Giulia Gandini is a London-based writer/director originally from Italy. Her latest short film My Time was long-listed for the Academy Awards 2020 and was featured on Refinery29, Yahoo, Reuters and others. Her documentary mini-series Home Stream (supported by the UN and BFI Future Film, distributed by NowThis and Real Stories) quickly reached more than 8 million organic Facebook views. Most recently she has directed the third season of the award-winning TV teen-drama series Jams for Italian State Broadcaster RAI. She graduated with an MA in Directing from MET Film School (based in Ealing Studios, London) and she is represented for commercial work at Snapper Films.

Kelly O'Sullivan is a writer, director and actor originally from North Little Rock, Arkansas. Her first feature screenplay, Saint Frances premiered at South by Southwest, where it won a Special Jury Recognition for "Breakthrough Voice" and the Audience Award for Narrative Feature. The film was released theatrically by Oscilloscope Laboratories in 2020. Kelly was named one of Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film" and was a member of Film at Lincoln Center's 2019 Artist Academy. She is proudly represented by William Morris Endeavor and currently resides in Chicago.

MarBelle is the founder and editor-in-chief of the independent film curation and interview site Directors Notes. Prior to that, he worked as editor of Shooting People’s Filmmakers Bulletin and as a contributing writer for Short of the Week and No Film School. Through DN he has curated numerous film programmes and served on festival juries for over a decade.

Mika Kimoto is a native of Japan and the co-president of KimStim, a New York based arthouse film distribution company dedicated to the release of exceptional independent, foreign, and documentary film from around the world. After working for Kodansha publishing company and a contemporary art gallery in Japan, she came to the US to pursue her passion for art. She has MFA from the California Institute of The Arts. She recently served as a member of the jury for the 2020 Ashland Independent Film Festival.