Who We Are

We Need You!

Join the Indie Media Arts South Organizing Committee! This core group is working to provide sustainability and momentum for IMAS. To learn more about this collective leadership team and how you can get more involved, email imartssouth@gmail.com.

Currently seeking members to represent Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Virginia, and West Virginia.

IMAS Central Organizing Committee Members

Clarivel Ruiz (we/us/you) - IMAS Coordinator (NY)

Rahi Hasan (they/them) - Independent Filmmaker + Impact Strategist + Co-founder of Undocumented Filmmakers Collective (NC)

Curtis Cesar John - Executive Director, The Luminal Theater + co-founder: BLK Docs (SC)

Shara Lange - Independent Filmmaker + Associate Professor & Radio/TV/Film Program Head, East Tennessee State University (TN)

Anjanette Levert - Independent Filmmaker + Director of Documentary Filmmaking, Spelman College (GA)

Sabina Dana Plasse - IMAS Newsletter Manager (ID)

Jordan Young (he/him) - Media Artist + Director of Media Arts, South Arts (GA)

Former IMAS Central Organizing Committee Members

Melanie Addington - Oxford Film Festival/Mississippi Film Alliance (MS)

Dan Brawley - Cucalorus Film Foundation (NC)

Chloe Cook - Sidewalk Film Center + Cinema (AL)

Lauren Waring Douglas - Independent Filmmaker + Producer (SC)

Tom Hansell - Independent Filmmaker + Professor of Appalachian Studies at Appalachian State University (NC)

Holly Herrick - Austin Film Society  (TX)

Teresa Hollingsworth - Southern Circuit Tour/South Arts (GA) 

Tommy Nichols - Charlotte Black Film Festival & Collective (NC)

Elaine McMillion Sheldon - Independent Filmmaker + Professor of cinema, UTK School of Art (TN)

Melissa Simpson - Film Impact Georgia (GA)

Sarah Stauder - Aurora Picture Show (TX)

Amada Torruella - Independent Filmmaker + Film Curator (SC + National)

Chloe Walters Wallace - Firelight Media (LA)

Fallon Young - New Orleans Film Society (LA)