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Timour Gregory is a British-Egyptian film director and the founder of Highway Child, a mission-driven creative studio focused on humanitarian storytelling. Sasha Schneider is a producer and director whose work explores the intersection of representation and the arts. They are the directors of <a href="https://www.sulufilm.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Beam Me Up, Sulu</a>, available February 17 on digital platforms to rent or buy. (Photo by Radhika Chalasani.)

Timour Gregory and Sasha Schneider

Film

Towards a Pop Culture of Ideas or: In Defense of Trekkies

Chiemi Karasawa is an award-winning filmmaker and founder of Isotope Films, a production company that specializes in non-fiction content based in New York City. Her past films as a producer include: Billy The Kid (2008), The Betrayal (Nerakhoon) (2009), Tell Them Anything You Want: A Portrait of Maurice Sendak (2009), and Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction (2012). Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me (2013), her debut as a director, is now available on DVD, Netflix and iTunes.

Chiemi Karasawa

Jennifer M. Kroot is the director of the documentary To Be Takei, about the Star Trek actor and Internet star George Takei, which premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically by Starz Digital. Kroot directed It Came from Kuchar, about the legendary underground filmmaking twins George &amp; Mike Kuchar, which screened at SXSW in 2009. She studied film briefly at the San Francisco Art Institute, where she now teaches.

Jennifer M. Kroot

Chiemi Karasawa (Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me) Talks Jennifer M. Kroot’s To Be Takei

george takei