Filmmaking tugged at Jill ever since she was a child. When her family bought a VHS Camcorder, her younger brother, her cousin and she would script out short films and shoot them all over the neighborhood. As an adult, she’s done things here and there, but over the last few years she’s finally realized exactly the kind of films she wants to make. Her film, Laynie Needs a Light is a second attempt at what she hopes to be a long line of films featuring lesbian protagonists whose dilemma has nothing to do with their sexual preference. Other credits include producing several short films including Ultra Witchy.

Sarah Kennedy is an actor, writer, and director who loves to participate in projects that promote diverse voices and strong female characters. Miss Blueberry Beauty Pageant is her first film that she has both directed and written.

Mariah is a multimedia artist focusing on film and sound. After earning a B.F.A. in film production from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts she moved to Los Angeles where she worked in television, commercials and some other misadventures that are best not explored here. She produced the horror feature Island Zero, released in May 2018. This winter she'll release the second season of Reckless Fancies, an erotic anthology podcast she writes, performs and edits. Originally from Midcoast Maine she recently moved back to make movies with a view of the ocean.

Graduated in Scriptwriting by the ECAM, López works as a screenwriter in different production companies developing series projects for new platforms. She has written several short films such as “Martina, ay Martina”, “Jaula” or “5ºC”, awarded in important national and international festivals such as Alcine, Medina del Campo or the Sydney Film Festival, among others. Mujer Sin Hijo is her first short film as director.

Carlota Pereda started her career working in TV fiction. She has been a script supervisor, screenwriter and director on many Spanish TV shows. Her fist short film, THE BLONDES, was selected in over 141 festivals worldwide and awarded in prestigious Spanish film festivals such as Medina del Campo, Semana del Corto or Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de Soria. PIGGY, her second short film as a director has over 270 selections and has won more than 77 awards to date, including the Spanish Production Guild Award, and the Spanish Academy Award-. She has also won the AGBO Fellowship award, presented by Joe and Anthony Russo, in Slamdance 2020. She has been selected at the Focus CoPro at Cannes Film Festival and won the Pop Up Residency. There Will be MONSTERS is her third short film.

Christina Raia is a New York City based Writer/Director and the Founder of CongestedCat Productions. She focuses on character-driven narrative projects that explore social issues through horror and humor. Her work, consisting of over a dozen short films, a web series, and two feature films, has screened at film festivals around the world and gained a large online following through multiple crowdfunding campaigns and coverage on press outlets such as Indiewire and BuzzFeed. Through a desire to support other filmmakers, she works for Seed&Spark as the Head of Education, teaching and empowering creators to build their audience and get their work made and seen.