Meet the Board of Directors

Teaching Artists

**Shawn Punch** *(He/Him), Teaching Artist*, is a director, screenwriter, photographer, and pencil artist based in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008, they started their own photography company and work as a freelance photographer. Since then, they have photographed thousands of fashion shows. In August 2022, they photographed the MTV Video Music Awards. In May 2022, they completed an 8-week filmmaking course at the New York Film Academy. The short film "Watch Me Unfold," which they wrote and directed, was shown at the 10th annual Chelsea Film Festival in October. They just finished editing another short film that they wrote and directed, titled "Black Hair". Website

**Tameeka Colon** *(She/Her), Teaching Artist*, growing up in both East Harlem and the Bronx, Tameeka has been surrounded by creativity since a young age. She attended the Professional Performing Arts School to study music and theater production. With her acceptance into Berklee College of Music, she has learned the art of the music business. In 2012, she began producing independent music videos. She attended Brooklyn College’s Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, graduating with an MFA in Producing in 2019. Tameeka has collaborated with Brooklyn Ballet, the National Urban League, Toshi Reagon, AfroPunk, The Fader, A24, and the BBC in media and production. This is her first year with Reel Works. She is teaching documentary filmmaking at Sunset Park High School and Frederick Douglass VII High School. Contact IMDB YT

**Jiana Kristine** *(She/Her), Teaching Artist*, is a Latina educator, producer, and editor born and raised in NYC. During her time as an editor, she has had the opportunity to collaborate with the Ghetto Film School, National Geographic, and The Frick Collection, amongst others. As a producer, she has worked with the likes of Walmart and Wocstar and seeks to elevate the voices and creatives in her community. Jianna believes that the future of filmmaking begins with investing in young creatives, which led her to teach with Reelworks, the Astoria Film Festival, Ghetto Film School, and the Summer Arts Institute. Contact LinkedIn.

**Kevin Schreck** *(He/Him), Teaching Artist*, is originally from Minneapolis, Minnesota, Kevin Schreck is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and film educator currently living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He was the recipient of both the Jerome Hill Award for Exceptional Work in the Documentary Tradition and the Award for Contribution to the Film and Electronic Arts Department of Bard College in 2011. Kevin's first major feature-length documentary, *Persistence of Vision*, screened at nearly 100 international film festivals and institutions to virtually universal acclaim. He is currently in production on his third feature, a documentary-animation hybrid, *Enongo*, and is in pre-production on a fourth documentary that will be filmed in the Southern Ocean around Antarctica in mid-2023. As an educator, Kevin has been part of the Reel Works team for over five years, serving as a mentor and a teaching artist. Classes that he has taught at Reel Works have included the Documentary Lab, Experimental Filmmaking Summer Lab, Stop-Motion Animation, Social Justice Documentary Filmmaking, and Film Club. He has led filmmaking masterclasses and guest lectures at major universities in Australia, Denmark, and across the United States, and will also be the Visiting Documentary Filmmaker for the fall semester of 2023 at Robert Morris University. Kevin sincerely believes that anyone of any background and identity has a story worth sharing and is honored to help guide these emerging artists to their creative potential at Reel Works, a remarkable and vital part of the New York filmmaking community. Website IMDB

**Floyd Hughes** *(He/Him), Teaching Artist*, was born in London’s East End to Guyanese parents, where he worked as a writer and illustrator and in comics for Crisis, 2000 A.D., Heartbreak Hotel, Revolver, and produced posters for Marvel U.K. Floyd also worked in advertising and film as a storyboard/concept artist on films such as Hellraiser 1 and 2, as well as Highlander.Moving to the U.S., Floyd worked for Marvel, D.C., Heavy Metal, and Image on characters that include The Avengers, Green Arrow, Deadpool, Ghost Rider, Conan The Barbarian, and many others. For MTV Animation, Floyd was a character and prop designer for Downtown, Celebrity DeathMatch, and VH1’s Divas. Floyd worked as a visual consultant and storyboard artist on several Spike Lee projects, including Blackkklansman and an undisclosed project with Chris Rock. Floyd taught at the Joe Kubert School of Cartoon and Graphic Art, currently teaches for Reel Works, 92NY, and is a longtime Associate Professor at the Pratt Institute School of Design in Brooklyn, where he also resides with his wife, two daughters, son, two red-eared sliders, and a very large goldendoodle. Contact Website

**Cali Banks** *(She/Her),* *Teaching Artist, was b*orn and raised in Syracuse, NY, Cali M. Banks is an interdisciplinary artist and filmmaker of Munsee Lenape and Scottish descent, currently based in Brooklyn, NY. She holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Media Arts Practices from the University of Colorado Boulder and a BA in Art and Technology and Global Health Studies from Allegheny College. Cali is an adjunct professor of photography and video art at Indiana University. She is also an instructor at Reel Works, teaching experimental and documentary filmmaking workshops, and works as their School and Community Partnerships Program Coordinator. Cali's passion and experience in the institution of education lie within alternative-to-probation programs, re-entry programs for middle and high school students, and continuing education courses at the university level to provide equitable education to all.
Her practice reclaims identity through performative photography. Her work explores the ideas of public versus private narratives and the expansion of narrow, flattened definitions of indigenous art. She is reclaiming what she still has left of her culture and honoring those rituals in her work. In recent times, she has exhibited work at Art Basel Miami, Every Woman Biennial London, Tiger Strikes Asteroid Philadelphia, Atlanta Film Festival, and Anthology Film Archives, along with a solo exhibition at Brooklyn Film Camera. Cali is also a featured artist in Issues #24, #26, and #38 of The Hand Magazine and has been published on Lomography and Lenscratch. Contact

**Sophia Feur** *(She/Her), Teaching Artist,* is a filmmaker and multimedia artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She was raised in Chicago, Illinois, while her father and extended family originate from Germany. Working primarily with 16mm film, she uses both documentary and narrative techniques, combining an anthropological lens with sci-fi and horror tropes. In this hybrid form, she attempts to perceive truth through personal and overarching histories, often overlooked and forgotten. She is the former 2019 Aggregate Space Gallery Curatorial Fellow and the 2021 Valentine & Clark Emerging Artist Fellow at the Jacob Burns Film Centers. Contact Website

**Eleanor Moore** (She/Her), Teaching Artist, is a multidisciplinary artist working in sound and visual forms under the alias Dr. Evilletown. She has lived and worked in NYC since 2001, making notable interactive installations including sound, video, and dance. She has three different murals in the borough of Brooklyn. Her music is favorably reviewed in Inzane Johnny (Wolf Eyes) Life is a Rip Off.

**Anadia Jaghai** *(She/Her), Teaching Artist*

Rachael Guma (She/Her), Teaching Artist, Rachael Guma is a light and sound artist who works with liquid light projection, Super 8 film, Theremin and record manipulations, live Foley, collage, and stop-motion animation. She’s collaborated with Optipus Film Collective since 2009 and co-founded the liquid light projection group, A Clockface Orange, with Genevieve H.K. She teaches media arts classes to all ages, and Bradley Eros once called her "the kindergarten teacher of the avant-garde." She has performed at AXWFF, Anthology Film Archives, Ambient Church, Echo Park Film Center, Das Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Index Festival, The Kitchen, Long Island Children's Museum, Museum of the Moving Image (MOMI), Microscope Gallery, Mono No Aware, Morbid Anatomy Museum, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), Northern Flickers, Orphans Symposium, Participant Gallery, Paul Klee Museum, Planet Money Live, RX Gallery, Roulette Intermedium, San Francisco Cinematheque, Transient Visions, UnionDocs, Unseen Cinema, and the Whitney Museum of American Art (in alphabetical order). Website Work

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