Noah Hutton wrote, directed, scored, and edited Lapsis, which premiered in the narrative feature competition at SXSW 2020. He also recently premiered In Silico at DOC NYC 2020, a ten-year documentary begun in 2009 and supported by Sandbox Films and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation about a ten-year project to simulate the human brain on supercomputers. Previously he directed the documentary features Deep Time (SXSW 2015) and Crude Independence (SXSW 2009). [website]

Jesse Miller is a filmmaker and educator based in New York City. He co-produced the award-winning documentary feature Deep Time (SXSW 2015). Since then, he has worked on the Amazon web series Becoming Jiff (Samuel Goldwyn Films), a short film for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame directed by Jonathan Demme, and the feature film The Last (Plainview Pictures, 2019) among various other projects.

Joseph Varca is a filmmaker, actor and writer based in New York City. Producing credits include Ex-Girlfriends (Austin Film Festival), and the short films The Break-Up Tour (Tropfest 2012) and David (Tribeca Film Festival, MTVu) which he also co-directed. As an actor he appeared in the Broadway production of Network directed by Ivo Van Hove (Belasco Theater). He co-wrote the Book and Lyrics for the musical The Village of Vale, which premiered at Lincoln Center in 2017 and he was a 2020 resident artist at the Johnny Mercer Foundation Writers Colony at Goodspeed Musicals. Joseph is a graduate of Middlebury College.

Taylor Hess is a filmmaker and journalist based in Brooklyn. She produced and directed the award-winning ESPN 30 for 30 documentary Mack Wrestles (SXSW 2019), wrote and directed two episodes for Season 2 of Vox Media’s Explained (Netflix), and has worked at Part2 Pictures, Alex Gibney’s Jigsaw Productions, The Independent Filmmaker Project (IFP), and Scott Rudin Productions. Taylor is a graduate from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

Mike Gomes is a Portuguese-American Director of Photography from Newark, New Jersey. He previously shot The Dwarvenaut (SXSW 2016, Netflix) and currently works all over the world, from Myanmar, Rwanda, Uganda, Greece, China, Colombia, India, Turkey, Jamaica, Nepal, Mexico and more.

Sandy Siu is a Brooklyn based production creative working primarily in costume design. Credits include Netflix’s Maniac and Soundtrack, USA’s The Sinner, Freeform’s The Bold Type, Jim Jarmusch’s The Dead Don’t Die, I Need My Girl and Sea of Love music videos for The National, and Hal Hartley’s Ned Rifle and upcoming Where to Land. She is a San Francisco native and graduate of SUNY Purchase.