See below for bios on the filmmakers and details on their documentary projects.
These outstanding filmmakers are not only imaginative nonfiction storytellers but incredibly thoughtful of every aspect of the process.
The fellowship invests in independent, emerging and mid-career artists working on social-issue documentary projects, the release stated.
Recipients of the 2023 BAVC MediaMaker FellowshipsBAVC Media
The program is known for betting on artists and projects as a first-in supporter.
Remaining Native Ku Stevens, 18, has the skill and drive to become an elite runner.
Aurora Brachmanis a Queer mixed-race Black and South Asian woman and an award-winning documentary director and producer.
Through patient and poetic storytelling her films explore narratives of intimate relationships within families and communities.
Her filmClub Quarantine, about a virtual queer dance party, premiered on the New York Times Op-Docs.
She is also the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship in filmmaking.
ilana is a filmmaker who works in documentary / fiction and between Mexico and the U.S. She was named one of Filmmaker Magazines 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2017.
She received her MFA in Film Directing from California Institute of the Arts.
She teaches at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts.
Tommy Franklinis a filmmaker, writer, producer, creator ofWeapon of ChoicePodcast and Special Menu Productions.
Tommy is a 2023 Big Sky Pitch participant.
He is sure he wants to do this.
She is immediately separated from her child post delivery.
Erica Gerrity leads the search for Tommys birth mom.
Tommy joins a community of formerly incarcerated mothers and prison doulas fighting to end prison birth in America.
In March 2023, Tommy discovered his biological father in New Orleans.
Tommy is a parent to two daughters.
Tommy is unsure how long he can endure his search if he runs into too many dead ends.
Is Tommys mother alive?
Does she want to meet him?
Do they finally meet?
But he never wants to live life as the version of himself that gives up the search.
The miracle of finding out who his mother is could be the light emerging from his greatest shadow.
Cyrus Moussaviis an Iranian-American filmmaker and producer of musical artifacts.
He is a 2022 Creative Capital Awardee and recipient of the 2022 Points North Fellowship forSomebodys Gone.
Since 2019, he has been owner of Mississippi Records, an independent record label releasing overlooked music.
He works directly with artists and their heirs to equitably reintroduce their work to an international audience.
He played Carnegie Hall and shared a stage with Sam Cooke, but Brother Theotis Taylor never sought fame.
His insistence on staying near home made him one of our countrys great unheard artists.
Somebodys Gonetells Brother Taylors story through a remarkable archive of video shot by his eldest son, Hubert.
He even purchased the archive of the defunct local TV station.
I filmed the Black side of town, Hubert said, and bought the archive of the white.
Hannah is passionate about collaborative, somatic storytelling that empowers women and other underrepresented voices.
University of North Carolina School of the Arts (BFA, Drama).
In September 2020, my 70-year-old father came out as gay.
she is here to offer her medicine toward the restoration of sacred interdependence with all of life.
