NYWIFT & Great Point Studios Co-Present: NYWIFT Members at Sundance 2025

New York Women in Film & Television and Great Point Studios invite you to “NYWIFT On the Road to Sundance.” Join us for a lively conversation at Great Point Studio’s Yonkers location showcasing the work of NYWIFT Members heading to Sundance 2025. Featuring Creative Producer Daryl Bright Clay (Goodnight), Costume Designer Ari Fulton (Ricky) and Casting Director Adrienne Stern (We’re Not Done Yet), moderated by NYWIFT Board Member Neyda Martinez. 

Networking cocktail reception with light bites to follow.

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DATE
Tuesday, January 21, 2025

TIME
6:30 – 7:30pm ET (Panel)
7:30 – 8:30pm ET (Networking Reception)

VENUE
Great Point Studios, 45 Wells Ave, Yonkers, NY 10701 (Please check in at the security gate located at 45 Wells Ave, Yonkers.)

DIRECTIONS
For those taking mass transit, take the Hudson Line on Metro-North Railroad from Grand Central Terminal to Yonkers. Great Point Studios is one block from the station. (Please check in with security gate located at 45 Wells Ave, Yonkers. They will direct you where to go.) 

Parking is also available for those driving. Check in with security at 45 Wells Avenue. They will direct you where to park.

Panelists

Daryl Bright Clay (She/Her) is a multidisciplinary artist: a producer, writer, and performing artist. Yes, she actually does wear multiple hats (or hairstyles) depending on the vibes. Hailing from the DC Metropolitan Area has helped contribute to her love of cultural storytelling mixed with a dash of wit and a lot of heart. As a founding member of CNT Productions, she has helped write, produce, and star in CNT Production’s sketch comedy series Not Your Type , their live interactive show, The Sex Scene, and their choreopoem series Open, which has been featured in AFROPUNK, DEADLINE, and Gloria Steinem’s Ms. Magazine. With CNT partner, Ariel Zucker, she co-wrote a pilot called, Gyno, which was accepted to Gotham’s 2022 TV Film Lab & Project Market.

Daryl was the production associate on APPLE TV+’s The Supermodels. She was also the showrunner’s assistant to Branden Jacobs Jenkins, who adapted Octavia Butler’s Kindred for FX/HULU. Her contributions have been recognized by HBO, the American Black Film Festival, AT&T’s Awards for New Forms of Storytelling, and Sundance’s Horizon Awards. Much of Daryl’s work is rooted in encouraging self-love, acknowledging self-hate, and finding connection in the paradox of it all. Upcoming projects include the Sundance official selection, Goodnight, starring Dagmara Dominczyk (HBO’s Succession), and Get Lost directed by Victoria Pedretti (Netflix’s You). Currently based in Brooklyn, Daryl is a graduate of Duke Ellington School of the Arts and Carnegie Mellon’s School of Drama. She is represented by Stalwart Talent Management.

Ari Fulton is a New York-based costume designer for stage, film, opera, and dance and has built a diverse career designing costumes regionally and internationally. Ari received a BFA in Costume Design from The Theater School at DePaul University. She continued her studies, by obtaining an MFA in Design for Stage and Film, from New York University’s, Tisch School of the Arts. In 2018, Ari received her first feature film credit, for her design work for Nigerian Prince, which was shot on location in Lagos, Nigeria. Spike Lee executively produced Nigerian Prince and is the first recipient of the Tribeca and AT&T New Voices Grant. Recent design credits include: Off-Broadway directed by Robert O’Hara, and Cupids directed by Zoey Martinson a part of Tribeca’s 846:Reclaiming Time for Stories of Black Love and Joy Film Series. Ari is the proud recipient of the Black Theatre Coalition’s Costume Design Fellowship (2023) and the Lily Creative Spirt Award (2017), for her costume design work. In 2021, Ari kick-started the new year by receiving a Broadway World Miami Award for Design of the Decade, for her work on A Wonderful World: The Louis Armstrong Musical. Ari has served on the faculty at the University of Connecticut, where she serves as the Interim Head of Costume Design (2020/2021), and on the faculty at Queensborough Community College (2018-2023).

Adrienne Stern is a seasoned Casting Director and ARTIOS winner whose films have premiered at Sundance, TIFF, Cannes, Tribeca, Berlin, SXSW, HIFF, Woodstock ,Seattle, Venice and many other prominent film festivals, taking home first place prestigious awards that have led to distribution deals and launched actor’s careers.

Adrienne’s recent films include Hazard starring Sosie Bacon. Steven Ogg and Alex Roe, which will premiere at the 2024 Woodstock Film Festival. A Brooklyn Love Story with a cast of New York’s favorite Italian actors including Vincent Pastore, Julie Pacino’s debut Film I Live Here Now, Andrew Troy’s Midnight In The Orange Grove, The Directors cut for AMC and Don’t Mess With Grandma a martial Arts horror film starring Michael Jai White and Billy Zane for TUBI. Adrienne is currently casting Jesus Land based on Julia Scheere’s

Some of her well known films include The Believer starring Ryan Gosling, Thirteen Conversations About One Thing starring Matthew McConaughey, Broken English starring Parker Posey and Justin Theroux, and Joseph Pulitzer starring Live Schreiber, Sebastian Stan, Billy Magnussen, Lauren Ambrose, Rachel Brosnahan and Adam Driver as the Narrator.

Neyda Martinez (Moderator) is Director of the Media Management Graduate Program and Associate Professor of Professional Practice in Media Management in the School of Media Studies and Co-Director of the university-wide Impact Entrepreneurship Initiative.

Neyda is also a producer, strategist, writer, and a long-time cultural worker who explores the role of art in public life while centering social justice and cultural equity. Selected in 2023 as a Sundance Woman to Watch x Adobe Fellow, and a Faculty Fellow for the Mellon Initiative for Inclusive Faculty Excellence, Neyda’s current documentaries in production include Bartolo and A Chasm in Chinatown. Past documentary credits include Lucky (2014); and Decade of Fire, PBS’ Independent Lens 2020 Audience Award winner. For over a decade she was a communications strategist for AMDOC/American Documentary’s POV and America Reframed series, managing publicity, marketing and branding efforts with local, regional and national partners. Neyda serves on the editorial board of NYU’s Latinx Project IntervenXions and on the nonprofit boards of Pepatián, UPROSE, and Women Make Movies. 

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