Zaina Bseiso is a filmmaker and curator interested in diasporic relations to land, mysticism, and hope. Her work has screened at DOK Leipzig, Curtas Vila do Conde, Images, and RIDM, among others. Her first feature All That Is Solid, currently in postproduction, has been supported by Sundance, Sandbox films, and BAVC Media. She was born to Palestinian parents, raised in Cairo, and is currently based in Los Angeles. She is a programmer at the Points North Institute and cofounder of Bahia Colectiva.

Fox Maxy is based in San Diego. She is a Payómkawish and Iipay filmmaker from the Mesa Grande Band of Mission Indians. Maxy's work has screened at Sundance, TIFF, MoMA, Rotterdam, and BlackStar Film Festival among other places. In 2020, COUSIN Collective supported Maxy with her first grant. In 2022, she was named as Sundance Institute's Merata Mita Fellow. She’s also a Vera List Center Borderlands Fellow. In 2023, she premiered her first feature length film, Gush, at Sundance. Currently, she is working on her second feature about mental health.

Walter Thompson-Hernández was born and raised in Los Angeles. His short film, If I Go Will They Miss Me, won the Sundance 2022 US Fiction narrative short film prize. He was recently named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Film. He is currently in postproduction for his first narrative feature, The Sky Was Blue, filmed entirely in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.