Tatyana Tenenbaum is a choreographer, vocalist and documentary film artist. Her work, on stage and through the camera, explores the connections of our lineages to our bodies and voices. Her interdisciplinary work has been commissioned by the Chocolate Factory Theater, Danspace Project, Temple University, New York Live Arts and Movement Research; and was described as “rich polyphony” (The New Yorker). She has collaborated and performed for artists such as Yoshiko Chuma, Daria Faïn, Jennifer Monson, Emily Johnson, Joan LaBarbara, and Okwui Okpokwasili & Peter Born. As an arts documentarian she creates intimate artist portraits for organizations such as Baryshnikov Arts Center, Composers Now, The Cunningham Trust, Art Matters Foundation, Times Square Arts, and countless independent choreographers in NYC.  Everything You Have is Yours is her debut feature film.

Brighid Greene is a film, theater, and dance artist. As a producer, her projects include Yara Travieso’s La Medea (SXSW, Film at Lincoln Center, Miami Film Festival, Performance Space New York, Creative Capital awardee), an immersive musical and feature film that re-imagines Euripides’ myth into a Latin-disco-pop-womanist variety show; and Sarah Friedland’s Crowds (Ann Arbor Film Festival, Performa 19), a three-channel video installation of a durational dance. In film, she has worked with Lily Baldwin, programmed and screened for Cucalorus Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, and Dance on Camera Festival, and teaches Super 8mm filmmaking classes with Mono No Aware. Brighid was a long time performer in the Bessie-award winning production of Then She Fell by Third Rail projects, and choreographed for Josephine Decker's Madeline's Madeline (Sundance). Her own work, recently shown at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, reflects the curvatures of reality and its intersection with our inner worlds. Brighid graduated with a B.F.A. in Dance and Religious Studies from NYU-Tisch.

Colin Nusbaum is a film editor whose work has screened at the Sundance Film Festival, Festival De Cannes, Tribeca, SXSW, HotDocs, Sheffield Doc/Fest, DOCNYC, AFI Docs, Full Frame, and many others. Most recently, Colin edited Two Gods, directed by Zeshawn Ali. The film played on PBS in 2021. Colin's other credits include The Unafraid (2018) by Heather Courtney and Anayansi Prado; An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power (2017), which was the opening night film at the Sundance Film Festival; the short documentary Divided City (2017), part of PBS's Reel South series; To The Edge of the Sky (2017); and the NY Times Op-Doc The Many Sad Fates of Mr. Toledano (2015). Colin also edited Stephanie Wang-Breal’s Tough Love and co-edited Andrea Scott's Florence, Arizona, as well as Caveh Zahedi's "The Sheikh And I. Colin received the 2014 Karen Schmeer Film Editing Fellowship as an emerging documentary editor. Colin earned a BA from The College of Wooster and an MA in Media Studies and Film from The New School. When he is not making films, Colin enjoys cycling, ceramics, canoeing, and practicing aikido.

Sasha Perry is a white ashkenazi Trans/queer community organizer and documentary editor. They have been working in the documentary field for 20 years and have premiered in Tribeca, TIFF, Outfest, and have found homes on Netflix, Hulu, and PBS. Sasha Jewish background intersects with both their activism and filmmaking, and has created videos for Jewish Voice for Peace, the Tzitzit Project, and SVARA.  Sasha completed ALEPH (Jewish Renewal)'s 3 year certificate program in  Earth Based Judaism, is a Tzedek Lab member, a Jeremiah Fellow for social change, and 6-Points Artist Fellow. They are a former editor of the Earth First! Journal, has sailed with the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society in Antarctica, and is a co-founder of an all-Transgender ice hockey team.

Avi Amon is a Turkish-American composer and sound artist. Avi’s film scores have been featured at Cannes, Disney, DOCNYC, HBO, Hulu, Slamdance, SWSX, Tribeca Film Festival, and more. Avi recently composed music for The Fisherman (dir. Zoey Martinson), which premiered at the 2024 Venice Film Festival and his score for Everything You Have Is Yours is available on all streaming platforms. Theater work includes music, songs, & sound design for projects with: Ars Nova, Bushwick Starr, The Kennedy Center, NYTW, The Old Globe, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, PAC NYC, Page73, Signature Theater, The Public, Target Margin, and Waterwell. Avi is a MacDowell Fellow, in-residence at The Shed, and has received additional artistic support from the Jonathan Larson Grant, Berkeley Rep, The Dramatists Guild, Goodspeed, Mercury Store, New Music USA, The O’Neill, Rhinebeck, and others. Avi is the music director at the 52nd Street Project and teaches at NYU.

Ben Neufeld is a filmmaker living in Los Angeles. His work focuses on the boundaries between documentary and fiction, often combining the formal conventions of the two in order to magnify or reflect the assumptions we make about truth. His most recent feature, THE SECOND JEWISH STATE, participated in the 2020 Visions du Réel Rough Cut Lab. He was born and raised in New York City, received his B.A. from Oberlin College, and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts). His 2018 feature, aw · rah · nyoosh, premiered at Visions du Réel, and was an award recipient of the Princess Grace Foundation. Ben has exhibited domestically and internationally in film festivals, galleries, museums, TV broadcasts and a barge on the Daugava river. He owns and operates the post-production house Green Field Color in Los Angeles, and holds a faculty position at CalArts, where he teaches film post-production and color grading.

Natasha Jacobs is a composer, sound designer, songwriter, and performer from New York. From DIY bands to formal composition studies and deep explorations of sound technology, they have developed a play-focused practice that takes letting go of control very seriously. Their work has been described by STEREOGUM as "technically impressive, narratively immersive, tragically funny, and subtly dark,” and by NPR as “almost otherworldly…slightly spooky and often dramatic.” They have toured the US and Canada, and released two albums under the moniker Thelma. Bug Diner is Natasha’s debut as a film composer. The score plays with and transcends genres such as goth/psychedelic/surf rock, and smooth jazz. They have scored and sound designed for media outlets such as VICE, iHeartRadio, and Lemonada Media. Natasha’s mentors have included Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Du Yun, and Emmy-nominated film composer Nathan Halpern.

Felicity Kohn is a member of Pryor Cashman’s Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Media + Entertainment Groups, where she handles a wide range of intellectual property, First Amendment, and complex commercial matters for clients in the creative, lifestyle, and entertainment industries. Felicity’s clients rely on her shrewd and tireless advocacy to safeguard their valuable intellectual property assets. She brings extensive experience litigating copyright, trademark, and unfair competition actions, as well as defamation actions, at both the state and federal levels. Beyond litigation, Felicity assists her clients by conducting pre-publication reviews of manuscripts, articles, podcasts, and films. She also helps her clients grow and facilitate their businesses by drafting and negotiating strategic commercial agreements, including licensing, agency, branding, and partnership deals.

Hadar Ahuvia is a dance artist, Jewish educator and ritual leader. Raised in Israel/Palestine and the US/Turtle Island, she is crafting a diasporic, Israeli identity beyond Zionism. Ahuvia trained at Orlando Ballet Theater, Alonzo King Lines Ballet, The San Francisco Conservatory of Dance, and earned a BA from Sarah Lawrence College. A two time finalist for the Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship, Ahuvia received a Bessie nomination for Outstanding Breakout Choreographer and was named Dance Magazine ‘25 to Watch in 2019’. Her work deconstructing Israeli folk dance has been supported by Movement Research, Baryshnikov Art Center, Yaddo, New Music USA, the Brooklyn Arts Council, Art Stations Foundations, Danspace Project, and Gibney Dance, among others.  Ahuvia has shared her research at the Association of Jewish Studies, ASU, City College, Whitman College, and Yale University. Her essay “Choreographing a Radical Diasporic Israeliness” is featured in the “Oxford Handbook on Jewishness in Dance.” Ahuvia also performs with Reggie Wilson/Fist & Heel Performance Group and started rabbinical school in fall 2022.

Established in 2012, the Freedom Dabka Group has proudly formed into a cultural icon in the NY/NJ Middle- Eastern community. The team started with just a group of six family members with a deep passion and love for their culture. With hard work, dedication and creativity, the Freedom Dabka Group has become a professional, renowned Brotherhood. Through hard-work and passion the Freedom Dabka Group continues to grow not only in size, but also in innovation and performance. The team's main purpose is to preserve and spread the Palestinian culture by performing in celebratory and cultural events. The Freedom Dabka Group would love to see all people, especially people of the Middle East, being able to perform their traditional, deep rooted Dabka and chant the Zaffa. They dance and sing the same Palestinian Folklore our ancestors have been doing for many years and keep audiences engaged and interested by performing in a modern way, making the dances more engaging for present day society.

Ze’eva Cohen was born and raised in Tel Aviv, where she began to dance at age 5, studying with Gertrud Kraus and later working with Rena Gluck. In 1963, after dancing with Anna Sokolow’s Israeli-based Lyric Theatre, Cohen made her way to New York City, where she studied at Juilliard and performed with Sokolow’s U.S. company—and became a founding member of Dance Theater Workshop. In the early seventies, Cohen set up her own dance company as a solo artist. Over twelve years, she built a repertoire of twenty-eight solo dances, performing works by such artists as James Waring, Viola Farber, and Margalit Oved. Cohen has also choreographed works for such companies as Boston Ballet and Alvin Ailey Repertory Ensemble, as well as Ze’eva Cohen and Dancers, a troupe she formed in the 1980s. A dance educator throughout her career, she began working at Princeton University in the late sixties. She spearheaded the university’s dance program, which blossomed during her forty years there.

Mor Mendel is a performance artist, choreographer, dance improviser, and educator, whose work explores who we are in our everyday life and movement that plays with imagination, intuition, and personal stories. For Mor, dance is the playground of poetry, of memories, relationships, music, and shared existence. Mendel’s teaching focuses on dance as an individual pathway to freedom inside ones’ body, creativity, and joy. Mendel earned her BA in Dance Theater in Tel Aviv as well as her Improvisation Mastery with dancer Ilanit Tadmor. In 2012, Mendel completed her Master’s in dance from Sarah Lawrence College. Over the years she has participated in numerous workshops and courses around dance, improvisation, and other somatic fields as well as university courses in psychology and creative therapies. In particular, Mendel has worked with Parkinson patients around personal liberation through movement. Mendel’s work has been performed at Tel Aviv galleries, Acco of Alternative Israeli Theater, Gowanus Arts Center, the 14th Street Y, Fridman Gallery, Brooklyn Studios For Dance, BAAD!, BAX, Movement Research at Judson Church, Pioneer Works, Collezione Maramotti (Italy), BigParadise, MOtiVE, CPR – Center for Performance Research, and in collaboration with artist Miriam Simun at New Museum (NY). Mendel is a mother of two curly boys.

Born, raised, and still living in Lenape territory, lily bo shapiro’s curiosities include archive, diasporic living and dying, adaptive hybridity, the strangely intimate (intimately strange), and the labors of playing and loving on this planet with others. bo works at an ethic of ongoingness, togethering and care, approaching circulation and dissolve as antidotes to the monumentals.

zavé martohardjono is a queer, non-binary trans, Indonesian-American artist born in Canada and living in Brooklyn. Working across performance, film, installation, and poetry, zavé uses dance and ritual as primary languages across projects that engage in anti-colonial storytelling. With dreams of a more just future, they make work that contends with the political histories our bodies carry and prompts inquiry into how healing and political education can de-condition the assimilated body and reconjure liberatory memory. They have made documentaries, experimental films, and video works that have shown in festivals and galleries in the U.S., Canada, the Netherlands, Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, and Indonesia. zavé is a 2022 Bessie-nominated performer whose choreographic and live performances have been presented in theaters, museums, and galleries across the U.S. including in New York, Los Angeles, Omaha, Boston, Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., and in Skopje, North Macedonia.

Gil Sperling is a multimedia artist and performance maker. He has created short films and video installations, video design for the stage, and multimedia performances. Gil is a graduate of the School of Visual Theater in Jerusalem and holds a BA in psychology and philosophy. He spent a year as a fellow at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Germany. His work as multimedia performance creator includes Shulamis or the Well and the Pussycat at Target Margin Yiddish Lab (New York, 2012), Sotto Voce, a multimedia musical-theater project presented in Berlin (2011), and Ruhe Sanfte, a musical-visual performance performed at the Israeli Opera (2005). Noted video design work includes City of Glass at the New Ohio Theater (2016), Trade Practices at HERE Arts Center (2014), Uriel Acosta at the Chocolate Factory (2014) and Don Giovanni at the Cologne Opera (2010). His video installation work has been presented at the SVA Gallery in New York, Hellerau Arts Center in Dresden, Germany, Kampo Museum in Kyoto, Japan, and Ein-Harod Museum in Israel. He has been awarded the Planet Connections Award (2012) for outstanding use of projections and multimedia in Trafficked, and the Operare 11 Prize for New Musical Theater Productions (2011) for the production of Sotto Voce. He is a New York Innovative Theater Award nominee (2016) for innovative design in City of Glass.

Shirly Bahar teaches at Columbia University's School of Visual Arts. Shirly's first book, "Documentary Cinema in Israel/Palestine: Performance, The Body, and Home, was published with IB Tauris/Bloomsbury, July 2021. The book is based on her dissertation, originally written at New York University. Shirly is also the co-director of Tzedek Lab, a multiracial national network of practitioners in the Jewish social justice field. Since 2013, Shirly has been curating art shows and public community programs at New York University, the American Jewish Historical Society, and with Jewish Voice for Peace's NYC Chapter.