Cameron grew up in the rainy, rural Pacific Northwest of the United States. He studied at the Lee Strasberg Actors Workshop in Seattle and later at The Actor’s Studio in Los Angeles. He earned a scholarship to attend the prestigious film program at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. He’s won a Gold Addy Award, Silver Telly Award and was a shortlisted winner for the Cannes Young Director Award.

His first short film, “Kicking Sand in Your Face” saw success on the international festival circuit, and was later sold to cable networks in the US, Canada, Russia, and Ukraine. His second short film, “The End” has had a long and successful run on the domestic and international film festival circuit.

Cam was recently featured in Volume 2 of, The Top 100 Independent Filmmakers in the World. He is currently developing two feature films.

Cam lives and works in Los Angeles. He is a published poet, a working director and actor, and is active in photography in his spare time.

Nil is an American educator originally from Brazil with a PhD in the Institute for Doctoral Studies in the Visual Arts, and an MS in Digital Media from Abilene Christian University.

Santana’s passion is to instill creative thinking into students of all majors – from freshmen who take on a design challenge in their Cornerstone course to occupational therapy students who use the Maker Lab to adapt toys for children with special needs.

“My take on creativity is a very simple and pragmatic one,” Santana says. “It can be taught; it can be learned. Shifting creativity from an ‘eureka’ moment into a methodological approach makes it accessible to anyone.”

A large sign in ACU’s Maker Lab has the words “Fail fast, Fail often.” Although Santana did not come up with the slogan, he truly subscribes to the idea.

Shadi Karamroudi is an Iranian actress, director and screenwriter. She learned the basics of filmmaking and acting at Karnameh Film School in Tehran- Iran and graduated with a master's degree in Dramatic Literature from Sooreh University, Tehran- Iran in 2020.

She is mostly known by her act as the supportive role in the feature film Without Her which was released in 2022 at Venice International film festival. She also has participated at the Cannes Film Festival 2018 as the leading actress of the short film Like a Good Kid.

Besides her career as an actress, she has participated in making 4 other short films as director, producer or screenwriter. Her second short film, All The Time (2020) was premiered in the Busan International Film Festival in 2020 and she has won the best script prize from Tehran International Short Film Festival in 2021.

Filmmaker Amir Motlagh (“the digi school of auteur”) has written and directed over 20 titles, including the feature films YOUNG ALI; THOSE WHERE THE DAYS (post-prod), THREE WORLDS, MAN, WHALE & RAINBOW SEASON (also a full-length LP). He is the recipient of multiple awards and is a cross-media artist who makes music under the moniker “Mirs” as singer, songwriter, and record producer. He frequently collaborates with other recognized international artists. He is the founder of ANIMALS. He creates both physical & digital fine art.

Trained as an actor since he was a teenager back in Italy, Marco Calvani is an award-winning writer and director based in the US. Over the course of his twenty-year career as a theatermaker, he received commissions from the Phoenix Theatre of London, Kunsthaus Tacheles of Berlin, Théâtre de la Ville of Paris, Grec Fundaciò of Barcelone and La MaMaTheatre of New York among others.

His first short film THE VIEW FROM UP HERE stars Oscar-winner Melissa Leo and César-winner Leïla Bekhti. It was originally a play commissioned by The Actors Studio in 2016 and directed by Oscar-winner Estelle Parsons.

His second short film A BETTER HALF was named Best Short of 2022 by the British Film Magazine Close-Up. His first feature film HIGH TIDE had its world premiere at SXSW in March 2024 and it will be theatrically released in October by Strand.

As an actor, he will be a series regular in the highly anticipated new series from Tina Fey THE FOUR SEASONS, playing opposite Oscar-nominees Steve Carrell and Colman Domingo. 

Is the survivor of one plane crash and one art school. An artist and filmmaker, Sean has created award-winning work for brands like Nike, Nickelodeon, Budweiser, Sony, The Rolling Stones, History Channel, IFC, MTV2 and himself. His unclassifiable, meta-short film DEMON BOX, won over 50 awards and screened at over 150 festivals. Sean is currently completing ALTERATIONS, his first feature film project.

Genevieve is a recent graduate of Abilene Christian University’s Department of Language and Literature. With focuses in Film and Biblical Studies, she is passionate about the valuable connection between life and art.

Her favorite week of every year is the Toronto International Film Festival in September, with which she has volunteered for the past three years, along with one year at the Sundance Film Festival. She plans to obtain a master’s degree in Cinema Studies, and hopes to either continue in higher education or work in film journalism.

Nathan Gibbs is a professor of film and media production at Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego, California. His work has been screened at film festivals internationally, broadcast on public media stations, and streamed on ESPN+ digital platforms.

In his off time, you can find him on and off the trail in the California wilderness

Robert is a front-end developer and artist. He currently designs, develops, and implements web applications and websites used throughout The University of Texas at Dallas.

Is an American actor, producer and administrator who grew up in West Texas. He studied film at UCLA and AFI and became the the Warner Bros. Administrator of TV in 1994.

Barry is an American writer and lighting, projection, digital and video designer. He is an Artistic Associate of the landmark Paramount Theatre as well as the 24fps Festival Director.

He has designed and/or directed over 100 theatrical productions.

His play, REVELATIONS was a 2023 finalist in the Del Shores Foundation Writer's Search