Fitzgerald Junior is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist working across narrative, documentary, music, painting and collage. With a gentle gaze his works are an invocation, a call to imagine softness and expansive expressions that disrupt reductive notions of Black masculinity. Fitzgerald’s films are cloaking devices, reparative gestures for the rigid socialization that renders Black men and boys as hyper-sexual, violent and undeserving of safety and second chances.

Fitzgerald Junior is a programmer with Hyphen Film Center, whose mission is to engage, enrich, and educate diverse audiences through innovative cinematic arts exhibition while reducing social barriers to participation. His empathic space-making abilities have produced once in a lifetime experiences at the intersection of cinema exhibition and community-building. Hyphen Film Center proudly serves the city of Louisville, Kentucky, and is currently in its third season of programming.

Fitzgerald Junior is a disabled veteran with combat service in Iraq and Afghanistan. He is a proud member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Inc.

Areas of Emphasis: Black men and boys, speculative fantasy, experimental non-fiction, video art, painting, collage, photography.

Zoe Dahmen: filmmaker, Austinite, woman with a day job. In this space Zoe will create a broad yet narrow definition of who she is, and who she might become.  She will explain how her work is uniquely similar to a thing you already love, and will do so in a way that isn’t clichè. She will sound utterly fascinating while she communicates every aspect of her life including her origins, inspiration, and the essence of her very soul. She will do this so well that she will make you forget, briefly, that you really don’t care very much. She will talk a little about her accomplishments, and it will sound neither braggy nor inadequate. This bio will tell the story of Zoe, but only the positive one. It will be pithy.