SASHA WORTZEL (director, she/they) uses video, sculpture, installation, and sound to explore how this country’s past and present are inextricably linked through resonant spaces and their hauntings. Raised in South Florida and based in New York City, Wortzel specifically attends to sites and stories systematically erased or ignored from these regions’ histories. Wortzel’s films have screened at the MOMA DocFortnight, True/False, BAMcinemaFest, Wexner Center for the Arts, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Berlinale, among others. Solo exhibitions include Dreams of Unknown Islands at Cooley Memorial Art Gallery with Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR (2022) and Oolite Arts, Miami Beach, FL (2021). Their work has been exhibited in group exhibitions at the New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, and The Kitchen, New York; and SALTS, Birsfelden. Wortzel has been supported by the Sundance Institute, Ford Foundation, Field of Vision, and Doc Society. Wortzel’s film THIS IS AN ADDRESS (2020) is distributed by Field of Vision. HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARSHA! (2018; co-director Tourmaline) won special mention at Outfest and is distributed by Frameline. Wortzel’s work is in the permanent collections of the Brooklyn Museum, Studio Museum of Harlem, Leslie Lohman Museum of Art, and Miami Dade County Art in Public Places.

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BRIT FRYER (director, he/him) is an award-winning queer and trans filmmaker based in Brooklyn. His film, CARO COMES OUT, premiered on HBOMax after winning the 2021 Knight Made in MIA Award at the Miami International Film Festival.His other films include ACROSS, BEYOND, AND OVER, I-57, and TRANS·IENCE. He also works as a producer, most recently of Lydia Cornett’s BUG FARM and Crystal Kayiza’s REST STOP, which was an official selection of  the 2022 Toronto International Film Festival and the 2023 Sundance Film Festival. He is grateful to have shown at Indie Grits, NewFest, Outfest, Inside Out, MIX NYC, Blackstar Film Festival, and more. Brit and his work have been supported by the Sundance Ignite Fellowship, Creative Culture, Chicken and Egg, GLAAD's Equity in Media and Entertainment Initiative, and HBO / Gotham's Documentary Development Initiative.

NOAH SCHAMUS (director, they/them) is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker of documentary and narrative films. Their short films have been presented at film festivals including BFI Flare, Outfest, Inside Out, NewFest, Indie Memphis, Maryland Film Festival, Provincetown Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival (where their short film, “Chemistry of Mood” garnered an Honorable Mention for Best Performance by Naian Gonzalez Norvind). “Across, Beyond, and Over,” co-directed with Brit Fryer, was featured on NoBudge and is a Vimeo Staff Pick. They are currently in post-production on their first narrative feature film, “Summer Solstice” which was the recipient of the Panavision New Filmmaker Program grant, was included in the 2021 Outfest Screenwriting Lab as a Notable Writer, and was selected to take part in Us in Progress at the American Film Festival in November 2022. They hold an MFA from Columbia University in Screenwriting and Directing.       

TWIGGY PUCCI GARÇON (director, she/they) is an activist, creative director, event producer, culture curator, performance artist, and runway trainer. They have collaborated with Gucci, Coach, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, GLAAD, AIDS Healthcare Foundation, Reebok, and more. Twiggy has worked at True Colors United for nearly a decade, protecting rights for young people experiencing homelessness. They are the Overall Overseer for the Legendary International House of Comme des Garçon, the Chief Ambassador for the Center for Black Equity, and Co-Founder of All Tea, No Shade Productions alongside New York Times Bestselling author George M. Johnson. Twiggy was a featured subject in HBO’s THE OUT LIST (2013), was the co-writer and subject of Sara Jordenö’s award-winning documentary KIKI (Sundance 2016), and served as consultant and runway choreographer on Ryan Murphy’s Emmy-nominated FX series, POSE.

LINDSEY DRYDEN (director, she/her) is an Emmy-winning filmmaker from the UK and based in Austin, TX. She directed the feature documentary Lost and Sound (2012, SXSW) which was nominated Best Female-Directed Film at Sheffield Doc/Fest, and directed documentary shorts including The Callers (2024, Queer Futures), Jackie Kay: One Person, Two Names (2017, Tate Queer British Art), and Close Your Eyes and Look At Me (2009, True/False). Lindsey produced Sundance Special Jury Award-winning Unrest (2017, PBS/Netflix) and Emmy-winning Trans In America (2019, them), and Executive Produced Ahead of the Curve (2020, Starz/Netflix). She is a 2024 Concordia Fellow, a 2022 Sundance Institute Documentary Producers Lab Fellow, and has been mentored by BAFTAxBFI Flare and Andrew Haigh. Lindsey is a member of AMPAS, BAFTA and QueerDoc, and a proud co-founder of FWD-Doc (Filmmakers with Disabilities), advancing documentary filmmakers in the D/deaf, disabled and neurodivergent community. 

J WORTHAM (executive producer, they/them) is a journalist, cultural critic, and community care worker who frequently writes about technology, wellness, and futurism. They are a staff writer for The New York Times Magazine, and co-hosts of the podcast ‘Still Processing.’ J is the editor of the visual anthology “Black Futures,” a 2020 Editor’s Choice by The New York Times Book Review, along with Kimberly Drew, from One World. They are currently working on a book about the body and dissociation for Penguin Press.

VIRIDIANA LIEBERMAN (editor, she/her) is a filmmaker and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. She edited the feature documentary I AM EVIDENCE (Tribeca 2017, HBO), which won a 2019 News & Doc Emmy for Best Documentary and the short documentary LOVE THE SINNER (Tribeca 2017). She also co-directed FATTITUDE, a feature documentary that exposes how popular culture fosters fat prejudice and then offers an alternative way of thinking. She edited SPECIAL OLYMPICS: 50 YEARS OF CHANGING THE GAME which aired in 2018 on ABC and ESPN and THE SENTENCE (HBO), which won the 2018 Sundance Film Festival US Documentary Audience Award and the 2019 Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking. In 2019, she edited STONEWALL: THE MAKING OF A MONUMENT for New York Times Op-Docs.

GRACE MENDENHALL (editor, she/her) is the Post-Production Manager at Multitude Films. She was the Associate Editor and Post-Production Supervisor on PRAY AWAY (Tribeca 2020), as well as the Associate Editor on JULIA (Telluride 2021) and RBG (Sundance 2018), which was nominated for an Oscar in Best Documentary Feature. As an Assistant Editor, Grace worked on THE LAST OUT (Tribeca 2020), PATRIMONIO (Berlinale 2018), and AMERICA UPRISING, a series of shorts profiling social justice activists. She is a 2018 Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Fellowship Mentee. Grace graduated from The College of William and Mary, where she majored in Philosophy and attended the Salt Institute for Documentary Studies.