Alumni
Ligaiya Romero
Editor, Producer
Ligaiya Romero (they.them.theirs.siyá) is a documentary filmmaker and visual artist working with collective memory and the decolonial imagination.
They recently directed the short film, Maia Cruz Palileo: Becoming the Moon, for PBS American Masters, Firelight Media, & Topic. Ligaiya is currently working on a documentary film about Asian-American activism, called Not Your Model Minority!
Ligaiya is the Video Producer & Editor for The Argus Project, a transmedia documentary on police violence and citizen counter-surveillance. The project was a collaboration with CopWatch NYC, supported by Tribeca New Media Fund, and presented at Tribeca Film Festival in 2016.
Ligaiya is a Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow, a CAAM fellow, and a member of the Queer Producers Collective.
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GAIA takes the medical breakthroughs of the developed world and brings them to The Far End of the Road. Their focus is one district in Malawi where 1 out of 6 adults are HIV-positive and healthcare can be hours away.
Michael Thomasson has devoted his life to video games. It’s been his passion and his obsession for more than three decades. He owns over 11,000 unique game titles for more than 100 different systems.
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