The Revisionist - Write an Alternative Ending

BECK KITSIS (she/her) is a writer, director, and producer focused on developing emotionally-charged social impact stories. Selected as a 2019 Sundance Screenwriters Intensive Fellow and a member of Film at Lincoln Center’s Artist Academy at the 2019 New York Film Festival, Beck is currently co-writing and producing Strawberry Summer, which has received support from the Sundance Institute, Women at Sundance, Cinereach, the Department of Motion Pictures, and Ruth Ann Harnisch. She is also in pre-production on the short horror film The Three Men You Meet at Night and developing Route One, a psychological thriller about an incel (involuntary celibate), which will mark her feature directorial debut. She produced the short horror film The Rat (2019 Sundance Film Festival), the feature-length documentary Narrowsburg (2019 Camden International Film Festival), and the experimental short The Inconceivable Mountain (premiering on NoBudge later this year). Her music and music videos have been featured across many publications, including NYLON, Pitchfork, and Stereogum. She produces her work through NITE SHIFT, a New York-based film and media collective, which she co-founded. Beck graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Film Studies and East Asian Studies.

Deborah S. Esquenazi is a film director, screenwriter, and investigative journalist.

Esquenazi's first feature, the critically acclaimed documentary Southwest of Salem: The Story of the San Antonio Four, won the Critic’s Choice Award for 'Best First Feature', garnered an Emmy nomination for 'Outstanding Social Issues Documentary', a Peabody Award, and won a GLAAD Media Award for 'Outstanding Documentary', among other distinctions. The film helped exonerate the ‘San Antonio Four’ and is mentioned in the opening passages of the Writs of Habeas Corpus in Ex Parte Anna Vasquez, Cassandra Rivera, Elizabeth Ramirez, and Kristie Mayhugh. 

Esquenazi’s first narrative feature, Queen of Wands, a gay phantasmagoric coming-of-age, which she wrote and will direct was selected for the 2019 Sundance Screenwriting Lab Intensive. Her latest short, El Vacio, was produced by Concordia Studios/New York Times. Her Austin-based company, Myth of Monsters, is launching an anthology podcast called A Feminist History of Crime, which will debut in 2020.

Esquenazi has also been a Rockwood JustFilms Fellow, Sundance Documentary Film Fellow, Sundance Creative Producing Fellow, and a Firelight Film Fellow. She lives in Austin, Tx, with her wife and two sons.

Jamie Gonçalves is a Brasilian-American producer based between central Missouri and Mexico City. He’s a Sundance Institute Creative Fiction Producing Fellow and Impact Partners Documentary Fellow. Filmmaker Magazine named as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2015, and he served as a programming associate at the True/False Film Fest. His list of productions include, Caballerango (2018 IDFA), Killing Them Safely (IFC Films, 2015 Tribeca), Balloonfest (Oscilloscope), The Water Slide (2018 BAMcinemaFest), and Las Nubes (2017 IFFR). He’s producing upcoming features and series by Ilana Coleman, Juan Pablo González, Kamau Bilal, Nathan Silver and Nate Truesdell, Isidore Bethel, and Nick Berardini. He’s a co-founder of Sin Sitio Cine, a collective focused on producing works with directors working within their own communities.

Kenneth Renaldo Reynolds has made Louisiana his home for over two decades. After receiving his bachelor’s degree at LSU, and later attending grad school at the University of New Orleans, Kenny found his way into working on a variety of projects and in various positions during his time in entertainment.

He served as the Video Production Manager for AXS TV’s coverage of The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival (live concert broadcast) from 2009-2013. Kenny pivoted to narrative producing with the pilot for SHEPHERD (indie series pilot). His next project, the narrative feature film LOST BAYOU, was selected as a 2018 IFP Narrative Lab Project, as well as being the recipient of grants from the Duplass Brothers and #CreateLouisiana. LOST BAYOU made its world premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival.

Most recently, Kenneth was selected as a 2019 fellow in the Sundance Creative Producers Lab. He is also producing the Cory Santilli directed, TIGER STYLE. The film was selected to compete at the 2019 US in Progress co-production forum, as a part of the 10th-anniversary edition of the American Film Festival in Wrocław, Poland.

Makena Buchanan is a Texas native and a producer of fiction and non-fiction films and series. He is a 2018 Sundance Creative Producing Fellow and participated in the inaugural Southern Producers Lab. Projects that Makena has helmed have received support from the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, Austin Film Society, IFP, IMCINE, and the Venice Biennale, works he's produced have played in festivals like SXSW, Rotterdam, Cannes, BAMcinemaFest, True/False, IDFA, among others. Much like his interests, his practice as a producer predominantly drifts toward two pretty specific pools: genre films and form-bending non-fiction.