Joanna Arnow is a filmmaker and actor based in Brooklyn. Her first fiction feature "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed" screened at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, TIFF, New York Film Festival and received the 2024 Cahiers du Cinema André Bazin Award. The film was released by Magnolia Pictures.

Her other films include personal documentary feature “i hate myself :)” as well as narrative shorts “Laying Out” and "Bad at Dancing" which won the Berlinale Silver Bear Jury Prize. Joanna received Indie Spirit nominations for Best First Screenplay and the Someone to Watch Award.

Dan Janvey is an Academy Award winning producer, and Head of Film at Ventureland. His past credits include Rebuilding, Janet Planet, A Love Song, Nomadland, Time, Heart of a Dog, and Beasts of the Southern Wild. He’s currently based in Brooklyn, NY. 

Gabriel Mayers was most recently the Head of Film at Killer Films. A firm believer in developing and sharing local narratives with global audiences, she works with early career filmmakers as well as veterans to support and usher original and unique stories to production. Gabriel feels by producing narratives while keeping local audiences in mind, stories can be amplified to greater communities. She is drawn to this work because she feels storytelling helps audiences build social empathy and develops the inroads toward societal change. She now uses her financial knowledge and production and development experience to further the renaissance of the most original and diverse narratives in cinema. Her first feature A Different Man, written and directed by Aaron Schimberg, premiered at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival and competed at the 74th Berlin International Film Festival where Sebastian Stan won the Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance. It was released by A24 Fall of 2024.

Frank Oz is a four time Emmy winner, recipient of The Art Director’s Guild Award, The Comedy Award, Saturn Lifetime Achievement Award, George Foster Peabody award, and others. He’s performed with The Muppets and on the Star Wars Films. The dozen feature films he’s directed include Little Shop of Horrors, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, In & Out, The Score, and Death at a Funeral.

Simon TaufiQue is an Emmy-nominated and award-winning producer and film composer based in NYC. He is a Fellow of the ASCAP/Columbia University Composing Lab, Gotham Producing Lab, Trans-Atlantic Producing Lab and teaches Producing at NYU and the Sundance Institute. He produced (and scored) films including the Sundance 2025 award-winner, “Ricky”, films for Lionsgate / Universal (“Imperium”), PBS (Emmy-nominated Documentary, “The Interpreters’), HBO MAX (“Weight of Gold” & “Land of Gold”), alongside auteur-driven films (Berlinale-winner “She’s Lost Control”). He has been profiled on NPR, NBC News, Medium, numerous podcasts and publications and collaborated with M. Night Shyamalan, Reinaldo Marcus Green, Cary Fukunaga, Anja Marquardt, Kevin Smith, Rashad Frett and Mary Harron.

Simon belongs to BAFTA, the Television Academy, PGA, SCL and the board of the Hollywood Radio Television Society (HRTS).

Simon is represented by IAG and records for Warner-Chappell music and is a dual citizen of Great Britain and the United States.