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August 17, 2018
Rachael Holder

Rachael Holder

Rachael Holder is a writer and director whose web series, I LOVE LUCY & BEKKA, starring Golden Globe winner Gina Rodriguez, was accepted into the LA Film Festival in 2015. The adaptation of that series, I LOVE BEKKA & LUCY, was produced by Warner Brothers’ Stage 13 and premiered worldwide at SXSW in 2017. It is currently nominated for 2018 Emmy. Rachael was recently listed as a female director to watch by the Alice Initiative, a group of studio executives and producers who want to see more female directors at the helm of films. She received her MFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

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August 1, 2018
Ondi Timoner

Ondi Timoner

ONDI TIMONER has the rare distinction of winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival twice – for her 2004 documentary, DIG!, and her 2009 top prize-winner, WE LIVE IN PUBLIC. Other award-winning features include: THE NATURE OF THE BEAST (1994), JOIN US (2007), COOL IT (2010) and BRAND: A SECOND COMING (2015). Her 10-hour nonfiction series about the building of “the world’s most sustainable town” JUNGLETOWN (2017), for Viceland was also critically-acclaimed.

MAPPLETHORPE is Timoner’s first scripted feature, starring Matt Smith – which she, wrote, directed, edited. The film premiered at the 2018 TriBeCa Film Festival, where it took home an Audience Award and was picked up by Samuel Goldwyn Company for theatrical distribution.

Timoner’s most recent career achievement awards include: The Rogue Award (Ashland Film Festival, 2015), The No Limits Award (Sarasota Film Society, 2015), The Auteur Award (Kodak, 2017), and the Maverick Award (The Audience Awards, 2017).

Timoner also produced & hosted the digital series, BYOD (Bring Your Own Doc) for thelip.tv, creating 300 episodes in which she interviews top documentary filmmakers.She is the Founder & CEA (Chief Creative Artist) of A TOTAL DISRUPTION, an online network dedicated to telling the stories of entrepreneurs & artists who use technology to innovate the way we live. Subjects include Amanda Palmer, Shepard Fairey, Russell Brand, Moby, Jack Dorsey, Kevin Systrom, Tony Hsieh etc.

Timoner has released two master classes for filmmakers, LEAN CONTENT & HOW TO MAKE A GREAT DOCUMENTARY (IN MY OPINION). In 2014, Ondi gave a popular TEDxKC talk entitled “When Genius and Insanity Hold Hands” about why she tells the stories of “impossible visionaries.”

Current projects include WeTalk, her national talk show celebrating the women shaping our culture across arts, entrepreneurship, government and technology; a feature-length documentary about the Opioid epidemic through the eyes of an artist; and a nature series for Disney Digital. She is executive producing several films and series.
Timoner is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, the DGA, the PGA, the International Documentary Association, Women in Film & Film Fatales.

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July 11, 2018
Laura Nix

Laura Nix

Laura Nix is a director, writer and producer working in nonfiction and fiction. Her feature documentary INVENTING TOMORROW premiered in competition at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival. She is a Chicken & Egg Breakthrough Filmmaker, a prestigious award given annually to five women filmmakers based in the United States who have each been acknowledged for their extraordinary careers in the industry.

Awarded the 2017 Sundance Institute/Discovery Impact Fellowship, Nix directed THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING, a comedy about activism and climate change that premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Previously, she directed the documentary THE LIGHT IN HER EYES which was broadcast on the award-winning PBS series, POV. Nix was also a writer on the Emmy- nominated documentary CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND: THE LEGACY OF PAT BROWN.

Her work has received support from the Bertha Foundation, BritDoc, Cal Humanities, COBO Fund, the Danish Film Institute, and the Sundance Documentary Fund.

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June 26, 2018
Senain Kheshgi

Senain Kheshgi

A Peabody Award-winning filmmaker, Senain has directed several feature and short films, including the three-time Emmy-nominated feature documentary THE DIPLOMAT (ESPN), and the award-winning PROJECT KASHMIR (PBS/Independent Lens). She created, wrote and directed the comedic docu-web series DIVAS OF KARACHI (PBS) and directed virtual reality films with Here Be Dragons (formerly Vrse) for Facebook, Johnson & Johnson, and Save the Children. She was commissioned by The Annenberg Center for Photography to make a VR film in Havana, Cuba as part of the Pacific Standard Time exhibition. Her films have premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), The Human Rights Watch Film Festival (NY and London) as well as other film festivals around the world.

Senain is a three-time Sundance Fellow and has served on panels and juries at Sundance, Hot Docs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, ITVS, and Film Independent. She is a former board member of the International Documentary Association and a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

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