Stephanie Spray (Chair)
Stephanie Spray is a non-fiction filmmaker and professor of Critical Media Practices at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her work conjugates ethnographic methodologies with a critical nonfiction media practice, for cinema and art exhibition contexts. Her films have screened at NYFF, Art of the Real, TIFF, CPH:DOX, Viennale, RIDM, AFI, Rotterdam, Open City Documentary Festival, BAFICI, and Anthology Film Archives, and museums such as MoMA, the Whitney, the National Gallery, and Louisiana MoMA. The last film in Stephanie’s Nepal series, Manakamana, is in the permanent collection of MoMA New York and won numerous awards, including a Golden Leopard at Locarno.