Collaborative Studio Fellows 2011-2012

Adam Khalil

Collaborative Studio Projects
» another day without a future, but what the hell another day…
» Desperately Seeking Stagg Girls

Adam (Shingwak_Nehro_Rashad_Krebs) Khalil is a filmmaker, artist, and media archivist. His practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of ethnography through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil’s work has been exhibited at Goldilocks Gallery (Philadelphia), Microscope Gallery (Brooklyn), Museo ExTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico City), Carnival of eCreativity (Bombay), and Fine Art Film Festival Szolnok (Hungary). Khalil was a UnionDocs Fellow from 2011-12 and a Gates Millennium Scholar. In 2011 he graduated from the Film and Electronic Arts program at Bard College. Khalil is currently in post-production on a feature film about the history of the Ojibway people with his collaborator and brother Zack Khalil.

Alexandre Maia

Collaborative Studio Projects
» Little Tricksters

Alexandre Maia is a biologist studying molecular biology and cancer at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. He is interested in documentary film, and other forms of exploring both fiction and non-fiction. He has produced a few short films that have been presented in Madrid (Spain), Braga (Portugal), New York and San Francisco.

Claire Richard

Collaborative Studio Projects
» Whose Schools

Claire Richard is a French writer and journalist. She writes about literature, digital cultures and activism for various national French media. She published a book about politics of literature in French contemporary literature, and is currently researching a book about The Young Lords Party for a French publisher. She has produced interviews for French national radio as well as short audio documentaries for arte radio. Richard is a graduate of French École Normale Supérieure and New York University.

Elizabeth Lawrence

Collaborative Studio Projects
» La Marqueta
» Desperately Seeking Stagg Girls

Elizabeth Lawrence is a documentary producer/director/schemer residing in New York. She has worked in the film industry for over ten years. In 2010, she made her directorial debut with Roll Out, Cowboy. The feature film toured over 50 film festivals worldwide, received six Best Documentary awards and acquired distribution. She was a 2011-12 UnionDocs Collaborative Fellow. In 2012, she co-directed a documentary short with Amanda Stymeist, So Far Above Humans They Are. The film was exhibited at the Cameron Art Museum in North Carolina. Lawrence is currently directing her second feature documentary, Aldine.

Kaitlin Prest

Collaborative Studio Projects
» That Sh*t Is No Joke

Kaitlin Prest is an audio artist working with radio, performance and installation. She is the creative director of Audio Smut, and a producer/sound director at Life of the Law. Both shows are independently produced and distributed podcasts with a flair for audio craftsmanship. Her work has been featured on NPR, the CBC, Radiotopia’s The Truth, at In the Dark Radio, in the Radio Cinema in Copenhagen, the Henry Miller Museum and more. She was selected to judge the first year of audio submissions to the Sheffield Doc/Fest alongside Jad Abumrad and Kari Hesthamer. She is dedicated to innovation in audio storytelling, in radio and beyond.

Lucas Carlisle

Lucas Carlisle is a Canadian designer and artist specializing in interactive media, web, mobile and emerging platforms. He is currently a user-experience designer at The Huffington Post.

Meg Kelly

» The Broadway Triangle/a>
» Reunion

Meg Kelly is a multi-media media artist and designer who has documented physical, political and cultural landscapes in Mumbai, New York City and elsewhere. She is the co-founder and creative director of Decent Workshop, where she uses design and storytelling to support social entrepreneurs. She is the former creative director of the Millennial Trains Project, was a UnionDocs Fellow and a sometimes contributor to Urban Omnibus.

She holds a Bachelor’s Degree with high honors in Architecture from Barnard College, Columbia University, where she developed her passion for understanding and explaining the complexities and contrasts of cities.

Oresti Tsonopoulos

Collaborative Studio Projects
» Brooklyn Cupcake
» Little Tricksters

Oresti Tsonopoulos is a multimedia storyteller who lives in Brooklyn, New York. Though his work predominantly lives online, his videos for The New York Times have been featured on JetBlue flights and his musician-centric pieces for NBC New York have been featured in taxi cabs across NYC. He studied recorded music at New York University, was a UnionDocs Fellow and is currently working on his Master’s Degree in journalism at The City University of New York (CUNY).

Collaborative Studio Projects
» Reunion

Olivia Koski is Head of Community at Atavist, makers of the Creatavist interactive storytelling software. Born in the desert, bred in the mountains, she built laser weapons earlier in her career. She has a Master’s in Journalism from New York University, and degrees in Engineering Physics and Germanic Studies from University of Colorado at Boulder. Koski is also a member of Guerilla Science, where she produces immersive theater in collaboration with practicing scientists.

Sonia Gonzalez

Collaborative Studio Projects
» Desperately Seeking Stagg Girls
» La Marqueta

Sonia Gonzalez is a French filmmaker who splits her time between Paris and New York. She regularly works as a journalist on several documentary films for the European cultural TV channel Arte and other public broadcasters. Desperately Seeking Stagg Girls is her first personal work which she made while a UnionDocs Fellow in 2012. Recently, she finished producing Matthew Lancit’s new feature on Flâneurs and has co-written a feature for Arte about girl culture. She has completed shooting her first feature documentary about Riot Grrrl, which combines her passion for music, teenage and underground themes. It will be broadcasted on Arte TV in 2015.