Mariama Diallo is a Brooklyn based writer-director with a passion for horror and sci-fi. Her short film, HAIR WOLF, premiered at the 2018 Sundance Film Festival where it won the Short Film Jury Award in US Fiction. As a short film competition finalist at ABFF 2018, HAIR WOLF also went on to screen on HBO.

In 2018, she worked as writer and director on Terence Nance’s HBO series RANDOM ACTS OF FLYNESS. Previously, Diallo wrote and directed the short film SKETCH, which played at festivals such as the Chicago International Film Festival and the BlackStar Film Festival, where it won the Fox Inclusion Emerging Artist Award. In 2018, she was selected as one of Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.

Born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia, Sierra Leonean-American Filmmaker Nikyatu's films have screened at festivals nationally and internationally. Her short film Suicide By Sunlight: a project funded by THROUGH HER LENS and sponsored by the Tribeca Film Institute and Chanel, made its debut at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival.

Nikyatu made her TV Directing debut with an episode of the original scripted horror anthology: Two Sentence Horror Stories, available on Netflix. She is a tenure track Assistant Professor in the Film & Video department at George Mason University where she teaches Screenwriting and Directing.

Nikyatu is currently developing her feature film NANNY, centering AISHA: a West African Nanny haunted by a supernatural presence preceding the arrival of her own child from her native country. The project was selected for the 2019 Sundance Institute Creative Producing Lab, the 2020 Sundance Screenwriters Lab and the 2019 IFP Project Forum. NANNY, was one of 35 projects selected for the 2020 Creative Capital Awards.

Laura Moss is a filmmaker from New York City. Their work has screened at Rotterdam, Tribeca, SXSW and Clermont-Ferrand film festivals and has been archived in MoMA's permanent collection. Their short film FRY DAY is featured on the Criterion Channel. They are currently developing ‘birth/rebirth’, a feature film reimagining the Frankenstein myth, with the support of Rooftop Films and the Sundance Institute.

Laura Casabé (Argentina) is a director, writer and camera operator. She graduated in Image and Sound Design at Universidad de Buenos Aires. Her feature films include El hada buena - Una fábula peronista (2010), La vuelta del malón (2010, short), La valija de Benavidez/Benavidez's Case (2016), and Los que vuelven/The Returned (2019) that's screening at NIGHTSTREAM. She has also directed several short films, worked on television documentaries and written a play called Los muros. Her films have been awarded at several international festivals.

Ashlee Blackwell is the creator of Graveyard Shift Sisters, an online resource archiving Black women in the horror genre and the co-writer/producer of the Shudder original documentary, Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror. She’s currently a film studies professor at Saint Joseph’s University.

Alexandra Heller-Nicholas is an award-winning Australian film critic, author and academic. She has written eight books on cult, horror and exploitation film with an emphasis on gender politics including Rape-Revenge Films: A Critical Study (McFarland, 2011), the Bram Stoker Award nominated Masks in Horror Cinema: Eyes Without Faces (University of Wales Press, 2019), and has recently released 1000 Women in Horror, 1895-2018. Alexandra is a member of the Alliance of Women Film Journalists and on the advisory board for the Miskatonic Institute for Horror Studies. With a PhD in Screen Studies, she is a research fellow at RMIT University and an Adjunct Professor at Deakin University.

Meredith Alloway is a Texas native who currently resides in NYC as a filmmaker and journalist. Her short film RIDE, was commissioned by Hulu & Sundance institute and is currently streaming now on Hulu. Her film DEEP TISSUE premiered at SXSW in 2019 and has played festivals such as AFI, Bucheon, and Overlook. It’s currently out streaming now on Future of Film is Female.  As a journalist, she has written interviews and feature pieces for Vanity Fair, Playboy, Filmmaker Magazine, Nylon, Indiewire, Flaunt and was Senior Editor of The Script Lab.  Her feature film HIGH PRIESTESS is currently in development with David S. Goyer’s company, Phantom Four.