Artist Discipline: Filmmaking

Catherine Licata is narrative filmmaker and screenwriter. Her films have screened at festivals such as Palm Springs Shorts Fest, Cucalorus, IFF Boston, the Maryland Film Festival, the New Orleans Film Festival, and the Warsaw Film Festival, among others. Catherine’s recent awards include a 2023–2024 McKnight Media Artist Fellowship and a Jerome Foundation Production Grant for…

Joshua Gen Solondz is an artist working in moving image, sound, and performance. They’ve screened in a variety of festivals including Images, Toronto International Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City, Black Maria, Portland International, Milwaukee Underground, CAAMFest, San Diego Asian Film Festival, Chicago Underground, Locarno, Mar del Plata, FIC Valdivia, Viennale, and New…

Melissa Hacker is an award-winning filmmaker, editor and writer who works with memory, family history, and loss. Melissa made her directing debut with the documentary My Knees Were Jumping; Remembering the Kindertransports, which was short-listed for Academy Award nomination, seen in film festivals, museums, universities, on broadcast and streaming television worldwide and had an extended…

Lilan Yang (born in Chongqing, China) is an artist and experimental filmmaker based in Boston whose work delves into the mythology of landscapes and the intricacies of perception. Featured in publications such as Boston Art Review and Little White Lies, their films and installations have been widely exhibited across the United States, including the RISD…

Frédéric Ramade is an independent filmmaker based in Paris. His work includes Albrecht Durer: Through the Looking-Glass, The Red Way, Ode to Suburbia, The Problem with Tom, and Liberating Chinon.

Gabe Sachs is an American television producer, who has been a writer/producer with partner Jeff Judah for a number of primetime television shows and movies including Freaks & Geeks, Just Shoot Me, Undeclared, Life As We Know It, 90210, What About Brian, and The Night Shift. Sachs & Judah were also writers on the hit movies Diary Of A Wimpy Kid and Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick…

Doug Macomber (1951–2022), was a videographer and photographer who lived in St. Louis, Missouri and then in Harwich, Massachusetts on Cape Cod. Macomber passed away at age 71 in Harwich on November 7, 2022. Macomber was an Emmy-award winning cameraman in the Investigative Reporting Division of WBZ-TV Boston. His love for photography and art of…