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2018 Short Film Finalist Marielle Woods

2018 Short Film Finalist Marielle Woods

About Marielle Woods Having grown up with as many toy guns as baby dolls, I’m proud to be gaining a reputation as a female action aficionado who delivers gritty, emotionally driven narratives. After receiving my BA from Harvard University in 2008, I moved west...
2018 Short Film Finalist Monica Santis

2018 Short Film Finalist Monica Santis

Monica Santis is a director/producer based in Austin, Texas. After graduating from Boston College, she worked as the Director of Outreach for the Austin School of Film for several years. During her time at ASOF, she helped develop the Cine Joven bilingual youth film...
2018 Short Film Finalist Omar Al Dakheel

2018 Short Film Finalist Omar Al Dakheel

Born and raised in Kuwait, Omar Al Dakheel moved to the US at 17 after receiving a full merit scholarship to the University of Miami. After graduating with a BA in Theatre Arts and a BS in Broadcast Journalism, he worked at Al Jazeera English TV Channel in Washington,...
2018 Short Film Finalist Sarah-Leigh Burger

2018 Short Film Finalist Sarah-Leigh Burger

Sarah-leigh Burger grew up in Mnandi, on the outskirts of the Johannesburg-Pretoria metropolis in South Africa. She studied insects at Rhodes University where, ironically, it was her entomology supervisor who gently advised that she should shift direction from biology...
2018 Short Film Finalist Shanrica Evans

2018 Short Film Finalist Shanrica Evans

About Shanrica Evans Raised in Atlanta, GA writer/director Shanrica Evans began telling stories at the age of six. Her great-grandmother, grandmother, and mother crafted the best parts of her as each of them carefully instilled wisdom, humor, and sometimes fear into...