Laura Bianco is a filmmaker, editor, visual artist, film curator and art educator based in Milan, Italy. Her works have been screened in international film festivals including Visioni Italiane, Filmmaker Festival, Lago Film Festival, Festival Video nodoCCS, ICDOCS, Fuchsbau Festival, Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, in art galleries and exhibitions. Since 2019, she has served as film programmer and curator with TRANÅS AT THE FRINGE International Arts Festival (Sweden). She also runs a children’s art lab.
(SATURDAY 11:30-12:45)

Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg Jack is a poet with an MFA from the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop. He pursued a successful career as a professional cinematographer in both LA and London for many years. Pam obtained a PhD and became a film professor and experimental filmmaker, before moving on to work in visual display. Having worked together many years ago graduate school, they created Outlier Moving Pictures Outlier Moving Picture, dedicated to making technically innovative and poetic films about landscapes, social justice, and the environment.
(SUNDAY 4:30-5:15)

Peter Cook is an internationally known Deaf performing artist whose poetry incorporates American Sign Language, pantomime, storytelling, acting, and movement. He has been featured nationally in numerous festivals, and has been featured on PBS. He has appeared internationally working with Deaf poets in Brazil, Japan, Latvia, Israel and Northern Europe.
(SUNDAY 1:30- 2:15)

Helen Dewbery (UK) is editor of Poetry Film Live and Poetry Film editor at Spelt Magazine. She regulalrly teaches courses in poetry film. Many of her poetry films have been shown around the world in poetry and film festivals, and her essays have appeared in written and video form. For 8 years she created a series of poetry film events, and was a former director of, the Poetry Swindon Festival.
(SATURDAY 12:00-12:50)

Estefanía Díaz is a multidisciplinary artist, poet and curator born in Durango, Mexico. Director of the international independent film festival “Nahui Ollin Film Festival,” she is also the co-founder and curator of the “Helios Sun Poetry Film Festival.” She explores the artistic field using voice, dance, performance, literature and audiovisual media. She has had various residencies in Costa Rica, Ecuador and Canary Islands & others.
(SUNDAY 3:30-4:15)

Sabina England is a Deaf filmmaker, playwright and poet performer. Her solo multimedia performance, Jamal Al-Qamar (“Beauty of the Moon”), combined traditional Sufi and old Islamic poetry with ASL and video. Some of her plays were produced in the UK at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Tristan Bates Theatre, and Soho Theatre, London. She performed her solo show, Allah Earth: The Cycle of Life, at New York International Fringe Festival.
(SATURDAY 8:30-9:15, SUNDAY 1:30- 2:15)

Ian Gibbins’ is a widely published and exhibited poet, video artist and electronic musician living in South Australia. He has published four poetry books crossing diverse styles and visual formats. Before he retired in 2014, Ian was an internationally recognized neuroscientist and Professor of Anatomy at Flinders University, South Australia.
(SUNDAY 6:30-7:15)

Jonathan Lamy and Rachel McCrum are poets, performers, and curators based in Montréal, Québec. Working in both French and English, they also create multi-lingual and cross-disciplinary platforms for poets and artists in Canada and internationally. Jonathan Lamy is the Director of La poésie partout, and Rachel McCrum is the Editor of Font.
(SATURDAY 3:30-4:15)

Eleanor Livingstone (Scotland) is a poet and editor and former director of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival. Her first full collection, Even the Sea was shortlisted for the 2010 inaugural London New Poetry award and is now in a second edition. Other publications include The Last King of Fife, A Sampler, and as editor Skein of Geese, Migraasje: Versions in Scots and Shetlandic, Bridging the Continental Divide, Necessarily Looking Backward, and The Arch.
(SATURDAY 12:00-12:50)

Aarron Loggins won Mister Deaf United States and went on to become the first African-American to win Mister Deaf International. He has worked with groups such as Wild Zappers, National Deaf Dance, Gallaudet Dance and Theater Company. He is the founder of a deaf step team called, Da Jump Back. In 2019, he performed the National Anthem during Super Bowl LIII with Grammy-Award Winner, Gladys Knight
(SATURDAY 2:50-3:15)

Mary McDonald is a Canadian multimedia artist whose work has been exhibited throughout Canada and internationally. She works with words through sound, image, and movement. Her multidisciplinary practice encompasses text, photography, poetry film, music and sound, interactive augmented reality (AR) installations, and community participatory arts projects.
(SUNDAY 6:30-7:15)

Douglas Ridloff is a poet and visual storyteller in American Sign Language. He had performed in Jamaica, Cuba, France, Germany, Israel, Australia, and United Kingdom. He serves as the executive director of ASL SLAM, a monthly open mic event at the Nuyorican Cafe. He worked as an ASL Consultant for film and TV, as a Counseling Producer for Marvel’s ECHO
(SUNDAY 1:30- 2:15)

Crom Saunders is an original and inventive Deaf performer, who uses American Sign Language with both humor and scholarship to illuminate poetry, theater and language. With a degree in creative writing, his performances are informed by working in every aspect of theater, from onstage to backstage, and he has an enormous catalogue of poetry. As an educator, he offers advanced ASL workshops. He is the creator of Cromania!.
(SATURDAY 4:30-5:15, SUNDAY 1:30- 2:15)

Colm Scully has made over thirty Poetryfilms shown/shortlisted at festivals all over the world including Fastnet Film Festival, IndyCork Film Festival, Slippery Elm Poetry Film Prize, Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, Ó Bhėal Poetry Film Competition, REELpoetry Houston, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Newlyn Film Festival and many more. His poetry collection, ‘What News, Centurions?’ is published by New Binary Press.
(SATURDAY 12:00-12:50)

Sarah Tremlett (Poem Film) MPhil, FRSA, SWIP is a poetry film-maker, videopoet, poet and theorist, particularly enquiring into the philosophy of poetry film, and the author of The Poetics of Poetry Film (Intellect Books and University of Chicago Press, April 2021). She is co-director of Liberated Words Poetry Film events, editor of Liberated Words online, a judge at festivals.
(SUNDAY 6:30-7:15)