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Antonio Rodriguez
Based in Los Angeles, Antonio is an avid screenwriter with over 10 years experience crafting original feature length screenplays, poems, and short novels. He worked on the buzzworthy short film, ‘Nadine.’ Antonio remains busy as he prepares to make his directional debut with a biographical drama with sci-fi elements. 

Sophie Mutiara Nova
Final Girl fanatic Sophie Mutiara Nova is a Queer, half-Indonesian, SLE-diagnosed Writer-Director. (Writing Fellow of Lambda Literary and the ACEX TV Initiative, Finalist of the Emmy's TV Academy Foundation Directing Program, Stowe Narrative Lab, and SAGIndie). Their TV series have won the Launchpad Pilot Competition, ScreenCraft Horror Competition, and many others; their film work's screened in festivals and venues internationally. In publishing, their debut monster book "Catch Lili Too" was spotlighted by the Golden Crown Literary Society (known for honoring Allison Bechdel). Originally from Chicago, Sophie's now based in Los Angeles (Dartmouth College BFA & MFA Film Directing CalArts). Their time learning from Indonesian dance troupe Burat Wangi has only further fueled their love for storytelling and rocking out in their free time. Find them admiring the SFX in a haunted house or @thesophiewhit otherwise.

Cameron Mitchell
Cameron has been writing all his life. Growing up in Anchorage, Alaska, there was nothing else to do.
When he moved to LA he discovered his love of directing and realized how important it was to build the right team. Writing was something he could do alone, but filmmaking is not a solo art; it involves collaboration at every level. He made sure to come away from every gig with new contacts, new friends, and new members of his team.
In 2017 he started his production company Tequila Mockingbird Productions. He wanted to produce his own work outside the rigors and obstacles of the studio system, but more than that, he wanted to help new and underrepresented voices create their films. He’s helped countless creatives tell their stories in the years since. Tequila Mockingbird closed its doors in 2024, but he remains committed to that same mission.
Cameron’s debut feature This Sucks was released in 2024. It is currently available on Amazon Prime and Tubi. He's currently in pre-production for his next film, a gnarly horror movie called Last Rest Stop.

Liam Alex Heffron
Liam is an Irish actor, writer, and producer based in Los Angeles, known from leading roles in Prospect House (2023—CIFF award winner) and RTÉ’s long-running drama Fair City, with additional credits in cult comedy series Hardy Bucks and the award-winning short Top of the Rock (2015). Founder of 919 Films, an independent production company focused on bold storytelling with Irish and transatlantic appeal, he has produced most recently; Speed Dating (2024), a dark comedy exploring modern loneliness, Breaking Hollywood (2025), a satirical web series capturing the absurdity and ambition of actors in LA. He began producing for stage with his original plays The Tinker’s Blade and 1798: The Year of the French, later training with the Irish Film Academy (Dublin) and Howard Fine Acting Studio (Los Angeles), continuing to develop independent film projects on both sides of the Atlantic. A published PhD historian, Liam is also a regular newspaper columnist and blogger.

Johnny Galvan III
Johnny is an award-winning writer, director, and producer with an extensive portfolio that includes over 45 spec feature scripts, five sold features, and five television pilots spanning a wide range of genres. He has written, directed, and produced one animated short and two animated pilots, as well as the acclaimed audio dramas The Neon Testament and The Orphans. As the creator and producer of the hit audio drama podcast series THE ORPHANS, Johnny’s work has earned over 105 awards from top film festivals worldwide. He is also the author of The Places I’ve Peed, a unique art and travel coffee table book. Johnny prides himself on crafting narratives that captivate, challenge, and connect. A writer of all things, he is also a father, a son, a husband, and someone who has been through hell and back — yet still stands strong.

Zeff Lawless
Zeff is an Irish writer, director, producer, filmmaker and actor. He has been involved in the arts all his life, having run a successful Graphic Design company in Dublin for 35 years. 
His passion for filmmaking came after being introduced to the world of SA’s, working on feature films like The Last Duel, and television shows, Vikings and Penny Dreadful.
His screenplays and short films have won over 160 Awards from International Film Festivals all over the world, with another 180 further accolades.
Now based in Spain he is an Executive Producer on the upcoming feature film “Manana Mammon” by Anton Olandersson, due for completion in early 2026.
He is also developing his short Dark Comedy/LBGTQ+/Musical screenplay "Hallelujah", and his Dark Comedy/Fantasy/SciFi feature script “Kerry Cowboys”, to bring them into production

Anar Azimov
Anar Azimov is a multidisciplinary filmmaker, writer, and academic whose work spans fiction, documentary, and experimental forms. Azimov’s filmmaking journey began with Tailor (2014), a 10-minute short selected for the Cannes Short Film Corner, marking his first international exposure. He followed this with Short Story (2016), which earned an Honourable Mention at the Los Angeles Film Awards. His 2017 short Birthday won Best Director at the Rome Prisma Awards in 2018.  Azimov’s debut feature Six (2017) was nominated by Fabrique du Cinema in 2018 and received Best Script at the Taranto Film Festival in 2022. His next feature, Crossing the Line (2018), premiered at Filmfest Bremen in 2019 and won Best Idea at Bucovina International Film Festival (Ukraine) same year.   In 2020, he expanded into docufiction with MacGuffin (official selection at Filmfest Bremen again) and “…and Juliet”. The latter received a Dziga Vertov Award nomination at Chicago Blow-up Film festival in 2023. His 2021 mid-length CU: Farewell garnered the Tarkovsky Grant and was featured at the Brussels Independent Film Festival and Cannes International Film Week in 2025.

Carl (Carlos) Perez
Carl holds an MA in English from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a BFA in Speech and Theatre from Avila University. As a writer-for-hire for independent filmmakers, ten of his commissioned screenplays have been produced and distributed internationally, with one more giving him "original story by" credit, and two more of his screenplays are in the production process, one of which is scheduled to be completed in 2025. He recently completed a commission, writing a screenplay adaptation of the cult comic, Bad Candy. Many of his original screenplays have received awards and the various laurels can be seen on his IMDb site. His original stage play, Jeremy's World, was adapted into a short screenplay and premiered at the St. Louis Filmmakers Showcase, his screenplay, Trick-or-Treat was adapted into a Podcast for Creative Zombie Studios, and his screenplay, Strays, was selected by the African American Film Society of Missouri and Cinematalk Productions for a reading by professional actors with the Unicorn Theater. His published stage plays include, Caught Between Two Worlds, published by Dramatic Publishing, In Hyding, Jeremy's World, Not Your Usual Tales, and The Exit Strategy Club (written with Vicki Vodrey), all four published by Off The Wall Plays, The Terry Stinger Show, published by Next Stage Press, Native American Folktales for Fun and Folktales for Fun, both published by Pioneer Drama Service, A Caterpillar's Tale, published by Eldridge Plays, and The Adventures of Christina and Viperina, How the Beetle Got Her Colors, Room in the Forest, and Misadventures of a Frog-Girl, all four published by Drama Notebook. His one-act play, The Game, was selected and produced by the North Park Playwright Festival, while his one-act play, Cleansing Acts, was selected for production in the LaBute New Theatre Festival and was the winner of the River Front Times Best of 2013, his musical parody short Shakespearean plays, Lear's Looney Tunes, All the World's a Musical, Silly Songs for a Stormy Night, and I Can Hear the Eunuch Sing, were performed for two seasons at The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival, and his one-act play, The Other Side, was produced by Independence City Theatre. His fiction, poetry, and nonfiction have appeared in The Bangalore Review, Free Spirit Publishing, The Bookends Review, Machias Arts Council, Scars Publications, Imagine This!, Penny, The Ecphorizer, Prism, Potpourri, The Pitch, IndieReader, KC Stage Magazine, Grab-a-Nickel, Perspectives Magazine, Theatre Training News, Midwest Medical Ethics, Masterplots, Pure Slush Books, Dark Chapter Press, and Truth Serum Press. His published works are available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble.
- IMDb mini biography by: Carlos Perez