Landscapes of Memory

Leah Galant is a Jewish director and Fulbright Scholar based in New York whose storytelling focuses on unexpected narratives that challenge perceptions. In 2022, she was recognized as one of DOC NYC’s 40 under 40. Leah’s directorial debut On the Divide premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival and was broadcast on POV PBS on April 18th 2022. She was a Sundance Ignite and Jacob Burns Fellow where she created Death Metal Grandma (SXSW 2018) about a 97 year old Holocaust survivor named Inge Ginsberg who sings death metal, which won Best Documentary at the American Pavilion at Cannes Film Festival, and is a New York Times Op Doc. While at Ithaca College in 2015 she was named one of Variety’s “110 Students to Watch in Film and Media” for her work on The Provider that follows a traveling abortion doctor in Texas (SXSW 2016, Student Emmy Award) and Beyond the Wall about a formerly incarcerated individuals re-entry process. She is currently a member-owner at Meerkat Media cooperative production company and working on her second feature length film on memory culture.

Elijah Stevens is a documentary producer based in New York City. He is producing a slate of independent features under Space Time Films, and is also a founding producer of Signpost Pictures, with Sara Dosa and Shane Boris. He associate produced Hollywoodgate (Venice 2023), King Coal (Sundance 2023; POV PBS 2024), Fire of Love (Sundance 2022; Academy Award nominee for Documentary Feature 2023), The Seer and the Unseen (SFFILM 2019), Sky and Ground (World Channel 2018) and co-produced The Invisible Extinction (CPH:DOX 2022) and an episode of Taste the Nation (Hulu 2020). His work has been supported by Sundance, Hot Docs, The Gotham, DOCsBarcelona, DOK Leipzig, DOC NYC, DOK.Forum, and Ji.hlava, amongst others. He was a 2019-2020 fellow in the UnionDocs Collaborative Studio, a 2024 Artist-in-Residence at the Niels Bohr Institute, and received a BA in Latin American Studies and Government from Wesleyan University.