Making Your First Short: Top Tips with Mariama Diallo (MASTER) and more

Mariama Diallo is a Senegalese-American filmmaker based in Brooklyn. Mariama co-wrote Everybody Dies! as part of the feature Collective:Unconscious (SXSW 2016). Her short Sketch won the Fox Inclusion Emerging Artist Award at the 2017 BlackStar Film Festival. Her latest short, Hair Wolf, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival, where it won the Short Film Jury Award: US Fiction. Mariama recently completed work as a staff writer and director for Terence Nance’s upcoming HBO series Random Acts of Flyness. 

Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil (Ojibway) are filmmakers and artists from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, transgression, and innovative documentary practice. Their films and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, Walker Arts Center, e-flux, Microscope Gallery (New York), Spektrum (Berlin), Trailer Gallery (Sweden), and Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay). Both graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College, are UnionDocs Collaborative Fellows, Gates Millennium Scholars, 2017 Sundance Indigenous Opportunity Fellows and 2018 Sundance Art of Non Fiction grant recipients.

Adam Khalil and Zack Khalil (Ojibway) are filmmakers and artists from Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan and currently based in Brooklyn, New York. Their work subverts traditional forms of ethnography through humor, transgression, and innovative documentary practice. Their films and installations have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, Sundance, Walker Arts Center, e-flux, Microscope Gallery (New York), Spektrum (Berlin), Trailer Gallery (Sweden), and Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay). Both graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College, are UnionDocs Collaborative Fellows, Gates Millennium Scholars, 2017 Sundance Indigenous Opportunity Fellows and 2018 Sundance Art of Non Fiction grant recipients.

Born and raised in South Central Los Angeles, Katrelle Kindred always found inspiration in the eccentricities of her surrounding community. She has a BA from Clark Atlanta University in television and film production and a graduate degree from USC's School of Cinematic Arts. Along with teaching film to underserved communities in Los Angeles, Kindred would like to continue creating honest stories that focus on global and social issues.