Naja Falhof Aastrup is a Danish film and tv producer based in Copenhagen. She has a background from European Film College, and has worked on multiple film productions since 2013. In 2016 she was selected by Screen Talent Europe for a talent camp on the Faroe Islands. Currently she is finishing her bachelor in tv and media production at The Danish School of Media and Journalism. Naja has produced a number of short films, and is currently out with ‘As The Crow Flies’ that won Best Short at Berlin Film Week.

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.

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.

Michael Maxxis spent the first decade of his filmmaking career directing close to 100 music videos. Highlights include Elle King’s Ex’s and Oh’s, Kygo’s Here For You, and Orville Peck’s Dead of Night, the latter being selected by Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the 25 Best Videos of 2019. Michael’s videos have won a combined of 11 MMVA’s, been nominated for two Junos, a Golden Frog, and several other music video awards. A live dance rendition of his music video for Elle King’s Ex’s and Oh’s was performed live at the 2017 Grammys.

Michael’s feature film debut, Puppy Love, which stars Hopper Penn, Paz De La Huerta, Cowboy Cerrone, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Madsen, and Wayne Newton has screened at several film festivals around the world, winning multiple awards.

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.