Kim is a filmmaker and Associate Professor at the University of Windsor in Ontario, Canada. She works primarily in documentary and is currently completing her first written/directed fiction short. She held a previous fellowship with the DAAD (Deutscher Akademischer Austausch Dienst) in Germany 2012-13 and her work has been funded by The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Ontario Arts Council. This year at the CRI Kim will work on, and blog about, turning her latest feature length history documentary into a live documentary, essentially a deconstructed theater/film performance, in order to explore the ways we foreground the present in the past and to experiment with ways that filmmakers can create an interactive digital/analog experience that must be witnessed in person. 

Dagny Atencio Looper studied artificial intelligence at M.I.T. while in high school as part of the Research Science Institute. She went on to become a presidential scholar at Caltech, graduating with a B.Sc. in astrophysics. While at Caltech, she captained a microgravity flight team out of NASA's Johnson Space Center, observing flight behaviours of drosophila melanogaster. She earned her Ph.D. from the Institute for Astronomy in Hawai'i, investigating planet formation around dying stars. In 2011, she moved to NYC to study writing and directing in the NYU graduate film department. She is a proud member of the National Board of Review and the National Hispanic Foundation of the Arts. Dagny originally hails from Arkansas and enjoys Southern gothic books, Mexican food and science films.

In 2014, Dagny co-founded IndieLoop.TV -- a web-platform which helps filmmakers create portfolios and brand their creative work and quickly match producers with crew to fit their needs.

Bio David: David builds and directs entertainment experiments at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program. He explores the intersection of emerging film technologies and new viewing behaviors between the web and mobile devices. His work includes a mobile film that lets you chat with fictional characters (Glitch The World), a device-agnostic concert film (InConcert), VR live streaming, and a collective crowd speaker (Sparse). 

Project Description: Super360 is a creative exploration of Virtual Reality Filmmaking as a new tool of expression. Over the next year, we will release short VR films, document a production workflow, explore screenplay writing, directing, acting, staging and post-production for 360 film. Our approach is to learn by doing - so follow our blog, subscribe on YouTube, or reach out to us any time: goo.gl/tnYsFN

Matthew Goral is a creative technologist living in New York City. He attended The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for his undergraduate degree, and he is currently a graduate student at the Interactive Telecommunications Program at New York University. Matthew has worked as a designer and technician at a rapid fabrication workshop, a copywriter and designer for content marketing, a creative technologist for an ad agency, and a kindergarten teacher in South Korea. He is focused on building virtual reality as a tool for childhood education, and exploring VR as a unique medium and art-form

Born in Montgomery, AL and raised all over the United States.  Julius Pryor IV credits diverse background, and an unyielding thirst for knowledge, as inspiration for his creative pursuits. He is a graduate of Morehouse College and is currently a thesis student in the Graduate Film program at NYU.

From the heart of America, Saint Louis, Missouri, Marttise Roosevelt Hill is a renaissance global filmmaker striving to connect villages across the globe through unique universal stories about the human experience. Hill grew up videotaping family gatherings with his uncle, which sparked his interest in filmmaking. Hill’s passion for storytelling led him to study English Literature at Morehouse College where he also directed the Miss Morehouse College Pageant, served as Video Production Coordinator for the football team and made five short films. In 2009, Marttise was invited to study at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts Asia Graduate Film Program in Singapore as one of only twenty-six MFA candidates. In 2011, Hill’s modern Asian western, “Love, Guns and Amy,” won “Best Relationship Short” at the 2011 Stella Artois St. Louis Filmmakers’ Showcase. In 2012, Marttise was inducted into the Boys and Girls Club of Greater St. Louis Alumni Hall of Fame. Hill’s first feature as a producer, CRONIES, written and directed by Michael Larnell had its world premiere at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. Hill strives to be a voice for the voiceless in his role as a global filmmaker.

Jeongki is the co-founder of STUDIO. He is dedicated to creating both digital and physical workspace for every filmmaker with his expertise in Design Research and Data Visualization—subjects that he also teaches at Parsons The New School of Design. He comes to Cinema Research Institute with an interdisciplinary background in technology consulting, urban policy, and the military. Jeongki received a Bachelor of Individualized Study in New Media and Visual Culture and a Master of Science in Applied Urban Science and Informatics, both from New York University.