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Ben is a writer and filmmaker living in San Francisco. His short film, Come Full Circle, (48 min), showed at film festivals including The American Indian Film Festival, 2013. In the Clear Stream of All of It is his first feature-length documentary.

Caitlyn is an artist and designer based in San Francisco. She was the co-founder of Little City Gardens, a working farm in the city from 2010-2016.

Laura is a producer and writer of award-winning, ground-breaking narrative and documentary films with a focus on strong storytelling by directors bringing a unique perspective to the cinematic landscape. Notable features include Josephine Decker’s Thou Wast Mild and Lovely and Butter on the Latch, Robert Machoian and Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck’s God Bless the Child, Kate McLean and Mario Furloni’s Freeland, and Morrisa Maltz’s The Unknown Country. Her projects have received support from SFFILM/Kenneth Rainin Foundation, Gotham Film and Media Institute (formerly IFP), the Sundance Institute, US in Progress Poland, Austin Film Society, Rotterdam’s Cinemart and Rooftop Films. She is a Cannes Producing Fellow and a founding member of Video Consortium’s Pittsburgh chapter.

Iva is a Brooklyn and Lesbos based filmmaker, writer, editor who spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus. Her films have screened at NYFF, SXSW, Rotterdam IFF, HotDocs, Museum of Modern Art (NYC), PBS, New York Times Op-Docs. She is the recipient of the 2017 Sundance Art of Non-Fiction Fellowship, 2015 Guggenheim Fellowship, 2011, 2012 and 2017, Princess Grace Special Project Award and Film Fellowship and was named one of 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. Her most recent film, Aleph, is inspired by Jorge Luis Borges and premiered at New Directors/New Films in 2021.

David is a screenwriter, editor and director. He co-wrote and edited Petra Costa’s The Edge of Democracy, which premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award, and edited Shirley, directed by Josephine Decker, which premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. He co-wrote and edited the Nepali fiction film White Sun, directed by Deepak Rauniyar, which premiered at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, won numerous international awards, and was Nepal’s entry to the Academy Awards. His revisionist thriller Daylight (2010) was a ‘Critic’s Pick’ in both The New York Times and The New York Post on its release, and an earlier feature Afraid of Everything (1999) premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was called “a miracle of independent filmmaking” (The New York Post). David studied filmmaking with Jean-Pierre Gorin and Babette Mangolte, and philosophy with Giorgio Agamben and Jacques Rancière.

David is an English-born multidisciplinary artist, musician, composer, director, and educator based in the Bay Area since 2015. Since the 80s, David Coulter has composed music, directed shows, produced records and played his musical saw and other assorted weird and less weird instruments in studios, theatres and on stages around the world with the likes of The Pogues, Tom Waits, Kronos Quartet, Vivian Stanshall, Yoko Ono, Robert Wilson, Beck, Marianne Faithfull, Jarvis Cocker, Richard Hawley, Hal Willner, Arthur H, Brigitte Fontaine, Damon Albarn, Gorillaz. Coulter curates and directs multi-artist events. Credits include Monkey: Journey to the West (Gorillaz and Chen Shi-Zheng), Double Fantasy Live, Rain Dogs Revisited, Discreet + Oblique: The Music of Brian Eno, Twisted Christmas, In Dreams: David Lynch Revisited, Improbable’s The Eldership Project, and An Anatomy Act. His project, Jim Jarmusch Revisited, premiered at Philharmonie de Paris and went on to sell out London’s Barbican Theatre. His film credits include contributions to Stuart Staples’ original scores for Claire Denis’ Let the Sun Shine In (2017) and High Life (2018).

Robert has been doing color grading and video finishing work for independent documentary and narrative filmmakers for over a decade out of his facility in San Francisco. His work as colorist can be seen in such films as My Name is Andrea (2022), Stray (2020), Freeland (2020), The Seer and the Unseen (2019), and The Gospel of Eureka (2018), among many others. His own films include the narrative feature The Exchange (2014), and a feature documentary, The Key of G (2007), which aired nationally on PBS.