Film Juries

ROY WOL (he/him) is a 2022 Cannes Producer Network fellow, SXSW mentor, twotime IFP fellow, PGA mark-holding filmmaker. Roy Wol is a third culture kid (TCK) and the co-founder of the critically acclaimed production company, Studio Autonomous. His productions include SXSW winner “The Garden Left Behind” staring trans Latina Carlie Guevara; 2022 MPAC Award winner “Americanish” starring Palestinian American comedian Mo Amer; Academy Nominee Milcho Manchevski’s “Bikini Moon” starring Condola Rashad, amongst others.

ARAM SIU-WAI COLLIER (he/him) is a filmmaker, educator, and film festival programmer. He is currently the Artistic Director at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival. His feature, documentary, and experimental films have played festivals across North America and internationally. Aram is a mixed-race Asian Canadian/American (Chinese and English/Dutch/German) originally from San Francisco native and now based in Toronto, Canada.

HANNA HUANG (she/her) is a 1.5 gen Taiwanese American who grew up along the Texas-Mexico far away from the comforts of bubble tea shops. Along with being a producer behind the new mini-documentary series Stories Within, she is the Executive Director of Austin Asian American Film Festival, Mayoral appointee to the City’s Austin Asian American Quality of Life Commission, and longtime AAPI cultural arts and educational programs professional. She finds herself very fortunate to be able to tell her parents that her undergraduate Asian American studies degree is one she makes use of every day.

NADINE PATTERSON (she/her) is a filmmaker and media arts activist who works at the crossroads of narrative and documentary cinema. She earned her Master of Arts in Filmmaking at London Film School. She operates the production company, Harmony Image Productions (HipCinema), with her mother Marlene G. Patterson. She is a co-founder of SIFTMedia 215 which supports the career growth of Women of Color in film. She is currently developing a dramatic series on the Black inventor/ engineer Lewis Latimer.

ANULA SHETTY (she/her) is an award-winning filmmaker and new media artist. She is a 2020 CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) Fellow and a recipient of a Pew Fellowship. She was previously awarded three Media Arts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts and was nominated for a USA Artist Fellowship. She received a Project Involve Fellowship, two Independence Foundation Fellowships and a Leeway Foundation Transformation Award for her art and social change work. Anula received her MFA in Film & Media Arts from Temple University.

ELLISON SHIEH (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist, filmmaker, and organizer based in the unceded ancestral lands of the Duwamish tribe (also known as Seattle). They are deeply committed to exploring human connections through mixed media, and uplifting the stories and voices of historically excluded communities. By day they work at the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, and by night they are the Festival Co-Director of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival.

SARAH TRAD (she/her) is a Lebanese-American artist, curator, and cultural critic based in Philadelphia. Working in fibers, video, and computer art, she focuses on themes of how Arab identity intersects with queerness, mental health, memory, and future alternate realities. She is the Co-Director of Programming for the MENA Film Festival in Vancouver. Sarah’s work has been screened at the Gimli Film Festival, Toronto Arab Film Festival, Antimatter Media Art Festival, Rendezvous With Madness Festival, Everson Museum of Art, and Currents New Media.

CATCHING ON THIEVES (she/her) is a multimedia artist who creates to both understand what is to be & to stay alive. She writes of spies & prophets, Y2K conspiracies & the relationship between abstraction, perception & interoception. She was resident at the Queer Materials Lab, Translab, The Performance Intensive, PAPA, PAAFF, & the upcoming Session 9 of the Raw Materials Academie hosted at the ICA in Spring 2022. She is founding a church devoted to the worship & study of art called The Church of the Quarter-Closed Eyes.

AYESHA SYED (she/her) is the Social Media Manager at Twelve Gates Arts. She is currently pursuing a graduate degree in Textile Design at Jefferson University.