Raine Roberts
Raine (b. 1996) is a photographer, filmmaker, sculptor, and educator from Chicago, IL. Her work studies themes of repetition, structure, the environment, and the body.
Raine received the 2025 Dior Photography and Visual Artists Award for Young Talent, with a Jury Special Mention. Her work has been exhibited in LUMA Arles, Westlab + Gallery, ECAL School of Design, Berry Campbell Gallery, WORTHLESS STUDIOS, Fugue Gallery, Haus Am See, The National Arts Club, among others. Her work has been profiled in Architectural Digest India, Woven Tale Press, El Universal, Musée Magazine, Este País, and The Bushwick Daily, among others. She has held residencies with the Woodward Residency and the FREE FILM PROJECT. Her films have screened at Anthology Film Archives, BAFTA-qualifying Aesthetica Shorts Film Festival, Future of Film is Female, XVIII Mono Biennial Festival of Cinema Arts, Experimental Film Fest, Film Church, among others. She holds a BFA and BA from the University of Colorado in Boulder (2019). After working in documentary editing, she studied at the International Center of Photography (2023) and received the Director’s Fellowship. Raine is a member of the international photography group SmallTable Collective. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.
Cara Griffin
Cara Griffin is a filmmaker based in Brooklyn, NY. She loves coming-of-age films, romance books, and going to the beach.
Cara has screened her directorial work with The Future of Film is Female, New Faces New Voices Festival, the New York No Limits Film Series, the Yosemite Fantasy Film Festival, the Orlando Film Festival, St. Bimbo’s Film Church, the Neighborhood Film Festival, the NYU Gallatin Student Film Festival, and more. She received the 2023 NYC Women’s Fund finishing grant, in partnership with NYFA and MOME, for her short film My Savior.
Cara is the Acquisitions Director for Shorts Movie Theater, the first-ever theater exclusively for short films, opening in Brooklyn, NY.
