Joua Lee Grande is a filmmaker and community connector with a deep commitment to elevating underrepresented voices. Her work has been featured on WORLD Channel, PBS Digital, CAAMFest, and in the PBS Short Film Festival. Her short film On All Fronts received an Honorable Mention from CAAMFest's Loni Ding Award for Social Justice Documentary, is part of a series that won a Silver Anthem Award and received a Daytime Emmy nomination. Joua was a True/False Confluence Fellow (2023), a PBS Accelerator Fellow (2023), a MediaJustice Network Fellow (2021), and a Diverse Voices in Docs Fellow (2019). She was a news editor at WCCO TV 4 News and has over a decade of experience working in nonprofits. She has also led media education programs in the Twin Cities, supporting underrepresented community members to tell their own stories. Joua’s work reflects her passion for storytelling and her strong commitment to social justice. Joua received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in film, video and digital production.

During her residency, Joua will develop new works and connect with a Hmong French community in southern France. Building relationships with the Hmong French and learning their unique refugee experience will inform the development of a potential new work exploring the community's spread from Lao mountainsides to cities across the globe.

Photo by Bryan Hempstead.

Carson Faust is the debut author of When the Living Haunt the Dead (Viking, 2025). He is two-spirit, and an enrolled member of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of South Carolina. Previously, he received artist fellowships from Jerome Foundation and the McKnight Foundation. His fiction has appeared in TriQuarterly, Passages North, ANMLY, and Waxwing Magazine, among other journals, and has been anthologized in Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology (Vintage, 2023). Carson received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in literature.

During his residency, Carson will research French colonial violence in the 1700s, which displaced the Natchez (Nv’ce) people—forcing some of them to leave their homelands in present-day Mississippi and seek refuge in present-day South Carolina—within the context of his second, in-progress horror novel that delves into themes of invasion, extraction, and the simultaneous appropriation and erasure of Native culture.

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Ama Codjoe is the author of Bluest Nude (Milkweed Editions, 2022), winner of the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize, and finalist for both the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry and the Paterson Poetry Prize; and author of Blood of the Air (Northwestern University Press, 2020), winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize. She has been awarded support from Bogliasco, Cave Canem, Robert Rauschenberg, and Saltonstall Foundations, as well as Callaloo Creative Writing Workshop, Hedgebrook, Yaddo, Hawthornden, MacDowell, and the Amy Clampitt Residency. Among other honors, Ama has received fellowships from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Bronx Council on the Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts. Ama was the 2023 Poet-in-Residence at the Guggenheim Museum and is the winner of a 2023 Whiting Award. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow in literature.

During her Camargo residency, Ama will write poems toward a future full-length collection. She looks forward to spending time in a community composed of international artists that value cross-disciplinary exchange and craves the kinds of articulations, offerings, and dialogues made possible by a residency environment like Camargo.

Photo Credit: Jamie Harmon

Gamin is a distinguished soloist who tours the world performing both traditional Korean music and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Gamin plays three traditional wind instruments, and is a designated Yisuja, official holder of Important Intangible Cultural Asset No. 46 for Court and Royal Military music. Re-inventing new sonorities from ancient, somewhat restrictive, musical systems, Gamin has received several cultural exchange program grants from Asian Cultural Council, Ministry of Culture, and Republic of Korea. Gamin has collaborated in cross-cultural improvisation with world-acclaimed musicians presenting premieres at Roulette Theater, New School, and Metropolitan Museum. Gamin was a featured artist at the Silkroad concert, Seoul, 2018, performing on-stage with Yo-Yo Ma. Gamin’s scheduled Carnegie Hall début as featured soloist with the Nangye Gugak Orchestra was postponed due to COVID-19. She received a 2021-2023 Jerome Hill Artist Fellowship in music.

During her residency, Gamin is excited by the opportunity to engage with an international community of artists and the inspiration of the unique environment at Cassis. She will work on a new composition focused on developing and extending repertoire based on sanjo tradition, a form of improvised multi-movement solo genre.

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Photo credit: Chris Hardi

Anthony Banua-Simon is an award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor named one of Filmmaker Magazine's 2021 "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and DOC NYC's 2022 "40 Under 40." His debut feature documentary, Cane Fire, played at the 2020 Hot Docs Film Festival as well as the 2021 MoMA Doc Fortnight and won Best Documentary Feature at the 2020 Indie Memphis Film Festival and the 2021 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. Cane Fire was distributed theatrically by Cinema Guild and is available to stream on The Criterion Channel. The film has received praise in RogerEbert.com, Jacobin, Film Threat, and Hyperallergic, among several other outlets. His short documentary about two former workers of the Domino Sugar Refinery, Third Shift, won “Best Short Documentary” at the 2014 Brooklyn Film Festival and previously streamed on The Criterion Channel. Anthony has been featured in The New York Times, BOMB Magazine, Screen Slate, and HuffPost.

After more than a century of industrial farming and testing of harmful pesticides from both the sugar and biotech industries on the Hawaiian island of Kauaʻi, feature documentary The Experiment Station looks towards a growing food sovereignty movement led by Native Hawaiians and how it contends with Hawaii’s legacy of colonialism and extractive capitalism. What was once considered an impossibility in restructuring Hawaii’s economy has now become an ecological necessity for survival.

Dominique Nieves is a disabled Nuyorican filmmaker. She was named a BAFTA Breakthrough Writer-Director for her Telly Award-winning magic realism film, Our Lady Lupe, which was produced in association with PBS for their Primetime Broadcast Special, The Latino Experience. She used Our Lady Lupe to feature her favorite things: Latina leads, brujería, and a dog.

Nieves entered the industry as an actress, but one-dimensional roles for Latinas led her to found Iron Glove Productions, highlighting underrepresented voices authentically on-screen. Her work has garnered recognition from CINEQUEST, HollyShorts, and screened throughout the United States. She has been recognized as a Telemundo Unstoppable Woman and was recently honored by Columbia University’s Lion Pride, celebrating her as an outstanding alumnus who uses her artistic work to uplift her community. As an ardent supporter of Latinx voices, Dominique created the Read Latinx Writers Initiative, pairing over 450 emerging Latinx writers with mentors.

Revolve is a narrative film centering Zaya, a disabled Afro-Latina teen who takes on the intersection of gun violence and gentrification in her Washington Heights neighborhood through artistic advocacy. In an attempt to take control of saying goodbye to her first love, she takes him to her art studio hidden in her uncle’s Botánica. She scoffs at Santería, but a close encounter with gun violence may soon make her a believer. Zaya is distinct from other superheroes because she doesn’t look like one; not because she’s a girl, or Afro-Latina, or using a wheelchair, but because she’s not green, or gigantic, or covered in armor.

photo credit: David Noles

Noah Schamus (they/them) is a filmmaker and educator. Their first narrative feature, Summer Solstice premiered at Provincetown Film Festival and has gone on to play at festivals including Deauville, Mill Valley, BendFilm, and NewFest. The film was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker grant and won the Platige Image Award at US in Progress at the American Film Festival.

Brit Fryer (he/him) is a Brooklyn-based queer and trans filmmaker, originally from Chicago’s South Side. He has directed several films, including Caro Comes Out, which premiered on HBOMax after winning the Knight Made in MIA Award. In addition to his work as a director, he produced Crystal Kayiza’s Rest Stop, winner of the 2023 Short Film Jury Award for US Fiction at Sundance.

Noah and Brit co-directed most recently co-directed the hybrid documentary short, The Script, which premiered at CPH:DOX 2023.

With Time is a hybrid documentary film. Part archive building and part creative exercise, With Time starts in a simple black box theater in a community-based workshop focused on storytelling and dramatic writing. Over the course of five workshops, this group will brainstorm, develop, and revise stories of personal and historical significance, with the general prompt to explore an important moment in their understanding of their gender and/or queerness. Session by session, each workshop member will get closer to completing a script depicting the memory or moment of their choosing. The goal of this process is to infuse each script with subjectivity and give every person a chance to reckon with their own memories. From this workshop and with the support of a film crew, these narrativized memories will be turned into fully staged recreations.

Brit Fryer headshot: LaQuann Dawson (https://laquanndawson.com/) (right photo)

Noah Schamus headshot: Leah James (https://www.leahjamesart.com/) (left photo)

Naomi is a Korean American filmmaker. Her pilot, Nice, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She also co-founded an Asian female-identifying comedy group called Funny Asian Women Kollective. Naomi is a 2023 Sundance Women to Watch x Adobe Fellow, a Sundance Institute|The Asian American Foundation Fellow, a 2022 Sundance Episodic fellow, and a 2021–2022 Sundance Art of Practice fellow.

The 20-Year Curse is a dark comedy about Eunji, who is in a 20-year generational family curse. To break it, she embarks on a journey with her father, Hae Su, that spans both the material and spirit world.

Photo credit: Oscar Moreno

Reid Davenport makes documentaries about disability from an overtly political perspective. Reid’s film, I Didn’t See You There, won the Directing Award for U.S. Documentary at the 2022 Sundance Film Festival and the Truer Than Fiction Award at the 2023 Independent Spirit Awards. It was also a Gotham Nominee for Best Documentary and won awards at Full Frame Documentary Film Festival and the San Francisco International Film Festival. Nick Allen of RogerEbert.com described the film as “first-person poetry in captivating motion.” Vox called it a “must-see.” Life After, is being produced by Multitude Films and has received support from The Ford Foundation, Sundance, Field of Vision, and Catapult Film Fund. In 2020, Reid was named to DOC NYC’s “40 Filmmakers Under 40.” His short film, A Cerebral Game, won the Artistic Vision Award at the 2016 Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.

The starting point of Life After is the controversial 1980s case of Elizabeth Bouvia, who sued for the right to die because she was disabled and won—before assisted suicide was even legal for terminally ill patients. The film will uncover Bouvia’s life after she receded from public consciousness, up until she died in 2014. That same year, Jerika Bolen publicly planned to end her life with the help of her family because she was disabled. She was 14. In 2020, a doctor decided that Michael Hickson, who was being hospitalized with COVID-19, had “no quality of life” as a quadriplegic with brain damage, and removed Michael from a ventilator against his wife’s wishes. Claims of medical coercion and discrimination were dismissed in court. Life After will piece together the different ways that the legal and medical systems continue to aid and abet each other in making disabled death palpable.