Emily Mkrtichian
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Emily Mkrtichian is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist from a displaced, diasporic family who explores alternative archives and visionary futures of the SWANA region. Her films include the first Armenian sci-fi film, Transmission, which premiered at the BFI Flare Film Festival, and the feature documentary THERE WAS, THERE WAS NOT, which premiered at True/False and won several awards including the FIPRESCI Prize at the Golden Apricot Film Festival and the Audience Award and Jury Award at the Mar del Plata International Film Festival. In addition to her films, Emily's multimedia installation Luys i Luso, created in collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, has been exhibited in museums, concert halls, and public spaces around the globe.
She is a recipient of the 2025 Creative Capital award, a DocX Fellow at Duke University, and an alumni of the Sundance Institute. She currently splits her time between the US and Armenia.
Alexandria Bombach
Executive Producer, Editor
Alexandria Bombach is an award-winning director, cinematographer, and editor from Santa Fe, New Mexico. Their most recent film, IT’S ONLY LIFE AFTER ALL, is an intimate conversation with the iconic folk-rock band Indigo Girls. The film premiered at the 2023 Sundance film festival. Her feature-length documentary, FRAME BY FRAME (2015) premiered at SXSW and went on to win over 25 film festival awards. Her feature documentary ON HER SHOULDERS, following Yazidi activist and Nobel laureate Nadia Murad, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival — where Bombach won the U.S. Documentary Directing Award — and was nominated for two Independent Spirit Awards and shortlisted for an Academy Award
Brock Williams
Producer
Brock Williams is an Academy Shortlisted and Independent Spirit Award-nominated producer and editor working in both documentary and scripted films. Williams was a Film Independent Producing Lab fellow in 2014 and is currently a “producer in residence” for Film Independent.
Williams has produced, co-produced or EP'd critically-acclaimed feature documentaries such as The Body Politic (2024), There Was, There Was Not (2024), Indigo Girls: It's Only Life After All (2023), On Her Shoulders (2018) and Killing Them Safely (2015), as well as scripted films including Memes & Nightmares (2024), Good Girl Jane (2022), Slash (2016) and Awful Nice (2013).