Arvid Cristina was born in New Orleans, to an American father and Finnish mother. He grew up in Brazil, the Netherlands, and Washington DC. His mother was an artist and fostered his creative spirit from a young age. That combined with a love of mythology, comic books and movies set him down a path of […]
From growing up in Orange County, Jenika Kolacz was immersed into the creative world of filmmaking at a young age. She was enthralled with the idea of making practical monsters out of special effects makeup and began to study the process. Since, she has created a number of zombies, goblins and other creatures from the […]
Adrian Ferrara’s interest in filmmaking first came from a place of fear. Terrified of Ray Harryhausen’s stop-motion skeletons, a six-year-old Adrian soon realized it was someone’s job to make monsters real, and a love for the magic of movies was born. The grandson of a Sicilian opera singer and theatre director, Adrian followed his dreams […]
Laura Duval is a Producer, Director, and Cinematographer who has been working in the film industry since 2009. Laura grew up singing polish songs and cooking traditional polish dishes in the kitchen with her grandmother (from her mother’s side) and hearing adventurous bedtime stories from her dad about the family’s French, Irish, and Cherokee heritage. […]
Elvira Michelle (b. 1992, New Orleans, LA based) is a self-taught multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker born and raised in Miami, Florida. Her work explores intergenerational memory and trauma and how it manifests in the experience of marginalized communities.Visual arts has given her a way to explore and express her most raw and deepest emotions fearlessly. […]
Anthony is a filmmaker based in Los Angeles, California. With a genuine love for storytelling, he decided in 2014, after a career in Accounting, to try his hand at writing and directing. He wrote and directed the short film, ‘Sunspot’ which won the Best Horror Short Film at the Hollywood Reel Independent Film Festival in […]
Britain Valenti is a screenwriter and producer currently working in Los Angeles, CA. Originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, she received her BA in Drama with a Minor in Writing from Ithaca College in Ithaca, NY. After a few years of teaching acting classes and doing performance art back in New Orleans, she was accepted into […]
Born in Orlando Florida. Mother Born and raised in Puerto Rico and Father Born and Raised in NY by his Puerto Rican parents. Mother worked as a General Manager in Hotels and her father was a musician as well as working in retail/customer service. She moved out to California in 2003. Lived in San Diego […]
Jonathan Trejo is a proud first-generation American of Salvadorian descent. Both of his parents were born in San Miguel, El Salvador. Although his father immigrated to America for the chance of a better life in the mid 70s, his mother didn’t have the means to leave until the middle of the country’s terrible civil war. […]
Freddy Bala Mangia was born in Quito, Ecuador. He moved to the U.S. when he was very young, his parents instilled the importance of not forgetting his ethnicity and native language as it would serve him later in life. From a very young age he was a movie lover. This attraction to cinema became a […]
