Tory Belleci
Visual Effects Engineer
Belleci is a filmmaker and model maker best known for his work on the Discovery Channel television program MythBusters.
Gloria Borders
Sound Engineer
(Academy Award Winner)
Border's credits include: Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Mrs. Doubtfire, Forrest Gump and Miracle On 34th St.
Christopher Boyes
Sound Designer
(Academy Award Winner)
Boyes is an American sound engineer who has won four Academy Awards. He has worked on over 70 films since 1991.
Curtis Choy
Sound Engineer
Curtis Choy is an accomplished filmmaker best known for telling Asian/Asian American histories.
Anaiis Cisco
Independent Filmmaker/ Professor
Anaiis Cisco is an independent filmmaker and professor, exploring the emotional journey of Black and queer characters in cinema.
George Csicsery
Documentary Filmmaker
Csicsery is a writer and independent filmmaker specializing in dramatic shorts, performance films and documentaries.
Arthur Dong
Screenwriting/Director/Producer
(Academy Award Nominee)
A San Francisco native, Arthur began making films at Galileo High School (now the Galileo Academy of Science & Technology) near the end of the Vietnam War.
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan
Professor at UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television
Kristy Guevara-Flanagan has been making documentary and experimental films for nearly two decades including Going On 13 (2009), El Corrido de Cecilia Rios (1999), Wonder Women! The Untold Story of American Superheroines (2013), and What Happened to Her (2016).
Delroy Lindo
Actor/Producer
Lindo is known for his roles in Malcolm X, Get Shorty, Gone in 60 Seconds and Crooklyn, and currently in The Chicago Code.
Steven Okazaki
Documentary Filmmaker
Okazaki received a Peabody Award and won an Oscar for Days of Waiting: The Life & Art of Estelle Ishigo (1990).
Anthonia Nneamaka Onyejekwe
Emmy Award Winner
Anthonia Nneamaka Onyejekwe is an EMMY-Award Winning TV/Film producer and Executive Director of REEL Oakland. She has a passion for bringing voices of color and communities to the forefront, uncovering the truth, and showcasing our humanness through multimedia and art.
Marcy Page
Producer/Director
Page is a producer and animator best know for Ryan (2004), Madame Tutli-Puti (2007) and The Danish Poet (2006).
Anthony Peckham
Screenwriter/Producer
Peckham is best known for Sherlock Holmes, Invictus and 5ive Days to Midnight.
Jonas Rivera
Producer/Actor
Rivera is best known for this work with Pixar, Up (2009), Toy Story 2 (1999) and Cars (2006).
Jay Rosenblatt
Filmmaker
Jay Rosenblatt is an internationally recognized artist. He has completed over 25 films since 1980.
Corey Sienega
Producer
Sienega is best known for her work in Frailty (2001), Secondhand Lions (2003) and Bride of Chucky (1998).
Lisanne Skyler
Screenwriter/Director
Skyler is an internationally recognized writer/director of documentary and fiction films. She is best known for the HBO Documentary Film Brillo Box (3¢ Off), the Sundance selected feature Getting to Know You, and her portrait of post-riot South Central Los Angeles, No Loans Today.
Photo credit: Dustin Askland
Ethan Van der Ryn
Filmmaker
(Academy Award Winner)
Van der Ryn is best known for The Lord of the Rings Series, King Kong and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
Steve Zaillian
Screenwriter
(Academy Award Winner)
Zaillian is best known for Schindler's List, American Gangster, Gangs of New York and Mission: Impossible.