Los Angeles Premiere

Sia Aleskovskaya is a director, writer and a production designer currently based in Los Angeles, California. Sia grew up in Moscow, Russia and moved to the US in 2012. She graduated New York Film Academy in 2019. Sia's previous film "Faces" premiered at Scottsdale Short Film Festival. Her next films - comedy "All men are pigs (?)" and gothic horror "The Last Leaf" are set to premiere in 2020. Sia has a strong interest in telling women's stories through a female eye. Sia is an active member of the LGBT community and hopes to bring more underrepresented voices to screen.

Glen Matthews is a Toronto-based filmmaker (writer, director & editor) specializing in short-form digital content. Originally from Nova Scotia, he spent a decade working as an actor before deciding to pursue filmmaking as his sole focus.
His debut short, “ROOM SERVICE”, was a finalist for CBC’s Short Film Faceoff. His follow-up, “SAVING FACE” was selected for the 2015 edition of Telefilm’s Not Short on Talent showcase in Cannes, France. Most recently, he wrote, directed & edited “TEETHING” which was made possible through Bell Media’s Shorts to Features program.
Above all else, Matthews prides himself on creating off-kilter content with an eye for the absurd.
www.GoGlenGo.com

Patrick Kennelly is a Los Angeles based director, editor, producer whose body of work spans film and video, theater, live events and the visual arts. He met “Hammurabi” collaborator Bethany Orr working on his debut feature EXCESS FLESH, which toured the worldwide festival circuit in 2015. Essentially a horror film about food, it was called  "the most twisted movie at SXSW—and of the year” by The Daily Beast. In addition to developing his own projects, Patrick serves as Artistic Director at renowned experimental arts center Highways Performance Space & Gallery, in its 31st year. 

Alison was one of five directors chosen by Lena Waithe for AT&T's 2019 Hello Lab Mentorship Program. She received her BA in film production from Emerson College and MFA in directing from AFI. She was hired as the first female staff producer/director at media company, All Def Digital, and has been featured in publications including Vanity Fair, Deadline, and Free the Bid, which highlights female filmmakers. In addition to a number of nominations on its festival run, her short film, YOU'LL ONLY HAVE EACH OTHER, won the Women in Horror Film Festival Night Mare award at the 2018 Nightmares Film Festival as well as Best Director (Short) at the 2019 Austin Revolution Film Festival and Best Foreign Student Short at the 2019 Fort Worth Indie Film Showcase. She is continuing to develop various projects that utilize horror as a means to explore character.

Xia Magnus is an award-winning writer, producer, and director. His music videos have been featured by Dazed, American Songwriter, and Paper Magazine, as well as screened at Contemporary Arts Center of New Orleans. His short films have been programmed on Public Television and screened at numerous festivals worldwide, including Hunter which was an official selection of the 2017 Austin Film Festival. Xia’s first feature, Sanzaru, was selected to participate in the IFP Completion Lab, U.S. in Progress at the Champs-Élysées Film Festival, and the Torino Film Lab Extended program. Sanzaru premiered at Slamdance 2020. He splits his time between New York and Los Angeles.

Merlin Camozzi is a filmmaker creating work both independently and on behalf of global brands such as Sprite, Coca-Cola, Uber, Morgan Stanley and ARRI. Merlin’s work has been featured in publications including Vice, Out Magazine, Booooooom, Flaunt Magazine, and Director’s Notes, and his short films have shown at festivals around the world. Awards received include the Cirque du Soleil Emerging Artist Fellowship and the MPAA Directing Award. Recently, Merlin was selected as a directing fellow for the Kyoto Filmmakers Lab, wrote and directed a package of digital shorts for Eli Roth’s Crypt TV, and created a promo spot and related content for a Coca-Cola project featuring Olivia Wilde. Merlin holds an MFA in film directing from UCLA.