Writer/ Director - Ximena Davis is a Los Angeles-based Director, Writer, and Producer. She began her film career in documentary and independent productions, and as Founder and President of the first Filmmaking Club at her undergraduate institution, Kalamazoo College. Her feature length documentary, “Culture You Can Eat”, was screened at multiple film festivals across the country and received Honors from Kalamazoo College, where she graduated in 2019. In 2020, she had the honor of being one of the Directors of Photography for the independent film, The Ninth Raider, which partnered with NFT Blue and Ark.io to merge digital currency and art in the film world.

Currently, she is an MFA Candidate at USC’s prestigious School of Cinematic Arts where her love of film has led to many collaborations as a writer, director, producer, and Cinematographer. Her stories often revolve around complicated family relationships and the power of connection. She is working towards one day having her own production company and is currently developing a TV series about her various escapades in and around LA.

Producer - Sayali is a multi-faceted filmmaker, designer, artist, and storyteller from Pune, India. Her love for stories goes all the way back to her childhood when her grandmother narrated the stories from Indian mythology. The epic stories played a vital role in developing her keen interest in social problems and the human psyche. She further explored stories through visual arts at the ADT University, India, where she studied Product and Communication Design. Her undying passion for film led her to Los Angeles, where she is currently a graduate student at the USC School of Cinematic Arts. Along with directing and producing, she hopes to be a showrunner of a TV show and is already taking steps towards it. Her latest achievement is working as a showrunner on an original drama series produced at USC, where she co-wrote and produced the pilot episode. She is currently developing an original sitcom inspired by her adventures in LA. Sayali strongly values art, design, and architecture, which she often features in her directorial work. Always found with a film camera and a sketchbook, in her free time, she is often visiting local coffee shops and scouting rare art and furniture in thrift stores.

Producer - Bobbie Green is a Los Angeles based writer and producer hailing from New York. 

She graduated from Mount Holyoke College in 2019 with a double major in Film Studies and Politics. She’s worked at Tribeca Film Institute, National Geographic, and Marvel Entertainment creating work for their social media platforms and websites. After graduating college, she started to work at a local independent movie theater that showed movies on film and she fell in love with analog filmmaking. When the theater shut down during the Covid lockdown, she taught herself how to develop 35mm color film and started developing friends and family’s old rolls in her parent’s basement. 

She is currently an MFA candidate at USC School of Cinematic Arts in the Film and Television Production program focusing on producing and writing. She’s produced three USC advanced thesis films including Eclipse Chasers, Renacer, and A Karaoke Space Odyssey which she also co-wrote. In her free time, she hangs out with her little poodle dude Rooster, they say hi to the hummingbirds who visit the balcony of her LA apartment.

Producer-  Jenniffer Gonzalez was born and raised in La Isla del Encanto, Puerto Rico. Her interest in cinema started as a way of hope as a young girl. She migrated to the United States in 2018 after graduating from Universidad del Sagrado Corazón in Puerto Rico. While there, she majored in film production with a minor in acting, writing, and directing. She directed Se Quitó, a short film narrating her story regarding the horrendous 2017 hurricane Maria.  In the Fall of 2020, she became an MFA Candidate in the School of Cinematic Arts (Film & TV Production) at the University of Southern California. While at USC, she has had the opportunity to collaborate on many short films. She wrote and directed IT Happens, a short film about human trafficking. In the summer of 2021, she co-wrote Of Reasons and Rumors, a heartfelt narrative short film collaborating with Vaccine LA, an organization targeting the Hispanic Community, to confront and combat the COVID-vaccine misinformation.  Now, Jenniffer uses narrative filmmaking to focus on the female experience. She aims to tell emotionally evocative stories by creating truthful and complex representations of Latina women. On 2022 she became a recipient of the Jack bridges and Jack Larson directing scholarship. 

First Assistant Director - Jared Mayerson is in his third year of the Film & Television Production MFA program at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Before coming to USC, he studied Cinema & Television Arts and Photography as a Communications Fellow at Elon University in North Carolina. Shortly after graduating, Jared moved to Los Angeles, CA and worked as a junior assistant editor at Rock Paper Scissors and then as an editor at Gunpowder & Sky, before beginning his program at USC. He has worked in both narrative and documentary, with a few of his projects screening at various festivals. His directorial debut Grocery Run (2020) screened at the Woods Hole Film Festival and won an Award of Excellence at the BEA Festival of Media Arts. Now at USC, Jared served as the founding graduate president of Queer Students in Cinematic Arts (QSCA) and is focusing his studies on assistant directing, directing, and editing.

 Director of photography - Matthew (Matty) Beavers was born and raised in California. He is an MFA Student at USC where he studies cinematography. He is all about creating images that speak to the characters and story. Matty has been making films since 2008 – His early YouTube films turned into a passion for cinematography which led him to pursue an education in film production.

Production Designer - Allison Robinson is a Caribbean American production designer and storyteller. A Penn State graduate with a Bachelor’s degree in Film and Minor in Theatre, she has completed a year of study in the Production Design Master’s Program at The American Film Institute Conservatory. Since moving to LA, she has worked in various Art Department roles on short films, photoshoots and commercials. As a self professed “crafty gal”, Allison possesses multi-medium talents from sculpting to illustration, crediting curiosity as the driving force behind her passion and creativity.

Editor - Marian D. Cook is a former journalist and current USC student pursuing an MFA in Film and TV production. She graduated from Spring Hill College in 2019, Summa Cum Laude, and with honors, with a BA in Journalism. She's been published over a dozen times, covering topics from local news to federal healthcare legislation. She's directed, produced, edited, and shot (basically a one-woman show) a range of documentaries from plastic surgery to segregation in the church. And she is a recipient of the Autry D. Greer Media Service Award and the Catholic Press Award. But she also has a passion for narrative film. She's currently focused her talents on editing, producing, and directing strong, female-led stories, especially that of Latinas. Her latest projects include "Pay My Bill," starring her mother and Maria Garcia, which deals with the everyday struggles of immigrants and the social pressures of assimilation; and "Bad Hombrewood," a short documentary directed by Guillermo Casarin about Latinx representation in Hollywood, starring Phil Lord, Guillermo Del Toro, Lee Unkrich, Melissa Fumero, and a range of Latinx talent that demonstrate the beauty and diversity of the Latinx community, that won Best Student Documentary at the American Pavilion at the 2022 Cannes International Film Festival.

 Editor - Achim Mendoza. An ex-Filipino-soap-opera-translator-turned-filmmaker, Achim Mendoza has pursued a diverse array of interests. His passion in film started in his teens, when Marilou Diaz-Abaya, a prestigious Filipino director offered to mentor him. As a teenager, Achim would fly back and forth between his hometown of Davao and Manila to attend her classes. Back in the Philippines, he helped create “Stages Sessions,” a YouTube channel that focuses on indie Filipino musicians and poets. His 2021 musical short “Connection” has been doing the rounds in the festival circuit and was most recently screened at the 38th Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival. He is currently taking an MFA in Film and TV Production at USC and is the recipient of the prestigious Annenberg Fellowship Award. In his spare time, Achim likes to perfect his family’s longsilog recipe.