Austen Rachlis wrote the novel Hacker Mom as a launch title for Amazon’s Kindle Serial initiative and has ghostwritten four books in a middle-grades series for Simon & Schuster. Her pilot script, "Borderlines," was optioned by Fox as part of its Writer's Initiative, and her feature screenplay, "Recoil," was a semifinalist in the Nicholl Screenwriting Competition. She co-wrote the short film "Loop Planes," which was jointly funded and produced by Killer Films and Massify.com. It premiered at SXSW and went on to screen at over 50 festivals worldwide, including Tribeca, the Hamptons Film Festival, and the Rhode Island International Film Festival, where it won the Alternative Spirit Award. She received the inaugural Brockman Fellowship to attend the 2016 Sundance Film Festival. Most recently, she has written episodes of the podcasts “American Innovations” and “Business Wars” for Wondery.

Austen holds a BA from Hampshire College and an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts.

Kate Buhrmaster is a screenwriter and producer with a background in journalism and fiction. An alumna of the Producers Guild of America Diversity and Development program, she has pitched and prepared original projects under the guidance of top industry producers. She works as a judge for the Nicholl Fellowship Screenwriting Competition and is currently developing several projects in scripted television and original features.

After graduating from Dartmouth College with a degree in Literature and Creative Writing, she moved to New York to work as a writer and producer of television news. During her years at NBC News and MSNBC, she wrote and produced several hours of live news programming daily, covered all aspects of breaking news stories, and field produced coverage of major news events like the Monica Lewinsky scandal and the 2000 presidential election vote counting contest. She also pitched, developed, wrote, and produced documentary, biography, and newsmagazine-style special projects. She started helping with independent film productions in her spare time and ended up leaving the news world to produce a feature, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. She earned her MFA in Film from Columbia University’s School of the Arts, where a number of her scripts and short films won honors.

Nausheen Dadabhoy is a Pakistani-American cinematographer from Southern California. She received her MFA in Cinematography from the American Film Institute. Nausheen has lensed a number of narrative and documentary films, including “J'adore Nawal” (2018), a short for HBO Documentaries which premiered at Sundance, “La Femme et le TGV” (2016), a live action short film Oscar nominee, War to be Her (2016), which aired on POV, and The Ground Beneath Their Feet (2014), her directorial debut which premiered at IDFA. Nausheen's films have screened at festivals worldwide, including the Toronto International Film Festival, Tribeca, AFI Fest, and Locarno, and have appeared on Netflix, PBS, MSNBC, and MTV. Nausheen has been selected as a Film Independent Project: Involve Fellow, a Berlin Talents participant, a Firelight Fellow, and a Chicken & Egg Eggcelerator Lab participant. She is based in New York, Los Angeles, and Karachi, where she has broken boundaries to become the only female cinematographer in Pakistan.

With a passion for music and collaboration, Catherine Joy is a composer for film, media, and live performance. She contributed additional arrangements on the Emmy-winning Netflix doc series Wild Wild Country and won Best Documentary Score for the uplifting feature Gold Balls. Catherine is the founder and director of Joy Music House, providing the full range of score production services. She is also the Vice President for the Alliance for Women Film Composers.

Catherine was part of the music team on notable feature projects. She score supervised and orchestrated on The Last Black Man in San Francisco, which premiered in competition at Sundance 2019. She also music edited the Joan Jett: Bad Reputation feature, was both orchestrator and score supervisor on the Oscar-nominated RBG, and score supervised the HBO documentary At the Heart of Gold.

Catherine recently scored six episodes of the Tasmanian documentary series Women of the Island. She also scored the popular web series Capitol Hill, which is now televised throughout Europe and Canada. Catherine is currently scoring the video games The Endless Mission and Beyond Blue, along with the web series No Matter What and a feature horror The Parish.

Candice Nachman grew up in the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, where she began studying the arts in 2000. Nachman received her BFA in Photography from Metropolitan State University of Denver in 2010. Her work was curated in many juried exhibitions throughout Colorado. She also has her photography and video art in permanent collection at the Hotel Marriott in Denver and Plus Gallery in Denver. She currently resides in Los Angeles, where she completed her MFA in Film Directing from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2016. She has received numerous awards for filmmaking, including the Jack Nicholson Distinguished Student Director Award and the Hollywood Foreign Press Award.