Vera Brunner-Sung was born in Michigan to parents from Korea and Switzerland. Her films have been screened at festivals and museums around the world. Her first feature, Bella Vista, premiered at the 2014 International Film Festival Rotterdam (Bright Future) and won her the George C. Lin Emerging Filmmaker Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival. She is the recipient of a Center for Asian American Media writer/director fellowship. Here she talks to us about breaking down character stereotypes and how sometimes you’re your own best advocate.

Hira Nabi is a filmmaker and a multimedia artist. Her practice moves across research and visual production interrogating the relationship between memory and histories, witnessing and testimonies through image and narrative. She earned an MA in cinema and media studies from The New School, and a BA in film and postcolonial studies from Hampshire College. She lives and works in Lahore, Pakistan. Herre she talks to us about the making of her film All That Perishes At The Edge of Land, Ditching the crew and spending time alone filming, how she didn’t want to make a traditional workplace documentary and the other female directors that inspire her.

Laure Giappiconi studied at ENSATT, a French national theatre school based in Lyon. Since then, she favors artistic adventures on the long course and contemporary creations, both on stage or in the cinema. She also writes and performs her own creations. Here she talks to us about her collaborative partnerships, lack of funds and production behind her short and some of the female directors she looks up to.

Emily Wilson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and an alumna of the SUNY Purchase Film Conservatory. She's edited television series for Viceland, including Dark Side of the Ring, Outsider, and Balls Deep. In 2012 Emily edited Reincarnated, a feature documentary that premiered at TIFF, and then post-coordinated Fishing Without Nets, a narrative that won the U.S. Dramatic Directing Award at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival. She co-created the comedy pilot I Adore Dolores, a selection of the IFP Screen Forward Labs and Seriesfest, 2019. Here she talks to us about how she decided to finance her film rather than buying a house, some of the female directors she looks up to and how laughing can be the best stress relief during production.