2025

Tien Nguyen is a freshman at NYU's Film and Television program and works as an AC and G&E in the film industry. Coming from Oakland, California, she is heavily influenced by both her strong upbringing in identity and social activism and her love of Japanese experimentalist/avant-garde cinema! She is currently the New York post chief of Tangent Zine. (Viet and Nam — A Search in the Scorched Earth)

Muhammad Siddiqui is a Pakistani freshman at NYU studying Film & TV. He ran a film magazine in high school and thought it was really cool then though now he is deeply ashamed of it (shame is, in fact, a common thread in his life and he made a movie called Pissboy to prove it). (Invisible Graveyards)

Lachlan Wong is a freshman studying History and Cinema Studies. Coming from a host of places including New Zealand, Hong Kong and Shanghai, he currently resides in New York City. He is particularly interested in the twee pop movement of the 1980s and 90s, the intersection between cinema and history in the 20th century, and Marxist-Leninist theory. He runs a Youtube channel titled theloballong and can be found at any number of NYC’s repertory theaters on the weekends. (Women Alone: Mizu Shobai in the Gendai-Geki of Mizoguchi and Naruse)

Hanne Brabander is a Boston-born writer and freshman at NYU studying Politics and Cinema. Drawn to the glamour and grit of Old Hollywood, she's captivated by feminist film critique and the ways in which cinema can raise larger questions. She was previously the Assistant Arts Editor for her school newspaper and has her own blog entitled Girlfailure45. (Leopards, Laughter and the Unruly Woman: Comedy as Defiance) 

2024

Constantin Strother is a filmmaker and freshman at NYU studying Film and TV. Coming from Savannah, Georgia, he is strongly influenced and interested in films of the Slow Cinema style, particularly the films of Andrei Tarkovsky and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. He has directed many short films, including "Savannah Critters: Dialogues from the Southern Coast" (2024) and "Odysseus." (2024) (Memoria: Time, Stasis, and Singularity)

Nadine Mamoon is a freshman at NYU studying Film and Television. Originally from Iraq before having moved to Dubai, she has a strong interest in Iranian and Arab cinema. She has previously written for Little White Lies and held a role as an Arts Editor for her school magazine. (Anora: A Primer for the Small Weird Loves)