Lily Bolton is a Los Angeles-based creative from upstate New York. After studying film at Concordia University in Montréal, she continued moving through writing, festival work, production, and independent film spaces, including programming for the National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) in 2022. She has since spent several years at Tubi, working across content curation and operations.

Marjorie Conrad is a Seattle-based filmmaker originally from France. Her experience in reality television production—both in front of and behind the camera—shapes the way she thinks about consent, representation, identity, and perception. She has screened her feature work at festivals worldwide, including Slamdance, and has recently completed the mid-length experimental documentary The Joyless Economy.

Melina is an award-winning experimental filmmaker from O'ahu, Hawai'i. Shooting primarily on celluloid film formats, her works explore themes surrounding memory, identity, perception and place. Professionally, Melina works as a Film Programmer and Program Director. She is currently the Programming Manager at the Hawai’i International Film Festival, Director of Programming at Portland Panorama, and Shorts Programmer at the New York Asian Film Festival and CAAMFest.

Justin Kaminuma is a Japanese-American filmmaker whose work explores nostalgia and internet-born aesthetics through a diaristic, and mixed-media approach. His films have screened at festivals including Ann Arbor, Chicago Underground, Leiden Shorts, and Antimatter, and he has also directed work for artists such as The Cure, Disclosure, and Vance Joy.

Adrian Alarilla, PhD, is the Programming Director of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and Director of the Diwa Filipino Film Festival of Seattle. He is also a filmmaker and independent film scholar and historian. His films have been shown all over the US, Mexico, South Korea, Cambodia, and the Philippines. He has contributed articles and essays for the International Examiner, Wasafiri: Journal of International Contemporary Writing, Pelikula: Journal of Philippine Cinema, and Southeast Asia on Screen: from Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1997).

Vitória Vasconcellos (b. 1998) is an actor and director from Recife, Brazil. After attending film school at USC, her early shorts received praise in both student and Latin American fantastic film circuits. Her recent work has played at Palm Springs, Edinburgh, Kinoforum, Biarritz and Curta Cinema. She is an alum of the Locarno Basecamp, DISFF Pitching Lab, and the Toronto International Film Festival Filmmaker Lab, where she was awarded the TIFF Share Her Journey Fellowship for her upcoming first feature, "Sangra, Não Morre", currently in development. Vitória is interested in the visceral intersections of gender, body, and myth through a decolonial lens; her work traverses genre and social commentary, often centering untold stories of womanhood and the supernatural.