Directed by Ricardo Varona
Hailing from Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, Ricardo Varona is a Miloš Forman Directing Fellow and MFA Directing graduate of Columbia University’s Graduate Film program.
His most recent work, 'La mujer de Héctor', won the Warner Media OneFifty Latino Short Film Award at the Miami Film Festival and played on Short of the Week and received a Vimeo Staff Pick. It was nominated for Best Student Film and Best of Festival in the Palm Springs International ShortFest, the Grand Jury Prize at Nashville Film Festival, Best Narrative Short at the Indie Memphis Film Festival, and has been awarded the Best Film Prize at New Faces New Voices and an Honorable Mention for Best Student Short at the Woodstock Film Festival. Ricardo was recognized as “Best Director” at the TIDE film festival in 2022.
Written & Produced by Munir Atalla
Munir Atalla is a Palestinian-American writer and filmmaker with roots in Jordan and Texas. Informed by his background as an investigative reporter, Munir’s narrative work explores unique subcultures across continents and time with a journalistic eye for detail and nuance. Munir has produced projects for A24, Peacock, The Othrs, and NBC News. His work for PBS Frontline was nominated for a DuPont Award for Journalistic Excellence in 2020.
He has completed an MFA in film at Columbia University, where he wrote and produced several shorts which have played at numerous places including The Aspen Shorts Fest, The New Yorker Screening Room, BlackStar Film Festival, and Atlas Obscura. Munir is a graduate of the Writers’ Assistant track of the 2022 WGI Support Staff Training Program. He’s currently based in Brooklyn, New York where he spent so much time with his head in the clouds that he literally made a movie about pigeons.
No humans were pooped on in the making of this film…
Well, other than Director of Photography, Rafe Scobey-Thal. And that was only after he suited up in a makeshift plastic suit to film inside a pigeon coop that is home to over 1,000 birds.
Rafe Scobey-Thal is an Editor, Director and cinematographer living in New York City. His last feature, The Death of My Two Fathers, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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