GIANNA DAGINIS

Festival Programmer.

@giannadaginis, MONTCLAIR STATE UNIVERSITY

Gianna Daginis (she/her) is a student filmmaker attending Montclair State University in pursuit of a degree in Television and Film, with experience in writing, producing, directing, and various crew positions, and serving on the programming board for White Rabbit Film Festival. Aside from her work in the film industry, she is also accomplished in the field of sports media and broadcasting, being one of the first female broadcast interns of the Red Hawk Sports Network and serving as the organization’s inaugural Director of Social Media.

NUR GÜZELDERE

Festival Programmer & Photographer.

@nursphotodiary, PRATT INSTITUTE

Nur Güzeldere is a filmmaker and photographer from Istanbul, Turkey. She moved to NYC to complete her undergraduate studies at Pratt Institute. She primarily works as a cinematographer and assistant camera in short films. She is currently working on two upcoming documentaries.

NOELLE RAMSAY

Festival Programmer.

@noelleramsay, THE AMERICAN MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC ACADEMY

Noelle (she/her) was born in Ft Lauderdale, Florida. Throughout her youth she was exposed to different forms of the arts, ultimately favoring the performing arts. She secured her goal of becoming an actress at the age of 15 when a casting director recommended her to a management company. She was later signed. Noelle studied theater and film throughout high school. She moved to New York City at 18 to continue to pursue acting and attended the American Musical and Dramatic Academy where she studied in the Studio Program. You can see her on The Tonight Show starring Jimmy Fallon on their “12 Days of Christmas Sweaters” segment as well as films scheduled to release in 2023.

NICK SILVA

Festival Programmer & Photographer.

@nnick.silvaa + @n_silvaphoto, PRATT INSTITUTE

Nick Silva (he/they) is a student and award-winning photographer pursuing their B.F.A. in Photography at Pratt Institute. While his primary art practice has been photography for nearly a decade, he has experience working in video, printmaking, creative and journalistic writing, and performing arts both as cast and crew. Their work has been exhibited at the Mill Valley Art Festival, Marin Open Studios, and California State Fair as well as in multiple independent zines.

STEPH PRIZHITOMSKY

Founder, Festival Programmer, Festival Manager.

@unfortunatelywrittenbysteph, DREXEL UNIVERSITY

Steph Prizhitomsky (she/her) is the head screenwriter of FIF Productions, co-founder of the White Rabbit Film Festival, screenwriter/director of Imagine Networks’ horror miniseries Distress Signals, editor in chief of Suits and Sage Magazine, recipient of the Best Young Actor award at the NJ Film Awards, playwright/director of Vincent’s at the Player’s Theatre, Under the Limelight at the Rogue Theatre Festival, and Limbo’s Woodland and Strangers in a City at the Chain Theatre. Limbo's Woodland has been published in Fleas on the Dog Literary Magazine, and Sweet Dreams Sunset has been published in the 'Et Tu, Brute?' Play Anthology.

DANIEL OLIVER LEE

Founder, Festival Programmer, Graphic & Web Designer.

@danieloliverlee, NEW YORK UNIVERSITY

Daniel Oliver Lee (he/him) is a Korean-American multidisciplinary artist, award-winning filmmaker, and actor, in addition to being a proud recipient of a fifth-grade basketball medal.

In 2019 Daniel founded Torrance Productions, his first published film, 'Estimated Time of Arrival' won the Special Jury Prize at Montclair Film's 2021 Emerging Filmmaker Competition. Since then his films have gone on to garner over twenty-five festival selections in addition to winning three New Jersey Film Awards, Flint Youth Film Festival's Best Screenplay Award, and being named a finalist by Newark Film Festival's youth division, NYC Teen Film Festival, and the LTV Fone Film Festival. Daniel's work as a filmmaker has been screened by the Museum of the Moving Image's Redstone Theater as a Teen Digital Media Innovator, Bowtie Criterion Cinemas, Bed Stuy Arthouse, Resin Art Center, Montclair Cinema 505, and the Tisch School of the Arts.

As an actor, Daniel's work spans film and theatre, working with the likes of Cary Fukunaga to Jason Robert Brown, and Moisés Kaufman. In 2021 Nickelodeon named Daniel as one of twelve finalists selected for the inaugural Nickelodeon Trans Youth Acting Challenge. His screen work has been featured by NoBudge, Stuart Cinema & Cafe, Film Noir Cinema, Nitehawk Cinema, Kodak Shoot film, Nowness Asia, and Comedy Central to name a few. He can currently be seen as a teenage Bryan Cho (조휴일) of the K-Rock sensation The Black Skirts in the visual album/biopic 'Teen Troubles in Dirty Jersey' which currently has over 200k views.

His graphic design and illustration work have been featured by Tap Into Net, Broadway World, Suits & Sage Magazine, and The Chain Theater. Daniel is currently pursuing a BFA in Film & Television at the Maurice Kanbar Institute within the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. He once read through his local library's entire comic section, is brushing up on his Nadsat, and is based in NYC.

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