Sierra Urich
About
Sierra Urich is an artist and filmmaker. She received her BFA in Illustration and Film/Animation from the RISD in 2013. In 2017 she received the Emerging Artist Scholarship as an artist-in-residence at The Banff Centre for the Arts, and was a Sundance Nonfiction Directors Residency Fellow 2018.
Joonam
A filmmaker searches to uncover her family’s Iranian past. Excavating the formative memories of her grandmother, mother, and self, JOONAM explores the evolving shape of girlhood - and, with it, the complex relationships between mother and daughter, Iran and America, and the immigrant experience as it ripples over time.