Rippin Sindher is a fearless South Asian filmmaker whose work fuses sociology and cinema to spark vital conversations on justice and identity. She won the 2023 Julia S. Gouw Short Film Challenge for FLIGHT 182'—'executive produced by Emmy® winner Archie Panjabi. The film was celebrated at the LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, iSAFF Canada, Tasveer, and San Luis Obispo International. The feature adaptation was a finalist for the 2025 Sundance Cultural Impact Residency. Sindher’s acclaimed films include SEVA, ZONE, The Hideout, Happy, and Broken Drawer. She brings television experience from Criminal Minds: Evolution, S.W.A.T., and Ryan Murphy’s Ratched. A former creative director for global brands, she is now an independent filmmaker represented by RAIN and part of the Shondaland Directing Program.

Ky Dickens (Telepathy Tapes, Show Her the Money) is an award-winning filmmaker and podcaster celebrated for her transformative documentaries that tackle complex social issues, influence public policy, and ignite cultural change. She has received numerous accolades, including the Focus Award for Achievement in Directing and the Change Maker Award for advancing social change through art and film. In 2025, Telepathy Tapes recently won The Webby Award for best indie podcast. In 2024, Show Her the Money, featuring Elizabeth Banks and Sharon Gless, was named one of the decade’s best financial films by US News and World Report. Ky’s previous films have premiered at SXSW, been screened for the United States Congress, among other honors.

Gabrielle Roberts is an AI and virtual production specialist pioneering the intersection of computer science and film. She has worked with Oscar-winning filmmakers, led virtual human innovations at the Sequoia-backed startup Brud, and played a key role in Netflix's Avatar: The Last Airbender. She has contributed to upcoming Lucasfilm projects as a virtual production lead, has collaborated with studios across China, and is an Adjunct Professor at USC. She is currently working with Google Deepmind and Warner Brothers on the AI-powered "The Wizard of Oz" premiering at the Las Vegas Sphere. Gabrielle is a Schwarzman Scholar and has received the Princess Diana Award for founding Code Your Chances, an international nonprofit teaching creative computer science. She is a proud recipient of the BFF M&M's For All Funkind Grant.