Philip Thompson is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film in 2023 and a Sundance Ignite x Adobe and NYFF Artists Academy Fellow in 2024. His work explores popular media’s influence on culture, focusing on the emotional impact of media consumption and the one-sided relationship between viewers and image subjects. His films, Living Reality and I’m At Home, have screened at festivals such as Palm Springs, Atlanta, Indie Memphis, New Orleans and Chicago Critics, amongst others. His debut feature, Dance Monkey Dance, was recently selected for the Sundance Screenwriters Lab.