Matt Mitchell is an award winning director & screenwriter. His feature films include ‘Gangsters, Guns and Zombies’ and ‘The Rizen’ which closed out the London Sci-Fi Film Festival, with its recently completed sequel ‘Rizen: Possession’ being released this year. His latest projects range from directing theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, to turning his comedic voice to a new television series, as well as writing a speculative fiction/horror television series. His feature films are on worldwide release, distributed by Lionsgate in the UK and eOne in the US, and are also available on all good torrent sites.

Thomas James Scott is a filmmaker and a lecturer in film and TV Production at The Belfast Film and Television School in Belfast Metropolitan College, Northern Ireland. Prior to joining Belfast Met in May 2015, he taught at Springvale Learning, and Ulster University. Thomas, along with his co-coordinator Alan McCracken, was the 2018 winner of the Creative and Cultural Skills Northern Ireland Creative Tutor Award.

He is a graduate of Ulster University, and Queen’s University Belfast. He holds a Ba Hons in Film and Visual Studies (QUB), an MRes in the Arts (UU), a PhD in Film (UU), and a CIT and a PGCE in FE (UU). Both his MRes and Doctoral work studied American cinematic depictions of the Irish between 1896 and 1930. Thomas conducted part of his research in Los Angeles, where he stayed at UCLA and studied in their Film and Television Archive. He has published his work in journals, and presented his research output at conferences, in Ireland, England, and America – including the prestigious American Conference for Irish Studies, in Chicago, in April 2013. Although he is primarily a lecturer, he began his media career in film and TV production, and continues to work on media projects in his spare time. In addition to producing and directing (and sometimes writing), he has worked in a range of roles from sound recordist, to camera operator, to set design. Thomas has worked with some of the most talented filmmakers on the Northern Irish indie scene, including Brian Mulholland, Steve Earley, and Margaret McGoldrick. In his younger years (the 90s!) he was involved with a number of theatre groups, primarily as an actor, but also as a writer and set builder.

Thomas has produced and/or directed award winning short films and music videos. His most recent projects include Romancing Revolution (an official music video for The Crossfire Hurricanes, which screened at festivals in Europe, picking a Belfast Square Short Film Award in Jan 2017), You Belfast (which was screen at Festivals in the US, Europe, and India – where it won the best Smartphone Film Award. Thomas Produced, Wrote, and Directed the short), and Give Me All I need (an official music video for Northern Irish Band the Rusty Taste of Sweetness). His most recent project, a documentary titled Kate Price: Hollywood’s Irish Mother, is currently in post-production. The film highlights the film career of Irish born actress Kate Price, who appeared in almost 300 American Films between 1910 and 1937.

His script ‘The Funeral Director’ was first written in 2008, when Thomas was studying screenwriting at Queens University. He decided to redraft the script in 2017, and submitted it to screenwriting festivals, to test it’s potential. He is big fan of Graham Linehan, the creator or co-creator of a number of successful sitcoms, such as Father Ted, and the IT Crowd, among others. He was born and still lives in Northern Ireland, is married with two kids (and a third due in July). He is a diehard Manchester United supporter, and along with his son Liam, loves attending pro wrestling events.

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Michelle Sikorski is a fiction writer, but not exclusively. Any creative pursuit drives her: poetry, script writing, dreaming up graphic novels she can’t draw, making abstract sound sculptures. Okay not really the last one, but it does seem neat.

She’s also a journalist, former magazine editor, content marketer, rock climber, and cat friend.

She has a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from the University of Cincinnati.

You can find out more and contact her at https://michellesikorski.com/

Writer/Director Allison Beda’s award winning films have screened internationally at festivals, in theaters, on television, in art galleries, on billboards, in the metro and even at the Olympic games! Ms Beda’s first feature screenplay UNPREDICTABLE just won “Best Screenplay” at the Boomtown Film Festival and was a BET Network Top 10 Finalist. Her company A Muse Productions makes films about women making trouble and film art that defies categorization. She has a BA from SFU, an MFA from UBC, honed her strong visual style as an IATSE camera operator and learned when you can (or cannot) “fix it in post” working as Associate Producer on TV series such as SYFY/NBC “12 Monkeys”.

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M is a visual storyteller working in cinema, photography, and public art. She received her M.F.A. from CalArts in Film/Video. WIRED magazine called her a “filmmaker provocateur” bridging technology thinking with art making. As an award-winning writer/director, her work ranges across new media platforms aligning left of center subject matters. With a practice of “autonomy first” her artwork is about community, space, and place. PALM TREES won the Adrienne Shelly Award for excellence in directing and aired on BET's “Lens on Talent”. Awards for the best narrative sci-fi film MOONLESS and screenplays EVENTUALLY EVERYTHING IS FINE and ORBITERS were also garnered. Her films have screened around the world and are represented by Flourishing Films.

INDIGO IMPACT was founded in 2016 with a mission to bring left of center stories and creators to global audiences as an Impact Producer. She worked for such titles like DREAMSTATES starring Saul Williams, Haiti’s first Oscar selection AYITI MON AMOUR, and JINN by Oakland native Nijla Mumin. She brings affordable music, literature, art, and performance to the Bay Area as a Co-Curator of the MATATU FESTIVAL. Sitting on the board of WFilm and Code Tenderloin she continually advocates for equality and equity.

Futurism and technology feed her love for science fiction, surrealism, and fantasy. Her current work KILL, TIME views sci-fi through a lo-fi lens. ELEPHANT deconstructs pain and trauma in times of violence. A CERTAIN GRACE continues her conversation with San Francisco in making the invisible -- seen. Currently, She can be found in San Francisco kicking around the fog.

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