Ted Marsden is a writer, director, and editor. He likes to create dramatic, surreal visuals and irreverent, character-based comedy. He is a founding father of the radical editing collective Racer Trash and visual art collective Dream Video Division. He is the Festival Director + Senior Programmer...

Ryan McGlade is a writer, director, and editor. His films have screened at festivals worldwide including Palm Springs International ShortFest, Montclair Film Festival, Maryland Film Festival, and the Bushwick Film Festival, where his short HOSS was awarded the Programmer's Choice Award for Best N...

Alex Kavutskiy has written and directed a feature film, a lot of shorts, a bunch of web-series (mainly for Channel 101 and AwesomenessTV), and stuff for television (including for Adult Swim, Nickelodeon, Bounce TV, TV One, and MTV2).

Emily is a writer/director based in NYC and LA. Her short films have played festivals including Atlanta, Austin, and other Oscar Qualifiers. She also designs and animates commercial work for companies including Vogue, Google, Netflix, The National Council for Mental Wellbeing, and many more. She...

Philip Thompson is an award-winning Brooklyn based filmmaker and editor. His work explores the human condition and media consumption through an experimental narrative lens, primarily in 16mm and video tape.

His work has screened both domestically and internationally, including Chicago Undergrou...

Born to Canadian parents of Caribbean descent, Aisha Evelyna is a Toronto-based actor, writer, and director passionate about bringing stories of the underrepresented to the forefront of our social consciousness.

Aisha's debut feature drama, SEAHORSE, which she wrote, and is set to direct and st...

Tatiana Tift is a Brooklyn-based writer/director working across dance and narrative short films. Originally from New Jersey, Tatiana has a diverse background in the creative field, in both the visual and performing arts. Since graduating with a degree in film production from the School of Visual ...

Marisa Adelina DeMarini is a writer, director, editor, and photographer based in Los Angeles, California. Frequently blending family history, hybrid technologies, time, and mounting environmental concerns, Marisa’s projects examine humanism through a futurist, near-documentary lens.

Previously ...

Sarah Lasley is a video artist from Louisville, Kentucky and an Assistant Professor of Film at Cal Poly Humboldt. She has screened
internationally at film festivals and universities, notably the Cairo Video Festival in Egypt and National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan. Her museum and gallery exh...