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Michael Fodera is a NYC-based filmmaker. He is currently the Senior Video Producer at Squarespace and his client list includes CBS, CBS Sports, Island Def Jam, Sundance Film Festival and Newsweek Magazine. His work has been featured as a Vimeo Staff Pick and been shown on MTV.com and A.V. Club. His films have screened at… Continue reading Director BIO: Michael Fodera (GHOST FOREST)

A documentary following world-famous artist, Maya Lin creating her new installation, Ghost Forest, which envisions the future of our planet dismantled by climate change. Project Links  Website

Kalie Granier is an interdisciplinary California-based French artist and curator. Her artistic practice explores the natural world below the surface and the interdependence between everything. She questions the links between our underwater environments, their ecosystems, and our human bodies in the Anthropocene era in order to reveal social and ecological imbalances while imagining alternatives for… Continue reading Director BIO: Kalie Granier (2 FEET)

“2 FEET” explores the aesthetics of macroalgae and their majestic kelp forest through the lives of five women from five continents. This film sits at the intersection of art, science, and ecological conservation, depicting the life power of the underwater forest through women’s prayers. «2 FEET» raises collective consciousness, centering dialogue within living environments to… Continue reading Short Film: 2 FEET, 6min., USA, Documentary

DELIA HOU is a nomad at heart, having grown up in many places throughout the US, Taiwan and Malaysia, adapting to something different in each place. However, she finally found her home in Buenos Aires, the mecca of tango. From the very first moment she dropped into a class, tango captivated her by opening up… Continue reading Director Biography – Delia Hou , Juan Cupini (THE TRASH CAN)

Every little action counts in combating the environmental crisis caused by plastic overproduction and overconsumption. PlastiQueen is watching you, and will portal into this world to hold you accountable for contributing to plastic pollution! Will you think twice about your plastic consumption and disposal?

Silvia Girardi is a naturalized American Italian performer and director, based in Verona. Her work has been featured in theaters, museums, dance, and visual arts centers. By drawing on theater, visual art, dance, she creates original works with an interest in the elaboration of the composition process in the interrelation between different artistic disciplines. Her… Continue reading Director Biography – SILVIA GIRARDI, GABRIELE DONATI (ALBERI (TREES))

A short film that tells the tree in its poetic,ecological, economic value. Although sciencecontinues to provide alarming data, we aremoving slowly with partial actions towards theintegration of the complexity given by globalwarming. Finding a connection with the treeworld helps us understand the nature ofenvironmental influences on individuals andcommunities and shows us the evidentinterdependence between biodiversity… Continue reading Short Film: ALBERI (TREES), 30min., Italy, Documentary

BRUCE LAZARUS earned his B.M. and M.M. degrees in music composition at Juilliard where he studied composition with Vincent Persichetti. Lazarus is currently in his fourth season as Music Director for the Joffrey Ballet School. He characterizes his extensive catalog of instrumental and vocal music as “diverse, concise, architectural, contemporary, and in turn meditative, energetic,… Continue reading Director Biography – Bruce Lazarus & Robert Martens (OYSTERS!)

“Oysters!” is an animated tale of death and rebirth underneath the waters of New York Harbor. Inspired by the Billion Oyster Project.