Stephanie Kelley is a (SAG-AFTRA and Equity) Actor and Producer living in Los Angeles. Prior to her move to the west coast she lived and worked in the theatre and film scene in New York for 8 years.

She graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2007 with a Bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies focusing on art production and culture. During her time in VA and NY Stephanie co-founded and

ran the nonprofit theatre and film production company, Yellow House, for 14years.. Recently she has been interviewed by VoyageLA, ShoutoutLA, and Canvas Rebel about her acting and producing career.

Sonja Bertucci is a Richmond-based filmmaker and an assistant professor in film studies at the University of Richmond. After obtaining her PhD at UC Berkeley and her MFA at CalArts, she taught film and filmmaking at numerous institutions of higher learning in the US. In dialogue with her academic research, her films have focused so far on questions of ephemerality, representations of grief and loss, and the struggle for personal and communal survival. She has made several experimental shorts and feature-length documentaries that have screened at national and international festivals. Her first documentary, Stranger from Within (77’), a personal and political film about Kosovo, won the Special Jury Award at Beldocs International Documentary Film Festival in May 2015. She is currently finalizing a third feature-length documentary film about a centenarian couple entitled In Search of Time Lost (2023).

Sherin Nicole is an author, film critic, and might be a covert agent. The CIA offered her a college scholarship but Sherin is too secretive for espionage. By day, she’s an agent provocateur as a brand and marketing specialist. By night, she writes fiction and produces content for the Geek Girl Riot show and RIOT-US.com, alongside the Black Reel Awards, RogerEbert.com, and the Alliance of Women Film Journalists (AWFJ). As a former paranormal romance author (under her secret identity), she has published three novels and several novellas. You can also read her words in Fireside Magazine, Cast of Wonders, the Wayward Kindred comics anthology, and Escape Pod. Culturally Sherin is half American, half British, and very southern—right down to the accent and the love of grits. Government reports show a residence in DC, but Sherin spends most of her time in the worlds she creates and she hopes to meet you there.

Molly Nevola is a SAG-AFTRA actor/producer and model based in Los Angeles with a deep love of all things TV and film. After starting her career on the east coast in the DC/NY markets, she ventured west to pursue more work. As a local news host in Washington, Molly covered AwesomeCon’s 2017 and 2018 short film festival for DC Ch. 5 and later emceed the event in 2019. She also worked the red carpet for the 2019 Annapolis Film Festival. Most recently, she booked work on Fleishman is in Trouble, and performed in Beyonce’s long-form video visuals (Untitled) for the recent album, Renaissance. A graduate of Wake Forest University and New England native, Molly is an old Hollywood and theatre lover and worked for the world class Shakespeare Theatre Company in DC for five years. When not auditioning, Molly works part-time on the Sony Pictures lot in Los Angeles, plays piano and teaches fitness classes.

Emily Marquet is a cinematographer known for her work on Shanidar, Wildman and various music videos and short films. She also works as a camera trainee, assistant camera and in the G&E department. She also was the Motion Graphics Designer on the AppleTV series ‘Criminal Record’. She lives in London and pursues film photography in addition to cinematography.

Capella Fahoome is committed to the relational experience of filmmaking. She has produced independent films for twenty years, with a concentration on enhancing collaborative environments through relationships built on trust and respectful engagement. Capella’s experience and education confirms that optimizing these elements of production not only increases creativity and individual well-being, but the overall success of the final project.

Capella grew up in Detroit and attended Detroit Public Schools; she graduated from the University of Michigan with a B.A. in Psychology and received her Master of Applied Positive Psychology and Master of Philosophy in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.

Cori Dioquino is a Filipino Immigrant American actor, writer, arts integration educator, and acting coach based in Baltimore and NYC.

She is a member of SAG-AFTRA and an Equity Member Candidate. As a trained actor, she has worked on stage and in film and television, most notably appearing on screen in Marvel/Netflix’s hit series Daredevil and Season 2 of New Amsterdam.

Cori began pursuing her career as a producer and director in 2018. In February of 2022, she helped produce Alexandra Palting’s one-woman muscial 0874: A Filipino-American Love Story at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. In 2023, Cori created her own one-person show entitled Crisis Mode: Living Pilipino in America, which made its debut at The Strand Theater in Baltimore. Her other works as both producer and director include Rage (short film, currently in post-production), Miss You Like Hell (assistant director), Perfection=Overrated, and an original children’s play entitled Tornkid.