Anita Hei-Man Yu

Anita Hei-Man Yu is a New York-based, multi-faceted assistant editor and video editor. After an early career in short-form videos and web series, she has transitioned in recent years to feature-length documentary projects. She has assisted on several major feature documentaries, including Hale County This Morning, This Evening, Baltimore Rising, and the Academy Award-nominated Strong Island. She has also executed motion graphics for the documentary She's Beautiful When She's Angry. In late 2014, she was given the opportunity to edit her first indie feature, To The Flame– a dark comedy thriller, which debuted 2016. With all the experience she has gathered, she looks forward to advancing her experience in the realm of documentary and/or narrative editing. Anita holds a Bachelor of Arts in Film Production & Art from Brooklyn College.

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Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions

Can art be funny and serious at the same time? Using social media-inspired effects, artist Meriem Bennani subverts audience expectations of both pop culture and her own Muslim community with unexpected playfulness and pathos. "I feel like I have a hard time connecting to anything that doesn’t have humor," says the artist, "because for me humor is like survival." Often exploring the private lives of Muslim women, Bennani strategically navigates the line between championing and exploiting the women who appear in her films, many of whom are family members, like in her documentary-style project "Ghariba/Stranger". " Meriem Bennani (b. 1988, Rabat, Morocco) lives and works in New York.