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Claire Edelman is a producer at Killer Films, the NY-based powerhouse production company co-founded by Christine Vachon and Pamela Koffler in 1995 (PAST LIVES, MAY DECEMBER, MILDRED PIERCE). Claire is responsible for overseeing the production and development slate for all TV projects at Killer, as well as a select group of film projects. Previously, she worked across film and TV at Animal Kingdom, where she associate produced Mariama Diallo’s first feature, MASTER, for Amazon, and Adam Leon’s film ITALIAN STUDIES for Magnolia, and developed a number of film and episodic projects.

Matt Hixon (he/him) is a New York-based editor. His recent work includes the Venice Golden Lion winner and Oscar®-nominated ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (2022), on which he was an associate editor, and GIRLS STATE (Emmy winning, Sundance 2024). He also edited Brydie O’Connor’s short Love, Barbara (2022), which premiered at Santa Barbara International Film Festival and won the Grand Jury prize at Outfest. He also works in narrative film and music videos.


Joey Carducci’s handmade films expose the materiality and the process of queer experimental 16mm filmmaking to create awareness and resistance in content and form. His first 16mm film premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2003, and the Museum of Modern Art premiered his collaboration with Barbara Hammer (Generations, 2010), which won the Teddy Award for Best Short Film at the Berlinale. His films have screened internationally in festivals and museums by invitation, including Brooklyn Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Design, and Tate Modern, among others. With 20 years of professional experience specializing in 16mm film, Joey has worked at some of the best preservation labs in the country, from Monaco Labs, to Cineric, to Cinema Arts, and The Standby Program. He has also worked as an adjunct film instructor teaching 16mm filmmaking courses, independent studies, and workshops. He and filmmaker Angelo Madsen co-curate an ongoing, quarterly trans film series, The Cinema of Gender Transgression, inaugurated in 2017 at Anthology Film Archives, with an upcoming series October 8-11, 2026. Photo by Sela Shiloni.

Lynne Sachs is an American experimental filmmaker and poet based in Brooklyn, New York. Strongly committed to a dialogue between cinematic theory and practice, she searches for a rigorous play between image and sound, pushing the visual and aural textures in each new project. Over the course of her career, Lynne has worked closely with fellow filmmakers Craig Baldwin, Bruce Conner, Barbara Hammer, Chris Marker, Gunvor Nelson, Carolee Schneemann, and Trinh T. Min-ha. Throughout her career, we can trace the ways that her experimentation dares to confront social and political issues by embracing both familiar and intimate processes. Lynne investigates the implicit connection between the body, the camera, and the materiality of film itself. Embracing archives, letters, portraits, confessions, poetry and music, her films take us on a critical journey through reality and memory. Regardless of the passage of time, these films continue to be extremely contemporary, coherent and radical in their artistic conception. Lynne has produced over 40 films as well as numerous live performances, installations and web projects. She has tackled topics near and far, often addressing the challenge of translation—from one language to another or from spoken work to image. These tensions were investigated most explicitly between 1994 and 2006, when Lynne produced five essay films that took her to Vietnam, Bosnia, Israel/Palestine, Italy and Germany—sites affected by international war—where she looked at the space between a community’s collective memory and her own subjective perceptions. Her films have screened at MoMA (Museum of Modern Art), Tate Modern, Image Forum Tokyo, Wexner Center for the Arts, and festivals such as New York Film Festival, Oberhausen Int’l Short FF, Punto de Vista, Sundance,  Vancouver IFF, Viennale and Doclisboa. Retrospectives of her work have been presented at MoMI (Museum of the Moving Image), Sheffield Doc/Fest, BAFICI, Cork Film Festival, Havana Film Festival, among others. In 2021, both Edison Film Festival and Prismatic Ground Film Festival at the Maysles Documentary Center gave her awards for her lifetime achievements in the experimental and documentary fields. In 2014, Lynne received a Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts.

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