Scott Macaulay

Scott Macaulay is a film producer and co-president of the production company Forensic Films. With his partner Robin O’Hara, he has produced or executive produced many award-winning features, including: Peter Sollett’s Raising Victor Vargas; Harmony Korine’s Gummo (as co-producer) and julien donkey-boy; Alice Wu’s Saving Face; Tom Noonan’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning What Happened Was and his follow-up feature, The Wife; Jesse Peretz’s The Chateau; Bryan Barber’s Idlewild; John Leguizamo’s Undefeated; James Ponsoldt’s Off the Black; and Mark Jackson’s War Story. As a company, Forensic Films has been involved as a co-producer in many European productions, including Olivier Assayas’s Demonlover and Clean. Most recently, Macaulay developed, with director Alix Lambert, and Mark Harris and Mike Knowlton of the digital studio Murmur, Hello Fat Larry, a “fast storytelling” mobile app that won the 2015 POV Hackathon. Currently, Macaulay is producing the debut feature of experimental filmmaker Elisabeth Subrin, A Woman, A Part (in post-production), and is in production on Alix Lambert’s Goodbye, Fat Larry.

Macaulay is also the Editor-in-Chief and co-founder of Filmmaker Magazine, a quarterly print publication and website devoted to independent film. For Filmmaker’s publisher, IFP (Independent Filmmaker project), Macaulay created and continues to teach the IFP Narrative Labs, still the only filmmaker mentorship program specifically focused on post-production, festival strategy and distribution. He has lectured on independent film and taught seminars for filmmakers at CPH:DOX Lab in Copenhagen, the Dubai International Film Festival and the Venice Biennale College Cinema. Previous to his work in film, Macaulay was the Programming Director of the video and performance center The Kitchen in New York. He still occasionally works in performance and was a producer of Candice Breitz’s New York, New York for Performa in 2010. Macaulay and O’Hara are also recipients of an Independent Spirit Award for their work producing independent film.

Dylan Polacek

Dylan Polacek is a New York-based film enthusiast who covers marketing for MUBI.

Anocha Suwichakornpong

Anocha Suwichakornpong is a filmmaker and producer. Her work is in-formed by the socio-political history of Thailand. By the Time It Gets Dark, Anocha’s second feature, centres around a student massacre that took place in 1976 by Thai state forces and far-right paramilitaries at Thammasat University in Bangkok. She graduated from an MFA film program at Colum-bia University. Her thesis film, Graceland, became the first Thai short film to be officially selected by Cannes Film Festival. Mundane History, her first feature, won numerous awards including the Tiger Award at Rotterdam. By the Time It Gets Dark premiered in Locarno and has screened in festivals such as Toronto, BFI London, Viennale, and Rotterdam. The film won three Thailand National Film Awards including Best Picture and Best Director. By the Time It Gets Dark was chosen as Thailand’s Oscar entry for Best For-eign Language Film.

Anocha founded Electric Eel Films, a production house based in Bangkok. She has produced many short films and features. She was an artist-in-residence at Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA) in Singapore. Anocha had served on the Jury for the Tiger Awards at International Film Festival Rot-terdam.

In 2017, Anocha, co-founded Purin Pictures, an initiative to support South-east Asian cinema. In 2019, she was named a Prince Claus Laureate. From 2018-2020, Anocha was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Harvard University. She received Silpathorn Award from the Ministry of Culture, Thailand in 2020. Her latest feature film, Come Here, premiered at Berlinale 2021. The same year, Anocha was a fellow at DAAD artists-in-residence programme in Berlin.