Alexsey Reyes is a Mexican-American artist who believes that no one should feel unseen or excluded. His goal is to create work that highlights and normalizes people who are often unrepresented through vibrant and youthful storytelling. 

Reyes has collaborated with brands such as Netflix, Converse, Instagram, Crayola, and hopes to continue amplifying the stories of others through his craft.

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Alexsey Reyes

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Aicha Cherif is a director based in NYC. She is passionate about social justice, culture, and people. She is a breath of fresh air, bringing a young, diverse, and unique perspective to all of her projects.

At a young age, Aicha came to the United States fleeing from gender-based violence in her home country Guinea, West Africa. This background has made Aicha a tireless advocate for human rights and women’s issues. 

Her directorial debut *Cut* received the Global Impact Award at the Girl Impact The World Film Festival. The documentary sheds light on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in Guinea and America. In 2017, Aicha was accepted to be a Tribeca Film Fellow. There she directed her second short film, *I Am The Only One* exploring the effects of family separation on her relationship with her mother. Since then Aicha has directed commercial work for Nike, Snapchat, Vivian Attire, and more. 

She creates art that comes from the soul and hopes to move people with her work while having a long-lasting effect on culture.

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Aicha Cherif

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I am a Turkish-German collage artist based in London. I was a longtime contributor at Rookie Mag, Tavi Gevinson's beloved magazine for teenage girls. Now I create collages, packaging, clothes and larger art pieces for a variety of brands and publications including i-D, The Atlantic, VICE, ELLE, MaxMara, Kathmandu, Lazy Oaf, WeTransfer and Boots. I also art direct, frequently collaborating with other artists. 

In April 2020, I co-founded Nearness, an online magazine that documents the various responses to changes brought on by COVID-19. The beautiful art and writing on the site encourages self-reflection, open conversations about mental health, and a rare and real opportunity to slow down and process what is happening to us. Although it exists primarily as a digital space, it encourages readers to create tangible, homemade art through the use of printable collage kits.

I also work as a director's assistant in the film industry and in advertising. Most recently I was the assistant to director Autumn de Wilde on the Focus Features adaptation of Jane Austen's *Emma*, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Johnny Flynn. Before that, I worked as a director's assistant on *Viva la Vulva*, Kim Gehrig's award-winning video ad for the feminine hygiene brand Bodyform.

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Alia Wilhelm

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Alondra Costilla (b.1997) is a freelance photographer raised in Carpinteria, CA. She now currently resides in Los Angeles, CA pursuing a career path towards photography and film. With a degree in fine arts, Alondra enjoys to play with different photographic styles like fashion, street, and snapshot photography. Her interest in set design and styling make her mindful of what's in frame to capture emotion and form within her subjects. She loves working with themes on gender and identity and hopes to continue combining all of her passions to create images that invoke an aspect of the human experience.

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Alondra Costilla

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Amarie Baker is a Black Queer creative director that works in the realm of collage, film, and digital. Her work instantly transports viewers into a surreal world invoking nostalgia with dreamlike colors. She shoots 35mm, Super 8, and digital.

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Amelia Conway is a sixteen year old filmmaker; she made her debut in the entertainment industry when she co-hosted a radio show on the internet station *Little Radio* at the ripe age of seven years old. Amelia has a finely honed sense of music and old films. Since her radio show Amelia has gone on to make short films and music videos. Amelia just finished a project for Target through Deutsch and a Nascar commercial.

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Andrea Lux

Andy is a 27 year-old director based in Los Angeles. Andy's career went full throttle after directing a Super Bowl commercial in 2018, leading to work with clients such as NIKE, Facebook, 72andSunny, and Revolut. He's collaborated with Grammy-winning artists T-Pain and the Alabama Shakes, and written/directed short films that have screened in Oscar qualifying film festivals around the world.

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Andy Koeger

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Anissa Amalia is a queer non-binary multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Jakarta, Indonesia and is currently based in Los Angeles, CA. The dynamic of Anissa’s identity often becomes the basis of their practice. At times the questions "who am I?" or "where do I belong?" are at the forefront of their work, other times they show it more subtly in the way they build their world through film, photography, or installation. They also used to DJ and VJ, but haven’t done it in a while because they like to sleep.

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Anissa Amalia

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A portrait/fashion photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Brandon's work has been shown in various galleries throughout Southern California, including the UCSD Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego. Stanciell has also been featured in several magazine articles including an online article by *Huffington Post*, which coined him to be part of a social movement led by bloggers and artists that are redefining black masculinity.

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Brandon Stanciell

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Brendon Burton (b.1994) is an American visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Brendon spent his childhood in an isolated community where he developed his distinct style and interest in vacant and decaying places. His work focuses on the side effects of cultural isolation and the concept of liminal space. Experienced in shooting fine art, documentary and fashion photography his work has been featured internationally in galleries and numerous publications.

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Carlos Felipe is a filmmaker who has garnered a distinct perspective on urban life. Born in Bogota, Colombia but raised in Upstate New York, Carlos’ upbringing has been a unique blend of staying connected to his roots, while navigating the melting pot that is American culture. Since age 14, Carlos has explored New York City with a camera, implementing his passion for filmmaking with his attraction to frenetic city living.

Carlos shot his first music video in NYC at the age of 16. In the four years since then, he has followed his passions by moving to LA. Carlos has worked with multiple artists from Warner Bros Records and independent record labels in NYC and Los Angeles. He recently finished a spot for Adidas and a music video for Dreams In Static.

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Chris was born in Seattle, Washington, and raised by lawyers who encouraged his strange predilection for the arts. He attended Stanford University, studied Economics, and was recognized as one of the school’s most average students. He worked for Intel Corp. for two years doing mostly basic addition and subtraction in Excel spreadsheets before deciding to go to film school. He received his MFA in Film & Television Production from USC. Chris is the third funniest person in his immediate family, behind both of his sisters and sometimes his dad. He believes humor and drama are completely codependent and that you can’t truly love something unless you can laugh at it. Including yourself. His short film, Break Down, recently premiered on Short of the Week.com, has been picked up as a Vimeo Staff Pick and was featured on FilmSchoolRejects as a “dark, absurd, and elegant end to a love gone sour.”

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Chris Winterbauer

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Claire is a Los Angeles based artist, director and photographer. At 15, she joined Adolescent, a media company focused on the creation of original content by youth for youth. Over the years, she developed and directed short form content, serialized content, and documentary work with a focus on American youth, human equality and personal empowerment. By 18, her client list included Hasbro, Nike, Target, Disney, American Girl, Netflix and Ad Council. In 2015, she was named one of SHOOT Magazine’s New Directors to watch. Claire has recently focused her studies on a more interdisciplinary approach. She is currently working on projects which fuse installation, design, and video to create physical and digital spaces that challenge traditional narrative practices.

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Claire Jantzen

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Codie is a photographer and video director based in the heart of Brooklyn. His work is inspired by the breath-taking and immersive city he fell in love with. His passion for photography stems back to PG County, Maryland where he grew up. Xavier loves to work on video commercial campaigns as well as fashion and portrait photography.

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My name is Daniela Ruiz de E, I was born in Mx city. I am a 25 year old Animator and Photographer, currently I work for We're Not Really Strangers as a content creator in Guadalajara, Mexico. I've made content for brands like Converse, Vogue and some mexican brands like Tony Delfino and Ben and Frank. I absolutely live for light, colors and documenting my life. 

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Ella Fields is a Los Angeles based filmmaker, photographer, Youtube influencer, and artist. She uses fantastical, surrealistic, and multimedia elements to tell stories of authentic people and emotions, and has made nearly 30 short films by the age of 17. She uses her platform to create vivid and uplifting content while touching topics such as sexual assault, gun control, and LGBTQ+ experiences. Through engaging with her Youtube audience, she encourages her fellow teenage creatives to document their experiences in any way possible while creating a platform and supportive environment for them to do so.

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Ella Janes was born in Los Angeles with a prime view of the Hollywood sign out of the hospital window. The rest history. From age 4, Ella knew in her heart that directing was her destiny. Her first stage play was a “complete failure” by her standards as only one of the actors turned up to perform. All Ella could think about, however, was how she was going to make her next show even better. “Can I start an acting class for my friends,” she asked her mother. Ella was 5 year old. At age 7, she taught herself Premiere and created a short fan film that has over 2.4 million views on Youtube. She will tell you it was great storytelling and her SEO that made that magic happen. A prolific writer and avid storyteller, Ella dedicates her free time to creating fantasy worlds and writing hard hitting content about topics that move her, such as gun control and global warming. She is passionate about being on set and bringing out the best in everyone she works with.

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Ella Janes

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Felicia McGowan is a filmmaker and photography, with a focus on children and childhood. She grew up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where she found herself inspired by nature and exploration. Imagining worlds captured in moving and still images became part of her personhood at around 13 years old and has since allowed her to create content for brands such as Mattel and Givenchy and magazines that include Bright Lite Magazine and Kids Wear Magazine. She also finds great comfort in writing short stories, essays, and screenplays. Felicia graduated from NYU Tisch in 2018, majoring in Film & TV and currently lives in Seoul, South Korea. 


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Fernando Osorio

Photography has become a way for me to explain my overwhelming love for everything’s beauty, from documentation to creating something surreal.  Through photography I aim to capture the beautiful reality of our daily experiences and emotions. My photos are deeply personal to me. I am not one with words, so I have taught myself to express what I’m feeling through images, using color, light and my subjects.

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Frances Weger

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Gracie Bellissimo has known since she was four that being in the film industry is her destiny. She grew up writing plays until age 7, when she began picking up her dad’s camera and making her own videos. She figured out how to edit all on her own, and continued to make videos throughout early life. In high school while winning short film awards, she was given an analog camera by her parents for her 18th birthday, which opened up the world of photography to her. She now lives in San Francisco for school and travels down to LA often to work on short films and music videos for artists such as Lil Yachty, Oliver Tree, and Julia Michaels. She plans to spend 2021 writing screenplays and creating more video projects.

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Gracie Bellissimo

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Hana was born and raised in rural Oregon and began taking photos on a 1970 Canon film camera when they were 16. Initially posting their photography on photo websites in 2009, they continued to shoot and share their images across the internet, garnering an early internet following on Instagram and Tumblr as well as client portfolio work in San Francisco, New York, and Los Angeles. Trained in acting technique and self-taught analog photography, Hana seeks to explore themes of femininity, emotional expression, fantasy and nostalgia in fashion, lifestyle and beauty. Their most recent clients include Lowell Farms, Crocs, Benefit Cosmetics and Universal Music, with work most recently featured in Interview Magazine, Vogue, Slenderbread, Nido Deutsch, Thistle, La Vida Elegante and Pony Anarchy. Hana is currently based in Portland, OR.

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Hannah Sommer (she/her) is 23 year old fashion and documentary photographer/director from Asheville, NC and is currently based in London, UK. She has a BA in Photography and is currently studying her masters in Art and Visual Culture at the University of Westminster. Her work is inspired by 70’s films, encounters with unique souls, and the oddities of human existence. Clients include Beats by Dre and Converse and her work has been featured in publications such as the British Journal of Photography and the Kyoto Journal.

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Hobbes Ginsberg is a lesbian photographer based in New Haven, making vulnerable, hyper-saturated work about the evolution of self. Once called a "shabby, self taught formalist", Hobbes’ photos are candid, mythical, and ask important questions: “who am i? why am i here? do u love me bb?”

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Jada Imani

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Jasmine Dunne is a photographer based in London specialising in fashion and lifestyle. She loves to connect fashion with personality, and tries to make her work as expressive and fun as possible. She has been shooting since she was 16 and practices in both film and digital. She gets inspiration from closely watching the ever evolving world of fashion and the many trends that move through it.  


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Jessie was born in Nashville, TN and raised in Los Angeles, CA.
She began her film career by editing her family’s home movies. From there, she made videos and photoshoots with her friends, played around with analog methods, and started to seriously consider a career in directing and photography. In 2018, she graduated with a B.A. in Directing and Producing and a minor in Creative Writing from Cal State Long Beach.

“Tin Man” earned her a Merit Award from the YoungArts Foundation in 2013 and “Being” won the LA County Student Filmmaker Award at the Burbank International Film Festival that same year. “Systematic” screened at the Feminist Border Arts Film Festival, the 25 Under 25 Film Fest, and the Fake Flesh Film Festival. In 2017, she received funds from the Hollywood Foreign Press to make “Don.” Her short film, “Hold On,” premiered at Sethward’s Show & Tell Screening Spectacular. Recently she directed a music video for Kini Solana and Louis Quantrille’s single, “Not Ur B*tch” that was an official selection at the 2020 National Film Festival for Talented Youth. While in quarantine, Jessie shot 13 socially distanced photoshoots.

Jessie is inspired by the showmanship of everyday people, revealing humor in the uncomfortable, and defying sex-role stereotypes. She also really loves camp aesthetics, saturated colors, and Googie architecture. Her biggest influences are Rachel Bloom, David Lynch, John Waters, and Tim Burton.
In her free time, she writes and performs sketch comedy and is constantly searching for the best BLT sandwich in LA. You will likely find her reading a copy of MAD magazine in an old diner.
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Jessie Butera

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Jo Gaffney is an eighteen-year-old Director/Photographer from Vancouver, BC Canada, who self-identifies as queer. The film is something that has been apart of her life since she was a little girl, tagging along with her actor parents to set frequently, and has been working on set (in the camera department) since she was 15. She has produced 12 short films over the past two years, which have been featured in various festivals and have received a variety of prizes. With her body of work, she hopes to show the world LGBTQ stories, lots of colors, and Giallo-esque shots.

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Joji Baratelli is a director and photographer from Los Angeles. He works in both narrative and documentary formats with a vested interest in analogue techniques. He attends Yale University.

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Joji Baratelli

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Jon Schwartz is an LA based director who got his start shooting skate videos; his films reflect his energetic and dynamic approach to storytelling.
His clients include Tinder, Urban Outfitters, Convers, Vans & Instagram

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Julia Elihu is an LA based Iranian-American Writer / Director & Photographer who strives to achieve authenticity and warmth in her work whilst telling the rich stories of underrepresented voices.

She has written, directed, & produced several award winning films that have screened at festivals including the AFI Film Festival, the San Diego International Film Festival, NFFTY & was also a finalist in the Tribeca Film Institute & Big Sky Documentary IF/ THEN Pitch Competition.

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Julia Elihu

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Kendall Terra is a 22-year-old director, cinematographer and photographer based in Salt Lake City, Utah. A film and advertising major at Savannah College of Art and Design led Kendall to start her filmmaking career at Camp4 Collective, where she gained experience working for outdoor
adventure brands such as The North Face, Columbia Sportswear, Apple, Jaybird Headphones, Merrell and Wolverine Boots.

Kendall’s adventurous spirit matched with her artistic background in music and movement have made her a distinctively unique force in crafting visual narratives both as a cinematographer and
director. Her work is often surreal - a blend of highly visual and magical realism.

Her client direct work includes: Salomon, Hydroflask, Westerlind USA, Ski Utah, and New Belgium Brewery.

Influences: Pina Bausch, Andrei Tarkovsky, Rodriguez Jr.

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Kendall Terra Sweeney

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Kiele Twarowski is a 24 year old visual artist, writer, and self-proclaimed “avalanche of feel-it-all,” after a line in her favorite Andrea Gibson poem. With a B.F.A. in Photography from the Savannah College of Art & Design, Kiele’s passion lies in photography and filmmaking. With an eye for soft light and the desire to evoke feelings of nostalgia, she captures herself and those around her in an intimate, diaristic manner. 

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Kiele Twarowski

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Laura Alston is a Caribbean American multidisciplinary artist who uses traditional and emerging mediums to highlight unsung narratives within the global black community. 
Focused primarily in photography and film, her work centers race and identity, and engages within themes of autonomy and empathy. Laura’s dedication to such visual storytelling has earned her honors at the Puffin Foundation, collaborations with Tinder and Wldkat, and exhibitions at the Studio Museum in Harlem, Tate Britain, and Columbia University.

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Laura Alston

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Laurence Philomene is a non-binary photographer from Montreal, Canada. They create colourful images that centre around queer and trans experiences, often through long-form and autobiographical projects.

Laurence’s work is informed by their lived experiences as a chronically ill, non-binary transgender artist coming of age amid the rise of social media. Through high-saturated, cinematic and caring images, their work celebrates trans existence, and studies identity as a space in constant flux.

Instantly recognizable by their signature use of colour and ambient light, their photographs humanize historically marginalized identities, and act as a love letter to their community.

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Laurence Philomene

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Lauren Tepfer is a photographer from suburban New Jersey.

Through her photography she transforms mundane settings into poetic, evocative and feminine images. Lauren has collaborated with Apple, Nike, Converse, VSCO, Vans and Google

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Levi Walton is a photographer and director based in NYC. His work is characterized by the use of analog processes and experimentation, creating unique pieces of work out of printed photographs and physical objects. 

Levi has a knack for unique, one of a kind subjects, those with whom he most identifies, whether through friendship, community, or shared experiences. His work seeks to bridge the gap between subject and client, aiming to create commercial work that is honest, humane, and relatable.

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Logan Delaney is a Los Angeles based filmmaker and photographer whose work focuses on fashion, portraiture, and conceptual photography. 


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London based Photographer/Director, Lou Jasmine specialises in culture and music based documentary, portraiture, and visual content. Her clients include WeTransfer, Adidas, Universal, Nike, Red Bull, Ninja Tune, to name a few. 

Her work explores a diverse range of engaging stories and uses nostalgic, soul-drenched aesthetics, capturing the human condition through her unique style, creative personality and humble tone.

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Lucy Blumenfield is a photographer and filmmaker based in Los Angeles and New York City with a focus in editorial and music photography, as well as brand and narrative filmmaking. Her work has been featured in publications such as i-D, LA Record, Pure Nowhere, Local Wolves, and Alt Citizen. In 2018, Lucy wrote, directed, and shot her first short film, Chrysopoeia. In 2019, she toured with the band Hot Flash Heat Wave, capturing portraits and lifestyle photos in addition to a video recap. Since then has directed a music video, worked on two feature films, and, in October 2020, completed shooting for her next short film starring Olivia Nikkanen. She currently attends Columbia University.

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Lucy Blumenfield

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Madeleine White is motivated to make films that can translate deep emotion. She believes personal, raw, unique and original stories allow for the practice of empathy in audiences where everyday interpersonal skills are being replaced by technology. She is pursuing a BA Honors degree in Film and Television at London College of Communication, as their youngest admit ever to the program at only 17. Since her first film at age 14, she has gone on to win awards at festivals around the world. She has completed both deeply evocative and personal short films as well as commercial work through production company Adolescent Content. ‘Perception’ Madeleine’s first film, a short documentary, launched her career as a selection for the Independent Filmmaker’s Showcase Los Angeles. Her short film ‘Blue’ premiered at the National Film Festival for Talented Youth, and experimental short ‘Flight’ was shown at Junior High Gallery in Los Angeles. Her latest short film ‘Cat’ has already been accepted into multiple international festival. By 17, Madeleine has already written a feature screenplay that focuses on the role of technology in the world of a young girl struggling to cope with the loss of her twin brother. Madeleine is a hardworking, passionate, and ready to take her filmmaking to the next level. 

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Maria Mejia is a photographer and cinematographer from Dominican Republic. She works with fashion, advertising, product photography and portraits.

When it comes to Maria’s personal view she always emphasizes in inclusivity, romantic feeling and femininity. As a woman she knows the importance in having safe spaces in the industry, so she is always aware on how to manage the relationship with everyone on set, and every shoot must be an uplifting experience to those involved, specially when there are models. And that trust reflects on every work of her, making it palpable on the sensitivity of the photos.

Maria started taking pictures by the age 13, she kept her teenage years shooting friends and working as assistant to photographers. By 2016 at the age of 20 she graduated from her Associates Degree in Photography and started working in the film industry right away as 2AC. After a year she moved to the advertising industry, working in agencies and as freelancer she maintains her portraiture and fashion photography career. It is important to highlight her film project along with another Dominican Filmmaker Geraldine Rivera, their project is called Those____Girls (@those____girls) and is a Production Home for indie films in advertising, fashion and entertainment.

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Max Shoham is an 18 year old animator and filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. He has 5 years of experience animating and directing short mixed media films and music videos. Over the last 4 years, Max’s films have played in over 180 festivals, and won awards in many, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Scholastic in New York City, Austin Film Festival and more around the world. Max offers digital hand drawn animation, live action content, editing work, graphic design and stop motion animation. But most of all, he loves telling good stories.

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Max Shoham

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Born in Beijing, China, Michael Yuanhao Deng is a seventeen-year- old film director, screenwriter and photographer. In his elementary school, he was taught basic editing skills, and an old camcorder lying in his father’s closet had let him set foot in visual storytelling. In middle school, he honed his leadership by directing a handful of plays and short films, during which he met his best friend, Claude, a talented music composer and pianist. Currently studying at a boarding school in America, Michael wishes to double major in film and business in college, where he aspires to master his craft and meet new challenges.

Beginning his career at the age of ten, Michael aims to only make film that immediately stands out through its distinct style and natural voice: grabbing the audience by the bones and evoking their sensitive emotions. Many of Michael’s works portray the theme of hope: he wishes to use his natural storytelling skills to speak a voice of his own, filling the world with cheerful and lovely elements. Michael’s favorite directors are Ang Lee, Steven Spielberg, and Damien Chazelle. His favorite films are Life of Pi, Room, and Whiplash.

In 2014, Michael founded LemonTree Film in China, a platform for teens to collaborate and gain experience in filmmaking. With this platform, his team collaborated with AIC Education (a top educational consulting firm) and Siyu Harmony Society, (a NGO in China with over six years of experience in improving education and welfare in developing regions). Since ninth grade, Michael spends every summer leading volunteer teaching teams into Liangshan, while making documentaries in local schools and raising social awareness. His first short documentary “Family Under the Roof” was released by the Children’s Channel of China Central Television in 2016, winning two Best Doc awards and screening at major film festivals such as Austin, Long Beach Indie, and CICFF. In 2017, his photographic works also received three Gold Keys in Scholastic Art and Writing by Columbia. Having just finished spec spots for Under Armour, Whatsapp and ESPN, Michael is now editing his second major documentary “Under the Windhorse,” which was filmed in Tibet over the summer.

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Michael Deng

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Michael Kortlander is an L.A based Director. He focuses on telling real-life stories with depth and sincerity, capturing the beauty found in everyday moments. Clients include UPS, Tinder, REI, Uber and numerous non-profit organizations worldwide.

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My name is Nhi Nguyen, a 23-year-old (1998) photographer and UX designer based in Toronto, Canada.

Sugar, spice and everything nice. My work is inspired by a mixture of people, culture, music, and film, creating an overall nostalgic feel that brings viewers back to the early 2000s.

Ever since I was 11 years old, I have developed an interest in media arts through video work for school projects and for my personal Youtube channel. I picked up photography a few years ago after getting my first DSLR in the summer, and it gives me the opportunity to meet new people and express myself in different ways. With a background in Psychology and Computing Cognitive Science, I am on my journey to become a UX designer by day and an aspiring artist by night.

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Nhi Nguyen

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Nat Souza is a 22-year-old, Los Angeles based director, photographer, art director, and videographer, who is studying to be a DP. They also are interested in and are beginning to shoot fashion/editorial photos and learning how to puppeteer. Nat is a Muppets enthusiast, cartoon lover, and vegan food aficionado. They are inspired by queer people/culture, all things weird, and horror movies. Nat identifies as transmasculine and queer and uses they/them pronouns. They have worked as a 1st AC on multiple short films and music videos and as production designer for two other short films. Nat has credits as an Art Director for Mood Killer and as a BTS videographer and photographer on music videos for Dorian Electra, King Princess, KITTEN, Pussy Riot, and Mood Killer. They have also shot multiple single/EP cover photos. Clients include Mokuyobi Threads, BioGlitz, Converse, WLDKAT, Dr. Martens, and The Luna Collective Mag.

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Nirrimi Firebrace fell deeply in love with seeing the world through a camera at age 13. By 16 she had won awards, signed to an agency and left her small hometown to be flown across the world by major brands and musicians. For ten years she kept a blog chronicling both the beautiful and ugly parts of her life, and found a dedicated following of fellow creatives with big feelings. 

Nirrimi is now a 28 year-old photographer, director and writer living on the west coast of Australia with her filmmaker partner, 9 year old daughter and her whippet named Ru. She is always creating from her studio and remains wildly obsessed with telling honest and human stories through art.

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Adolescent Content team of Gen Z Photographers. Looking for a Generation Z photographer for your brand contact Adolescent content Gen Z marketing agency in Los Angeles. 