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July 17, 2018
Maya Edelman

Maya Edelman

Maya Edelman is an animation director from Brooklyn, NY. She attended Pratt Institute, and has been working in animation and illustration since 2008. Her animation work toes the line between commercial and independent worlds. She has produced animation and design for MTV, Google, and Oreo ads.

She is contributor on a variety of animated projects, including the “Mushrooms” episode of BROAD CITY and the Academy Award-winning documentary film, ICARUS. She created title sequences, and developed a visual identity for the feature films, COLLECTIVE: UNCONSCIOUS (2016) and QUEER GENIUS (2017), and directed the animation sequences throughout the film OUT OF MY HEAD (2018). Her paper sculpture has been featured at Recess Gallery’s Marie Lorenz: Flow Pool show during an evening with Underwater New York, as well as the Chance Ecologies exhibition at the Queens Museum and Gowanus Souvenir Shop. Her illustration work was featured in the “Liminality” exhibition at Gowanus Print Lab, and “Shrink Show” at the Living Gallery, and exhibitor at Brooklyn Zine Festival.

She is currently animating stories for the New York Times and NPR’s Radiolab.

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June 26, 2018
Ilinca Calugareanu

Ilinca Calugareanu

Ilinca Calugareanu is a US and UK-based Romanian director. Her debut documentary feature,CHUCK NORRIS VS COMMUNISM, premiered in competition at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and played film festivals around the world. With a background in anthropology, Ilinca has a skill and passion for melding fiction and documentary into beautiful films. Her credits include VHS VS COMMUNISM (2014, commissioned by the New York Times Op-docs) and ERICA: MAN MADE (2017, commissioned by the Guardian) and COPS AND ROBBERS (2018, Guardian Documentaries). She is now in production with her second feature hybrid documentary, A COPS AND ROBBERS STORY and in development with feature documentary DEAD MAN WALKING. She is also a Berlinale Talents Alumi (2017), a 2018 Chicken & Egg Accelerator Lab Grantee, and the 2018 Sundance Institute | National Geographic Fellow. Together with her sister, and long-time collaborator, producer Mara Adina, llinca is in pre-production with the project I AM, which is one of the 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellowship projects.

 

Inspiration is a tiny beast that visits me. I can’t force it. All I can do is I try to absorb as much stuff related to a project or a task, and then I just let the ideas flow and run into inexplicable places until inspiration strikes. [Full Interview HERE]

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June 26, 2018
Danielle Parsons

Danielle Parsons

Danielle Parsons specializes in making small subjects larger than life. Experiencing her work is like visiting a science museum inside an art gallery inside a meditation chamber. Whether it be floating through pastel lightscapes inside a precious opal, or translating sound waves into mesmerizing patterns on water, Danielle’s passion as a director is to transport audiences into immersive worlds of pure beauty and wonder.

Danielle’s unique perspective stimulates her appetite for innovation in filming with both light and electron microscopes, motorized micro-rigs, as well as close-up macro, high-speed and drone cameras. She has produced and directed content for Slate, Bloomberg TV, BBC, and The History Channel.

Danielle’s fascination with science took shape at Harvard University, where she studied under influential scientists E.O. Wilson and Stephen Jay Gould. She has filmed in many countries, along with the Galapagos Islands. She is a winner of the Nikon Small World in Motion competition for video microscopy. Her films have screened at numerous festivals and outlets, including the Imagine Science Film Festival the Tofino Film Festival and WIRED.

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