Claire Maske- Director
Claire Maske is a teaching artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles.. She creates experimental and animated documentaries, often combining documentary audio with poetic and interpretive visuals. She received a BA in Documentary Studies with a minor in Studio Art from Skidmore College and an MFA in Film and Media Art at Emerson College. She was a 2021 Student Fellow at the MDOCS Storyteller’s Institute. Her work has screened at major festivals including DOC NYC, Hot Springs International Documentary Festival, and Brooklyn Film Festival.
Mika Yatsuhashi- Editor
Mika Yatsuhashi is a documentary filmmaker based in Montreal, Canada. After growing up in Takoma Park, Maryland, she moved to Montreal in 2017 to study film production at Concordia University's Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, graduating in 2021 with a B.F.A. In 2020, she received the Mel Hoppenheim Award and completed her short documentary film, “An Uninterrupted View of the Sea.” The film has screened at the HotDocs International Film Festival, Rendez-Vous Quebec Cinema, and the Smithsonian’s Museum for Asian Art, among others. Mika is passionate about archival research, exploring personal history, and American identity. While not working on her own films, she enjoys collaborating with directors as an editor. Mika and Claire first met in middle school, and have had the pleasure of watching each other grow up, as friends, and also as artists.
Natalie Peracchio- Producer
Natalie Peracchio’s film and video work embraces transcendent metamorphosis with heart, humor, and a touch of surrealism. She earned a BA from Carnegie Mellon University, and an MFA in Film and Media Arts from Emerson College. Her short film, Beast, has screened in film festivals across the US and is featured in the Discover Indie Film series on Amazon Prime Video.
Abigail Hendrix- Director of 16mm Photography
Abigail Hendrix is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds a BA in anthropology from the University of Washington and an MFA in Film and Media Art from Emerson College with emphases on analog film, experimental media, and ethnography. Hendrix works in documentary and experimental media, and her current artistic practice consists primarily of exploratory films and audiovisual installations driven by her parallel interests in folklore and analog filmmaking.