Hannah Jayanti is a documentary filmmaker, organizer, and educator. Her work centers process-driven and formally expansive nonfiction as ethical and political practices. Through this lens, she circles around questions of landscape, listening, memory, and time. Her work has been supported by Sundance Institute, Sandbox Films, Tribeca Film Institute, Catapult, Points North Institute, New York Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts, among others. Her work has been exhibited at Rotterdam, Sheffield, Dok Leipzig, Tribeca Storyscapes, Transmediale, the Smithsonian, the Museum of the Moving Image, The New Yorker Festival, among many others. As an educator, she is focused on mentorship and low-cost media training through art spaces and community centers. Her organizing work includes co-creating spaces that model mutual-aid practices while creating surprising futures. She is pursuing a practice-led Ph.D. in Film & Digital Media at U.C. Santa Cruz focusing on place-based knowledge practices and speculative documentaries.

Alexander Porter

director, producer, virtual cinematographer

Alexander Porter is a director, visual artist, and educator who works in documentary and immersive technologies. Porter uses experimental photographic techniques such as 3D scanning and volumetric capture to create complex interactive stories. He strives to apply these often alienating techniques to important human topics such as environmental justice, mental health, urbanism, and ecology. Porter’s awards include an Emmy award, and nomination, Webby awards, and other festival awards for immersive work. Recent credits include Strata (Transmediale, 2023), Truth or Consequences (Co-Creator, Rotterdam, 2020), The Changing Same VR (EP, VF, Sundance, 2021), Blackout (Director, Tribeca Storyscapes, 2017), and the speculative Styles & Customs VR installation with DIS (Director, Carnegie Museum of Art, 2017). Porter was nominated for a Cinema Eye Honors Award for Alex Gibney’s Zero Days (Berlin, 2016), won an Emmy for Zero Days VR (Sundance, 2017), and nominated for an Emmy for Changing Same VR. He was an inaugural member at New Inc at the New Museum and a resident at Onassis ONX Studio. Alexander has taught as an adjunct professor at NYU’s ITP, SVA, and spoken at MIT, Museum of Art & Design, Carnegie Museum of Art, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, CMU, and Eyebeam among others. He currently teaches on virtual production, and generative AI in film at the world’s first immersive concentration Johns Hopkins’ film program.  

Keith Wilson 

documentary producer

Keith Wilson (consulting producer) is a producer, director, and artist based in Athens, Georgia, whose films have screened at Sundance, the Berlinale, Hot Docs, the U.S. National Gallery of Art, documenta14, and the Museum of Modern Art. He is the producer of I Didn’t See You There (2022) by Reid Davenport, which won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at Sundance, the Grand Jury Prize at Full Frame, and a Film Independent Spirit Award. His work has been supported by Just Films/Ford Foundation, XTR, DeNovo Initiative, Doc Society New Perspectives Fund, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Berkeley FILM Fund, SFFILM Rainin Grant to Filmmakers with Disabilities, Sundance Institute Documentary Film Producers Fellowship, Points North Institute , American Stories Documentary Fund & CNN Films, California Humanities Documentary Project, The Nancy P. and Richard K. Robbins Family Foundation, Bay Area Video Coalition. Keith is an Assistant Professor at the University of Georgia, has an MFA in film production from the Radio-TV-Film Department at UT-Austin, and grew up on a cul-de-sac in suburban Atlanta.

Katayoun Dibamehr

immersive co-producer

Katayoun Dibamehr (immersive co-producer) is an award-winning immersive producer and Senior Producer at Floréal films. Floréal has produced or co-produced the highly acclaimed Minimum Mass (Cristal at the Annecy Festival 2020), The Hangman at Home (Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2020 and Masque d’or at NewImages in 2021), Goliath: Playing with Reality (Grand Jury Prize at Venice in 2021 and nominated for an Emmy Award - News & Documentary Award in 2022, and narrated by Tilda Swinton) and Conann (Cannes - Directors’ Fortnight in 2023). Projects have premiered at Tribeca Film Festival, Venice International Film Festival, Sheffield DocFest, CPH:Dox Copenhagen, PHI Centre Montreal, Melbourne Film Festival, Doc Edge New Zealand, IDFA, SXSW, Kaohsiung Film Festival in Taiwan, among others. Through out her career Katayoun has worked closely with commissioners including Meta Quest for Good, Unity for Humanity, Le Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée (CNC), France Television, ARTE, French Institutes, Embassies (French, Canada, British), the British Film Institute, New Zealand Film Institute, MIT, Science Gallery. More at https://floreal.io.

Delfina Vincenti

associate producer

Juan Pedro Agurcia

associate producer

Juan Pedro Agurcia works in cinema production, programming, promotion and distribution.  His work centers around access and experimentation with forms of gathering and creating community through film.  He is the Producer and Programs Manager at the Flaherty, the longest running film event in America. He co-produced the 68th Flaherty Film Seminar: Queer World-Mending, programmed by Jon Davies and Steve Reinke, and the 69th Flaherty Film Seminar: To Commune, programmed by May Adadol Ingawanij and Julian Ross. He was the Online Producer of the 67th Flaherty Film Seminar: Continents of Drifting Clouds, programmed by Almudena Escobar López and Sky Hopinka. He is currently producing the 70th Flaherty Film Seminar. He has collaborated in production roles with organizations like Cinema Tropical, UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art, Camden Film Festival, among others. He’s the Artistic Director, programmer and co-founder of Tercer Cine Honduras, the only independent exhibition project in Honduras.He also served as juror for the Ícaro International Central American Film Festival in Honduras and was part of the selection committee for the IDA Awards (2022, 2023, 2024). He was selected to take part in the Locarno Industry Academy Latin America in Morelia (2022) and FICUNAM’s Seminario Público del Futuro (2022) and was a 2024 International Documentary Association Getting Real Fellow. He is the co-founder and editor of Corrientes, a trilingual digital platform dedicated to expanding access and opening conversation with and through experimental Latin American cinema.

Michele Graffieti | designer

Michele is a NYC-based designer and visual artist, with a MSc in Communication Design, a background in theater and a brief experience as elected council member. As a product and information design lead, his focus is on projects that promote a vision of a more equitable future, in which complex requirements turn into simple and accessible experiences. His art practice operates as a meaning-making process of visualization of phenomena, through the ideal model of the panorama.