Jason Rhee is a Korean American filmmaker with a passion for telling stories centered around his childhood and the AAPI community. Jason was selected as a CONAN script intern and writer's PA, as well as The Onion's intern, contributor, and writer's assistant. With a background in screenwriting and comedy, he helped produce three one-woman shows with comedian Kellye Howard, including directing a sold-out run at the Steppenwolf Theater as part of its 2022 LookOut series. Jason’s current documentary feature has been supported by the Center of Asian American Media, Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Docs fellowship, CNN/Film Independent workshops, and Southern Documentary Fund. He is a proud member of the Asian American Documentary Network and the Writers Guild of America.

Zoe Sua Cho is a producer and multihyphenate working between NYC and Seoul. Notable producing and editing works include acclaimed South Korean feature HOUSE OF HUMMINGBIRD, VR film-series TEARLESS which premiered at Venice International Film Festival, and THEY, an official selection at Cannes Film Festival. She has worked on numerous productions including Jane Campion's THE POWER OF THE DOG, and upcoming feature documentary BETWEEN GOODBYES from Jigsaw Productions. She currently manages all aspects of production at the Academy Award-winning documentary house Little Monster Films. Zoe is a fellow of the Sundance Institute Feature Film Program, Berlinale Talents, and a BAFTA Newcomer.

Cindy Martin is a Filipina-American documentary filmmaker, born and raised in Chicago. She is committed to uplifting voices from underrepresented communities. In 2022, she was a fellow of the Kartemquin Diverse Voices in Docs and CNN/Film Independent Docuseries programs. In 2021, she was a cohort of the Production Institute of the Community Film Workshop in Chicago. Cindy is a former broadcast journalist, previously based in London and Los Angeles for Reuters, AP, Getty Images, ABC News and Sky News. In 2018, she produced an award-winning documentary about the deadly Kilauea volcano eruption in Hawaii. She is a member of the Asian-American Documentary Network (A-Doc), Asian-American Journalists Association (AAJA), Independent Film Alliance (IFA), Mezcla Media Collective and Doc Chicago.

Shuling Yong is a Singapore-born, Chicago-based award winning documentary filmmaker, DP and Location Sound Mixer with over a decade of experience. She has worked on films like It’s Only Life After All (Sundance, 2023, dir. Alexandria Bombach), Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power (Tribeca, 2022, dir. Geeta Gandbhir and Sam Pollard), Becoming (Netflix, 2020, dir. Nadia Hallgren), The Feeling of Being Watched (Tribeca, 2018, dir. Assia Boundaoui) and And She Could Be Next (Tribeca, 2020, dir. Grace Lee and Marjan Safinia).

Shuling is a Kartemquin Films Diverse Voices in Docs Mentor, a participant in the Doc Society Queer Impact Producers Lab, an honoree for DOC NYC’s “40 Under 40” List 2019, and was selected for the Newcity Film 50 Chicago Screen Gems List 2020.

Sam Rong has over a decade of experience in multimedia storytelling in journalism and film. He has worked in newsrooms and production houses in Asia, Africa, and North America. His work has shown on Al-Jazeera, CNN, Vice, eNews Channel Africa, and PBS. He was the editor of the Al Jazeera documentary Gateless and a director of photography for two PBS Chicago documentary series—Firsthand and Chicago Stories. Sam was the editor of Faceless, a feature-length doc about the 2019-2020 Hong Kong protests, which has been shown at Hot Docs and the Busan Film Festival. He was also most recently the editor of feature docs The Faraway Nearby and Ashima, both of which are scheduled to release in 2023.

Vianca Fuster is an award-winning documentary filmmaker from Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She has directed, shot, and edited a catalog of original work published locally and nationally. She combines her love of documentary and sports to tell empowering stories about girls and women who are athletic trail blazers, despite a lack of recognition. Fuster's debut short documentary The Warrior Princess follows a 12-year-old, multi-national champion amateur boxer who is confronted with gender bias in the sport she loves most. A five-minute version of the film first aired on NBC’s TODAY Show during the 2020 Olympics. The full short screened virtually at the 2021 San Francisco Latino Film Festival and the 2022 Internacional de Cine de Bayamón in Puerto Rico. The film won Best Documentary at the 2022 Women's International Film Fest and received the Allan H. and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Award for Best Short Film at the 2022 Milwaukee Film Festival. Vianca was selected for Firelight Media's 2021 Groundwork Regional Lab and Milwaukee Film's 2021 - 2023 Focus Finder Filmmaking Accelerator Program where she will be working on her next short documentary.

Lauren Elise Santucci is a documentary cinematographer and video journalist in Austin, Texas. She directs, produces, shoots, and edits sensitive and character-driven videos about a range of issues. Her personal documentary work explores maternal health and the aftermath of gun violence. Santucci’s clients include Al Jazeera, FRONTLINE PBS, The Texas Tribune, Education Week, RadicalMedia, and more. She is a member of the Video Consortium, Documentary Producers Alliance, and National Press Photographers Association.

Jana McLain is a Director of photography based in Chicago. She attended Columbia College Chicago for her bachelors focusing in cinematography. Her work includes award winning web-series The Right Swipe and television pilot FOBIA. More recently she lensed the feature Year One. Jana strives to capture stories that help show the complexities of the human experience. Her visuals are inspired by her experiences growing up in the desert of Las Vegas and her love for classic literature.

Karson Schenk is a Detroit-based documentary producer, animator and collage artist. Her work focuses on environmental histories, politics and culture at the intersection of mass media, and gender representation. Her debut animated short Hanina, is a 2D animation made in conjunction with the University of Michigan Humanities Collaboratory: Narrating Nubia. She completed her BFA with a focus on animation as a form of documentary at the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and recently obtained a Masters of Management from the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan.