DIANAH WYNTER Producer is an Emmy nominated director. Her documentaries include Bearing the Torch Politics & the Olympics for ESPN and Getting Baby Off the Bottle for KCAL-TV. She received a Best Director Emmy nomination for the ABC TV-movie Daddy’s Girl with Lauryn Hill, and a Pan African Film Festival jury prize for her narrative foreign feature HappySad.   • She co-wrote and directed the thriller Intimate Betrayal for BET/Starz, episodes for Nickelodeon and Paramount, and directed the World Premiere of TheInterrogation of Nathan Hale at South Coast Rep and Mules at ACT and the Magic in San Francisco.

Books The Post-Soul Cinema of Kasi Lemmons (2023) and Referentiality and the Films of Woody Allen are published by Palgrave Macmillan. She curated the university Cinematheque from 2019 to 26, and launched the Virtual Production initiative with partners Halon NEP and Lux Machina.

STEVEN BOGNAR Cinematographer won an ACADEMY AWARD for producing American Factory (Netflix). He is a producer, director and cinematographer of A Lion in the House  (2006),Picture Day (2000), and acclaimed cinema vérité documentaries.

HENRY ADEBONOJO Cinematographer received an Emmy nomination for Half Past Autumn: The Life & Work of Gordon Parks (PBS). He is known for W.E.B. Du Bois Rebel With a Cause (PBS), Marian Anderson: The Whole World in Her Hands • Bill Russell: Legend (Netflix),Silver Dollar Road (Prime), James Baldwin: I Am Not Your Negro.

ROLF KESTERMANN Cinematographer - MTV's Best Cinematography Award for Chris Isaak’s Wicked Games. He won the  Emmy for New Approaches in Daytime. Cannes Silver Lion. He films the Yes I Can Obama campaign video; and commercials Revlon, Mercedes Benz, BMW, L’Oreal, and videos for Janet Jackson, Shakira and others.

ANDRE WYNTER Cinematopher - Sweet Rind Tokyo International Short Film Festival (Best Film), Lonely Wolf International Film Festival, and the LA Sun Awards.  Silver Silhouette won the Jury Award and Audience Award at the 2025 Trillvision Film Festival.

JOHN REEFER Producer The Bicycle directed The Rich & The Ruthless, Black-jack Christmas ;Us: A Love Story. Production roles indie films  Toxic Avenger, Weekend at Bernie’s, Lean On Me

SHISH AIKAT VFX Consultant He is the Co-Founder and Global Learning Architect of The John Hughes Institute (JHI). He is the former Global Head of Training-VFX at DNEG. He has worked on Mad Max Furiosa, Dune: Part 2, Masters of the Air.