01/21/2026
2026 Screener Team: , , !
A special thank you to T.J, Chloe, and Legyaan for assisting us in watching and discussing some incredible film submissions this year. ❤️
Jordan “t.j.” Blanco is an experimental filmmaker and educator born in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, and based in the Midwest of the so-called united states. Their work seeks to weave together inquiries of anti-imperialist traditions of resistance, grief lessons and ecological forms of knowing most often in personal essayistic modes. In addition to working as a screener for the Ithaca Experimental Film Festival this year, they were a programmer for the Milwaukee Underground Film Festival 2023.
Chloe Xtina is a 2023 Sundance Ignite x Adobe Fellow. She wrote and directed the short films GHOST OF YOU (2023 Sundance Ignite Selection) and THE FIRST TASTE (2020 NoBudge Film of the Year). Chloe and her work have been featured in New York Magazine, Variety, Vulture, and TimeOut. Her play ‘Joan of Arc in a Supermarket in California’ had its Off-Broadway debut this summer in a Brooklyn bodega with a sold-out run and a subsequent sold-out extension. She completed a BA in playwriting from UCLA in 2021 and is originally from Northern California. She is based in Brooklyn.
Legyaan Thapa is a Thai-Bhutanese writer and director based in Bangkok, Thailand. His last short ‘Building Happiness’ screened at New/Next earlier this year, as well as ‘36 Hour Walk’ which is hosted on NoBudge.
