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Composer, Singer, Guitarist
"Brooke Bentley Blackburn is the composer, singer, and guitar player behind The Bentley Collective. He has played with bands like Blackburn, Shakura S'Aida, and more. Performing for over thirty-five years, he has amassed a vast repertoire of original compositions. His solo album Songs was released in 2016."
Filmmaker
"Minhal Baig is a filmmaker. Her latest feature, We Grown Now, about two boys growing up in a Cabrini-Green high rise when a tragedy irrevocably changes their lives, premiered at the 2023 Toronto International Film Festival and awarded the TIFF Changemaker Award.
Her previous feature, Hala, about a Pakistani-American Muslim teenager uncovering a secret about her family, premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was released by Apple.
She had an overall writing-producing deal in television with Amazon, is a 2022 Sundance Momentum Fellow and participated in the 2022 WGA Showrunner Training Program. She was previously a story editor on Bojack Horseman and staff writer on Peabody-award winning half-hour comedy Ramy.
In 2017, she was chosen as Directing Mentorship Fellow for Ryan Murphy's HALF Foundation and Screenwriter to Watch by Austin Film Festival. She also served as film & media studies lecturer at Yale University and co-founded ISF’s Muslim Screenwriter’s Lab with The Black List and Extracurricular. "
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