Above the Line Mentorship Participants Cohort 3
Nando Felipe Galarza Carter
Fernando “Nando” Galarza Carter goes by “Nando Carter” for short, is a Chicano filmmaker based in Moses Lake, Washington. Born in Corona, California, and raised in a farm town in the Central Valley, he first connected with storytelling through film, teaching himself the craft by making short films with friends and community members long before…
Shaminder Dulai
Shaminder Dulai is a 13-time Emmy-nominated filmmaker, photojournalist, producer and creative technologist with two decades of experience directing and producing stories across documentary, broadcast and digital platforms. A longtime advocate for ethical, human-centered storytelling, he works to capture an accurate first draft of history, seeking out the telling detail and the human moment that outlasts…
Karl Epps
Karl Epps is a Seattle-based writer, director, and producer whose work is driven by character, culture, family, and stories that bring people together. An independent filmmaker with a passion for creating projects outside the traditional Hollywood system, Karl wrote, directed, and produced his first feature film, Parental Guidance (aka Kinfolks), which went on to air…
Julio Ramírez-Ramos
Julio Ramírez-Ramos is a Colombian-American filmmaker who began working in film as a teenager, assisting the producers of Oedipus Mayor, an international co-production written by Gabriel García Márquez. He completed a combined graduate program in Social Communications, Journalism, and Integrated Marketing Communications at Pontifical Javeriana University in Bogotá and the European Institute of Design &…
Thy Riedel
Thy Riedel is a writer/director from central Washington who studied film in California. His MFA thesis won a Student Film Award from the Directors Guild of America. His first feature screenplay was a semifinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowships and is in development. He currently lives by the ocean with his wife and their slightly…