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Abinadi Meza (MX/US) is an Austin-based artist, filmmaker, and composer. His practice centers on cameraless 16mm film processes and electronic sound composition, in what he calls Elemental Cinema. Through hand-layered processes and chromatic interactions, sound and moving image converge into resonant, synesthetic space. His work has been presented at the Walker Art Center, MAXXI, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Public Art Fund, and Vorspiel / CTM × Transmediale, among many other venues.

Emily Basma is a narrative, commercial, and music video cinematographer and camera assistant. Her deep love of cinema drew her to the craft, and her desire to harness light kept her there. At a young age, films such as Suspiria and Daughters of the Dust inspired her to treat her shot designs like visual poetry and her camera movements like dance steps. Emily’s preferred medium is film for its tactile workflow, rich history, and because, sometimes, it has a mind of its own. Her work has been showcased at multiple film festivals, including Tribeca, SXSW, and Miami Film Festival, as well as locally in Austin at The Paramount and through the Hyperreal Film Club (where she is also a programmer).

Faiza Kracheni is a Mexican Algerian American media artist, musician, and nonprofit leader born and raised in East Austin. Her practice is defined by non-narrative analog film experiments that merge hand-developing, painting on celluloid, and physically altering motion picture film; her multimedia installation BORN & RAISED was featured at SXSW 2023 and exhibited internationally in Košice, Slovakia. She is the Executive Director of Motion Media Arts Center, home of Austin School of Film, and the founder of CINEMAKER, the creative workspace program she launched with a simple notion: make it easier for people to make things. She serves on Austin’s Arts Commission and the board of UNESCO Austin Creative Cities, and performs in the electronic duo FLESH OF MORNING.

J. Manzo, a filmmaker and educator, is dedicated to authentic creative expression through cinema. He holds a BA in Media Arts and has worked as a director, cinematographer, and colorist. For half a decade, Manzo served as a teaching artist, while simultaneously writing, directing, shooting, and producing numerous short films. His work has garnered several awards and professional accolades. He is currently an MFA candidate at UT Austin.

Jinni J. is a Texas-born and raised photographer, director, and DP working across portraiture, fashion, nature, and music genres. Known for a raw, intimate, deeply relational and playful approach, she is drawn to the essence of women and flora. Her work carries a soft editorial sensibility with a distinct emphasis on warmth, atmosphere, and emotional presence. She has a studio based on the town square in Lockhart, Texas.

Lisa B. Woods is an Austin-based media artist and creative organizer. As a designer-turned-artist, her practice uses code, custom electronics, and kinetic sculpture to explore the intersections of technology, ecology, and hidden systems. Lisa brings firsthand expertise in balancing technical creative production with sustainable community leadership. As the founder and operator of And&And Studios, she directly addresses the challenges of creative longevity by providing affordable, community-oriented studio space in Austin. Her commitment to alternative arts ecosystems extends globally through her work as a Steering Committee member for UNESCO Austin City of Media Arts, and as a member of ICOSA Collective, Ecoartspace, and The Alternative Art School.

Meghan Ross is an award-winning filmmaker, director, and creative producer whose work spans narrative film, branded content, and commercial production, adapting creative vision across formats, teams, and platforms.

MJ Johnston is an Austin-based director of photography and producer who spent two decades working across narrative features, documentaries, and reality television, a range that shaped both their eye and their instincts. That breadth eventually led to founding Salt Production, where the work shifted from executing other people’s visions to building their own. They’re currently in production on two feature documentaries, one centered on criminal justice reform, one on traumatic brain injury, while continuing to develop brand films in between.

Virginia L. Montgomery is an award-winning interdisciplinary artist working across video, sound, and sculpture. Based in Houston and Austin, she creates surreal, sensory-rich artworks that merge mysticism, science, ecology, and her own neurodivergent perspective, with recurring imagery of moths, moons, and cosmic forms (she often hand-raises the moths featured in her work). Montgomery holds an MFA from Yale and a BFA from UT Austin, and her work has been presented by the New Museum, Tate Modern, Ballroom Marfa, and the Blanton Museum of Art.