Ava is a senior from Dobbs Ferry, NY majoring in English. With a particular interest in pre-production, she was a development intern for distribution agency Radiant Films International as well as wrote a short film last winter which appeared at the Berkshire Student Film Festival in Williamstown. Ava's love for film was born out of watching endless movie musicals with her mom from a young age, her favorite being La La Land. As social coordinator for PVP, Ava loves film's ability to showcase a variety of skill sets, its collaborative nature, and most importantly, the community it fosters. 

Jack Allen Greenfield shot his first short film in 2012 while bored on his grandmother's iPad. While waiting for “The Poopie’s” Sundance acceptance, 7 year old Jack Allen grew up in Brooklyn and went to Saint Ann’s School. At Saint Ann’s, Jack Allen took Videography, Moving Image 2, and Moving Image 3. Jack Allen is eternally grateful to his teachers Carlo Mirabella-Davis, Samina Akbari, and Morgan Ingari who led him to his love of Filmmaking. Jack Allen is a prospective Comparative Literature, Psychology, and Theater major. He enjoys reading, listening to music, and going on long bike rides. Jack Allen would like to thank every member of Purple Valley Productions for putting art out into the world, his friends for putting up with him, and his fellow board members for doing both.

Darren discovered filmmaking in middle school after moving from Beijing to California. Initially drawn to a media arts elective as a way to explore a new subject, he quickly found that film offered a powerful, barrier-free means of expression. In high school, he joined its unique Media Arts Program (MAP), an interdisciplinary curriculum combining English, social studies, and media production. At Williams, Darren continues to explore the intersections of film and other subjects. A dedicated member of the college’s Moot Court team and a board member of the Mock Trial team, he plans to double major in history and political science. While pursuing filmmaking as a career remains an open question, he is deeply committed to integrating its practice into other disciplines and enabling others to get involved in the magic medium of film. 

Jackie is a junior from Boston, Massachusetts majoring in Studio Art and Psychology. Jackie found their love for film in high school as a hardcore cinephile and as a screenwriter, but only until college did they fully pursue filmmaking. They find filmmaking to be a highly accessible form of storytelling that incorporates so many different artistic mediums that they love. They have directed, produced, written, edited, and shot not only PVP films but independent self-funded shorts on their own time. Jackie has a special interest in directing, having directed Post Move, PVP’s second film and hopes to pursue filmmaking throughout Williams, abroad, and beyond undergraduate studies. Outside of PVP, Jackie is highly passionate about theater, playwriting, painting, music, and of course, watching movies. 

Ziwei is a comparative literature major from Beijing, China. With a passion for both fiction and nonfiction filmmaking, she works in both genres. Her documentary shorts focus on ethnic groups and relationship in southwest China, through the lenses of ethnography and oral history. Her works have been selected by film festivals such as LA Independent Film Fest. Besides filmmaking, she enjoys fiction writing and journaling, community service, and takes lots of classes in Philosophy, History, Anthropology, and Theater. She is also a solo-backpacker who wants to join HYPIA before she turns 25, for which she’s running out of time. Ziwei is always eager to learn about her fellow human beings and foster communities through the spaces that writing and filmmaking create.

Elizabeth is a junior at Williams College. Her artistic interests lie in filmmaking and publication, two mediums she finds similar in their ability to combine media and temporal sensitivity in constructing narratives. 

She directed 100 YEARS LATER, a film celebrating the centennial of Williams College Wrestling, earning the Frank Deford Award for Excellence in Sports Media. She is also a recipient of the Robert G. Wilmers Jr. 1990 Memorial Fellowship for Creative Arts, which supports her ongoing independent film Distance, inherited. Her work as a screenwriter has been featured in the Berkshire Student Film Festival, and her printmaking work has been published in the international magazine SineTheta. She is from San Jose, California.

Leah is a freshman from Bothell, Washington and is majoring in Environmental Studies. After experimenting with film in high school, she has been so thankful to work with professional equipment and talented students in Purple Valley productions. Although she is currently not planning on majoring in film, she is committed to taking different film classes at Williams and continuing to explore the arts scene in the Berkshires. After being Second Assistant Camera for “Post Move,” she was First Assistant Camera in Flightless Birds and hopes to continue rising the ranks as she learns more about the world of production!

Doug Wang is a rising sophomore from Boston, MA and Shenzhen, China. He is a prospective major in Art History and Comp. Lit. He started filming in middle school, completing narrative and documentary short films that have won national high-school and college level prizes. He worked as cinematographer for Flightless Birds (Purple Valley Productions, Spring ‘25)

Owen is a sophomore pursuing a double major in English and Spanish. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he discovered his love for storytelling in the first grade when he wrote “How the Crab Turned Red,” a riveting tale about… (see title). Since then, he has gone on to write a countless number of poems, short stories, comedy sketches, speeches and short films. Owen is always chasing the magical feeling of transforming the blank page into a meaningful story one word at a time. He draws inspiration from many greats across different artistic mediums including Kubrick, Hesse and El Greco. Having served on the production crew of “Flightless Birds,” Owen looks forward to helping bring another year of awesome stories to the silver screen. Outside of PVP, Owen enjoys watching classic films, trail running and doing improv comedy with Treestyle.