Michelle Roginsky is a Post-Soviet Jewish Director and Producer. With no formal education in filmmaking, Michelle learned by doing. As a director she has traveled the world to make documentary and branded content for Warner Media. As a producer her work has appeared on VICE, NIKE, Time and more. She remains always humbled by the filmmaking process.

Chair of and Professor in the Department of Dance at York University, Patrick Alcedo is a documentary filmmaker and dance scholar. His latest film THEY CALL ME DAX received the 2021 Best Foreign Documentary at the San Francisco Short Film Festival and won Best Director, Best Documentary, and Best Cinematography at the 2022 New York City Independent Film Festival. His feature documentary A WILL TO DREAM was officially selected at the 2021 Los Angeles International Film Festival and won Asia’s Best Independent Documentary Film at the All Asian Independent Film Festival during that same year. In 2017, his documentary, A PIECE OF PARADISE won both Best First Feature Film and Best Canadian Film at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, the first back-to-back win in the festival’s 21-year history.

Wendy Jane  is a young director and filmmaker. Born and raised in mainland China, now based in Hong Kong. She has been involved in documentaries, short films, and feature film productions and has been exposed to a great variety of culture. Her recent short film Sunny Side Up won the Best Short in New York Film Week 2021.

Jaclyn Bethany graduated from Fordham University (B.A., Acting), the London Film School, and holds an M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute. As an actor, select theatre credits include The Six Blanches (Tennessee Williams Theatre Co. of NOLA), A Bright Room Called Day (Invulnerable Nothings, U.K. Tour), Anna Karenina (Arcola Theatre, London), A Map of Virtue (Clubbed Thumb, NY). Film credits include Mank (Netflix, Dir. David Fincher), indie features Under the Lantern Lit Sky, Venice at Dawn, Miles, and seven feature films as writer/director including the Award winning Highway One. Jaclyn’s digital series The Rehearsal, which she directed and stars, won an Emmy for Best Supporting Actress in a Short Form Digital Series for Tina Benko. Her work has played festivals from Santa Barbara to Berlin and received worldwide distribution. She is represented by Buchwald in New York and Los Angeles.

Henrique Sauer is a brazilian director, producer, photographer and screenwriter who works in TV projects for almost 20 years. Based in Sao Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Henrique directed tv shows, theater musicals, music videos and fashion films.