Tyler Hagan is a Michif and Canadian filmmaker based on unceded territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) nations in Vancouver, BC. His producing credits include Kathleen Hepburn’s feature debut, Never Steady, Never Still (2017), Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and Kathleen Hepburn’s The Body Remembers When The World Broke Open (2019), and Sophie Jarvis’ Until Branches Bend (2022), which premiered at TIFF and took home the Best BC Film Award at the Vancouver International Film Festival. Hagan was awarded the Kevin Tierney Emerging Producers Award by the Canadian Media Producers Association. His directorial work has shown at the Berlinale and includes work with the National Film Board of Canada, CBC, and the Museum of Anthropology in Vancouver. He received his BFA in Film from Simon Fraser University.

Justin Ducharme is a writer, filmmaker, and curator from the Métis community of St. Ambroise, Manitoba on Treaty 1 Territory. He was a fellow in the Sundance Institute’s 2022 Native Film Lab and is also an alumnus of the 2021 TIFF Filmmaker Lab. He is the co-editor of Hustling Verse: An Anthology of Sex Workers’ Poetry published by Arsenal Pulp Press. His writing has been featured in Canadian Art, Sex Worker Wisdom, Room Magazine, Prism International, and Filmmaker Mag. Ducharme currently lives and works on the Unceded Coast Salish Territory colonially known as Vancouver.

Seidu burst into the film industry in 2018 with Alison Duke’s award-winning short film Promise Me, and has since worked on 60+ projects, including the Canadian Screen Award–winning Being Black in Toronto, and virgins! on CBC Gem. Through her company, Snail Mail Media, she provides production services for impact-driven commercial work, including for The City of Toronto, TD Diversity, Audible, and Capital One. Seidu is expanding into long-form content with Yo, We’re Dying, a comedy feature supported by Telefilm, and They Echo, a horror feature script, awarded both the BlueCat Best Feature Screenplay and the Fellini Award for best international script. Additionally, her projects include the action-comedy Let’s Do This, involving a powerhouse team of producers (Clique Pictures, Stellar Citizens, Scythia Pictures, and Waterford Valley Pictures), which has been supported by the Harold Greenberg Fund and Ontario Creates, as well as the web series Packing, supported by the IPF Development Fund and Ontario Creates’ IDM Development Funding.

Jay Carolyn Wu – they/them – is a creative producer, writer-director, and Head of Development at LaRue Entertainment. As a development executive at Bell Media from 2021 to 2023, they developed series for CTV and Crave, including Sullivan’s Crossing (CTV/The CW), CTV’s number one hit drama for 2023. It went on to premiere on The CW in the US and is now heading into its third season. Wu’s most recent short film, Toe the Line (2021), was nominated for a Golden Sheaf for Scripted Short at Yorkton Film Festival 2022, and screened at festivals including Inside Out Toronto 2022, Vancouver Queer Film Festival 2022, and Vancouver Asian Film Festival 2021. Wu is a fierce advocate for 2SLGBTQ & BIPOC storytellers, having co-founded and co-run Colour Theory, a non-industry event exclusively for 2SQTBIPOC filmmakers that ran from 2017–2020. They spearheaded the inaugural all-BIPOC cohort of the CFC Primetime TV Program in 2023.

Keisha Phoenixx is a writer and actress whose pilot and feature scripts have gained numerous accolades in international screenwriting competitions, including in Screencraft’s Comedy Screenplay Competition and the Nashville Film Festival Screenplay Competition, and the Magee TV Diverse Screenwriters Award. Her series in development, We Good (LaRue/Good Question Media), was a 2022 WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Winner and an Official Selection at the 2022 Female Eye Film Festival, where Pheonixx was named Best Fresh Voice. It was also a second-rounder for the 2022 Black Boy Writes & Black Girl Writes Mentorship Initiative led by Mike Gauyo (Insecure, Ginny & Georgia) and Stage 32. Phoenixx is also an alumnus of The Second City as well as a published co-author of F-You: The Forgiveness Project (2014) by Epic Press. She’s repped by 3 Arts Entertainment Canada.