about me.

MJ Kiego is a multi-generational Deaf, queer filmmaker who has written, directed, and

produced over ten short films shortlisted at international film festivals across Shanghai,

Tokyo, Berlin, Reims, Wolverhampton, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Seattle, Toronto,

and Nairobi. She has worked in television and feature films, including the Netflix reality

documentary series Deaf U (2020), and most recently as an assistant editor on Marlee

Matlin: Not Alone Anymore, which premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival.

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MJ holds a BFA in Film & Animation from the Rochester Institute of Technology and is

currently completing an MFA in Film Production at the University of Texas at Austin. She is also the founder of The Zankza Project, a nonprofit dedicated to elevating Deaf

artists and creators, and has independently raised over $200,000 to support the Deaf

Film Festival, one of the organization’s flagship initiatives.

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favorite medium: 8/16/35mm film

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software used: adobe creative cloud, airtable, asana, avid, canva, figma, final cut pro x, final draft, google workspace, microsoft workspace, slack, trello, wrike, writerduet.

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AI used: chatgpt (openAI), claude (anthropic), gemini (google), visual studio code, nanobanana, midjourney, firefly, sora, manychat.

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​hardware used: apple, arri, bolex, canon, cooke, dji, fujifilm, gopro, panasonic, polaroid, red, rokinon, sigma, sony, veydra, zeiss.

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to know more about me, feel free to ask lux, my studio assistant (AI agent) by clicking on the lightbulb icon on this website.