SEEfest Borderlands/Nowherelands Dialogues

Ivana Todorovic (Serbia) is a writer/director of socially engaging films that explore trauma and recovery through empathy. Her most recent film, “End of the Road” world premiered at the 2022 Palm Springs International ShortFest, and is still on the festival circuit around the globe. The short fiction film “When I’m at
Home” has played festivals worldwide winning multiple awards, and was invited to screen at “The Principle of Migration” exhibition at The New York Foundation for the Arts Gallery. Todorovic’s films “Adem’s Island”, ” When I was a boy, I was a girl”, “A Harlem Mother”, “Rapresent”, “Everyday life of Roma children from Block 71” have been shown in over 200 international film festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam IFF, Sarajevo Film Festival, Dokufest, and have collectively won over 40 awards. Her films have been acquired by The New York Times and Aeon Films, and have screened at The Anthology Film Archive in New York, and the Cultura de Contemporania de Barcelona, Spain. Ivana teaches master classes and practical seven-day documentary film workshops at universities, film festivals, and institutions worldwide.
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Sylvan Oswald (he/him) creates text-based projects exploring trans identity, history, and nonviolent dramaturgy. Recent work includes High Winds (Fusebox
Festival, PICA’s TBA Festival, X Artists’ Books); Trainers (Gate Theatre, London); and Outtakes, a web series. Plays include A Kind of Weather (Diversionary Theater), Vendetta Chrome (Clubbed Thumb), and Pony (About Face Theater). Sylvan is a recipient of a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, a Soho Rep Dorothy Strelsin Fellowship, a Jerome Fellowship, and residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, and Sundance/UCross. Sylvan is an alumnus
of New Dramatists and heads the playwriting program at UCLA.
sylvanoswald.xyz @sylvanoswaldivanatodorovic.com

Dante Alencastre is a working artist/filmmaker/activist who makes his living from his artivist work. His imagination envisions projects and sees the potential in individuals and the importance of stories and combines this with the courage and conviction to tell them, often beginning before any organizational structure or financial assurance is in place, but with a trust that their inherent importance to the community will allow them to come into being. He directs and produces LGBTQ+ documentary films with a particular focus on the social justice and visibility of the Transgender community. Previous films include – in Peru, (‘En El Fuego’ ( 2008), ‘El Fuego Dentro’ ( 2011), and in Los Angeles, (‘Transvisible: Bamby Salcedo’s Story’ (2013), ’Raising Zoey’ ( 2016), and ‘AIDS DIVA: The Legend of Connie Norman’ (2021).
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