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Sean Bell began his screen career in 2005 as an editor for the Australian public broadcaster SBS. During his time there he learned to hone his editing craft and expand into the roles of directing and producing.
He put these skills to use to make his first experimental short films, on which he performed many roles including Director and cinematographer.

Over the coming years he worked for many other broadcasters and production companies in Australia, his job taking him to Britain, USA and South Africa, whilst still keeping his filmmaking passion alive. His short animation ‘The Despair of Shammy McSteen’ won Best Animation and Best Sound Design at Bryan Brown's Reel Deal Film Festival in 2008. His 2016 film 'F Meat' won Best Australian Short Film twice and premiered at the prestigious Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal.
His latest film 'The Junket' is a thriller twist on the many celebrity junket interviews he's filmed throughout his career.

Anatasha Blakely is an Asian American writer, director, and actor who was born in Orem, Utah.

A diligent autodidact, Anatasha began her filmmaking journey as an 8 year old sneak: creeping movies from her eldest brother’s shelf and stifling her screams during the likes of Scream in order to avoid being caught watching rated R movies. After Alien, Pulp Fiction, Event Horizon and some awfully strange nightmares, she began to daydream and fish for her own ideas. She never stopped. Inch Thick, Knee Deep is one of those dreams.

She studied at Southern Utah University receiving a BFA in Classical Acting and is also an alumna of iO West, The School for Theatre Creators, and Clown Church LA.

Anatasha is part of a comedy duo, Buddy Puzzle, and a Los Angeles based improv ensemble called Stormchaser which hosts the podcast The Stormchaser Improv Podcast Show.

Ask her anything, she wants to talk shop.

Richard was born in Panama City, Republic of Panama. He grew up on the East Coast and attended Georgia State University in Atlanta Georgia. He received a BFA in photography with a minor in creative writing. Although his focus was photography Richard was always obsessed with movies and filmmaking. His graduating thesis project was a feature film he directed called “Point and Shoot”.
After graduating he moved to Los Angeles to further his film ambitions. There he became a Cinematographer and Director. He has worked for various outlets over the years including Nat Geo, Rolling Stone, Variety, and Disney to name a few. Richard produced his second feature film “Wannabe” which starred Adam Huss and was turned into a TV show with Marta Kauffman of “Friends, Grace and Frankie” as Show Runner. "Wannabe” was purchased and produced by Warner Brothers Television. He then created another television series “Andy and Chaz” which was produced by Tony Jonas of “Queer as Folk, Friends”. Most recently Richard has created a sequel to the first “Wannabe” film, again starring Adam Huss. And even more recently he directed ”Strangers in the Night” with frequent collaborator Adam Huss and Adam Bucci. “Strangers in the Night" is Richard’s first foray into the “Horror” genre. Richard sought to challenge his comedic directing background by doing what was for him a different kind of project. Since “Stranger’s”completion he has found himself falling in love with the “Horror Comedy” genre and looks forward to further exploring the horror realm.

Gavin Williams début feature as a screenwriter, AWAIT FURTHER INSTRUCTIONS, was released in 2018. The film was a Critic’s Pick in the New York Times and is currently available to stream on Netflix. His short, SLEEPWORKING, won eight awards and played at over sixty festivals. In 2020 his script, THE POISON FOREST, was optioned by Amazon Studios for a feature or series adaptation. Mark Lediard has over 20 years experience directing commercials, promos and shorts. His music videos feature promos for US metalcore band ‘Of Mice & Men’ – viewed over 10 million times on YouTube – ‘Greywind’, ‘Clint Lowery’. In 2017 Mark and Gavin Williams established Feature Creep Films, and their first short together, CHROMOPHOBIA, premièred at the Trieste Science+Fiction Film Festival and débuted online on ALTER in 2021 to great acclaim. Their second, THE MIME, was commissioned by Fox Digital Studios (20th Digital Studio). THE MIME played at Canneseries 2020, FrightFest 2020 and Screamfest LA 2020. It screened on both FX and FXX Channels in the U.S. over Halloween 2020, and is now streaming on Hulu as part of the Bitesize Horror slate of shorts.

Monica Suriyage is a biracial, blasian, Afro Latina director and writer. Her first horror film “Black In Red Out” screened at over twenty film festivals and led to her being featured in the documentary “Horror Noire” about the history of black horror, alongside icons like Jordan Peele, Tony Todd and Rachel True. Her digital short form shows on Snapchat and Facebook, music videos and branded beauty campaigns have millions of views online. Monica has also recently joined Fatale Collective, a team of all women horror directors. Her most recent project is a horror short film in collaboration with Netflix and the Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival. She likes pretty things, scary things, and pretty scary things.