Brian Quintero is a Canadian-Costa Rican Actor/Writer and director from Toronto. Brian has achieved notable success in various areas of the film industry, including his appearance as an actor in several popular TV shows and films, including 'Billy the Kid' (MGM+), 'The Umbrella Academy' (Netflix). He is a self-taught filmmaker with a diverse background with a new-generation of voice that feeds his creativity. Brian has written and directed a number of short films and has also produced two features under his belt. Brian's written shorts includes; Days Gone Bye, which had a sold-out world premiere at the Toronto Black Film Festival (2020). Brian recently wrote & directed a horror-dark comedy entitled Oldtimers. The film garnered attention after its world premiere at Fantasia Film Festival, winning the Silver Audience Award for Best Canadian Short Film (2022). It then went on to win two more awards at San Sebastián Horror and Fantasy Film Festival for Youth Jury Prize Award & The Best Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film (2022).

Over 20 years of experience working for federal and provincial cultural media funding agencies within Canada. After analyzing and managing hundreds of funding recipients, Dahlia has gained special expertise to lead business affairs and marketing initiatives for productions in film, television, digital media, and music. She has a strong history advising on financing projects, budgets, production tax credits, grants, equity investments, and international treaty co-productions with Canada. She is currently working with a Canadian national broadcaster on pre licensing documentary productions. Dahlia has been a Juror for the Foundation Assisting Canadian Talent on Recordings and the BIPOC International Film Festival. In her spare time, she enjoys mentoring emerging media content creators from BIPOC communities. She is a born Canadian of proud Jamaican heritage.

Chen Sing Yap (he/him) is a Singaporean-born filmmaker living in Oakville, Ontario. Before moving to Canada he was an established picture editor working primarily in long form factual television for Singaporean and international markets. In recent years, he has honed his directing and editing craft in the short form with Overthinking It (2019), Shift (2020), and Feeling the Apocalypse (2022). Feeling the Apocalypse, a mixed media documentary, has played at over 60 festivals including the Edmonton International Film Festival.

Alexandra Hickox is a professional photographer and filmmaker. She graduated from Ontario College Arts and Design University with a Bachelor of Fine Art in photography and a minor in integrated media. She was awarded her master's degree with distinction from York University in film production. Alexandra has been working in film productions, theatre and site installations. She founded Undivided Productions, one of Canada's few deaf-led video production companies with several produced projects under its belt. Alexandra currently works remotely as a video editor for Melissa Elmira Yingst talk show hosted and US-based advocate. She has collaborated with Chris Corsini on music videos that are accessible and include ASL. In 2022, she created an immersive artwork, “Can you read my hands?” that challenges the perception of the hearing world included three videos of Deaf artists discussing their lived experience, exhibited in outdoor showcase by Rogue Wave. Recently, she acted in two projects, Cleo in Fox's The Accused, directed by Marlee Matlin and The Last Car, directed by John Greyson. She also worked as an on-set photographer for Greyson's film Photo Booth. In theatre, Alexandra acted as a stage manager and produced on set videos for several production companies including Deaf Spirit Theatre and The Ministry of Mundane Mysteries from the Outside of March theatre. Currently she is the founding director of a newly formed Unify Deaf Film Festival at the Bell Light Box and at 401 Richmond in its inaugural year opening this October 13 - 15th.

Cook is a prolific Canadian producer and director of genre cinema. His 15 features have garnered awards from Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, and many more. His latest film, Cult Hero, received six nominations at the 2023 Canadian Screen Awards.

Kabongo began acting in 2009 and has appeared in feature films like The Animal Project, Pompeii, Antibirth, Brown Girl Begins, Extracurricular, and Run This Town. Emmanuel was a lead actor in the series '21 Thunder'. Kabongo has guest starred in series like Outer Banks, Star Trek Discovery, V-Wars, Ransom, Rookie Blue, Quantico, Hudson & Rex, True Story, Frankie Drake, and Departure. In 2023 Emmanuel produced the feature film titled Sway.