Lydia Cornett is a filmmaker, composer, and artist. Her films have screened at True/False, Sheffield DocFest, AFI Fest, Slamdance, BAMCinemaFest, Aspen Shortsfest, Palm Springs International Short Fest, Hamptons International Film Festival, DOC NY,C and the Ann Arbor Film Festival, where she was awarded the Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker in 2023. Her work has been distributed and featured by The New Yorker, POV Documentary, Vimeo Staff Picks, Nowness, Paper Magazine, Stereogum, Nylon Magazine, and Roger Ebert.

Lydia has held residencies and fellowships at the Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, the National Arts Club, BRICLab, the Jacob Burns Film Center, and UnionDocs. She has received support for her work from the Princess Grace Foundation, Chicken & Egg Pictures, Field of Vision, IF/Then Shorts, the NYC Women’s Fund at the New York Foundation for the Arts, and the Greater Columbus Arts Council.

Brit Fryer is an artist and filmmaker from Chicago’s South Side, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. His unique approach to nonfiction storytelling centers on gender and queerness through process-forward and collaborative methods. Through intimate character stories and curious social experiments, he explores the inherited and traded narratives of queer and trans life as a challenge to cultural stasis, ambivalence, and threats to self-determination.

His most recent film, The Script, co-directed with Noah Schamus, unpacks the boundaries of language and the role of performance in shaping and imagining a more expansive and gender-expansive healthcare system. The film was shortlisted for the 2023 IDA Awards and won the Creative Activism Award at the 2024 SIMA Awards. It is currently distributed on The Criterion Channel and The New Yorker.

Brit’s films have been screened in theatres and festivals internationally, including Blackstar, CPH: DOX, Newfest, Indie Grits, Nitehawk, and MIX NYC. He has received generous support from Creative Culture, The Sundance Institute, The Ford Foundation, The Jerome Foundation, The Gotham Film and Media Institute, Points North Institute, GLAAD, and Film Fatales. He is forever thankful to the residencies that have given space for his practice, including Yaddo, Saltonstall, Silver Sun, and BRIC.