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Born at an early age in Detroit, Michigan, award winning writer/director, Michael Kallio started making Super-8 movies at the young age of 6 after seeing Star Wars. In his early 20’s, he made his first feature film, “Hatred of a Minute,” a psychological thriller starring himself and Gunnar “Leatherface” Hansen and produced by Bruce Campbell. A second feature followed entitled, “Mutant Swinger from Mars,” a 50’s sci-fi spoof inspired by Ed Wood and the Jerry Lewis film, “The Nutty Professor,” which featured the acting debut of The White Stripes singer and guitarist, Jack White (Walk Hard, Cold Mountain). He is currently filming two documentaries. One is on his late friend and colleague Gunnar Hansen called, “Dinner with Leatherface.” The other focuses on local Southern California band, The Radioactive Chicken Heads. He is also currently working on a Lovecraftian TV series among other film and television projects. He hangs out with his wife, Jessica and their fur baby/dog, Buddy.

Michael Mongillo's most recent feature film, the sci-fi chiller "The Changed" (2021), is the latest in a string of acclaimed work spanning two decades. "The Wind" (2001), a dreamy morality tale about misconceptions and murder, won Shriekfest's inaugural Best Picture award and earned the praise of maverick director Ralph Bakshi. His follow-up feature, the sci-fi dramedy "Welcome to Earth" (2005), was selected for NewFilmmakers NY and was the Closing Night Feature at the New England Film Festival. His third feature, the mockumentary "Being Michael Madsen" (2007), had its world premiere at Raindance Film Festival, was the Opening Night Feature at DancesWithFilms, was honored with the Audience Award at the Faux Film Festival, won Mongillo the Best Director award at MockFest, and was later handpicked to screen in New Horizons' mockumentary retrospective alongside such landmark films as "This is Spinal Tap." Mongillo's fourth feature, the supernatural mystery "Diane" (2017), world premiered at FrightFest London and screened at the New York City Horror Film Festival prior to its Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Award nomination, among a list of notable nominees including "A Ghost Story."

Born and Raised in the San Fernando Valley in Southern California, Vincent first broke onto the scene as producer of the independent feature film BELLFLOWER, which was one of the most buzzed about films to premiere at Sundance Film Festival 2011. The film went on to play SXSW and garnered several awards, including Film Independent Spirit Award nominations for Best Cinematography and a nomination for Grashaw for the John Cassavetes Award. The film was distributed by Oscilloscope Laboratories.

Vince then wrote and directed his debut feature, COLDWATER, which premiered at SXSW 2013 and was distributed by Breaking Glass Pictures.

Grashaw went on to direct his sophomore feature AND THEN I GO, an adaptation from the acclaimed novel PROJECT X by Jim Shepard. The film stars Justin Long, Melanie Lynskey, Tony Hale, Carrie Preston and Melonie Diaz. The film premiered at LA Film Festival and was distributed by The Orchard.

WHAT JOSIAH SAW is Grashaw’s third feature film at the helm and has partnered with Randomix Productions to direct his next two feature films slated to shoot fall 2021 and summer 2022.

Perry Blackshear is a filmmaker from North Carolina. He earned his MFA in Directing from NYU Graduate Film School. His first feature “They Look Like People,” became an international film festival darling and won dozens of awards including the grand jury awards at Slamdance, IFF Boston, and Nashville. It went on to play theatrically before landing at Netflix. His second feature film “The Siren” was acquired by Dark Sky, and his third “Soul Eater” is in post-production. Perry recently sold an original TV show to Netflix and completed a writing project for Amazon. Perry enjoys joy-sobbing to music and friends that are like family.

Venezuelan film director, screenwriter, and producer graduated from the Universidad Santa María in Audiovisual Communications (2008). Has been producing films for the last 12 years.

His first feature, “The House at the End of Time”, the first Venezuelan horror film, received more than 16 international awards, including Best Director and Best Picture at Screamfest 2014, it also became the highest-grossing horror film in the history of Venezuela, collecting $4.3M locally at the box office, and the widest distributed Venezuelan film in the world.

In 2017, a Korean remake of “The House at the End of Time” titled “House of the Disappeared” directed by Dae-Wung and starring Yunjin Kim was released collecting $897,077 at the Korean box office. An American Remake is now in development with Alejandro attached as director and producer. ok.
In August 2019, Hidalgo completed the principal photography of his first English language film titled "The Exorcism of God". The picture is represented by one of the most relevant sales companies in the industry (XYZ Films). It will also have worldwide theatrical and digital distribution.

Alejandro is currently represented by Scott Henderson at CAA, agent of filmmaker James Wan at one of the most influential talent agencies in Hollywood. Alejandro is also attached to direct the horror-thriller titled "The Vessel", produced by Richard Saperstein, executive producer of "Hancock" (2008), "The Mist" (2007) and "Se7en" (1995), and written by Paul Harris Boardman, writer of "The Exorcism of Emily Rose" (2005) "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (2008) and "Deliver Us From Evil" (2014).

The Returned (Los Que Vuelven) is Laura Casabe's second feature. A director, writer and camera operator currently based in Argentina, she graduated with a degree in Image and Sound Design from the Universidad de Buenos Aires. Laura's previous work includes the feature film El Hada Buena - Una fábula peronista (2010), the short films La vuelta del malon (2010) and Despegue inminente (2019), a play (Los Muros), various music videos and documentaries for television and, most recently, a commercial campaign for Dove.