Panelists:
     Jane Schoenbrun

Jane (they/she) is a non-binary filmmaker whose first narrative feature We're All Going to the World's Fair premiered in the NEXT section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. The film recently played at the 50th annual New Directors/New Films, and will be released in theaters by Utopia Pictures and available for streaming via HBOMax. Jane's previous projects include co-creating the touring variety series The Eyeslicer (Tribeca 2017), creating the Radical Film Fair (a film flea market and mentorship event that drew thousands of attendees), directing the feature documentary A Self-Induced Hallucination (Rotterdam 2019), producing Aaron Schimberg’s Chained for Life (Kino Lorber 2019), EPing season one of Terence Nance’s Random Acts of Flyness (HBO 2018), and creating the omnibus ‘dream film’ collective:unconscious (SXSW 2016). Jane sometimes publishes the column “Continue Watching” for FILMMAKER Magazine, and has previously worked as the Senior Film Lead at Kickstarter and as the Associate Director of Programming at IFP.

    Maya Mumma, ACE
Maya was an editor on the Academy Award winning documentary O.J.: Made in America for which she was honored with a Best Editing award from the LA Film Critics Association, an ACE Eddie, and a Primetime Emmy. She began her career in the edit room of the Academy Award nominated documentary Restrepo, which won the Grand Jury Prize at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. She has gone on to edit films such as Which Way Is the Front Line From Here, Whoopi Goldberg Presents Moms Mabley, Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown, and A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers. Most recently Maya edited the Emmy winning King in the Wilderness and edited and produced the Emmy and Peabody award winning True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality.

     Sal Malfitano
Sal has had a lifelong passion and appreciation for beautiful images, be it painting, still photography, or cinema. He has held a constant curiosity about the aesthetic trends in color imagery and about the process and science behind it all. Sal has collaborated with filmmakers and artists to perfect the imagery of films such as the indie hit Heaven Knows What, Lovesong, and Showtime’s Prison Fighters: Five Rounds To Freedom. As well as Drunk Bus, which releases soon. He has also delivered music videos for The Strokes, The National, and Lady Gaga, as well as campaigns for IBM, Sherwin Williams, Tiffany, Ford, Verizon, and Reebok.

Sal enjoys cooking (he'll share a recipe or two - just ask him), music, and spending time with his family. He’s also a bit of a whiskey connoisseur, having founded the Nice Shoes Whiskey Club almost immediately after joining the studio.

Moderator:

     Caryn Coleman

Caryn is a New York-based film programmer whose work is focused on gender parity in independent film. She's the founder of The Future of Film is Female - an organization that amplifies the work of all women filmmakers through a short film fund, commitment to exhibition, and community building programs - that is also an ongoing screening series at the Museum of Modern Art. She's a longtime programmer at Nitehawk Cinema, having been the Director of Programming/Special Projects, and is the Director of the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival. Coleman received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant and has organized panels for the Art House Convergence, Nightstream, Athena Film Festival, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation, and CAA. She is a short film advocate, a horror film lover, and Delphine Seyrig superfan.

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