Devyn McConachie, Tessa Brinckman, Miles Inada (The Gorgon Cycles). Miles Inada is an animator, cartoonist, game designer, and human being seeking shelter from the death storm of global capitalism. He has screened at festivals in the US and Europe including Tribeca Film Festival, won many awards and grants including from the City of Cincinnati and the Civil Liberties Public Education Fund. He is a Professor of Art and Emerging Media at Southern Oregon University in Ashland, Oregon.

Devyn McConachie is a multimedia designer and cartoonist, presently lurking around Portland, OR. Their creative practice includes comics, animation, collage, zines, and paintings, where they bring a sense of whimsy and grotesque to their work. Special interests include digital distortion, social breakdown, the color green, and spreadsheets. They like to work with their hands, and with their head in the clouds.

Tessa Brinckman, interdisciplinary flutist/composer, has been praised for her “chameleon-like gifts” and “virtuoso elegance” (Gramophone), and as "an adroit creator of sound worlds” (Fanfare). Originally from Aotearoa/New Zealand, she has premiered well over a hundred new works (commissioning almost thirty), with prominent classical music ensembles, concert series, musicians and composers across the globe. In New York City since 2022, she builds work that honors synesthesia, dialect, innate meter and collaboration, often in a political and surrealist spirit. Performing on flute, piccolo, alto, bass, contrabass, baroque flutes, and miscellaneous keyboards, she co-directs the bi-coastal duo, Caballito Negro, with Terry Longshore, commissioning significant works for flute and percussion. Two of her collaborative videos have won 22 film festival awards for music scoring, animation and experimental film. Projects in 2024-5 include critically acclaimed album release Take Wing, Roll Back (New Focus Recordings), commissions, chamber performance and recording collaborations in NYC, New Zealand and Mexico, with recent project support from Chamber Music America, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, and New York Women Composers.

Paul Shottner is a British Writer, Filmmaker, Actor and Artist. After working as a camera assistant and operator he studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in New York City. Among others, he studied cinematography, directing, film production and script writing in New York, Los Angeles, London and Vancouver. After writing, producing and directing several short films and music videos, he worked on his first feature film script for the production of 24h Marrakech, 2010. He currently lives and works in London and Rome. 

Hsuan Yu Pan is a Taiwanese American documentary filmmaker whose work explores themes of immigration, cultural memory, and identity through intimate, character-driven stories. Based in New York City, she was a producer at BRIC TV from 2011 to 2020, creating community-centered documentaries. Pan has directed over four short films highlighting immigrant voices across generations and regions. Her films have screened at festivals nationally and internationally, recognized for their emotional depth and nuanced storytelling. With a commitment to care and connection, Pan continues to document underrepresented communities with honesty, empathy, and a sharp cinematic eye.