Jessica began working at 11 as a former professional actor. She’s been fascinated by the business side of entertainment. She has been a Development Executive with the production company Digital Riot Media. There, she focused on expanding their slate into female and minority driven narratives. She created a team and helped pitch an unconventional multi-generational multi-cam pilot to ABC, FOX & NBC. At the beginning of the pandemic, she did the final edits on a Stephen King based feature in pre-production. She studied film at Wesleyan University, The New School and the Metropolitan Film School in London She’s worked on the MTV Fandom Awards, Major League Baseball’s OFF THE BAT, and managed live audiences for Comedy Central pilot tapings. She also Co-Founded a 501(c) 3 project based non-profit to reestablish a charter school in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina also helping build afterschool improv programs. Currently, Jessica works in financial technology building relationships with capital providers.

Lizzie is a producer. She co-created and produced a web series called "Freelance." It was an official selection at multiple festivals and was nominated for Best Dramedy at NYC Webfest. Before switching to TV and Film, she was an associate producer for Story Course, a modern dinner theatre show, meant to bridge the divide between theatre, food, and storytelling. Their aim is to strike an emotional chord with consumers that appeals to more senses than any one form of entertainment can alone. Previously, she freelanced at SNL and other NYC based productions and until recently, she worked at SmartyPants, a production company in Brooklyn that specializes in documentaries. She now works in Creative Development at NBC Comcast.

Based in New York City, Alex Casimir is a multidisciplinary visual artist specializing in creative producing, film production, and sculpture. 


He graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.F.A in Film and Television Production. As a half Black/half Chinese filmmaker, his work looks to explore the intersectionality of history, race, and masculinity with a touch of magical realism. Which is a more pretentious way of saying he enjoys identity pieces that not only examine the individual but the time in which they operate.

His short films have screened at international festivals such as LA Shorts, Indie Short Fest, Filmquest, Austin Film Festival, .MOV Film Festival, and USC First Look.

As a freelancer, he has extensive professional experience working for major institutions such as Participant Media, HOOKED, and Amazon. More recently, he worked as apart of the Programming Team for the 2021 Tribeca Festival.

Claire Gostin is a writer and director from Gig Harbor, Washington. She currently lives in Los Angeles, California and is a 2020 graduate of the USC School of Cinematic Arts with a major in Film and Television Production.

During her senior year, Claire was selected as one of four students to direct an undergraduate thesis film at USC. That film, 'Limelight', was a finalist in First Look, USC’s prestigious industry showcase, premiered at the 2020 Urbanworld Film Festival, and was named one of the top ten films to stream at this year’s National Film Festival for Talented Youth by Directors Notes. Shortly after, she began work as the Director’s Assistant on 'Searching 2', where she shadowed and worked closely with the movie's two directors. She is currently developing and directing a new Youtube Series for Jubilee Media.

From an early age, Claire recognized how harmful many movies were to her own self-image when she rarely saw stories with characters like herself. In high school, however, Claire found directing and along with it, a goal of ensuring that all women never failed to see themselves on the screen. Claire hopes to continue writing and directing female-centered dramas that are always infused with a slight touch of humor.

Brendan Bennett is a filmmaker raised on Bainbridge Island, Washington. His early exposure to theatre and the performing arts led him to fall in love with visual storytelling. Passionate about the entire process, from development to post, Brendan loves taking on projects and seeing them through every step of the process. His work has screened at prestigious festivals in the US, Ireland, the UK, Spain, Brazil, France, Denmark, Greece, and have been viewed by over 4 million people online.

Recently Brendan found his way into Virtual Production LED technology as a way of telling stories. He produced two virtual short films with partners including Amazon Studios, Universal Pictures, Warner Brothers, Microsoft, and Technicolor. Currently, Brendan is a consulting producer and coordinating a series of test shoots for the ASC in collaboration with these studios, testing the different use cases and workflows of using unreal and virtual technologies. Brendan graduated from USC School of Cinematic Arts in December 2019 and is working as a producer and writer: building worlds and telling poignant, dramatic stories with a dash of dark humor.

Cole Bacani is Filipino-American writer/director from the Chicago suburbs. In 2016, Cole received a National Student Production award for cinematography from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. In 2020, he graduated from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts and is now based in Los Angeles. Since then, he’s had his work featured on Netflix, DUST, NoBudge, CryptTV, Film Shortage, and screened all around the world. He’s been awarded/nominated at Palm Springs International ShortFest, LA Shorts International Film Festival, LAAPFF, Hollyshorts, NFFTY, and more. He's currently directing new digital series at Jubilee Media and is developing his first feature film. On the side, he founded a production company called Violet Hill Pictures.

Kirsten Uyên Hoàng is a first-generation Vietnamese-American filmmaker and editor based in Los Angeles, California. She earned a Bachelor of Arts in Film and Television Production from the USC Shool of Cinematic Arts.

Reid Andersen is a freelance audio engineer who recently graduated from Columbia College Chicago where he studied several facets of audio: studio music recording, post-production, acoustics, podcasts, and live sound. Prior to the pandemic, Reid worked as an audio engineer at the House of Blues in Chicago while also interning with Steve Albini at Electrical Audio. Currently, he records production sound on set and is designing soundtracks for several other projects.

Alexander Mansour is a composer, pianist, and cellist from Los Angeles California. His music for media has been featured on NBC Broadcasts and Netflix original content. Most recently, he scored a documentary for director Robert Weide,  VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME - distributed this fall 2021 by IFC Films. He also scored an AFI Feature Documentary selection, “Hesburgh”, which just finished its theatrical distribution. He is currently scoring a second feature with director Patrick Creadon. Over the years, he has been recognized four times as an ASCAP Finalist in the Morton Gould Young Composer Competition and the Herb Alpert Young Jazz Composer Awards. Alex just graduated from the USC Thornton School of Music with a Masters in Music Composition, where he studied with Professor Donald Crockett. He previously studied with John Liberatore at the University of Notre Dame, where he double majored in cello performance and film studies.

Zack Chalmers is a New York-based colorist from Atlanta. He holds a B.F.A. in Film & TV Production from Tisch School of the Arts.

Aodhan Ozawa Burns is an animator based in NYC.