Austin’s an award-winning writer, producer, director, and editor of short and feature films, music videos and commercials. He’s a an alum of the Sundance Co//ab Director’s Lab and The Screencraft Writer’s Retreat, and he won two Telly Awards. He loves to make movies about intimacy, shame, love, and acceptance, often with a genre twist.

Mireia is a Barcelona-born, LA-based producer working in film, television, digital media, commercials and photography. She holds an MFA from the USC Stark Producing Program, a 2021 Film Independent Project Involve Producing Fellow and a member of the BAFTA Newcomers Program.

Melody is a screenwriter who’s penned scripts for Law and Order: SVU and Two Sentence Horror Stories. She’s the co-founder of the Nyx Horror Collective, she co-produced 13 Minutes of Horror for Shudder, and is currently developing the fantasy novel Beasts of Prey for Netflix.

Santino was on the Emmy-Winning SFX Makeup Team behind Star Trek: Discovery, and he’s designed hauntingly beautiful and beautifully haunting monsters for TV and movies, including Intrepidus , Cybolica, and some upcoming blockbusters you’ve definitely heard of.

Amy-Helene Carlson studied at the William Esper Studio. She can be seen in Misha Calvert's ALL HAIL BETH web series, short film LEAVING LA by Rolf Kristian Larsen, and finished a 9-month run of Arthur Miller's ALL MY SONS at the Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California.

Will is a stage and screen actor who you may have seen in sketches for Funny or DIe and ads for Toyota and IKEA. Will is also a writer, director, and producer of branded content and web series.

Chase has shot twenty feature films and worked with directors such as Joss Whedon and musical acts such as Taylor Swift, Katy Perry, Common, and The Roots. His commercial credits include Fender, Amazon, Universal, and Estee Lauder.

A classically trained artist with experience in computer illustration, John’s work played a key role in the creation of the cutting edge visual effects of The Matrix. He contributed to such features as Starship Troopers, Eraser, and Judge Dredd, and served as the compositing supervisor on the Lord of the Rings trilogy.

Alex is the Co-founding Executive Director of Of Substance, an innovative nonprofit that makes premium, entertaining short films about addiction and mental health to help us all overcome the shame, blame, and stigma we experience..

Jordan Plotner is a composer, poet, and painter based in Portland, OR. He performs regularly with his wife as the folk duo Ned and Wendy the Band.