ARTLESS MEDIA: FILMMAKER PANEL

SUN MAY 7 | 12 PM PT | THE BEACON CINEMA
AVAILABLE IN-PERSON ONLY

ARTLESS MEDIA: FILMMAKER PANEL

Join Georden West, Grace Byron and Russell Sheaffer in conversation with Lead Programmer Anto Astudillo on their newest works, breaking into the industry, and trans representation.

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Panel Participants:

Gorden West
Georden West is a multimedia artist exploring the speculative openings of archival silence. Named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2022 "25 New Faces of Independent Film," West challenges traditional notions of preservation to offer a fresh perspective on the interplay, interdependence, and entanglement of queer histories. Their debut feature film, PLAYLAND, premiered at 2023 IFFR and their short film, PATRON SAINT, won gold at the 46th Student Academy Awards.

Grace Byron

Grace Byron is a writer from Indianapolis based in Queens. Her writing has appeared or is forthcoming in the Baffler, LARB, and Screen Slate. She tweets @emotrophywife.

Russell Sheaffer
Russell is a visual artist and producer whose work revels in queer abstraction. He produced Josephine Decker's THOU WAST MILD AND LOVELY, Daniel Laabs' JULES OF LIGHT AND DARK, Grace Byron's series TRANS MONOGAMIST, and Georden West's PLAYLAND. He is the founder of the San Diego-based production company Artless Media.

“We screened Grace Byron's series TRANS MONOGAMIST at TRANSlations in 2020 (in some of the first days of lockdown) and it was such a beautiful, welcoming experience. I'm thrilled to be coming back to the festival - in person this time!”