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MEAGAN ADELE LOPEZ

Cuban American Meagan Adele Lopez is a writer and filmmaker with a diverse professional background. After graduating from the University of Southern California as a National Hispanic Scholar and acting in TV and film for eight years, she went on to become the director of the New York Times' global digital advertising team, and also founded one of the nation’s first social media marketing agencies. Now a filmmaker and writer, she owns her own video marketing production company, Lady Who Productions, Inc. Her first short film, RAGING CULT, won nine awards at various film festivals, including Best 1st Time Director, Best Dark Comedy, Best Comedy and Best Female-Driven Film. Her television project, READY TO CONNECT, was short-listed for Bumble’s Female Film Force. 

Her literary agent is Jessica Craig of Craig Literary.

instagram: @meaganadelelopez

www.ladywho.com

JANE BLOOM

Jane Bloom is a two-time Emmy Award-winning producer of factual television. Her 15 year career spans many genres including large, studio competition series, like NBC’s America’s Got Talent, to natural history series like ABC’s Sea Rescue, for which she received an Emmy nomination for her work as Supervising Producer. Considered a triple threat, Jane has worked at high executive levels and led departments in development, production, and has worked as a Co-Executive Producer, Executive in Charge of Production and Director of Development.  Jane is an avid traveler who has visited over thirty countries in search of the world’s most spectacular stories and is currently developing projects in Palestine, Bosnia, London, and Romania. She has dedicated most of her life to the arts and storytelling, having graduated from the prestigious conservatories Baltimore School for the Arts and North Carolina School for the Arts. 

www.theozeffect.com

LUDOVICA ISIDORI

Ludovica Isidori is an Italian cinematographer with a MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute. With a background in fashion photography, she has a fierce sense of style and an eye for beautiful imagery that she uses to serve her storytelling. Ludovica was selected as one of the 30 filmmakers of Project Involve and her films have screened around the world, from Cannes to Shanghai, from SXSW to the HBO short film competition. Between 2017 and 2018, Ludovica received three prizes for Best Cinematography for her shorts Intercept, directed by Jackie Stone, and Peggie, co-created with Rosario Capozzolo. Meagan and Ludovica have worked together on several projects now. 

instagram: @ludovicaisidori

https://www.ludovicaisidori.com/

SAMANTHA MITCHELL

Samantha Mitchell is a filmmaker, writer, and curator living and working in Baltimore. Co-founder of the female driven, Baltimore-based production company Boob Sweat, Samantha has worked on projects ranging from music videos to feature docs -- such as Through the Eyes of Others! Her writing has been published in Objet d’Art, Rutgers Review, and What Weekly. 

Samantha holds a bachelors in English and French from Rutgers University, and a masters of fine arts in filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art.

https://vimeo.com/samanthade5a7

MAËL LÊ-HURAND

 Maël Lê-Hurand is a producer who founded the agency Normal in Paris, France. Normal produces documentaries, music videos and advertising videos. He has also directed two documentaries: one based on the agent orange in Vietnam and the other in Chile on the student movement of 2013. 

En Français: Maël Lê-Hurand est producteur vidéo au sein de l’agence Normal qui produit du documentaire, des clips et de la publicité. Il a également réalisé deux documentaires : au Vietnam sur l’agent orange et au Chili sur le mouvement étudiant de 2013.

MORADE AZZOUZ

Morade Azzouz is a French-Algerian cameraman, director, journalist and entrepreneur. He’s spent over a decade working in video across Europe, producing news coverage, institutional videos and most recently, documentaries.

After studying history at La Sorbonne and International Journalism at London’s City University, he returned to Paris to pursue a career in news. He’s covered major international news stories as a cameraman for media including Reuters and Al Jazeera English.

Morade inherited an entrepreneurial spirit from his parents, two small business owners who raised him and his brother in the Paris suburbs. In 2016, he launched his Paris-based production company Manya Productions and has developed a video storytelling business with a focus on human stories.

With news mostly behind him, he’s looking forward to telling more in-depth stories about real people around the world and the issues that drive them.

SHEA DUNCAN

Shea Duncan is an Australian composer based in New York where he is the Music Director/Composer at the bi-coastal music house, Mophonics. 

His music has been featured in global advertising campaigns for Adidas, Amazon, Bank of America, Call of Duty, Cartier, Chevrolet, Google, Infiniti, Taco Bell and Target as well as the award winning virtual reality experience Nissan Altima Tech Drive. His score for World of Warcraft, A Toast to 15 Years won Best Original Song at the 2020 AMP Awards. He has received official remix commissions from major labels Capitol Records (I’m Gonna Live Until I Die – Frank Sinatra) and Spirit Music Group (Pink Panther – Henry Mancini).

https://sheaduncan.com/

LIZZY PLATT

Lizzy Platt has created work for BBC News and other large, commercial clients for ten years. An expert in the field, she has completed work for corporations such as The Co-operative Bank, Clinique, BBC, 3M, EDF, Channel 4, Marks and Spencer, Clipper, Lilys Kitchen, Kings College London, ITV and The Discovery Channel. She is key to bringing to life the magic and whimsical nature of the storyline. 

Lizzy also enjoys working within all aspects of design, and regularly works with small businesses and single person enterprises to create affordable solutions for all their design needs. This includes print, online and social media. 

https://www.lizzyplatt.co.uk/

AMANDA LEE LOPEZ

Amanda has been an entrepreneur for the majority of her life, has traveled extensively and lived throughout the United States as well as abroad in Mexico City. She received her International Baccalaureate degree from Greengages School in Mexico City and then received a Bachelor of Science in Mass Communications, minoring in Spanish. 

Amanda has been a self employed contractor, in various fields, for over 20 years and with her background in film, design and marketing has excelled as a successful entrepreneur. Never content to just have one thing going on, she excels in any task presented to her as a challenge. She started her own real estate company from scratch and built a modern day brand which received national recognition, she has assisted in the acquisition of millions of dollars of real estate and has project managed complete rebuilds and designs for clients. 

When not working on her many projects, Amanda enjoys spending time with her partner, has 2 active boys, a dog named Steve and runs her side hustle, LaLa Lopez Vintage. She currently resides in Baltimore County but anxiously awaits the day to move back to Mexico. 

KRISTIN M. YOUNG

Kristin M. Young is making her debut as a film producer on this amazing project. As a Baltimore School for the Arts graduate, she has worked behind the scenes and on stage in countless stage productions as an actress, producer and director and is excited to join forces with this creative team. 

Kristin has over 15 years of project management experience. She has studied acting and stage production for over 25 years and earned a degree in television production from Morgan State University. 

CAMILA FRANCO RIBEIRO GOMIDE 

Camila is a production sound mixer and dialogue editor born and raised in Ilhéus, Brazil. Camila’s interest in sound began around the age of 13 when she got a group of female musicians together to create Efeito Vinil, her first and only band. While studying communications she found a passion for recording and editing through podcasts and transitioned into film not much later. Camila’s work has appeared on Netflix, EPIX, as well as several independent productions in the United States and Brazil. Camila is a member of IATSE 487 as a sound mixer/boom op, and also a member of the ABC, the Brazilian Association of Cinematography as a sound editor. In her free time, Camila likes to play soccer, window shop classic cars and ride motorcycles.

https://www.camilagomide.com/

PHALLON BECKHAM

Phallon J. Beckham is a filmmaker from Baltimore and Columbia, Maryland. A graduate of Florida State University, she would go on to pursue her master’s of fine art in filmmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art. While working as a production assistant on the set of HBO 's,Veep, she was able to gain insight on how large production's operate and apply those skills to her independent production company, Gamboo Films. Through the production company, she has produced films for up- and- coming filmmakers, including Gyasi Mitchell’s short film, Save The Manchilds For They Shall Inherit The Earth. The film will debut at the 2021 Maryland Film Festival. 

Phallon draws inspiration from the works of Mara Brock Akil, Moon Molson, and Spike Lee. Her debut short film, Blue Before Gray, is told through the gaze of Black American life in a broken city. Phallon is currently directing and co-producing a feature-length documentary which explores the intersection of food equity due to redlining in Baltimore City. It is scheduled to be released in 2022.