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​Roxy Shih is an internationally acclaimed Taiwanese-American producer and director. Her work is extremely versatile and she has worked with many independent companies both overseas and domestically. Over the past six years, she has produced a great number of feature films to music videos, series, commercials, online content and radio. A couple of companies she has collaborated during her career so far are MTV, Black Dog, Anthem Films, Rock the Web (China), Clevver TV, MNET, and Defy Media. She has also contributed her skills in creating docu-series and shorts for charities and non-profit organizations. Roxy was one of ten chosen for the prestigious Armed With A Camera fellowship in 2011 and received a grant to direct a short film, Play Time, that premiered at the DGA and went on a successful film festival tour internationally. She has had her work shown at an array of festivals such as The LA Film Festival, LA Asian Pacific Film Festival, Cannes, SXSW, Toronto Independent, and Dances with Films.

Meera Menon‘s feature directorial debut, Farah Goes Bang, premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and was awarded the inaugural Nora Ephron Prize by Tribeca/Vogue. The film also won the best narrative feature at CAAMFest, the Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, and the Austin Asian American Film Festival. Menon was also showcased in Glamour magazine’s “35 women under 35 running Hollywood,” and she was selected as a fellow at 20th Century Fox’s Global Directors Initiative. Her second feature, Broad Street Pictures female driven Wall Street drama Equity, starring Anna Gunn and James Purefoy, premiered at the 2016 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by Sony Pictures Classics. She received her BA in English and Art History from Columbia University, and her MFA from USC’s School of Cinematic Arts.

Allie Cuerdo is an Emmy-nominated writer, director, producer and author, recently named one of the 100 Most Influential Filipina Women In the World by the Filipina Women’s Network. Their work fuses fantasy, documentary, and activism, with a focus on stories that uplift underserved communities and center joy. In 2021, they received the Logo30 award given to LGBTQ pioneers, activists, entertainers, political figures and artists who continue to move our community forward. Their work includes emblazoning the first ever transgender flag on a Pepsi product for Lifewtr x Life Unseen with Issa Rae, Spotify Pride x Claim Your Space with Big Freedia, and NBC’s International Press Freedom Awards with Meryl Streep, Amal Clooney, and Filipina Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa. In 2019, their feature directorial debut Ulam: Main Dish became the first Filipino food documentary to achieve worldwide distribution on Hulu and Amazon Prime. Named one of the 20 Best Books of the Year by Amazon, their first book Amboy: Recipes From the Filipino-American Dream was subsequently published by Mariner Books, an imprint of HarperCollins. Always an advocate for equality, they have spoken at Google, Spotify, Yale and at the Teen Vogue Summit about their career as an openly queer Asian director and cancer survivor. Their work has been featured in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, BuzzFeed, Vogue, New York Magazine, PAPER, Filmmaker Magazine, Variety, Deadline and more.