Trapped In Transit: Transgender Storytelling with Visionary Filmmaker Aitch Alberto

Moi Santos is the Manager for the Equity, Impact, and Belonging Program at Sundance Institute. She is the founder of the Trans Possibilities Intensive, an incubator program that provides a supportive environment for transgender artists of color to work on their projects, sharpen their craft, develop community and challenge the obstacles that continue to exclude transgender artists of color. Moi was one of the curators for the Queer Rhapsody Film Series, a community-led film series celebrating contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema. She holds a degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in visual culture and gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Sydney Freeland is an Emmy-nominated film and TV writer and director. Her TV directing work spans a wide range of shows including Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Grey’s Anatomy, Fear The Walking Dead, The Wilds, and Rutherford Falls among others. Freeland also wrote and directed for the FX show Reservation Dogs, Executive Produced by Taika Waititi & Sterlin Harjo. Her debut feature, Drunktown’s Finest, premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was Executive Produced by Robert Redford. The film was influenced by her experience growing up on the Navajo reservation. Freeland’s second feature was the Netflix Original film Deidra and Laney Rob A Train, which premiered at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Freeland is currently in post-production on the upcoming Marvel Studios project Echo, where she worked as both Co-Executive Producer and series Director.

Aitch Alberto is a writer/director born and raised in Miami, Florida. She is a Sundance Episodic Lab fellow, recipient of a Skowhegan Artist Residency, a Yaddo fellowship, a Latino Screenwriting Project Fellowship, and an alumnus of the Outfest Screenwriting Lab. Aitch has written on DUSTER, a 1970s-set crime drama series from J.J. Abrams and LaToya Morgan for HBO Max. She also served as a writer on AppleTV+’s BAFTA and Film Independent Nominated anthology series LITTLE AMERICA from Lee Eisenburg, Sian Heder, Alan Yang, Kumail Nanjiani, and Emily V. Gordon. Most recently, Aitch has adapted and directed the NYT's Best-Selling young adult novel ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE by Benjamin Alire Sanez. The film was produced by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eugenio Derbez and made its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival to rave reviews and 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. She has been included on The Black List's inaugural Latinx List, as well as the Tracking Board's Hit List and Young & Hungry List, and NALIP's list of "Latinx Directors You Should Know". Aitch has most recently been featured on Variety’s 10 Directors To Watch for 2022 and Indiewire’s 22 Rising Female Filmmakers to watch in 2022. Mostly recently, Vogue Poland named her one of this generations female defining voices.