John e. has always been inspired by people and their pets. They are from Latnix and Jewish descent and a graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in 2013.

Hiran Balasuriya is a Sri Lankan filmmaker based in New York who has worked for several production companies of note, including Kontent Films and Remedy Editorial in San Francisco, as well as BBC Films and Ponda Films in London. 

Lexi Tannenholtz is a filmmaker based in NYC. She is currently in post-production on Chestnut by Jac Cron starring Natalia Dyer with Utopia Films and Shudder’s Bad Things by Stewart Thorndike starring Gayle Rankin and Molly Ringwald. She also just wrapped production on Booger by Mary Dauterman starring Grace Glowicki which took part in the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival Creators Market.

David is a New York City based filmmaker. In addition to his award-winning work as a writer and director of short films, music videos, and commercials, David co-produced the narrative feature Like Lambs and distributed the feature doc Oriented through his impact distribution label PICTURED, ultimately selling the film to Netflix at TIFF.

Nat Gee is a Brooklyn-based director and film festival programmer. She creates visceral stories, with stylized terrains, bold scores and soundscapes. She's deeply meticulous with cinematography, design and color palettes. Nat is interested in physical performances and audacious feminine worlds. Waves also premiered on Filmmaker Magazine and Directors Notes and she's in post on Buried, which won a Jerome Foundation Artist Grant.

A graduate of the prestigious University Of North Carolina School Of The Arts for Drama. LOVE YOU TYLER is his first short film he's written, co-directed, and produced. When he's not on set or on stage, he enjoys bowling,cooking, and breathing.

Fatma Belkıs was born in Antalya in 1985. She now lives in İstanbul. She studied Visual Arts and Communication Design in İstanbul some time ago. Her works were shown in İstanbul and Sharjah Biennials and in institutions such as İstanbul Modern, DEPO, nGbK, Tensta Konsthall. The films she has directed were shown at international film festivals in Turkey and Europe.

Kemp Baldwin is a freelance writer, director and producer living in Brooklyn. Kemp’s work has been featured in the New York Times, Indiewire, New York Mag’s Vulture, Vice, the Huffington Post and awarded a Vimeo Staff Pick. He created the Snagfilms Original DON'T WALK starring Max Silvestri and featuring Jermaine Fowler, Kate Berlant, and John Early.

Chelsea Slayter is a Jersey Shore/NYC based writer and director. After graduating NYU with degrees in Cinema Studies and Broadcast Journalism, her filmmaking journey began in the world of documentary.

Lucky Marvel is an independent filmmaker, troublemaker, and screenwriter based in Philadelphia. Frenetic editing, fragmented characters, and dark comedy are all prominent features in the visceral world he reveals on screen.

Alex is a Cuban-American, Jewish filmmaker raised in New Hampshire now living in Brooklyn, NY. His films have been selected for multiple festivals internationally. His work has been distributed by PBS, Criterion, Roku, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Pitchfork, The Huffington Post, and Vimeo Staff Picks. His short documentary SHUT UP AND PAINT (2022) was awarded Grand Jury Prize at IFF Boston and Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, shortlisted for the 95th Academy Awards, and broadcast nationally on POV.

Eliza Jiménez Cossio (she/her) is a chicana writer and actor, currently writing for Fred Armisen’s This Fool (Hulu) and Taika Waititi’s Our Flag Means Death (HBO Max), previously One Day at a Time (Netflix) and Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas (HBO).

Jivensley Alexis is a Haitian filmmaker, based in NYC. His work has been featured on Directors Notes, Beyond the Short, & Retrospective of Jupiter.

Samantha Severin is a writer and director living in New York City. Her first short film "Blue" premiered on NOWNESS in 2019.

Matthew Wade is a director, writer, editor, composer, illustrator, and animator born in Idaho. Heavily informed by his childhood years in the Pacific Northwest, his work has been described as “moody,” “unnerving,” and “absorbing.”

Amelia Spitler is a writer, director, and producer. In addition to film production, she frequents the film festival circuit, coordinating festivals such as the Sundance Film Festival, Seattle International Film Festival, and DOC NYC.

Daniel Bloom is a filmmaker currently based in Tel Aviv. His debut short “Inside the Storm” premiered in Slamdance 2021. He is interested in finding things to film that he can’t quite describe in words, and things to write that he isn’t yet sure how to shoot.

A recent graduate of the American Film Institute Conservatory and newly inducted member of the Actors Studio Playwrights Directors Unit, Frank Donnangelo is an award-winning writer-director whose past works have been supported by grants from Kodak and Fotokem, as well as the Panavision New Filmmaker Program.

Kennedy Kao is a filmmaker based in Toronto, who creates narrative films focusing on Asian-Canadian identity. His short film DANICA’S MOM won the Best Student Prize at Montreal Festival du Nouveau Cinema 2020 and will be screening at the Canadian Film Fest in 2021.

Grace Kim is a Brooklyn-based, Bay Area native filmmaker and writer who uses absurdist and surrealist elements as tools to explore characters' emotions and psychology in storytelling. As an artist, she is searching for unique expressions of common human experiences— exploring the ways that filmmakers can create an emotional, spiritual, or philosophical resonance between the audience and films through unusual symbols, composition, and visual association/dissociation.

Guy Soulsby began directing from an early age and after winning praise from the National Science and Media Museum in Yorkshire for a short film project he moved to London aged 22. The next five years saw him direct work for various TV broadcasters before making the leap to become a freelance director.

Angeline Gragasin is a writer, filmmaker, and artist who tells stories about ecology, memory, and power. Her background is interdisciplinary, her work equal parts poetic expression and critical inquiry. She sees each project as an opportunity to ask questions, take risks, and experiment. Before she became a filmmaker, Gragasin trained extensively in mask, mime, and improvisational performance. This early emphasis on image and action-based storytelling continues to inform her work today.

Peter Dolshun grew up in a single-note New Jersey suburb which caused him to yearn for more authentic and spiritually expansive experiences. Using his camera to capture the sentiments and diversity that his early life lacked, his narrative work serves as a meditation on the profound nature of real-life moments. Peter favors intimate, humanist portraits over extravagant plot points.

Linda Loh is a visual artist working between New York City and Melbourne, Australia. Her multimedia works navigate the elusive form and materiality of digital space with transformed sources of light.

Michelle Uranowitz is a New York based filmmaker, actor, and movement specialist. She has a BFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, where she now teaches movement and physical training to undergraduate and graduate actors.