Chantel Chavon is a creative entrepreneur and rising multi-hyphenate writer, director, producer, and actor who brings the wildly embarrassing, adventurous, provocative, haunting, other-worldly and heartwarming stories from her imagination to the screen—all while thrusting the full and nuanced lives of Black characters and other People of Color to the center of her stories. She is managed by OTV Studio and currently is in development with a slate of films and TV series to be produced by her production company, Nyte Lyte Productions™ throughout the Chicago-land area.

Chantel’s project, Victorious Red, follows when a whirlwind love affair between a mysterious young artist haunted by a twisted past and a recently retired soldier battling PTSD becomes deadly.

Imani Davis is a Chicago-based film producer and writer. She has been the recipient of Reunion Chicago's Cultural Producer's Grant, the Awesome Foundation‘s Microgrant, the Arts & Culture Capital Lab’s Art-trepreneur Grant, and Mezcla Media Collective's & Banner TV's Inaugural Film Microgrant. Through short films, web series, feature films, and television, she believes that diverse storytelling has the power to educate and engage the masses.

Imani’s project, Made in America, follows a female fashion mogul, who finds her world rocked by a plagiarism scandal and sets off on a cross country road trip with her boyfriend in order to escape the mounting pressures from her job and the media. But chance encounters with a pair of alternative hitchhikers and a deranged serial killer force everyone to quickly decide how much the truth is really worth.

JC Farris is a Chicago-based filmmaker. She has been the producer, writer, and/or director of over 20 short films and produced the indie feature film Ghostwriter. She has worked at many arts organizations and festivals, participated in the Stowe Story Labs’ Producers Lab, is a company member of Soft Cage Films, is a reader for screenplay competitions, and a screener for film festivals. Jcfarrisfilm.com.

In JC’s project, Her Eyes Were Dark and Grey, after the death of the family matriarch, an estranged mother and daughter clash over her estate – and a house where haunting family secrets emerge.

Giuliana Rossi Foulkes is a non-binary lesbian filmmaker and producer from Chicago, Illinois. In their endeavors as a producer, their approach is guided by collaboration and mutual support. As queer and trans artists in a hostile and conservative art market, we only have each other. This network is imperative to the survival of radical art. They live in Chicago with their wife Charlotte and two cats.

Giuliana’s project, Tropical Rain, Death-Scented Kiss 素馨花, is a vision of Singapore slowly falling into a wilderness populated by spirits, where the ghost of a girl’s best friend follows her home.

Miguel Silveira is a Brazilian-American Independent Filmmaker. From his award-winning short films "Namibia Brazil", "Rooftop Wars", and "Devil's Work"; to his recent features “American Thief” (2020) and “The Last Election and Other Love Stories” (2021); Silveira's work is designed to inspire discussions on topics that have no clear cut "right" answers. Silveira received an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University School of the Arts.

Miguel’s project, I Don’t Dream In Spanish Anymore, follows a mother-to-be on a mission to undo the curse that has plagued her family for generations before it claims her baby's life.