About Our Teaching Artists
Paul Lovelace's documentaries have won acclaim at film festivals worldwide. In 2006, Paul produced, wrote and edited the PBS documentary AMERICAN ROOTS MUSIC: CHICAGO. Paul's documentary feature BOUND TO LOSE, a portrait of the psychedelic folk duo The Holy Modal Rounders, was released theatrically in 2007 and on DVD in 2008. As an editor, Paul has worked on TV series for The Food Network, Travel Channel, MTV, among others. He has edited commercials and promotional videos for Rock Star Games, Blue Man Group and several music labels. He is currently co-producing and directing a feature length documentary about legendary FM radio personality Bob Fass and his long running program RADIO UNNAMEABLE.
Chelsea Manifold is from Wyoming, Michigan. She moved to New York City in the early 2000's to pursue a degree in animation and filmmaking at the School of Visual Arts. She has created a number of award-winning self-produced shorts in both live action and stop motion animation formats. Chelsea also works as a freelance commercial artist in puppet fabrication and special effects make-up. Her work has appeared in print ads, on television, on stage and online, as well as in feature and independent films. Although her career has taken her across the country and as far abroad as Romania and France, Chelsea's real passion is in education and it is with great joy that she takes part in the Tribeca Film Institute’s educational programming.
Vivianne A. Njoku is an artist born in Nigeria who has lived across the globe and currently resides in Bushwick, Brooklyn. She has worked with youth in various capacities, most notably with MOMIEs TLC, a non-profit youth development organization, and Girls Rock! DC, DC's first all-female rock band camp for girls. Additionally, Ms. Njoku is proud to have been an integral member of the production and instructional team for Black Aesthetic Institute's youth-made documentary WHY? THE BREAKDOWN OF ANACOSTIA. Vivianne is also the drummer for noon:30, a genre-blending art rock trio, and her current video work is projected during their live performances.
Jessica Peavy is a lens-based media and performance artist. Peavy received her BFA in Film from Tisch School of the Arts at NYU and completed an MFA at the School of Visual Arts. She has exhibited in galleries, museums, and festivals across the country including Rush Arts, Momenta Art, PPOW gallery, and The Contemporary Art Museum Houston. Peavy has spoken at the CUNY Graduate Center and Cinewomen NY on the roles of women in moving image and Columbia University’s Conversations Across Cultures public art Conference. She participated in residencies at Smack Mellon and Harvestworks and has received funding from Franklin Furnace, Jerome Foundation and the New York State Council of the Arts Individual Artist Grant. Peavy currently lives and works in New York City and is represented by Collette Blanchard Gallery.
David Felix Sutcliffe is an emerging filmmaker and teaching artist. His first film, ADAMA, a full-length documentary about a 16-year-old Muslim girl from Harlem who was arrested by the FBI and accused of being a "potential" suicide bomber, will be broadcast on PBS in the fall of 2011. He has been honored with a National Scholastic Art and Writing award for his work as a media educator with the Harlem Children’s Zone, and has received artist grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts and The Independent Television Service.
Sen-I Yu is a New York-based filmmaker originally from Taiwan. She earned an MFA from the Graduate Film Program at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. Sen-I has written and directed numerous narrative short films and documentaries, won recognitions in film festivals such as the Busan Asian Short Film Festival in Korea, the Asian American International Film Festival, the Newport International Film Festival and Taipei Women Make Waves Film Festival, among others. She is also a Student Academy Awards Regional Finalist, a second runner-up in the Asian American Film Festival screenplay competition, a grantee of from the National Culture and Arts Foundation of Taiwan, and a Warner Bros. Pictures Production Grant. In addition to having written and directed short films, Sen-I has been working as a professional film and video editor and director in New York City for the past seven years. Her credits include documentary features and shorts, Television programs, commercial spots and music videos. Sen-I is currently writing and developing her feature-length narrative project.
