Nik Liguori is a writer, filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist working in collage and multimedia. His films have screened at venues including Ann Arbor Film Festival, Winnipeg Underground Film Festival, West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival, CROSSROADS, and Laterale Film Festival. His visual artwork has been exhibited at College for Creative Studies, Scarab Club, and other galleries, and has appeared in The Horizon Magazine and three volumes of Therapeutic Edgelands published by A.W.E. Society.

Julia Yezbick is a filmmaker, artist, and anthropologist. Her audio and video works have been exhibited at venues including Station Arts Space, Berlinale, Art Gallery of Ontario, New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Harvard Film Archive, Ann Arbor Film Festival, and MOCAD. Founding editor of Sensate: A Journal for Experiments in Critical Media Practice; contributor to City & Society, Canadian Journal of Film Studies and other publications. Co-director (since 2102) of Mothlight Microcinema in Detroit. Knight Arts Award (2016); Kresge Fellow (2018).

dream hampton is a filmmaker and writer. Her films include the Emmy-nominated Surviving R. Kelly series for Lifetime (2019), It’s A Hard Truth Ain’t It for HBO (2018), and Ladies First: A Story of Women in Hip-Hop for Netflix (2023). Her work has screened at venues including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Sundance Film Festival, and BlackStar Film Festival. Co-author of Jay-Z’s memoir Decoded (2010) and frequent contributor to publications including Vibe, Essence, Harper’s Bazaar, The Village Voice, Detroit News, and Spin. Peabody Award (2019), Kresge Fellow (2014). Named one of TIME magazine’s 100 most influential people in the world (2019)

Alana Bartol and Bryce Krynski are moving image and interdisciplinary artists; all roses sleep (inviolate light) is their first collaborative film; screenings at venues including Images Festival and Wide Open Experimental Film Festival. Independently, Bartol’s previous work has screened at venues including Bogota Experimental Film Festival and Brussels Independent Film Festival and is in permanent collections of institutions including Art Gallery of Alberta. Krynski’s work is represented by Christine Klassen Gallery and has been exhibited at Stephen Bulger Gallery, Art Gallery of Calgary and other venues.

Michele Goulette works in film, printmaking, digital collage, and photography. Her work has been screened or exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries including Monique Goldstrom Gallery, Volterra Foundation, Hamilton Artists Inc, Thames Art Gallery, Media City Film Festival, Tom Thomson Art Gallery, Amos Enos Gallery, and Artcite Inc. and was featured in solo exhibition at the Art Gallery of Windsor in 2022. Professor Emerita, School of Creative Arts, University of Windsor.

Adam Sekuler is a filmmaker, curator, educator and film editor. His films have screened at venues including International Film Festival Rotterdam, Film Society of Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, Walker Art Center, Seattle Art Museum, Museum of the Moving Image, and Chicago Underground Film Festival. Editor of films by Robinson Devor, Pacho Velez, Stephanie Spray and others. Founder and programmer of Radar: Exchanges in Dance Film Frequencies and former Program Director for Northwest Film Forum in Seattle.

Calla Moya is a filmmaker, craftsperson and performance artist who works primarily in 16mm and Super 8, combining filmmaking and craft techniques to experiment with the materiality of film. Her work has screened at venues including Artspace Peterborough, Regent Park Film Festival, London Ontario Media Arts Association, Festival Phénomena, International Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and Museum of Contemporary Art (Toronto). Museum London and MCFF Southwest Seen commissioned artist (2022).

Derek Jenkins is Executive Director of Hamilton Artists Inc. and Board chair at Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre; he has also worked as a technician at Niagara Custom Lab. His films have been exhibited at festivals, museums, and galleries internationally including DocLisboa, Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival, Factory Media Centre, ARKIPEL—Jakarta International Documentary and Experimental Film Festival, Antimatter, Media City Film Festival, and Non-Syntax Experimental Image Festival.

Hadassah GreenSky is an activist, community organizer, curator, and Indigenous futurist working as a visual artist, jazz singer, musician, dancer (both modern and powwow), bead artist, seamstress, graphic designer, photographer, videographer and model. Co-founder of Vibes With the Tribes music festival and The Waawiyaatanong NDN Market in Detroit; founder of Epangishmok Exchange, a Native artist exchange between the Great Lakes and Northern California. Field reporter for SNAG magazine and contributor to The Nation. Kresge Fellow (2022).

Ed Janzen works in video, drawing, new media and installation. His work has been exhibited at galleries including Hamilton Artists Inc, Art Gallery of Windsor and Gallery Lambton; his single-channel video works have screened at festivals including Antimatter, Media City Film Festival, Onion City Experimental Film Festival, Basement Media Fest, and Sydney Australian Film Festival. Co-founder of several artist-run initiatives including Scratch ‘n Sniff Writers and Artists Collective (1993–98) and Control Burn Fire Festival (2002-2011) in Windsor, and IgniteArt Collective (2018) in Sioux Lookout.