Juror

Danielle Eliska is an award-winning screenwriter, film director, photographer, entrepreneur and educator from Detroit. She’s a co-creator of an experimental art community, A LOVE LETTER TO DETROIT. Danielle received her MFA in Dramatic Writing in Film from New York University, has gained notable screenwriting, film and photography recognition. Danielle was one of the inaugural grant recipients of the 2019 Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment and New York Foundation for the Arts [MOME NYFA] ‘Made in NY’ Women’s Fund in Film for her short narrative film, Shield [Digital Press Kit]. She was a 2022 Womxnhouse Detroit Resident, a 2022 Sesame Street Workshop Writer’s Room Fellow, is a 2023 CultureSource + Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Flourish Fund grant recipient and a 2023 Cranbrook Academy of Art Photography Department Artist-in-Residence.