Jens Andermann is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at New York University and an editor of the Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies. His most recent books are: Tierras en trance: arte y naturaleza después del paisaje (Santiago de Chile 2018), Natura. Environmental Aesthetics After Landscape (Zurich, Berlin: Diaphanes, 2018), and New Argentine Cinema (London 2011, Buenos Aires 2015). He has also co-edited New Argentine and Brazilian Cinema: Reality Effects (New York 2013 and La escena y la pantalla. Cine contemporáneo y el retorno de lo real (Buenos Aires 2013).

Rodrigo Brandão is the Director of Communications at The Intercept. Previously, he oversaw media strategy for Kino Lorber’s feature film releases and established Cinema Slate, a label focused on Latin American cinema. At Kino Lorber, he executed successful campaigns for several fiction and nonfiction titles, including Who is Dayani Cristal? (director Marc Silver), Finding Fela (Alex Gibney), Ixcanul (Jayro Bustamante), Machines (Rahul Jain), Tom of Finland (Dome Karukoski), and the Academy Award-nominated 5 Broken Cameras (Emad Burnat and Guy Davidi), among others. Brandão has taught workshops on film publicity and participated in several film festival panel discussions and jury selection committees. He recently joined the board of directors at the Center for LGBTQ Studies at CUNY (CLAGS).

Sophie Cavoulacos is Assistant Curator in The Museum of Modern Art, New York’s Department of Film, where she organizes moving image programming and exhibitions and is on the selection committee for New Directors/New Films.

Ivone Margulies teaches film at Hunter College, and the Graduate Center at City University of New York, (CUNY). Her recent book In Person: Reenactment in Postwar and Contemporary Cinema was launched with a related series at Anthology Film Archives.  She is the co-editor of On Women’s Films: Across worlds and Generations (2019), author of Nothing Happens: Chantal Akerman’s Hyperrealist Everyday and the editor of Rites of Realism: Essays on Corporeal Cinema. She has published on French and Brazilian cinemas (Eric Rohmer, André Bazin, Sacha Guitry, Andrea Tonacci) as well as on moving image artists Steve Fagin, Stan Douglas, Sharon Lockhart and Ana Maria Maiolino. She co-edited a Film Quarterly dossier on Chantal Akerman; translated and staged (with Flora Sussekind) Akerman’s Une Famille en Bruxelles in Portuguese.

Kathy Brew is an artist, curator, writer and educator whose experience spans documentaries, experimental work and public television productions.  She recently completed a third year as Guest Curator for MoMA’s Doc Fortnight and continues as a Consulting Curator in the film department. Other curatorial positions have included:  Curatorial Consultant for Tribeca Film Institute’s Reframe Collection;  Curator for Lincoln Center’s NY Video Festival; Co-Director of the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival at the American Museum of Natural History;  Curatorial Consultant for WNET’s independent series, Reel New York. Her articles have been published in Documentary Magazine, The Independent, World Art, Civilization, among others, as well as a chapter in the MIT book, Women, Art & Technology. She is on the faculty in the MFA Art Practice Department  at the School of Visual Arts and in the Graduate Program at the School of Media Studies at the New School.  She was awarded a Fulbright Scholar grant in 2018 where she spent four months based in Peru, creating a film on indigenous weaving communities and a portfolio of related photos.

Natalie Erazo is the Coordinator of Repertory and Specialty Film Programs at the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). She has programmed film series for BAM as well as organized screenings for youth audiences through The Repertory Project. Previously, she freelanced as a production assistant and coordinator on films including Gillian Robespierre’s Landline and Peter Brunner’s To The Night. While studying film at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts (c/o '16), Natalie served as Co-Director and Programmer for the Fusion Film Festival.

Miguel J. Soliman is a director, writer and producer from Jersey City. His films have been recognized nationally, and have been featured in over 40 film festivals worldwide. His latest short film, Desde el principio, is now available on HBO. He also serves as Lead US Features Programmer at the New York Latino Film Festival. Miguel holds a Bachelor of the Arts in Film Directing from Fairleigh Dickinson University and a Master of Professional Studies in Directing from the School of Visual Arts. He is currently writing his first feature film.