Alisha Tejpal is an Indian filmmaker, writer and editor whose work and collaborations have screened at various festivals and venues worldwide including San Sebastian, Sundance, Rotterdam, Film at Lincoln Center and MoMA among others. Her first short film LATA won multiple awards and was acquired by Mubi, Arte, and the Criterion Channel. Primarily set in India, her creative practice spans fiction and non-fiction. Its central point of inquiry has always stemmed from an investigation of the invisible. Alisha’s work has received support from the Sundance Institute, Film at Lincoln Center, and the Points North Institute. She is a Macdowell and Bogliasco Center Fellow and holds an MFA in Film Directing from the California Institute of the Arts.

Mireya Martinez is a Mexican-American filmmaker, writer, and producer. Her sole pursuit is to tell and support stories that make palpable the human experience in all of its tatteredness, fragility, magnitude, and joy. 

Mireya is a Sundance Institute Fellow and was recently awarded a MacDowell and Bogliasco Foundation Fellowship, where she developed her first feature screenplay For The Eyes Are Blind to the Stairwells (wt).

Her works have screened at festivals worldwide including San Sebastian, Sundance, True/False, New Directors/New Films and IFFR, amongst others.  She holds an MFA in Film Direction from the California Institute of the Arts. 

Anoushka Mirchandani is an India-born, San Francisco-based artist. Her work probes ancestry, personal history, cultural and sociopolitical environments through a diasporic lens, exploring the micro-tensions and identity transformations that are part and parcel of code-switching and assimilation in a foreign land. 

Her solo shows include Galerie Isa, UTA Artist Space, Rhodes Contemporary Art, and Glass Rice Gallery.

She has participated in multiple residencies including The Wassaic Project, Silver Arts Projects’ Digital Residency, Global Coralition, KYTA and Aegean Idea Lab and was awarded the San Francisco Artist Grant.