2015 Filmmakers

Marta Arjona was born in Valls (Tarragona - Spain) in 1992. At the age of two she started to take dance lessons, and since the moment she first took the first dance class she knew that dance would be part of her life. Nowadays, she continues dancing, and has made it part of her profession. Marta studied Audiovisual Communication degree in Universitat Rovira i Virgili (2010-2014) where now is studying Journalism. As her final degree project she directed the videodance piece "Freiheit". From this piece and from the aim of joining audiovisuals and dance was born DansPXL, her own business where she produces different pieces of videodance as "DO ut DES" or "15".

Anna Borràs has born and raised in Reus, Catalonia. She trained at Centre de Lectura Dance School where she became a valuated member of the young company from the same. She graduated in contemporary dance at the Institut del Teatre from Barcelona in 2010. Anna worked beside different choreographers and companies such as Roberto G. Alonso, Ramón Oller, Shlomi Bitton, Alexander Ekman, Akram Khan, Catherine Allard, Jo Strømgren, Gustavo Ramírez, Bebeto Cidra, Jiří Kylián, Rafael Bonachela, Ohad Naharin, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, IT Dansa, Verve12 (UK), Retina Dance Company (UK), Jasmin Vardimon (UK), Nicolas Ricchini, Jorge Crecis SQx, Companhia de Dança do Norte, Simba Dance Ensemble, among others. Anna participated in several dance competitions the most remarkables could be:  Roseta Mauri being awared for the 1st solo prize in contemporary dance, finalist at the 

X Certamen de Danza Burgos-Nueva York, semifinalist at the 18th Internatonal Solo-Tanz Festival in Stuttgart, among others. Anna is creating her own work and colaborating with International artists around Europe.

Sima Gonsai has been an established filmmaker in the West Midlands for over ten years. Her work stems across digital media, screen dance and short film. In 2004 Sima launched “Cycle Dialogues”, a four year touring visual arts project, funded by Arts Council England. Sima independently cycled 4000 miles across South East Asia and Europe documenting multi cultural stories producing short film, video installation and published writings. Sima has since received several visual arts commission including arts producer training and artist residencies with Fierce Festival & New Art Gallery Walsall. Originally trained in Indian Classical Dance, Sima began her career as an amateur performer. She later studied a ‘Masters in Screen Dance’ and is now a reputed screen dance director. Since 2011, she has created a series of dance films in collaboration with Freefall Dance Company, Fox Hollies Performance Arts College and Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is currently touring this work internationally. Sima also delivers media production training, where she specialises in working with multi-cultural and intergenerational communities and brings history to life through film. This work explores identity and social history, focusing on telling local stories that inform and raise questions about how societies have formed and live today.

Juliette Machado graduated from Western Washington University in Bellingham, WA in the spring of 2014. There she received a BFA in Dance and a BA in Communication Studies. Juliette grew up in Hawaii and has been dancing her entire life. She currently works and teaches for Bellingham Arts Academy for Youth's (BAAY) after school enrichment program and manages her own video/photography business, JM Works. Juliette also performs with the local nonprofit dance company, Bellingham Repertory Dance. Juliette first dabbled in filmmaking and dance for the camera during her time in college and loves continuing to explore the genre. Learn more about her and her work at www.machadoworks.com.

Chris Rogy is a New York based experimental and documentary filmmaker. He was a 2013 US Fulbright Fellow to Cambodia who led a rural project developing radio drama for social change as part of his graduate work at The New School's Media Studies program. Material gathered throughout his fellowship will be used in a web documentary that focuses on the human rights issues facing the project's volunteers. Chris is also a member of the Illuminator art collective, a group that works to shine a light on the urgent issues of our time through interactive projections in public spaces.

Maggie Bailey is a professional dancer looking to work more closely with the collaboration of the performing arts and technology, specifically filmmaking and dance. Bailey studied Arts Management and Dance, concentrating in Performance and Choreography, at the College of Charleston. She is currently performing with Annex Dance Company, a modern company based in Charleston, SC.

She has studied at the American College Dance Festival and the American Dance Festival with choreographers including Elisa Clark, Pamela Pietro, Jesse Zaritt, Ishmael Houston-Jones, Gerri Houlihan and Rodger Belman. She has had the pleasure of performing in Piccolo Spoleto, the Charleston Dance Festival, the Alabama Dance Festival and the 2013 Spoleto Festival’s double-bill opera, Mese Mariano/Le Villi directed by Stefano Vizioli. “Confessions of a Lacking Pursuit” is her first film. She looks forward to further investigating and exploring the relationship between dance and film. 

Ilana Goldman is an Assistant Professor of dance at Florida State University and has taught and choreographed for schools and companies across the United States. She received her BFA from The Juilliard School, where she was awarded the John Erskine Prize for Artistic and Academic Excellence, and her MFA from the University of Washington. Ilana danced professionally as a principal dancer with Oakland Ballet and Sacramento Ballet, with Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet, as a guest artist with Alonzo King's LINES Ballet, and most recently as a dancer with Trey McIntyre Project.  

Jasmine Hearn is a freelance choreographer and performing artist/dancer. A native Houstonian, she graduated magna cum laude from Point Park University with her B.A. in Dance. Jasmine 

travels arounds the country to showcase her choreographic work and to participate in diverse dance projects. Currently, she is a collaborator and performer with choreographers jhon r. stronks (HOU), Kate Watson Wallace (PHIL), Kendra Portier (NYC) and Marjani Forte (NYC). Jasmine also is a facilitator of restorative movement workshops. For more information, please visit www.jasminehearn.weebly.com.

Paul William Kruse is a playwright, film/video maker, and teaching artist from Western Wisconsin. Paul creates stories for stage and screen that play with traditional forms of narrative. 

He strives to challenge the context in which such work is produced and shared. He has particular interest queer identity, spirituality in contemporary culture, and the ever-evolving 

experience of family. He seeks to express moments of transcendence in his work. Paul also has a fascination with science fiction and fantasy stories and the creation of alternate realities. He loves exploring what it means to create other worlds and what that tells us about our own. Paul is a founding member of Hatch Arts Collective, a group of performing artists working in 

Pittsburgh’s East End. More information at www.paulwkruse.com.

Kyle Georgina Marsh, is a New York and Jersey City based dance artists. Kyle is the Fonder and Artistic Director of The Dancing Georgina Project. In June of 2015 Kyle was one of four selected emerging choreographers presented at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center's, Jersey (New) Moves! showcase. Similarly in the fall of 2013, Kyle was one of four selected artists in residence at Lustig Dance Theatre via their partnership with coLAB Arts. Through this opportunity Kyle's work The Unbidden Occasion  was reviewed by The New Jersey Star Ledger as having been, "the evenings most successful premiere." Most recently Kyle's work has been presented in the: Jersey (New) Moves! (2015), Triskelion Arts Dance Film Lab Festival (2015), Under Exposed (2015), WAXworks (2015), Your Move (2014) Motion: New Dance Works (2013), Brooklyn UPSTART Festival (2012), among others. Kyle received her BFA in dance from Mason Gross School of the Arts, and her Masters in Dance Education from Rutgers University. Find out more at www.kylegeorginamarsh.com.

Ann Lupo is a freelance director//editor based in Brooklyn. 

While studying film at NYU, Ann began working with Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargason on what would become Documented - a feature length documentary that tells the story of Vargas's extraordinary life as an undocumented immigrant in America and his journey to define what is means to be an "American." The film has screened at national + international film festivals to critical acclaim, had it's theatrical premiere in NYCand and broadcast on CNN in June 2014. She has gone on to direct and edit commercials and music videos nationally and internationally for U2, Oral B, Office Depot, Sprint, GQ, Supercuts to name a few and greatly enjoys collaborating with director Mac Premo from time to time. An adventure capitalist and aspiring badass, Ann wants to do and make dope shit. More info at www.annlupo.com.

Zornitsa Stoyanova is a performance artist, curator, organizer, lighting and video designer based in Philadelphia, PA. A native of Bulgaria, since 2006 has been based in Philadelphia, PA where she creates, produces and presents performing art and video under the name Here[begin] Dance. Zornitsa has choreographed and performed numerous dances, improvisations and human installations.  Her work has been presented in Philadelphia as well as at Joyce SoHo and Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church in NYC; Hubbart Hall in Cambridge, NY; Wanted Festival in Rennes, France; and her native Sofia, Bulgaria.  She has danced with Emergent Improvisation Project, based in Vermont, Lionel Popkin Dance, Cie Willi Dorner, Eiko and Koma, Group Motion Dance, Idiosyncrazy Productions, <fidget>, Nicole Bindler and others in Philadelphia. While dancing with Emergent Improvisation Project, Zornitsa was featured on the cover of “Composing While Dancing” book by Melinda Buckwalter. Zornitsa also teaches improvisation technique for performance and dance for camera  and has done so in Philadelphia, France and recently in her native Bulgaria. Learn more at www.herebegindance.com.