Measure For Measure

Cynthia Lowen is an Emmy-nominated filmmaker and award-winning writer whose work uses the power of story to catalyze meaningful change, confronting timely issues from bullying to online harassment to reproductive rights. She is a 2023 Sundance/Sloan Screenwriting Fellow for her feature narrative script, LIGHT MASS ENERGY, about Mileva Maric Einstein, a pioneering woman in physics who faced rampant discrimination. Cynthia is also the director and producer of BATTLEGROUND, an urgently timely window into the intersection of abortion and politics in America, premiering at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, released in theaters nationwide with Abramorama and streaming on STARZ. She is also the director/producer of NETIZENS (HBO), a feature documentary about women and online harassment. “Bristling with rightful fury,” says Teen Vogue of the film, NETIZENS follows three women as they confront digital abuse and strive for justice online. Cynthia is also the producer and writer of BULLY, a feature documentary following five kids and families through a ‘year in the life’ of America’s bullying crisis. BULLY was nominated for two Emmys, shortlisted for the Oscars, screened at The White House and received a DuPont-Columbia Award for Excellence in Journalism. Cynthia received the Hedgebrook Women Authoring Change Fellowship from William Morris Entertainment and has been a member of the Producers Guild of America since 2014.

Ran Jing is a writer-director and NYU Tisch graduate whose work spans live action and animation. Her debut feature MODEL earned acclaim from Variety China, won multiple awards at Academy Award® and BAFTA-qualifying festivals, and received a theatrical release in China. Named one of ISA’s “Top 25 Writers to Watch,” she is a NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow, CineStory Foundation Scholar, and Stowe Narrative Lab alum whose scripts have placed on Coverfly’s Red List. Formerly a storyboard artist at Blue Sky Studios, she contributed to Spies in Disguise, The Peanuts Movie, and the Ice Age franchise. A member of the WGA, Film Fatales and Rideback Rise, Ran is currently a Directing Fellow at AFI’s DWW+ program, completing her sifi thriller short Imprint, starting Wrenn Schimit.

Shruti Kumar (she/her) is a composer, arranger, and conductor working in NY, LA, and London. In the film and TV sphere, she has a wide range of experience from scores to songs. In 2022, she began collaborating with film composer Daniel Hart (The Green Knight, A Ghost Story) on the scores for AMC’s ‘Interview With The Vampire’ series one and two, and Disney’s ‘Peter Pan & Wendy’. She scored the animated festival favorite ‘Passage’ (dir. Asavari Kumar) as well as ‘Esther In Wonderland’ (dir. Stephanie Bollag) which premiered at the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival. She co-composed the score to the Alicia Keys documentary ‘Uncharted’ (dir. Beth Aala) which premiered at Tribeca 2023. Over the last two years, Shruti collaborated with the Disney Imagineering team to arrange the music for their Haunted Mansion Experience. She begins composing on a major Amazon series this year. In songwriting and production, she has collaborated with artists including Alicia Keys, Garbage, Nas, No Doubt, and Fiona Apple. She prides herself on her ability to fuse genres from orchestral to experimental electronic to pop and hip-hop.