Isabel is a Sundance award-winning filmmaker based in New York. She grew up in Los Angeles, California, and started photography at a young age. At New York University's Gallatin School, she studied cultural anthropology, documentary film, and cinematography. She has been considered “obese” her entire adult life. Growing up in a bigger body, she never felt like she saw characters on screen that she could relate to –all the fat characters (if they were even fat at all) had dark and depressing storylines, or were written to be bullied, or taken advantage of. Or just made into “over the top” comedic relief.

Matthieu Menu is a director and artistic producer with dynamic and impactful productions and achievements. His latest achievement marked the fashion world with his Hometown series for CANAL PLUS and VICE His sense of rhythm also allows him to sign concert recordings like PNL or Damso recently. He has also worked in advertising for international projects such as Paco Rabanne, Amnesty International, L’oréal or Cartier.

Farhoud is a law school dropout turned filmmaker and entrepreneur focused on storytelling that inspires cultural change. He is the founder of Ritual Arts and, over the past twelve years, has collaborated on a variety of award-winning projects at the forefront of brand purpose and social impact. Farhoud serves as a member of the Television Academy and the Directors Guild of America, and he sits on the board of the Muslim Public Affairs Council's Hollywood Bureau. Additionally, he teaches an upper-division business course on storytelling for social impact at Loyola Marymount University. At his core, Farhoud believes in the transformative power of art to help heal the political and social divide of the present day.

Glen Milner is an RTS award-winning and Grierson nominated filmmaker from Yorkshire, England. Early shorts picked up awards at the New York Short Film Festival and nominated at AFI DOCS, LIFF and Doc/Fest. Longer documentaries for broadcasters such as BBC, Disney, and LucasFilm have multiple awards and nominations at the Royal Television Society and The Grierson Trust, praised their intimate and unique visual approach, 'The Dying Swan' took the Grand Prix at the 2019 Prague Television Festival. He is currently directing a BFI backed feature documentary and is the co-founder of Filmworks, London. He is represented by United Agents.

Eternal Polk is a two time Emmy nominated director, writer, and segment producer with over 20 years working on short and long form projects including documentaries, music videos, branded content, & commercials. Intimate, nuanced, intentional while placing subjects on a pedestal to display their humanity is how Eternal describes his directing style and mission. Eternal has served as a creative director participating in ideation, directing client commercial shoots, and supervising post-production. His work has been featured on HBO, FOX, ESPN, ABC, BET, Vh2, and MTV. He recently directed and executive produced his first feature film, the documentary, Gaining Ground: The Fight For Black Land.

Ben Dean is an award-winning Aussie director based in Los Angeles. After being an ad guy and winning a bunch of ad guy awards, Ben decided it was time to become a director. His filmic work is defined by its dynamism, originality and authenticity, always pushing the boundaries of convention through a stunningly cinematic lens. Ben takes pride in presenting pure, human stories that strike a unique balance between realism and heightened reality - the type of films that make you do a double take. He brings a relentless focus on craft to all of his projects. Since his debut, and over the course of only a couple of years, Ben has collaborated with many notable artists and clients, including Nike, Nas, Masterclass, Keli Holiday, and Future Classics.

Mohammad Gorjestani is an Iranian-born Director, Photographer, Creative Director, and Artist. His work exists between fiction and non-fiction forms, with a distinct aesthetic and language emerging from the intersection of the cultures and communities he was raised in. He was named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film after releasing his short film Refuge. His films have received recognition, including the Grand Jury Prize at SXSW, the Tribeca X Prize, and “Video of the Year” at the Vimeo Awards. Notably, his film EXIT 12 won six Academy Award-qualifying festivals, capped off by an acquisition by Fox Searchlight Pictures. His branded and commercial projects for brands like Beats by Dre, Cash App, and Square have earned awards at Cannes Lion, D&AD, The Clios, The One Show, among others.

Dumas Haddad is an award winning director and writer raised in London who has developed his craft from the world's of fashion, music & bleeding edge culture. His work elicits powerful uses of analogies and on-the-pulse narrative and character underpinnings. Focused on storytelling and dramatic action, his desire to reframe contemporary culture represents a rising generation of filmmaker that are trying to transform both today and tomorrow's voices.

John Henry Hinkel is an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. As a screenwriter, he adapted the Oscar-nominated animated short film THE DAM KEEPER into a feature-length film for 20th Century Fox. He also wrote and directed the sci-fi short film, HOME, which was released in 2020 by Gunpowder & Sky and currently has over 8 million views online. MORNING JOY is his first animated short. The film had the honor of premiering in January 2023 at Brand Storytelling, a sanctioned event of the Sundance Film Festival.

Renee Maria Osubu is an award-winning British Nigerian photographer and film director from London. She often investigates themes of community, identity, race and childhood. Using the nuances of everyday life as her visual language. Like much of Osubu’s work this project harnesses the power of documenting, capturing and normalising the tenderness of the black family and community. Her past work has screened at Sundance, SFFILM, Blackstar and qualified for the Oscars and BAFTAs.

Bob is an award-winning director, creative director and writer at ad agency Rethink. Since 2015, he has directed commercials and long-form projects through Rethink’s content arm, R+D Productions, with a focus on non-fiction storytelling. His passion lies in not just delivering the truth but, just as important, making it feel believable as well. This conviction is reflected in his documentary debut, "Bring Back the Whistle Dog."

Rudy Valdez is a two time Emmy Award-winning filmmaker committed to creating social, cultural, and political stories through a cinematic and meaningful lens. He got his start in film as a Camera Operator on the Peabody Award-winning, Sundance series Brick City and went onto direct a true passion project, The Sentence (HBO). Shot and directed by Valdez over the course of a decade, this feature documentary tells the very personal story of his sister's plight in the criminal justice system while tackling subjects like mandatory minimums and sentencing reform. For this work, the filmmaker won the 2019 Primetime Emmy Award for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking, US Documentary Audience Award at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival and was a 2018 Critics Choice Documentary Awards Best New Director nominee.

Martha Adams is an Emmy-winning storyteller who produced the film at the center of the Girl Rising campaign and served as the organization’s Chief Creative Officer from 2012 to 2019. During her tenure at Girl Rising, Newsweek/Daily Beast named Adams as one of “125 Women of Impact,” Participant Media awarded Girl Rising a 98/100 for social impact, Fast Company honored Girl Rising in their “World Changing Ideas of 2019,” and Forbes Magazine named the Girl Rising movement the #1 Most Dynamic Social Initiative. Adams built the Girl Rising brand that became a "social media marketing phenomenon" and anchored social-impact campaigns aimed at solving the biggest problems of our time. She served as a Producer on the CNN Films special We Will Rise: Michelle Obama’s Mission to Educate Girls Around the World and in 2019 co-directed and co-produced the short film Brave Girl Rising.

Paula runs production at Godfrey Dadich Partners, where she has spearheaded everything from the Emmy-nominated Netflix documentary series Abstract: The Art of Design to brand films for National Geographic, Lyft, Nike, Sony, and IBM. She has also directed numerous films, including a feature-length documentary on the development of a COVID-19 vaccine, and a three-part series on one of Sony’s most ambitious AI projects. Paula started her career as a broadcast journalist in her native South Africa, where she won numerous awards for her work.

Patrick Daughters is a renowned commercial and music video director known for his vividly expressive filmmaking. His visionary direction has been featured in ads for top brands such as Target, Stella Artois, Acura, Honda, Sony, and Ford. Daughters has directed music videos for some of the most well-known indie bands including “1234” for Feist, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ “Maps”, and Adele’s “Send My Love (To Your New Lover”). His recent commercial work includes “Journey” for Dell and “Make It Real” for Squarespace. Daughters’ accolades include First Boards Award for Best New Director, AICP, D&AD, MTV VMA, Grammy, and UKMVA honors.

Alex Gilbert is an emerging multi-ethnic filmmaker of Indian and Hispanic descent whose portfolio spans multiple genres. A recent Fellow of the AICP Commercial Directors Diversity Program, Alexander’s work consists of heartfelt documentary films, cinematic branded content and elegantly crafted commercial work that has landed him several awards including the 2022 SHOOT New Directors Showcase, AICP, Young Director Awards, Young Ones ADC Award and more.

Real people are the inspiration for my work. I am a first generation Arab & Muslim-American that was raised in a diverse community in Detroit. Growing up I was exposed to a variety of people and cultures. I felt like an alien at times and through those experiences I knew I had a duty to tell stories. My goal is to use storytelling as a means to bridge those uncomfortable gaps and to shed light on people, rather than stereotypes by telling authentic, human stories.

Redglass co-founder Sarah Klein is an award-winning producer and director. Her early credits include the HBO documentary, Hard as Nails and the Arte film, The Good Mother. Redglass Pictures was formed in 2006 and since then, Klein has co-directed and produced many notable projects, including History of Memory for HP, and a series of short films for Ken Burns’ Cancer: The Emperor of Maladies, which won a DuPont Award. Among the many hats she wears at Redglass, Klein leads creative development and production.

Tom Mason is the co-founder of Redglass, and in addition to co-directing and producing films with Klein, also serves as the principal of photography and post production. Mason’s cinematic approach to shorts comes from his deep roots in film and still photography, which he studied at Syracuse University. After receiving an Alexia Grant, Mason spent a year documenting the world of Russian adoption agencies. Some of the projects he has co-directed at Redglass include George Saunders: On Story and Ken Burns: On Story with the Atlantic, and How To Win An Election for The New York Times.

Julina Tatlock is an award-winning Director and Executive Producer of VR, AR and XR experiences specializing in pioneering storytelling using new technologies for XR, mobile, location-based VR and game engine environments. Work includes Virtually Dating Season 2, Cretaceous VR, and the six-part VR miniseries, Invisible. Prior to founding 30 Ninjas, Tatlock spent 15 years in television, working at Martha Stewart Living and as a member of the launch team at Oxygen Media. She has served as chair of SMPTE's Future of Cinema Conference.

Vincent Malizia is a director, designer, and creative technologist based in Paris, France. He has directed games, commercials, and VR experiences for institutions as varied as BNP Paribas, Perrier-Jouët Champagne, and L'Atelier des Lumières. He holds a degree from The Sorbonne (Paris 3) in Cinema.

Emmy-nominated Director Fx Goby’s multidisciplinary expertise is unparalleled with extensive experience in 2D and 3D animation, live action, and everything in between. His groundbreaking multi-platform activations with Gorillaz include Gorillaz Presents, a first-of-its-kind immersive project created with Google, while his series with the Scottish Ballet championed inclusivity and diversity on and off screen. Previous credits include helping Volkswagen bid farewell to arguably one of the most loved cars in history with an emotionally charged rotoscope short. He also co-created Google’s multi-award-winning Back to the Moon in celebration of Georges Méliès, which became the only ever cross-platform Google Doodle made in 2D, 360, AR and VR. Fx’s work has been featured in Vogue, Hypebeast and Nowness, to name a few.

Created by musician Damon Albarn and artist Jamie Hewlett, Gorillaz is singer 2D, bassist Murdoc Niccals, drummer Russel Hobbs and Japanese guitar prodigy Noodle. The BRIT and Grammy-winning virtual band formed following a collision of mishaps, meetings and pure luck to blow up a pre-digital world with their colourful backstory and ground-breaking virtual ways. Based at Kong Studios in West London, Gorillaz settled into a life of musical innovation with an eye-wateringly exciting roster of collaborators, a list that includes musical legends, geniuses and future stars from Elton John to Little Simz, MF Doom to Jean-Michel Jarre, Grace Jones to slowthai, Kali Uchis to Sidiki Diabaté, plus so many more. With seven albums to their name, they are global phenomenon, winning numerous awards including the coveted Jim Henson Creativity Honor.

Jason Kreher has spent his career creating impactful, award-winning work for some of the greatest brands in the world. After nearly 15 years at Wieden + Kennedy's Portland office, Kreher has recently joined Accenture Song as Chief Creative Officer, North America, building a new capability with a focus on entertainment, tech and web3. Whatever that means. Kreher and his work have been covered by The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Fast Company, Vice, The Onion’s AV Club, Time, The Paris Review, Buzzfeed, Creativity Magazine and AdWeek, among countless others.

Onyx Èspri is a writer, director, and producer for podcast, theatre, and film. After entering the entertainment industry as a triple-threat performer, Onyx’s love of performing evolved into a love of storytelling. She creates art influenced by world history, fantasy/mythology, and afro-futurism. Onyx's mission is to present a wide and unique range of multicultural representations of the Black experience outside the influence of the white gaze and within the African Diaspora. Onyx won’t rest until she creates a home and a place of reprieve from the world for Black audiences through her art. She is a proud Alumna of Spelman College.

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Pedro Mendes has been an audio producer, host, and editor for almost two decades. He spent 13 years at CBC Radio where he worked on arts, sports, music, and current affairs programming, as well as producing and hosting a number of his own series and documentaries. He has worked as a studio director for Penguin Audio Books with some of Canada’s most prominent authors as well as a past Prime Minister. Pedro is also Canada’s leading voice on classic men’s style.

Carly Migliori is an executive in the audio industry and is currently Vice President of Partnerships at Pushkin Industries, home to the podcasts Against the Rules, The Happiness Lab, Revisionist History, and more. She leads the branded content arm at Pushkin, working with clients such as Apple, Tracksmith, PUMA, Lexus, IBM, Cadillac, and The Rockefeller Foundation. Her expertise lies in helping brands tell their stories in audio, across multiple formats and lengths, tailoring creative to client KPIs. Prior to Pushkin, Carly worked in-house at Megaphone, Fast Company, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, and Rodale. She lives in Brooklyn.