Shanna Maurizi (USA) studied at San Francisco State University and UC Santa Cruz, and received an MFA in Film from California College of the Arts. Shanna’s films have been exhibited at festivals, museums, galleries and cinematheques worldwide including Experiments in Cinema, AAFF, Other Cinema, Anthology Film Archives and many others. Her work seeks out access points to the unknown, realized in works on paper, film and video, and sculpture. Her film “Sunken Treasure” won the Art and Science Award at the 56th AAFF, her short film “Late Night with Carl Sagan” premiered at NewFilmmakers (NYC), and she was nominated for Best Emerging Director for her first feature at Visionfest (NYC) in 2011. Her artwork in the gallery context has been shown most recently at LaMaMa Gallery (NYC), and her previous solo shows were reviewed as Critic’s Picks on Art F City. As a curator she co-founded The Red Door and The Climax A Movie House (Oakland CA) and the collective space Songs for Presidents (NYC) and she taught in the film department at NYU. Currently she is leading 16mm workshops with Mothlight Collective and working on a feature film.