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Dempsey Bryk is an actor, writer, producer, and director. He recently played in the feature film "The Fight Machine", Netflix's "The Silence", Facebook Watch's "The Birch", "Punkplay" at the Atwater Village Theatre in Los Angeles, published a short film, and has joined the cast of the upcoming Disney Plus/ Lucas Film series "Willow."

Ross grew up in Pontiac, Illinois. He developed an early interest in the arts and started performing at age six. Ross became actively involved in community theater, tap, ballet, piano, drums and numerous athletics.

Ross later attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and moved to Los Angeles in 2010.

Joanna Koss is an accomplished actress, filmmaker, and producer whose work has been showcased at film festivals worldwide, earning numerous accolades, including the 2021 Fearless Female Filmmaker Award for tackling thought-provoking issues that spark public debate.

As a first-generation American, Joanna's pioneering spirit was shaped early in life. She began working in commercials at the age of 11 and, in her early teens, performed in theaters across New York City and internationally. While attending Columbia University in New York, she received mentorship from the esteemed theater director Wynn Handman.

Joanna has established a strong track record of spearheading internationally acclaimed films, including RAW (2020), a short film that delves into the harrowing experiences of a female soldier on a military patrol in the Middle East. Fearlessly confronting the issue of military sexual trauma, she brought an uncompromising and powerful perspective to the screen. POSTSCRIPT (2021) explores a veteran grappling with PTSD as he encounters the family of his deceased comrade, while PREY (2022) follows a courageous young girl who exposes and brings justice to a religion-based con scheme. Her two most recent films have screened in over 50 festivals and won multiple Best Picture awards.

In addition to her filmmaking achievements, Joanna is a skilled martial artist, a professional scuba diver, and a polyglot who speaks English, Polish, French, and Spanish. She has studied at prestigious institutions, including Harvard University (Cambridge), Sorbonne Université (Paris), and graduated from Columbia University (NYC). In 2021, she earned a certification in Blockchain and Disruptive Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Sonetta Duncan (born: Stephanie Nicole Duncan) is a Scottish-Canadian filmmaker, actress, and author based out of Toronto, Ontario. She was raised in Aurora, Ontario.

A lover of tradition, philosophy, and art, Sonetta has always claimed to be a seeker of truth. Her first true loves were theatre and literature; performing since the age of six, and a self-taught author of poetry and prose shortly thereafter. With a keen motivation to make a difference in the world, cinema was an obvious choice for her to realize her destiny. Believing deeply in art's power to change the world, she pursued her passion for cinema in post-secondary, graduating from York University's BFA of Film Production ('16) and anticipated graduate of the University of Windsor's MFA in Film and Media Arts ('25).

In 2015, she was commissioned by the Chinese government to produce a short documentary on the art of tea and music. Between 2017-2018, she worked with Telefilm Canada for 2 years on an unproduced feature, Diaspora. Since 2014, she has worked in corporate videography for institutions such as York University and the University of Toronto. While her main passions lie in writing, directing, acting and editing, she also works as a producer, cinematographer, and assistant director. In her spare time, she enjoys painting and dabbling in animation.

Her work explores the human condition through an experimental and philosophical lens. She is influenced significantly by international, independent, art house and cult cinema, drawing inspiration from the New Wave and affiliated movements. She often combines mixed-media to properly convey her themes and messages in unique and abstract ways. She is an old-school cinema buff and often shoots on film, personally hand-processing and digitizing the footage to deepen her connection with the work. She believes that artists are vessels and that art should be offered space to breathe and become that which it is meant to.

Yilin Zhu is a Chinese filmmaker with over seven years of experience directing, editing, and managing projects in Shanghai's mainstream television and magazine industries. After moving to Canada, he has expanded his creative horizons. Yilin's distinctive style often explores themes of cultural identity and emotion, aiming to bridge perspectives between East and West. In addition to his filmmaking career, Yilin contributes to a photography column in an official Chinese magazine and has participated in several international film festivals, including the Locarno International Film Festival and the Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF).