Film curator, founded film program at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, where she served for >30 years. Board member for major film orgs, including the Robert Flaherty Seminar and Washington Environmental Film Festival. Editorial board member for The Moving Image and Getty Trust’s Program for Art on Film.

Lifelong educator, organized the annual film festival at National Association for Education of Young Children (NAEYC) conference until 2016. Created professional development workshop “Being A Pro-Active Media Literacy Advocate.”

Television writer, producer, and a graduate of Chapman University’s screenwriting program. He has written for Netflix’s award-winning Family Reunion, as well as the CBS series The Neighborhood and Nickelodeon’s Young Dylan. He is currently writing and producing an animated project for Fox’s Tubi TV.

Attended the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in NY City. He has performed and exhibited in LA, NY, and Boston and earned awards from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Associated Press, Los Angeles Art-House Film Festival, and Radio and TV News Assoc of Southern California. Thomas co-founded WUMB-FM Radio in Boston and currently hosts Seasons & Celebrations and 60's Chicks Radio.

Vivian is a Chinese-Canadian director from Vancouver, BC. Her 1st film was selected as a 2022 Top-8 Finalist for MAMM17 (Mighty Asian Moviemaking Marathon), an annual competition with the Vancouver Asian Film Festival. Her film, For Roy, won the 2023 Daddying Film Festival Atticus Award for Best Short Film. She is a selection committee member for the Vancouver Island Short Film Festival.

Born and raised in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Pablo studied Image and Sound Design at the University of Buenos Aires before continuing his animation studies in Canada. He's worked with Le Cube studios (Buenos Aires), Guru Studios (Toronto), and Pipeline Studios (Hamilton). He now lives in Oakville, Ontario, and is working with Pipeline on a new PBS cartoon series.

Ian Tan is a TV/film editor and director who edited the 2023 Daddying Film Festival Atticus Award winner for Best Short Film, For Roy. His other short film, Cry Harder, was a 2023 Atticus Award short film Finalist. He has an MFA from the Florida State University School of Television and Recording Arts.

Kevin is a Filmmaker, Animator, MFA Director, and Senior Lecturer at the Rochester Institute of Technology's School of Film and Animation. His animated short film, Love, Daddy, was named a 2023 Daddying Film Festival Atticus Award finalist for Best Dad-Created film. An RIT SoFA alumni, he teaches a wide range of classes in the program and also manages the SoFA student archive.

Filmmaker whose short film, Hey Dad, It's Me, won the Daddying Film Festival's 2022 Atticus Award for high-school students. Now in college, Leela is a double major in Radio/Television/Film and Economics at Northwestern University. She now produces budgeted student films while also serving as the finance chair of Northwestern's student production company Studio 22.