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Sergio Guerra’s fondness for suspense and the unsettling formed at an early age, the end result of too many impressionable "Twilight Zone" marathons. A San Francisco native, the Latinx filmmaker started making movies in high school using old family cameras, developing a particular affinity for the eerie graininess of Super 8. He honed his craft while attending New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. His original horror pilot "Creature Comfort" was a winner in the ATX-Blacklist Script Competition, and his horror short "Murder Ballad" had its Los Angeles premiere at Screamfest in 2019.

Dallas Harden is an award-winning comedy and horror filmmaker in West Los Angeles for YA audiences in film and TV. He currently works at William Morris Endeavor as a Talent Assistant. Prior, he worked at UC Riverside in the film department for four and a half years educating student filmmakers on everything he learned in the independent film world. His production company, DTH Pictures, was founded in the Inland Empire over a decade ago and is still churning out short films, winning awards, and receiving thousands of views across the globe via social media.

Max has a love of heightened narratives that led to his descent into horror. His non-horror shorts range from a 50s dystopian drama, a PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK infused revenge film and a twisted breakup drama about rising jealousy between a couple in the art world.

His horror shorts began with two films created as part of the Straight 8 competition. One, a short about sacrificial sex set in the Sixties, and the other about murdering those who share your name for ultimate power. The latter film, THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE, reached the London Premiere screening and has been released on Alter, the horror streaming channel.

Since then, Max and writer Alex Moran have developed horror-comedy short, RHYME OR DIE, where five strangers are forced to rhyme or get brutally murdered. The film was shot during the third UK lockdown. As none of the cast ever touch, they were able to shoot the film socially distanced. The lockdown also allowed them to shoot in a brand new and massive North London club venue that was yet to open to the public. It was a two-day shoot, with the rehearsals taking place online.

Caroline Branders has worked since 2013 as a feature film producer in Belgium. Initially she worked on Belgian feature films but she slowly transitioned into the international film marked. She worked with Brian de Palma on his dark detective movie ‘Domino’ and more recently on ‘Spider in the Web’ by Israeli award-winning director Eran Riklis.

Caroline received support from the Tax Shelter measure of the Belgian Federal Government, Flanders Tax Shelter and the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) at the end of 2019 for her writing and directorial debut, ‘Z’.

She has currently received screenwriting funding from the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) for her first full-length feature film ‘Residence Lugano’

Though, Paul discovered a love for film from watching satirical movie reviews on Youtube. When Paul's friend told him about a screenwriting competition Paul wrote his first screenplay at 21 years old. Paul went on to win that screenwriting competition, had that film produced with the prize money, and had the film selected to premiere at Nickelodeon studios. Since that first script Paul has written, directed, and edited three short films. Paul's films have gotten better each time and he attributes this to all the movie reviews he watched making him self-critical and always striving to be better. Paul has recently moved from Ohio to California and is ready to continue making films in the big city.

A native Angelino, Dan “Laz” Lazarovits, has been working in the film industry since graduating from film school at Cal State Northridge in 1999. As a First Assistant Director, Laz has worked on horror films such as Insidious 3 and Insidious 4, and the television series American Horror Story - Apocalypse. In recent years Laz has had the opportunity to pursue his dream of co-writing, producing and directing his own short film, Nagual: The Sin Eater. Laz still lives in Los Angeles, tirelessly searching for interesting and dynamic ways to continue storytelling.

Dikega Hadnot is a Los Angeles born writer/director, who began his journey in film as an assistant to Terrence Malick on Tree of Life. Following Malick's advice to pursue his own path as a filmmaker, Dikega returned to Los Angeles where he co-founded commercial production company, Latebloom Entertainment and writing/directing partnership, GONZOGRIOT. Little Brother is his first short with writing partner Spencer Mandel. In 2021, he’s setting up his feature length directorial debut in which he will direct, write and produce.