Colbie Fray

Born “Colleen Gardner”, "Colbie Fray" is cinematographer, director and photographer, from Charlotte, NC now residing in Atlanta. Having started her journey in elementary school, Colbie first picked up a camera and was selected at 9 years old as her school’s news anchor. Already showing the variety of talent within, Colbie served as writer, videographer and anchor as a fourth grader. Later in life she went to college for journalism and branched out to become an entertainment news reporter. She used this opportunity to shine a light on under-represented artists in her then local North Carolina town. She is self-taught and continues to learn new ways of storytelling through lighting and composition focusing on black womanhood. Through her work, she hopes that Black women in particular are able to see themselves outside of western society’s “white male gaze” in turn, opening dialogue towards conversations that allow autonomous definition. Her work has been seen in Oz Magazine, Auburn Library Research Library, Mint Gallery, and MOCA GA.

Marcenae Lynette

Marcenae Lynette, is an American Actress and multi-hyphenated artist by way of Mobile Alabama. After visiting Six Flags for a family vacation, her Mother decided Atlanta was home. The following year, they packed everything and moved to Atlanta, Georgia at the age of 9. Marcenae had no idea, Atlanta was the "Hollywood of the South", yet this was exactly where God needed her to be. Growing up in a large family, Marcenae was exposed to so many different walks of life, personalities, and characters. She began her career watching and analyzing Block Buster movies with her late father as her mentor and teacher. Marcenae fell in love with theater and film and has been pursuing her dream with passion, trust in God, immovable faith, hard work, and unconditional support from her family and friends!

Marcenae is known for her appearances in NBC's 'Good Girls' as Elaine, Val, in 'Love IS__' and her memorable work on Black Lightning. Marcenae can be found in new hit movies, The Georgetown Project and remake of the French film The Valet.

Britt Banks

Britt Banks is a bicoastal non-binary director and screenwriter. Although she grew up in Long Beach, California, Britt is a third-generation product of the Great Migration with roots in Arkansas and Alabama. Stories of the Jim Crow South and ghost encounters passed down from her maternal grandmother fueled her desire to create supernatural-horror and dark-comedy. Britt explores themes of survival, courage, grief, and systematic racism in her work. 

It was during her senior year at the University of California, Irvine that she discovered her passion for storytelling. After working several years in the legal field, Britt decided to pursue a career in directing and writing for film and enrolled in UCLA’s Feature Film Writing certificate program. She has written, directed, and produced several award-winning short films. She has also worked at NBCUniversal in their Content & Production department. In 2019, Britt was a guest speaker for Cal Arts "Extensions of Horror" Critical Studies Resident series. Britt is a 2020 Black Life Film Fest Grant Winner, a 2020 Screencraft Horror QF, and a 2019 winner of REVOLT TV's Hip Hop Horror contest which resulted in a 3-year distribution deal. 

Shelby Alvarez

Shelby Alvarez was born in Harlem, NY to Honduran-immigrant parents. She is a Garifuna woman. Garifuna is a mixed African and indigenous people who are descendants from the Black Caribs, who lived on the Caribbean island of Saint Vincent. Shelby studied Business Management & Accounting at The State University of New York-Brockport. After graduating in 2013, she became a Flight Attendant for American Airlines, where she was based in Miami, FL.

She would later move back to New York City where she began to bartend at Senor Frogs on Times Square. After months of saving up, she decided to take a spiritual retreat to Peru where she engaged in the plant medicine, Ayahuasca. During her retreat is when she realized God was leading her to Los Angeles. She came back from her trip in Peru and two weeks later she was on the rode to California. Spirit was leading her to learn about the film industry in Los Angeles. She has had the privilege of working on sets such as Insecure, The New Edition Biopic, Dolemite, a Pizza Hut commercial, and a Drake music video as a stand-in for Tiffany Haddish. During her 3 years in California, Shelby began to work as a temp at Lionsgate and Participant Media. 

Shelby being a serial entrepreneur decided to start driving for Lyft & Uber. She began chasing the money instead of the dream and her life came tumbling down She could no longer afford to live in Los Angeles, so she moved to Kentucky to save up, which then led her to moving to Oregon to be a live-in Nanny. After a year and a half of taking care of amazing twins, she decided to move back to New York to start a business with her cousin. During the start of the business, Shelby learned to build her own website. She would later build websites for lawyers, hairstylists, clothing brands and more! Shelby is now a full time web designer, traveler, writer, and Podcast Producer. Shelby is known for her organizational abilities and that is the very reason why she has been sought after as a Producer. In addition, Shelby has worked as a 2nd Assistant Director for a television pilot in NYC, she also Produced a pilot and a feature film in Atlanta.