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Christine Moderbacher is a Visual and Social Anthropology and Documentary Film (MA Visual Anthropology at the University of Manchester, MPhil Social Anthropology at the University of Vienna, SIC – Sound Image Culture – Brussels, PhD Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen). Since 2009 making films (Men at work 2010, A Letter to Mohamed 2013, Red Earth White Snow 2018) audio video installations (Channel #1, Container), and radio shows. Focusing on migratory and marginal worlds as well as visual and textual storytelling; currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany.

Boston native, Jessica Estelle Huggins is an acclaimed Filmmaker. Titles include Perfect Day, Chi~Voices: A Poetic Film Series, Ride Shade and independent feature comedy set in Chicago, Call Center. Currently, Huggins serves as the Distribution Manager at Documentary Educational Resources. Her duties include developing marketing campaigns and distribution initiatives for independent filmmakers and managing the fiscal sponsorship program at DER. Huggins continues to develop multifaceted characters honing in stories about Black Americans in her personal film work.

Kate Morgan is an award-winning poet, filmmaker, artist and entrepeneur whose biggest passion in life is tackling the problems of modern slavery. You can find more of her film reviews at Film Will Never Be Dead and literature anthologies that take on the subjects of Schopenhauer and the Anti-Slavery tradition at Human Decency is Key. Her highly anticipated short films are Volvere (screening at LA Live and Lift Off at Pinewood) and Hearts on Fire which is currently wrapping up post production in India. Her poetry and paintings can be found at Avalon Journal, Literary Shanghai, and in Enough/Enough Anthology, Unbelief: Anthology, and Argot Magazine.

Isioro Tokunbo Jaboro is an award-winning movie Producer & Director with a passion for Writing. His passion for filmmaking can be traced back to his early years growing up as a little boy in Lagos, Nigeria. The loss of his mother at a very young age was a turning point for him and contributed to his direction in filmmaking. Isioro believes in telling stories that have some connection to people’s lives and one that addresses real-life events. With a background from Nigeria, a country with the 3rd largest movie industry in the world (Nollywood). Isioro graduated from the Toronto Film School (TFS) in 2007 with honour in film production. After working on a few short films of his own, and worked on other people’s projects, he set out to find his path in filmmaking.

Ryan Donovan is a Chicago-based writer/filmmaker and graduate of the University of Illinois. He has been telling stories in a variety of formats his whole life, and has been writing screenplays and making do-it-yourself shorts for 20 years. "Through the Trees," a short film he wrote and produced, won the Collected Voices online contest in 2016.