COKE WHITE, STARLIGHT. MYKKI BLANCO

Tristan Patterson's commercial work includes global campaigns for agencies like 72&Sunny | Amsterdam, W+K | Japan and TBWA | Paris and brands like Converse and Adidas,  Samsung and Sprint, BMW and Nissan. His documentary shorts "Chasing Horizons" for Citizen Watch and The "War at Home" for Mission22 were awarded with a Gold Cannes Lion for Promo & Activation and an AICP for Best Public Service Announcement. "Cokewhite, Starlight," his experimental collaboration with performance artist and rapper Mykki Blanco,  was named one of the best music videos of the decade by Slant Magazine. As a filmmaker, his documentary feature Dragonslayer received the Grand Jury Prizes for Best Documentary and Best Cinematography at SXSW and was nominated for four Cinema Eye Honors. It was distributed theatrically by Drag City Records. He began his career as a screenwriter and has worked on projects for studios and networks including A24, FX and Warner Brothers and production companies including Color Pastel, Plan B and Scott Free.

Thaddeus Ruzicka is a director and editor whose documentary shorts for the film studio A24 include portraits of experimental music collective Son Lux, filmmakers Joanna Hogg and Martin Scorsese, and The Bagel, a lo-fi tour-de-force about four roommates in an Atwater Duplex tasked with turning a donut into a bagel on the cheap for the Oscar-winning film Everything, Everywhere All At Once.