Elias ZX is a filmmaker, producer and curator based out of Brooklyn, New York. Their work has been featured in film festivals around the world including the Academy-Award qualifying Athens International Film & Video Festival and Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal. Their work has screened online as part of NoBudge, Film-maker's Co-op, Do Not Research and Troma Now. In 2020 they founded the Long Distance Film Festival, a quarantine project meant to unite filmmakers around the world beyond genre lines. After winning the audience award in 2021 for the film REBIRTH.jpeg, they served on the jury for Drunken Film Festival Oakland in 2022 as a judge of U.S. Narrative films- You can hear me? I thought I was alone in here… so that means you’ll help me out, right? Hello?