Ariel Baska is an award-winning, openly disabled horror and documentary filmmaker. As a former teacher, she is deeply interested in film’s potential to shape the future. Her horror short about medical gaslighting,Our First Priority, which she wrote and directed, won the Disability Advocacy Award from Superfest Disability Film Festival, and was an Official Selection of Final Girls Berlin and the Oscar-qualifying deadCenter Film Festival, among many others. Her first animated short film, she’s never been a bird before, screened at the Engauge Experimental Film Festival. Additionally, she was a ...

I am a print and broadcast journalist, theater director/educator, and documentary film producer. I currently work with Journey Films of Alexandria, VA as producer on three new films for public television. "Prophetic Voices" tells the stories of three significant figures in twentieth-century American religious life: Howard Thurman, Dorothy Day, and Abraham Joshua Heschel. The first film,Backs Against the Wall: The Howard Thurman Story, justcompleted, will air on public television stations around the country in February 2019. It tells the story of African-American theologian and Civil Rights ...

I'm a filmaker, teacher and festival programmer based in the DMV. I'm originally form the UK. I recived and MFA from Ohio Univerosty in 2021.