Georden West (1992, USA) is a multimedia artist and filmmaker. They studied visual media art at Emerson University’s graduate school and undertook an internship at SHOWstudio, where their experience led to Student Academy Award-winning short Patron Saint (2019). West was a 2021-22 Fine Arts Work Center Visual Arts Fellow and a 2021 Academy Gold Women’s Fellowship Finalist. Playland (2023), selected for IFFR 2023, is West’s first feature and stemmed from research carried out at Boston’s LGBTQ archive, The History Project.

Natalia del Mar Kašik attended the independent film and the artistic photography class at the Friedl Kubelka School and studies video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. In her artistic work, she explores ideas around female identity and reflects on how notions of femininity emerge in a post-feminist media culture.