WRITER/DIRECTOR/PRODUCER

Sara Crow is a filmmaker from Arizona based in New York. She is especially passionate about telling stories of subcultures, misfits, and those who operate on the fringes of society.

As a documentarian, Sara has produced nonfiction work for HBO, Disney+, CNN, MSNBC, Quibi, truTV, Viceland, and Showtime. She is a member of the Brooklyn Filmmakers’ Collective and the Video Consortium.

Her debut narrative short film “Bluebird” was awarded the Black Family Film Prize at NYU’s Graduate Film program, where she is currently a thesis student and a Maurice Kanbar Scholarship recipient. Her background in journalistic documentaries bleeds into her narrative work; Sara loves world-building and diving into unknown histories and cultures.

PRODUCER

Nina Cochran is a film producer and photographer, based in New York City. Soon after earning a BA in Art History at Williams College, she began her professional life working in the film curatorial teams of the Whitney Museum and the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), and as Literary Assistant to American novelist John Irving (author of The Cider House Rules, for which he also won the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay). Nina then worked as a freelance photographer and photojournalist at the New York Daily News and Hartford Courant, before discovering her love for production in the camera departments of The King of Staten Island (for Oscar-winning Director of Photography Robert Elswit), and Marry Me (for Director of Photography Florian Ballhaus). Throughout these various and inspiring opportunities, storytelling has remained central, and she has been drawn especially to the development of characters and tales set in poignant precise environments. Nina is currently pursuing an MFA in Creative Producing at Columbia University School of the Arts, where she is a 2022 recipient of the Arthur B. Krim Memorial Award.

PRODUCER

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CINEMATOGRAPHER

Born in Romania and raised in NYC, Nona Catusanu-Popp is a cinematographer, visual artist and director. She graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and TV and went on to study in the Cinematography Master’s Program at The Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU) in the Czech Republic. She is a recipient of the ASC Vision Mentorship Award.

She is a member of Illium Pictures, an independent production company based out of Brooklyn, NY and The Hexagon Initiative collective, a community of artists based in NYC, and currently serves on the advisory board for the NYC Women Filmmakers group.

Nona has mounted productions both large and small across three continents, including long and short form narratives, documentaries, commercials and music videos for such diverse clients as VOX, Bustle, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The New York Times and Vice among many others. Her projects have been showcased at festivals around the world.

PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Sadra Tehrani is an Iranian-born Set and Production Designer based in New York City. He’s intrigued by stories that explore concepts of belonging and alienation, and characters who are inconspicuous outliers. With a Masters in Architecture from Penn State University, he deeply appreciates a well thought-out construction detail. Space and Sound are the main drivers in his approach to design, and his ultimate joy is experiencing the synergy between a film’s production design and its score. Throughout his studies at NYU, Sadra has increasingly become obsessed with sketching and the presence of one’s “handwriting” in their artwork. When away from the designing board, Sadra enjoys riding his bike on and off trail, drawing strangers on the New York subway, and dj mixing his favorite dance hits.