre in 2016. Then, she started working on different projects as an animator. Her collaboration with Chloé Alliez started in 2017 with the creation of their traveling and collaborative animated series. In 2018, they started the development of the film Inglorious Liaisons.

Catherine Hoffman is an award-winning journalist, documentary filmmaker, and TV host. Hoffman has degrees in documentary journalism, Black studies, and French from the University of Missouri. She currently works for Kansas City PBS, where she’s won two Mid-America Emmy Awards for her work documenting social issues and Black history.

Sharon Liese is an award-winning director whose films include The Flagmakers (National Geographic), Transhood (HBO), The Gnomist (CNN Films), and Selfie (Sundance Institute/Dove). Her documentary series work includes Pink Collar Crimes (CBS) and High School Confidential (We TV). She’s currently the director and executive producer of a new four-part true crime documentary series for Starz.

Former Club Piscine employee Alec Pronovost left the aquatic world to work as a director and writer. He is the creator behind the series The Killing, as well as the short films Jeep Boys, Tony Speed and Sainte Marie-Josée part en croisade. Pronovost loves fun, rock, and sunny afternoons.

Crystal Kayiza was raised in Oklahoma and is now a Brooklyn-based filmmaker. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film,” her most recent films include Rest Stop, See You Next Time, and Edgecombe. Her work has screened at Sundance, Toronto International Film Festival, and the MoMA, and has appeared on The New Yorker, STARZ, and PBS.

Liz Sargent is a Korean-American adoptee whose award-winning work explores themes of adoption, disability, and family. As a writer-director, she incorporates her background as a choreographer into visual storytelling that channels complex human emotions that are an extension of her experience as the middle child of eleven and recognize her intersectional identity as an adult.

Kayla Abuda Galang is a second-generation Filipino-American filmmaker exploring themes of home, family, and belonging. Her short films, Joan on the Phone (2016) and Learning Tagalong with Kayla (2021), premiered at SXSW. The latter was an Audience Award recipient. Galang is developing two feature films, ’06-’07 and On Earth as it is in Heaven. She is based in Austin, Texas.

The Sundance Film Festival, a program of the nonprofit, Sundance Institute, is the pre-eminent gathering of original storytellers and audiences seeking new voices and fresh perspectives. Since 1985, hundreds of films launched at the Festival have gone on to gain critical acclaim and reach new audiences worldwide.

The Festival has introduced some of the most groundbreaking films and episodic works of the past three decades, including Fire of Love, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Flee, CODA, Passing, Summer of Soul (…or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Clemency, Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, O.J.: Made in America, On the Record, Boys State, The Farewell, Honeyland, One Child Nation, The Souvenir, The Infiltrators, Sorry to Bother You, Top of the Lake, Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, Hereditary, Call Me By Your Name, Get Out, The Big Sick, Mudbound, Fruitvale Station, Whiplash, Brooklyn, Precious, The Cove, Little Miss Sunshine, An Inconvenient Truth, Napoleon Dynamite, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Reservoir Dogs and sex, lies, and videotape.

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This year the Festival received 10,978 short film submissions and selected 64 to show. The Festival programs a collection of shorts from its most recent Festival for a theatrical tour of independent art houses in cities throughout the U.S. It is one of very few theatrical releases of short films in the United States.

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