Lineup + Events

Nancy Collet

Veteran film festival strategist Nancy Collet leverages her 30 years of experience in the entertainment industry for every client. She launched Cinema Collet in 2007 after her 10-year tenure as Director of Programming at AFI FEST. Located in Beverly Hills, Cinema Collet provides strategic consulting services to independent filmmakers, film festivals, universities, distribution companies, cultural institutions, and conferences worldwide. The extensive offerings include film festival strategy and advocacy; representing films and securing distribution for filmmakers; publicity; marketing and website development; creating and launching new film festivals; festival programming; large-scale event management/production/marketing; and acquisitions scouting.

Rosa Morales

Rosa Morales is the Manager of Narrative Film for the SFFILM Makers team. Inspired by a lifelong passion for storytelling, she has built her career in supporting artist development programs that uplift voices of filmmakers from under-represented communities. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley with a focus in Media and Latinx Studies and was a member of the 2019 Industry Academy with Film at Lincoln Center. Rosa has been a jury member for many prestigious grants and festivals including work with the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, and the Palm Springs Short Film Festival. Born and raised in San Francisco, she lives there with her cat Neblina, who is named after the iconic fog of her beloved city. Rosa Morales is committed to cultivating and celebrating the bountiful art community in the Bay Area and beyond.

Bryce Norbitz

Bryce Norbitz oversees Tribeca Studio’s Artist Programs, which empower filmmakers through year-round programs, grants, workshops, production prizes and curated mentorship. This includes tentpole the programs
Tribeca/AT&T Presents: Untold Stories, which provides $1 Million to a feature film each year, and Through Her Lens: The Tribeca Chanel Women’s Filmmaker Program which has supported short filmmaking for nearly a decade. Bryce works with creatives throughout the U.S. and abroad to provide emerging voices with connections, creative mentorship, industry access and film pitch training. In addition to programmatic work, she collaborates on Tribeca Studio’s film productions, content creation and branded entertainment initiatives.

DaManuel Richardson

DaManuel is a writer and producer alongside his award-winning partners at Hello Benjamin Films. The company’s projects have received funding and support from The Ford Foundation’s Just Films Grant, Sundance Institute’s Doc Fund, CJ/TIFF K-Story Fund, Field of Vision, and Berlinale Talents. DaManuel’s rural upbringing in the American South and extensive family tree sparked his passion for stories exploring identity, grief, and intergenerational healing. DaManuel attained an MFA from CalArts in 2016 and later programmed shorts for the Sundance Film Festival. DaManuel also worked for the Oscar-winning team behind Everything Everywhere All At Once, producer Jonathan Wang, and directing duo Daniels. Despite traveling far from his southern roots, DaManuel is happy to report his green thumb is still intact, thanks to years of urban farming in Los Angeles, CA.

Christine Kunewa Walker

Christine Kunewa Walker is an award-winning filmmaker and the Principal of New Globe Films and the former CEO and Executive Director of the Provincetown Film Society. Walker is also the co-founder and former president of Werk Work Works, a feature film finance and production company based in Minneapolis. Walker’s films have premiered at virtually every major international film festival garnering awards and nominations by the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, the Producer’s Guild of America; the Independent Spirit Awards; the Gotham Awards, and the National Board of Review among others. Film credits include the soon-to-be-broadcast THE ALI’I KING, along with STAY THEN GO, DARLING COMPANION, THE TURIN HORSE, THIN ICE, HOWL, LIFE DURING WARTIME, OLDER THAN AMERICA, FACTOTUM, and AMERICAN SPLENDOR.

Xochipitzahuatl-Nova is a three channel video installation with sculptural components that carry a sentiment embodied by many. To (be)long, is to reclaim territory transcending time and space as means to reclaim a new dimension between two worlds, between the past and the future, between two identities, between one’s many selves.

In his mythological landscapes where he includes mexican cultural items like the “jicara” or “woven palms,” Federico plays around the concept of smuggling traditions as acts of resiliency, self-preservation, resistance, and self-rematriation in a dimension of transborder indigeneity and one’s many selves: to be an alien; to be the other; to be the threat; to be the dream; to be the backbone; to be the invasion; to be a cultural nomad; to be (in)visible; to be 500+ years of historical weight; to be a “pinche indio” ; to embody hope…

About Federico Cuatlacuatl
b.1991, Coapan, Cholula, Mexico. 

Federico’s work is invested in disseminating topics of Nahua indigenous immigration, social art practice, and cultural sustainability. Building from his own experience growing up as an undocumented immigrant and previously holding DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), Federico’s creative practice centers on the intersectionality of Nahualismos, Nahua Futurisms, and transborder embodiments. 

Find Federico Cuatlacuatl’s work on view at the NOFF Hub.

The vibrant, energetic imagery of this single-channel video reveals microscopic, multilayered connections between the natural world and abstraction, fluid shapes and textures. Geometric symbols, organic forms, and continuous motion work together to pull us into a deeper, more immersive experience of abstraction and transformation over time. The work invites us into a space beyond ordinary metamorphosis and emphasizes an awareness of our organic senses,  reminding us that we belong to the spaces we inhabit. 

Created frame-by-frame using a digital microscope and DSLR camera, the animation invites viewers to explore a forest of imagination, from bounded reality to the infinite.

About Keum-Taek Jung

The interdisciplinary artist Keum-Taek Jung teaches Graphic Design at Mississippi State University. His films have been showcased at international festivals and within museum exhibitions. He has a keen interest in experimental animation, particularly in exploring abstraction and the transformation of symbolism. Currently, he is exploring integrating UI/UX app design into his practice.

Find Keum-Taek Jung’s work on view at the NOFF Hub, join us as he leads an animation workshop, and learn more about his creative practice in the Cinema Reset panel online.

“Synthetic Pull” is a video installation featuring digital banners blowing in the wind. These banners consist of familial archival images from the artist’s birthplace, which have been stretched through scanning. In this work, the images become pennants of the artist’s imagined homeland—a place she never experienced, having been adopted at birth. Each stretched image symbolizes both a loss of data (truth) and the creation of new imagery and meaning (myth). The title, “Synthetic Pull,” illustrates the intangible creation of this imagined homeland and the digital illusion of its existence, like woven threads generated by the wind.

About Kiley Brandt

Kiley Brandt (MFA) is a video artist from North Carolina. In her work, Brandt attempts to inspire empathy through sound, poetry and immersive installation. Her research areas include diaspora, adoption, immigration and Mexican/American Border politics. She was a 2019 New Media Caucus: Border Control Presenter in Ann Arbor, Michigan and currently teaches as an Assistant Professor of Digital Foundations at Clemson University, SC.

Find Kiley Brandt’s work on view at the NOFF Hub, and learn more about her creative practice in the Cinema Reset panel online.

Thursday, Oct 17 | 11am – 9pm
Friday, Oct 18 | 11am – 9pm
Saturday, Oct 19 | 10am – 9pm
Sunday, Oct 20 | 12pm – 9pm
Monday, Oct 21 | 11am – 9pm
Tuesday, Oct 22 | 10am – 9pm