Our team
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Adam Golub // Founder

Adam Golub is an Israeli-American documentarian, media artist and videographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He earned his Masters from the Columbia School of Journalism in 2013 and was a fellow at the UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art in 2014. His feature documentary “Your Mother’s Comfort”(2020) premiered at Sheffield Doc/Fest and won the Grand Jury Award at Outfest, Los Angeles and honorable mention at Newfest, New York. His film “Skin,” (2017) won Outstanding Documentary Short at Art of Brooklyn and Best Short at Newfest, New York. His short film “I Was Here First” premiered at DOC NYC and was acquired by BK Magazine.

Marina Cavalcanti // Editor, Videographer, Philosopher

Marina Cavalcanti is a video editor, photographer, philosopher and educator based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She studied editing at the Darcy Ribeiro School of Cinema at the Brazilian School of Audiovisual Arts and has a master’s degree in philosophy from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2010, she edited the film “Bodies That Escape” (Corpos que Escapam), a short doc that tells the story of three central figures in the contemporary Brazilian movement for “divergent” embodiments. The film won Best Film Jury Prize at the Making Gender (Fazendo Gênero) Film Festival and was exhibited in festivals across Brazil. Her artistic process centers marginal and marginalized narratives that seek subversive power through audiovisual form, outside of the aesthetic norms of contemporary imagination.

Summer Minerva // Actor, Performer, Writer, Producer

Summer Minerva, director and producer, is an Italian American actor, performance artist, writer and educator from Staten Island, most known for their work reclaiming the sanctity of transgender identities across cultures. Their performance work has shown internationally on both screen and stage, at the Transgender Day of Remembrance in Rio de Janeiro, Gibney Dance’s Work Up Residency, NewFest, OUTFest, Napoli Gay Pride, Judson Memorial Church, St. John the Divine Cathedral, Lincoln Center, Khayelitsha South Africa, and Peace House Haiti. They have been featured on national Italian television (RAI) for their international community project Sacred Gender, which unites LGBTQ Americans with their ethnic cultures of origin. Their book Written on the Body is a 2019 nominee for a Lambda Literary Award. They have been a guest lecturer at Temple University, Sarah Lawrence College, New York University, and the New School, as well as public elementary and high schools in NYC’s neediest communities. They are on faculty at SUNY Empire State College.

Sylvaine Alfaro // Photographer, Printmaker, Graphic Artist

Sylvaine is an analogue photographer, dark room technician and printmaker who specialized in antique and alternative processes. She received her her BFA from Cal State LA. She was the production photographer for several feature documentaries including award-winning “Your Mother’s Comfort” (premiered, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Best Doc Feature, Outfest LA 2020). Her prints appear in the Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum as part of the exhibit “Remnant: an excavation of Provincetown,” an experimental documentary series that creates a portrait of Ptown through beloved objects of its long-deceased residents. She co-directed short film “It Was The Dog That Saved My Life” which premiered at the Provincetown Film Festival in 2020 and will appear in festivals around North America in 2021.

Johnny Symons // Producer, Advisor, Mentor

Johnny Symons is a veteran Bay Area documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on LGBT cultural and political issues. His award-winning feature films include the Sundance and Emmy-nominated “Daddy & Papa” (2002), about gay men raising children; “Ask Not” (2008), about gays and lesbians serving in the US military; and “Out Run” (2016), which follows the transgender leader of the world’s only LGBT political party as she runs for a seat in the Philippine Congress. Symons co-produced the Academy Award® nominated “Long Night’s Journey Into Day” (2000), which won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize for Best Documentary. He has a master’s in documentary production from Stanford and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, where he is Coordinator of the Documentary Program and Director of the Queer Cinema Institute.