Biographies

Rachel Lears (director/ producer/ director of photography)

Rachel likes fun people, good food, and beautiful things. Read more about Rachel in the About section of this site.

Saya Woolfalk (co-director, Ethnography of No Place)

Saya Woolfalk is a New York based artist who recently completed the Whitney Independent Study Program in Studio. She holds an MFA in Sculpture from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Brown University. She has exhibited at PS1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center in Long Island City, NY; the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, IN; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, IL; and Momenta Art in Williamsburg, NY.

She received an Art Matters grant to Japan and a NYFA grant (2007), a Fulbright Fellowship to Brazil (2005), a Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA grant (2004), was a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, and Sculpture Space. Woolfalk will be a resident artist at the Studio Museum in Harlem in 2008.

 

Martín Ubillos (producer, Birds of Passage)

Martín was educated at the University of the Republic of Uruguay and the Film School of Uruguay (ECU). He has worked for over six years as a producer with the leading advertising agencies of Uruguay and independently, serving international clients and creating audiovisual products that have been broadcast throughout South America. He has also worked as a columnist for Banda Joven, the premier website covering new popular music in Uruguay.