They/Them - WRITER-DIRECTOR

Max is a non-binary writer-director based in New York and LA. Their career started in the music industry, managing artists while they developed their craft writing and directing shorts, experimental films, and music videos. A graduate of Brown University, where they studied Anthropology, Sex and Gender, Max’s artistic interests are in creating films that explore the experience of otherness, alienation and the relationship between gender and the body.

She/Her - PRODUCER

Corrine is a story-centered producer. Her talents lie in finding and fostering narrative projects—bringing an idea to life from initial concept through final delivery. She is known for her strategic ability to maximize production value within a project’s scope. In building relationships with creatives and crews, she is trusted as a calm and decisive leader on set. Corrine’s background is in producing advertising and branded content, working nearly ten years for North Six, a global collective of content creators.

She/Her - CINEMATOGRAPHER

Born in Italy and raised in Vienna, Austria Hannah graduated from the Academy of Media Arts Cologne in 2019 with a focus on cinematography. During this time, she worked for the rental house Maier Bros. GmbH. Her films were screened at international film festivals and premiered at the Max Ophüls Film Festival, Hofer Filmtage, the International Film Festival Warsaw and the Festival du Court-Métrage de Clermont- Ferrand, among others. In 2021, she won the Michael Ballhaus Prize for her cinematography work on POSTKIDS.

She/Her - PRODUCTION DESIGNER

Al-e is a 2018 graduate of UC San Diego with a BA in Visual Arts: Media and a minor in studio art. She began her career with the theater projection team at Industrial Light and Magic as a Studio Operations Coordinator and evolved to work on the Motion Capture Stage. While at ILM she continued to advance her career toward the art department by working as an in-house graphic designer for an e-commerce startup and as a production designer for various short films, commercials and music videos.

He/Him - EDITOR

Devin has been working as a film and video editor since 2015. He worked for three years in New York for director Bob Giraldi editing commercials, three of Giraldi’s short films, trailers and one feature- length documentary. Since 2018, he has been working freelance on a variety of projects, as well as on his own films which, in addition to editing, he shoots and directs himself. He is currently an Editing fellow at the American Film Institute Conservatory.

She/Her - STORY EDITOR

Melissa is a queer screenwriter, filmmaker and performer. For the past four years, she has written and performed original works in and adjacent to the Chicago comedy scene, including hosting The Salty Show in 2018. As a writer who craves diverse professional experiences, her other jobs have ranged from rebuilding coffee machines to selling insurance to veterinary nursing. Moore is a graduate of Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Film and Video.