ANULA SHETTY is an award winning filmmaker. She was recently nominated for a 2015 USA Fellows Award, and a 2015 Pew Fellowship in the Arts. She received her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University and is a recipient of three Media Arts Fellowships from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She was twice nominated for a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. She was awarded three Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation, Artist-in-Communities Grants to conduct youth filmmaking residencies at the Reichhold Art Center in the U.S. Virgin Islands. She received an Independence Foundation Fellowship and a Leeway Foundation Transformation Award for Arts and Social Change. Her work has been broadcast nationally on PBS and screened at festivals and museums worldwide, including MOMA, the Flaherty Film Seminar & the Pacific Film Archives. She currently serves on the board of NAMAC (National Alliance for Media Arts and Culture).
MICHAEL KUETEMEYER is an award-winning producer of experimental, documentary and interactive media. Projects he has developed include Kamaka’eha (Aching Eye), a documentary exploring Hawaii’s volcanic landscape in relation to the island’s cultural and political activism. His recent work includes installations and mobile media apps to explore new ways of experiencing a place and the oral histories that surround it. These interactive place-based documentaries include “Explore Hawai’i Volcanoes,” an iPad app revealing the dynamic landscape of an active volcano and “Time Lens – Pearl Street,” a social practice art project documenting the gentrification of an alley in Philadelphia’s Chinatown North neighborhood. Michael is an Assistant Professor in Temple University’s Film and Media Arts department and was a recipient of a Fulbright Senior Scholar Award. His films and interactive projects have been exhibited on PBS as well as festivals and museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art – NY, Flaherty Film Seminar and the 2014 SIGGRAPH conference. He is a founding member of Termite TV Collective, a non-profit arts organization that facilitates the production and exhibition of experimental and activist media.