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James Embree is a British stuntman that is a member of the British Stunt Register and the Taurus World Academy.

A stuntman is typically a professional athlete or acrobat substituted for an actor when scenes involving danger are filmed.

James has worked as both a stuntman on major productions like The Dark Knight, The A-Team, and Robin Hood, in independent films like Bronson, and as a stunt double for Colin Farrell on In Bruges.

Conor Horgan has worked as a fashion, advertising and editorial photographer.

He has directed over 70 award-winning TV commercials. More recently, he has concentrated on dramatic and documentary work.

His recent film projects include: The Beholder, a documentary film about portraiture, and his first feature film One Hundred Mornings, about 2 warring couples attempting to avoid the worst effects of a societal breakdown.

Conor has also finished Deep End Dance, a short film in which choreographer David Bolger performs an underwater duet with his 76-year-old mother Madge.

Brendt Barbur is the founding Director of the Bicycle Film Festival.

The Bicycle Film Festival celebrates the bicycles and bicycle culture through art, film, music and performance and brings together various aspects of bicycling together to advocate its ability to transport people in many ways and to have a good time.

The Bicycle Film Festival has traveled from its home base in New York City to San Francisco, Tokyo, Melbourne and many other small and large cities worldwide with each site having thier own customized festival with a variety film shorts and features, art, and music.

The Bicycle Film Festival has been a major catalyst for the urban bike movement, one of the most powerful and culturally relevant forces of the last decade. The BFF is sure to carry this momentum into the next decade.

Award winning Irish producer Conor Barry, is the co-founder of SPFilms.

SPFilms, run by Conor Barry with director and writer Brendan Muldowney. SPFilms has produced nine short films, including the multi-award winning shorts Innocence and The Ten Steps. SPFilms is developing several features and TV projects, including the feature film, Savage.

Savage is a film about Paul, a press photographer, who is robbed of masculinity after a vicious assault in a Dublin Alley. Unable to readjust, and ridden with fear, he transforms from victim into aggressor.

New Zealand cinematographer Adam Clark has worked on a variety of projects, from commercial work for such clients as Kia and Subaru, to television work on the acclaimed series Insiders Guide to Happiness to a number of short and feature films.

Adam's projects have included earlier films of Peter Jackson and the film River Queen for cinematographer Alun Bollinger, but he is best known as the lensman for director Taika Waititi. His debut feature film as cinematographer was for Taika’s feature film Eagle vs Shark.

Adam has also worked on a number of shorts for Taika including the Oscar-nominated film Two Cars One Night and Tama Tu, as well as many shorts for other directors such as The Hole and A New Way Home.

Adam and Taika’s most recent collaboration is the feature film Boy, which was inspired by Two Cars One Night, and is a coming of age tale of a boy growing up in the year 1984, who idolizes Michael Jackson, and the boy’s father, who, after a seven year absence, is not quite the hero the boy had imagined him to be.

Over the past decade, Ruairi O'Brien has worked as director or cinematographer on several short films, including Monitor, Hum, and his own films Hoor and Teeth. Teeth garnered awards in Galway, Ireland, and Brest, France.

Ruairi has worked as DP on UK television series including Murphy’s Law and Father & Son.

He has also shot a number of music videos for bands such as Placebo and We Are Scientists.

One of Ruairi's more recent works of note as cinematographer is the gripping drama Five Minutes of Heaven, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel of Downfall fame, and starring Liam Neeson and James Nesbitt.

Ruth Peyser has been making animated films since her arrival in New York from Australia in 1978.

Her award-winning films have been screened on public television and at hundreds of festivals in the United States and throughout the world. A half hour segment of the PBS series Animated Women was devoted to her and her work.

While Ruth was bringing up her daughters, she jotted down ideas for films and also wrote many short stories about her life. When her children were teenagers, she started developing a concept for a film from her writings. This evolved into her most recent film, There was a Little Girl.

There was a Little Girl is an autobiographical animated film spanning fifty years, from 1959 to 2009. Ruth tells six stories from her life set ten years apart, each on a backdrop of political and social events of that year. It explores her personal growth and the relationships of three generations of women in her family.

Roque Banos received a scholarship from the Ministry of Culture to study at the prestigious Berklee College of Music where he discovered his path as a conductor and composer for many award winning Spanish films.Roque has been featured in many soundtracks for films, and has been nominated for prestigious Goya Awards and CEC Awards, on historical epics like Alatriste and for best original song on Carlos Saura’s film, Salome.

Rogue has composed several scores for Álex de la Iglesia including on 800 Bullets and The Oxford Murders. He has also won awards for music on The 13 Roses, and on collaborations with director Daniel Monzon on films including The Kovak Box and Cell 211.

Craig Fison has worked in Art Direction, Production Design, Construction, as a Props Model maker, a sculpting and miniatures maker and finisher, in Set Decorating, and as a Scenic painter in Australia and worldwide on projects.

His film projects include: working in the art department on commerical films like Moulin Rouge, Attack of the Clones, The Matrix Revolutions, and more independent productions like Peter Pan and Where the Wild Things Are.

Craig has worked as a sculptor and prop maker on Guillermo del Toro’s and Troy Nixey’s film, Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark.

Craig has moved into art direction as the Art Director on Adam Elliot’s awarding winning animated feature film, Mary and Max, a tale of friendship between unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man in New York.

Signe Baumane was born and raised in Latvia, graduating from Moscow University in 1989 with a B.A. in Philosophy. She started work at Dauka Animation Studio in Riga as an animator and cel painter.

Since 1995, she has lived in NYC, having worked on I Married a Strange Person with Bill Plympton and animation inserts for XX/XY among many other projects.

Her animation ranges from her 1991 debut The Witch and the Cow to more recent works including The Teat Beat of Sex, and Veterinarian, about the circle of life and death. Her Womanimation! short film Birth is about Amina, a seventeen year old girl who is pregnant and afraid to give birth who goes to older women for consolation and advice, and finds that their stories scare her even more.

Signe is continually screening her many animated shorts in the major film festivals like Sundance and Berlin; she also screens in major animation festivals like Annecy.

In addition to animation, Signe has illustrated books, worked in puppet theater design, taught animation at Pratt Institute, and is periodically publishing parts of a novel about her adventures in New York in Una, a Latvian women’s magazine. She is a Fellow in Film of the New York Foundation for the Arts, the recipient of an individual artist grant from The Jerome Foundation, and a member of the Academy of Motion Pictures and Sciences.