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Jaina Cipriano is an experiential designer and filmmaker and is currently a Boston Fellow at Mass Art’s Creative Economy Business Incubator, and Merrimack Valley’s E for All Accelerator program. Her photography, film, and installations wrestle with the complicated path of healing and explore the emotional toll of religious and romantic entrapment. A self-taught carpenter, Cipriano loves a challenge and her larger than life sets draw inspiration from the picture books and cartoons of her childhood. She believes creating something truly immersive starts with the smallest details and she photographs within fantastical hand-built environments without any post-production digitizing. Cipriano’s foray into writing and directing short films began in 2020 with her release of, You Don’t Have to Take Orders from the Moon, a surrealist horror film wrestling with the gravity of deep codependency. Her second short,Trauma Bond, 2022, is part of the Moving Pictures event. Based on a true story, this dark coming of age short film recounts a girls night between two best friends that takes a dark turn after one of them invites a mysterious newcomer who promises emotional salvation.
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Jenny Plante (she/her) is a filmmaker and screenwriter that lives and works in New England. Her work has been screened several times with Grrl Haus Cinema and has been shown internationally in Finland, London, Berlin, Slovenia, NYC, Los Angeles, and Boston. Her work deals with film history, pop culture and satire. She recently won Best Experimental Film at the Screener Short Film Festival in London for "Tippi At Squam Lake." She completed her most recent film "At Least It Was A Fruit Pie" in early 2022. It is a brief look at one of the most famous examples of political pieing. Website: www.jennyplante.com
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2022 CURATORS
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Mazdey Snob // Creative and film director focus on advertising for fashion, music, art & lifestyle
@mazdeysnob (MEX/ESP) Mazdey Snob (she/her) born in Mexico, Mazdey currently lives in Spain. She received a Bachelor in Graphic Design from the University of Guadalajara, though she has always had an interest in cinema and filmmaking. Through an appreciation of fashion film, she has explored the audiovisual language by creating stories that reflect her own vision of the world. Mazdey is also the founder of Snob Solutions, an independent audiovisual production company focusing on fashion, art, music and lifestyle projects. With over six years of experience in producing video content for artists, designers and fashion brands, she has been engaged by several universities and platforms to discuss fashion film as a genre through her work as a director. Founder of Snob Solutions production company @snobsolutions |
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Monika Estrella Negra // Freelance journalist, filmmaker and curator of all things radical in media
@monikaestrellanegra (US) Monika Estrella Negra (she/her) is a freelance journalist, filmmaker and curator of all things radical in media. Her first short titled 'Flesh' is about a Black femme serial killer navigating the Chicago DIY punk scene (of which was included in the ‘Horror Noire’ syllabus). She has directed three additional shorts, ‘They Will Know You By Your Fruit’, ‘Succubus’, and 'Bitten, A Tragedy'. Monika has written essays for Syfy Fangrrls, Black Girl Nerds, Grimm Magazine, Black Girls Create, Black Youth Project, Rue Morgue, Fangoria, Wear Your Voice Mag and is the author of a zine series (Tales From My Crypt). In addition, she is the creator of Audre’s Revenge Film and Black and Brown Punk Show Chicago, a GRRL Haus Cinema Resident Filmmaker (2019) an Editor for Decoded Pride. Co-editor of @queer_spec , co-host of @bitchesoncomics , co-founder of @audres.revenge.film |
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Ratri Notosudirdjo // Installation & Performance artist, curator
@saynotosu (ID, NL) Ratri Notosudirdjo (she/her) was born in Jakarta, Indonesia. Following her family’s immigration, she was raised in different towns and cities across North America. Returning to Indonesia at the age of 14 marked a paradigm shift, shaping the mechanism of her cultural switch. Her research and practice engage in de- and postcolonial theory, centering on contemporary mechanisms of the cultural and poetic identity and often forming new languages, new rituals or new meanings from them. The works reconstruct these new forms through the exchange and bridging of cultural realities, resulting from cross-disciplinary work processes that engage collaboration with an array of young creatives in Rotterdam. Performances, text and interventions are often the result of these crossings. Currently, she is engaged in organising artistic interventions with Stichting JUNCTION @junction_rotterdam, a platform dedicated to creating art interventions from interdisciplinary research initiatives from and by cultural workers, artists and researchers in The Netherlands. Performance art collective @wet_dr3amzzz |
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Amina Maher // Filmmaker, Artist, Editor, Screenwriter
@transtetralogy @aminamaherfilm (IR, DE) Amina Maher (she/her) (b. Tehran, 1992) is a queer filmmaker whose works deal with themes of social taboos and non-normative narration in relation to violence and power structure. She directed multi-awarded short films such as Letter to My mother. Her first feature film has been part of FID Lab Merseille and Dok Fest München in 2022. She studies her MA in Film directing at Babelsberg Film University. Website: https://www.aminamaher.com/ Watch her multi-awarded short film Letter to My Mother at: https://gonella-productions.com/lettertomymother |
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Jenny Plante // filmmaker, screenwriter, artist
@cinemareka (US) Jenny Plante (she/her) is a filmmaker and screenwriter that lives and works in New England. Her work has been screened several times with Grrl Haus Cinema and has been shown internationally in Finland, London, Berlin, Slovenia, NYC, Los Angeles, and Boston. Her work deals with film history, pop culture and satire. She recently won Best Experimental Film at the Screener Short Film Festival in London for "Tippi At Squam Lake." She completed her most recent film "At Least It Was A Fruit Pie" in early 2022. It is a brief look at one of the most famous examples of political pieing. Website: www.jennyplante.com |
