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Amir George and Luke Moody
Description
Amir George is a filmmaker and curator based in Chicago. As an artist, George creates spiritual stories, juxtaposing sound and image into an experience of non-linear perception. He is the founder of The Cinema Culture, a grassroots film programming organization, and co-founder, with curator Erin Christovale, of Black Radical Imagination, a touring experimental short film series. George is currently a programmer at True/False Film Fest. In April 2018, he visited Minneapolis to discuss his film Black Chains as part of the Walker film series Imagination Is Power film series.
Luke W Moody is a creative producer and curator most recently working with artists to develop new moving image work through his company LONO Studio. From 2017-2019 he was Director of Film Programming at the world-leading non-fiction film festival Sheffield Doc/Fest, curating the 200 title film programme (both short and long-form documentaries) and producing live events. Previously he was Head of Film at Doc Society, co-commissioning long-form documentary cinema across six international film funds from development to completion. He also co-founded and curated new cinema festival FRAMES of REPRESENTATION at ICA, London and online curation platform Something Real.