Dia Kontaxis is a professor at the University of Miami in the department of Cinema and Interactive Media. As a filmmaker, her work has screened at museums, galleries and festivals including Venice (Art Biennale), New York (Tribeca Film Festival), Montreal (Art Fifa), Paris, Athens, Ankara, Lleida, Taipei and Miami (Art Basel). She has received public art commissions from Miami-Dade and Broward counties. Sweet Dillard is her second feature music documentary as co-producer and editor.