Nick McKernan (he/him) is a 2D animator and multidisciplinary artist with a sensitive, observant approach to narrative. His path into animation has been one long, inevitable surprise. In Oregon and Washington, he performed as a stage actor, musician, live-action filmmaker, and budding comic artist between various hospitality and education jobs. As an animator, Nick’s works have been described as gentle and mature, capturing domestic struggles, atmospheric locales, and gender fluid fantasias. His storytelling often employs visual allegory to externalize the yearnings of characters, leading to striking animations teeming with pathos and a universal grace. He currently resides in Baltimore, MD.

Victor Di Marco (1996) and Marcio Picoli (1994) are filmmakers from Porto Alegre, Brazil. Their work is characterized by an investigation and interpretation of different types of bodies and expressions. Di Marco’s and Picoli’s films research minimalist narratives and self-fiction. Their last film, Victor’s Body, has been screened at important Brazilian festivals and has won over 20 awards.

romy pocztaruk (1983, Porto Alegre, BR) uses varied media and materials. Her poetic propositions deal with the encounter between different fields and disciplines as science and history with the visual arts and cinema. In her research, she addresses the importance of the artist as someone who can engage and put in evidence political and historical issues of our world, be that in the past, present or future.

Janet Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer, poet, media producer, sound artist and performance artist. She brings her poetic practice to live in all areas off-page as well as in print with 7 published collections to date. Janet is a new publisher with the Ojistoh Publishing label which she operates from her home territory of Six Nations of the Grand River.

Bawaadan Collective

Formalized in the Spring of 2019, we worked cooperatively together to create the short film Midland Motel Room 77′. Utilizing close friend and familial ties, we quickly began to self-produce our own Indigenous content. Modern, contemporary content. As the scale and scope of each project grew, we continued to explore and expand our membership to incorporate new skills and relationships.

Scottee is a self taught artist who makes political performance, live art and stuff for walls. He is the co-founder of Scottee & Friends Ltd – a collective of artists, producers and participants working across the UK. Scottee is an associate artist at HOME (Manchester) and is the founder of the Working Class Artist Group. He is one of the token working class people allowed on BBC Radio 4; he has made documentaries, columns and presented some of the biggest arts shows on the network. He is also the host of chart topping podcast After the Tone.

Lea Anderson MBE is a British choreographer and artistic director. She co-founded The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs dance companies with Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward, at which she has choreographed over 100 works. The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs are two of the foremost contemporary dance companies who have worked in Britain over the past 25 years. Under the artistic direction of choreographer Lea Anderson, they have created a distinctive choreographic language that is as defiantly individual as it is recognisable. The all-female Cholmondeleys were formed in 1984 and the all-male Featherstonehaughs in 1988 and both have toured extensively in Britain and abroad. Lea and her companies have also become recognised for outdoor and site specific works, performances in alternative venues such as Glastonbury Festival, work for TV, film and video and an innovative and responsive programme of work with young people.

Amber Beaton is an indigenous (Māori) filmmaker from Aotearoa, New Zealand. Specializing in music videos, her work has been described as “Dreamlike”, “Haunting and Beautiful” and as “Disturbing and surreal imagery crackling with magikal energy”. Charmed by a gloomy aesthetic, Amber’s work has found a home with the rock, metal and alternative music scenes in New Zealand and abroad.

Joseph Wilson is a queer artist, activist and drag performer, living amongst the eclectic East London community. His work explores LGBTQ+ narratives, taking inspiration from his own lived experiences as well as documenting the people and places around him, amplifying their voices and celebrating their stories through his art. Joseph has had work premiered at BFI London Film Festival, BFI Flare, Fringe! Queer Arts Festival as well as global video platform NOWNESS. Most recently, he was selected as one of the FLAMIN (Film London Artists Moving Image Network) artists. In September 2021, Joseph was selected as one of the 2021 Dazed X CIRCA artists and had his work screened on Piccadilly Circus, Shinjuku, Tokyo and K-Pop Square, Seoul.