Emily Mkrtichian
Director, Producer, Director of Photography
Emily Mkrtichian is a filmmaker and multimedia artist whose work is deeply influenced by her upbringing in a displaced, diasporic family. She explores radically personal and alternative archives, focusing on the SWANA region while emphasizing the transformative power of ethical, collaborative storytelling.
Her debut feature documentary, There Was, There Was Not, won the FIPRESCI Prize (International Critics Award) at the Golden Apricot Film Festival and is currently doing the festival circuit. Emily’s earlier works include the sci-fi short Transmission, which premiered at the BFI FLARE Film Festival, and the award-winning short documentary Motherland, which debuted at the Full Frame Film Festival and won the Best Short Documentary Award at the Copenhagen 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.
Her work have received support from the Sundance Institute, the IDA, and Chicken & Egg Pictures, LA Public Arts Fund and the Locarno Film Festival. Emily has also been a fellow at the Flaherty Seminar, the UnionDocs Summer Lab, and the Torino Film Lab. Currently, she teaches film and divides 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. Her 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).