Short

Nicholas's first short film as a writer and director, "Elevator People Bring You Up When You're Feeling Down", a sci-fi body-horror tale, played such festivals as Cannes and Santa Barbara. Most recently Nicholas produced the dark comedy "International Falls" that's currently playing various festivals and won best narrative feature at Ashland and premiered at Atlanta. Previously Nicholas directed 2nd unit and co-produced the horror feature "The Watcher" that premiered on Lifetime and Netflix, as well as producing episodes of the docu-drama series "The Warfighters" that aired on The History Channel. He has also won screenwriting prizes at the Williamsburg and Oaxaca festivals, and "The Orchard" a feature length adaptation of his short film "Orchard Girl" is currently in active development.

Carlota Pereda has spent her career working in TV fiction. She has been a screenwriter and script supervisor for series such as Periodistas and Motivos Personales, has directed series,”El secreto de Puente Viejo”, LEX and Lalola and has worked as [realizadora] on series such as Los Hombres de Paco, Red Eagle, Luna, the Mystery of Calenda and B&b, de boca en boca. Her fist short, The Blondes, was selected in over 137 festivals worldwide and/or awarded in prestigious festivals such as Medina del Campo, La semana del Corto, Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de Soria or CortoEspaña. “Piggy” is her second short film as a director and already has several selections in screenwriting festivals such as Oaxaca Film Festival (nominated for “Perfect Page” and “best international Screenplay”), Austin Film Festival, Busca Film Festival, Shriekfest, GenreBlast,Austin Revolution Film festival and WeScreenplay, amongst others.

Joanne was born in Lambeth, London. She grew up in leafy Surrey and at 21 years attended the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School in the UK where she trained for three years as an actress.
Since graduating she has had a full and varied career in Theatre, TV, Radio, Voiceovers and film.
In the past few years she has gained a thirst for writing and producing films and has also gained invaluable experience as a 'storyliner' on a well known British tv show.
With her husband, she set up their own film company, "Mitchell-Brunt Films". So far three independent films that she has co-written and produced have all had worldwide distribution one of which is still currently on Netflix in the UK - BAIT.
Before Dawn, Bait, and Attack Of The Adult Babies have had success all over the world.
As well as features, Joanne has also written and produced two short films: Shellshocked and The Mighty Witch Killers of Pendle Hill.
SYBIL is Joanne's directorial debut and she is very excited and honoured to have it shown at Screamfest!

Brad Jacques was born and raised in Topsfield, Massachusetts. Upon seeing "STAR WARS" at the tender age of eight, Brad realized he wanted to pursue filmmaking.

After attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts, Brad began working as a Production Assistant in the Boston area on studio films such as "MERMAIDS", "HOUSESITTER" and "SCHOOL TIES". On “DISTANT JUSTICE”, Brad was a personal assistant to the late David Carradine.

Eventually, Brad became one of the "go to" Assistant Editors in New England, working on many films including “THE NEXT KARATE KID”, "BLOWN AWAY" and Mel Gibson’s directorial debut "THE MAN WITHOUT A FACE". On "TRUE LIES", Brad enjoyed watching two of his childhood heroes (James Cameron & Arnold Schwarzenegger) collaborate.

In 1999, Brad moved to Los Angeles and became an Editor, working on dozens of independent films & television shows. Over the years, Brad has directed several feature-length & short films.

He currently lives in North Hollywood with his wife, Producer Limary Vargas.

Working in the Film Industry as an Art Director, Julian has always had a desire to tell his own stories. A Los Angeles native he has followed the great film migration to his sweet sunny southern home of Atlanta. In Atlanta, he has managed to put together a talented group of professional working filmmakers from around the country, and abroad, who share his passion to tell unique stories. He has just finished his first award-winning super short film H'ilol. Shot entirely on Kodak 16mm film stock, in super 16 using only one reel of film.

Dante Vescio and Rodrigo Gasparini met in film school and quickly realized that their love for classic cinema and genre movies was extremely similar. They began writing, directing and producing short films and feature films together right after graduating. The notorious "M Is For Mailbox", made for The ABCs of Death 2 Competition, was their first collaboration. The short went on to be highly praised in their own lands as well as internationally, earning them 3rd Place in the competition. Their debut feature film, "The Devil Lives Here", soon followed. Made with a micro budget of 50.000 dollars and shot in only two weeks, the film played in some of the world's most prestigious genre film festivals such as Sitges, Morbido Film Fest, Fantaspoa and many others. The film also earned them a Best Director and Best Foreign Film award in the United States. The duo has since written, directed and produced "Blondie", an internet hit horror short film, as well as the mischievous sci-fi/comedy "Children of the Cosmos".

ANTOINE DEVULDER : Growing up on French Cinema of the 1930s, he wanted to study science and ended up choosing filmmaking. As a graduate of the École Polytechnique, he discovered his passion for cinema in student associations for which he directed many short films. At ENS Louis Lumière, he learned to brighten faces and film sets. Since 2018, he is bettering his craft in the production department of La Fémis.

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VINCENT L'ANTHOEN : The name is Breton, the influences, American. During his master’s degree in cinema, he wrote and watched movies constantly. While being an intern at the Filmothèque du Quartier Latin or next to Agnès Varda, he made a documentary about the resistant’s past of his grandfather. With a true predilection for the genre, he has also written a radio fiction broadcasted on France Inter. At the Conservatoire Européen d’Ecriture Audiovisuelle (CEEA), he has learned to master many forms of writing, including horror and science-fiction screenplays to express himself on contemporary concerns.