Avi Zev Weider is a New York-based filmmaker, sound artist, and technologist. His directing credits include "American Santa" (LA Times, DocNYC), "Welcome To The Machine" (SXSW), and "I Remember" (Sundance). He was story producer on "Ghostbox Cowboy" (Tribeca), producer of "Danland" (Slamdance), and associate producer on "Scott Walker" (BAFTA) and "Cinemania." He is a Sloan Foundation fellow, Sundance Screenwriters Lab alum, and recipient of grants from IFP, NYFA, NYSCA, Jerome and Harnisch foundations.
For fifteen years he's also worked as a sound supervisor and mix engineer across documentary features and series — work he writes about in his newsletter, The Sound Report.
A self-taught programmer since middle school, Avi has always moved between creative and technical work, often supporting his filmmaking through software development. That dual fluency drives his current focus: storytelling and artificial intelligence. Through his podcast "Films Not Made" and the experimental project Weeping General, he's exploring what creative work looks like when the technology he's spent a career examining becomes part of the process.