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Alisa Lebow<\/a> [co-producer, co-host]<\/strong> is Professor of Screen Media at the University of Sussex. Her research explores the intersection of the aesthetic and the political in documentary film and related media. She is both a documentary film scholar and a practitioner whose interactive meta-documentary project Filming Revolution <\/em>(Stanford Digital, 2018, http:\/\/filmingrevolution.supdigital.org\/<\/a>) won the SCMS Anne Friedberg Award for Innovative Scholarship in 2020. She is the author and\/or editor of several documentary focussed volumes including The Blackwell Companion to Contemporary Documentary Film <\/em>(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016), The Cinema of Me: Self and Subjectivity in Documentary Film<\/em> (Wallflower\/Columbia University Press, 2012), and First Person Jewish<\/em> (University of Minnesota Press, 2008). Her writing has appeared in World Records, Film Quarterly, The Journal for Visual Anthropology <\/em>and Camera Obscura<\/em> and her films include For the Record: The World Tribunal on Iraq<\/em> (2007), Treyf<\/em> (1998) and Outlaw<\/em> (1994).<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Ritika Kaushik<\/a><\/strong> [co-producer]<\/strong> is a film historian and videoessayist who specializes on documentary cinema and South Asian cinema. She is an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick\u2019s Department of Film and Television Studies. Her academic and videographic research focuses on the history, infrastructures, archives, and afterlives of state-sponsored documentaries in India. She is currently completing a monograph which traces the operation of state power and bureaucratic practices at India\u2019s primary institution of state sponsored documentary filmmaking. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and previously worked as a postdoctoral scholar at the graduate research training group “Configurations of Film” at Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her writings and video essays have appeared in journals like Bioscope: South Asian Screen Studies<\/em>, Economic and Political Weekly, NECSUS,<\/em> Tecmerin: Journal of Audiovisual Essays<\/em>, Docalogue<\/em>, ASAP | art<\/em>, and in the edited volume Accidental Archivism <\/em>(meson press). <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Samuael Topiary Landberg<\/a><\/strong> [co-producer, co-host<\/strong>, editor]<\/strong> is a documentary filmmaker-scholar and curator whose work focuses on queer and environmental themes. She has created films and videos, multimedia performances, interactive online and installation works. Her critical writing has been published in Feminist Media Histories, Camera Obscura, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, <\/em>and JCSM. <\/em>Her chapter on the anti-representational turn in documentary can be found in the edited anthology Reclaiming Popular Documentary <\/em>(Indiana U Press, 2021). She currently lectures at University of California, Santa Cruz and at the California College of Arts in San Francisco. She served as an elected member of the Visible Evidence Governing Council from its founding until 2024.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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R\u00e9mi\/Niks Gj\u00f8rtz<\/strong> (they\/them) [sound mixer] <\/strong>is a freelance Sound Recordist, Sound Designer, Sound Editor, and Foley Artist based in \u00c5lesund, Norway. They were previously the Senior Technician-Demonstrator in Sound and Drama at the University of Sussex. In addition to working on podcast series, Gj\u00f8rtz has recorded audio for music videos, feature length documentaries, an advert for Sipsmith Gin, a roundtable discussion on the ethics of AI, and an LGBTQIA+ poetry project. They have supervised the sound post-production of several short films and other audio projects via their company, soundbyniks. Gj\u00f8rtz is also an aspiring filmmaker currently developing a script for a short film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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