Leah Galant is smiling at the camera.
Leah Galant
Photo courtesy Leah Galant
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Leah Galant (she/her) is a Jewish filmmaker and Fulbright Scholar based in New York whose storytelling focuses on unexpected narratives often through the lens of womxn. While at Ithaca College in 2015 she was named one of Variety’s "110 Students to Watch in Film and Media” for her work on The Provider, which follows a traveling abortion doctor in Texas (SXSW 2016, Student Emmy Award) and Beyond the Wall about a formerly incarcerated individuals re-entry process. She was a Sundance Ignite and Jacob Burns Fellow where she created Death Metal Grandma (SXSW 2018) about a 97 year old Holocaust survivor named Inge Ginsberg who sings death metal which won Best Documentary at the American Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival, and is a NY Times Op Doc. Leah is a member of Meerkat Media, a worker-cooperative film production company in Sunset Park NY. Leah's directorial debut On The Divide premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and will broadcast on POV PBS in the Spring of 2022.

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Emily Cohen Ibañez looking directly at the camera. She has short grey and dark brown hair and is wearing gold earrings, lipstick, and a striped T-shirt.
Emily Cohen Ibañez
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Jerry Risius holds a camera on his shoulder and smiles directly at the camera.
Jerry Risius
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Beth Levison looks at the camera and smiles.
Beth Levison
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Cai Thomas looks directly at the camera. She has short hair and wears a cap. Portrait in black and white.
Cai Thomas
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Maya Cueva looks at the camera.
Maya Cueva
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Ann Kaneko smirks while looking directly at the camera.
Ann Kaneko
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Mia Donovan looks away from the camera. She wears a dark outfit. Portrait in black and white.
Mia Donovan
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Ash Goh Hua looking straight ahead. She has shoulder-length dark hair partially tied up in a bun.
Ash Goh Hua
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A black and white portrait of filmmaker Brooke Pepion Swaney. A young woman with shoulder length dark hair looks intently at the camera. She wears a collared shirt and a crew neck sweater over it.
Brooke Pepion Swaney
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A black and white portrait of Daniel Nelson. A white man with a beard and mustache is surrounded by film cameras, he looks down to the right through a camera lens he holds.
Daniel A. Nelson
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A woman with shoulder-length dark hair and bangs looks intently to the left with her chin resting lightly on her fingers. Headshot of Natalie Patillo
Natalie Pattillo
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