Diana Diroy is a documentary filmmaker, editor and cinematographer driven by a love for storytelling both behind the lens and in the edit room. A Sundance Documentary Edit and Story Lab Fellow (2022), Diroy is the editor of the feature documentary, Standing Above the Clouds (2024), which world-premiered at Hot Docs and won the Bill Nemtin Social Impact Award. She also edited Fire Through Dry Grass, which broadcasted on PBS and is a New York Time’s Critic’s Pick. In 2021, Diroy was selected for the Sundance Art of Editing Fellowship and in 2018 was a selected fellow for the Karen Schmeer Diversity in the Edit Room Program. In addition to editing, Diroy is the co-director and DP of We Are They, an experimental dance documentary highlighting the work of Filipino health care workers living in Queens, New York during the height of the pandemic. She is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, and continuously strives to collaborate, build community, and make magic with other creatives locally and remotely.

Jay Gash is a Black & Queer creative producer, 3rd generation photographer, and educator born, raised, and based in Oakland, CA. As the Founder of GASH Productions and a Studio Producer for Re-Present Media, Jay has spent over a decade shaping visual narratives that center intimacy, identity, and social change. For the past several years, Jay has worked as a Director of Photography, Video Editor, Field Producer, Post-Production Producer and Creative Consultant across documentaries, short films, and other multimedia projects. Her portfolio includes projects such as Oakland Out Loud (in production), Sounds About White (2024), On the Pulse of Life (2022), When the Garden Comes (2022), and Esé Pelo Tuyo (2021). She previously worked at BAVC Media and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project (QWOCMAP) supporting programs that integrate media, education, and technology. Jay’s expertise spans story development, cinematography, directing, producing and post-production editing, collaborating with nonprofits, artists, and media companies to amplify voices not often represented. Jay’s curiosity around new technologies drives her creative approach, blending innovation with storytelling to expand how we see and connect, building a legacy of representation for all.

Rose /rōz/ noun

1. A freckled, pink-cheeked, curious human with an addiction to honeycomb cereal, journaling, and daydreaming at her local matcha shop

2. Community organizer, event host, filmmaker, thrifter, picnicker, and backpacker​​

Rose Hoang is a community organizer, creative, and filmmaker from San Jose, California, whose work is deeply influenced by her upbringing in a vibrant Vietnamese American community. Her career began as a Community Organizer, working with low-income Asian American youth in Chinatown, San Francisco. She later applied her community-building skills to manage volunteers at Sundance Institute and founded her own AAPI Creators Collective, “Meet Me In SF.” She is an alum of BAVC Media's Editing Fellowship and has since transitioned to freelance video editing. Rose is filled with so much gratitude, excitement, and joy to work on her first short documentary.

Deepa Nair is a Bay Area based filmmaker, performing artist, educator and film scholar. Her creative video work explores ethnic practices- dances, movement and theatre as sites of heightened affect. Her particular interest is in creating video and hybrid documentary works that invite viewer participation and community engagement, opening up sites of individual and social change. Her hybrid-documentary film, The Nangiarkoothu Artist (2022) was the official selection at multiple film festivals. Prior to turning to filmmaking, Deepa was an English Literature Professor in India. She has also worked in film exhibition and distribution areas. She currently teaches film studies and documentary filmmaking at Chabot College.

Thanh Tran is an Amerasian-Vietnamese and Black filmmaker, music artist, and organizer from Sacramento, California. While incarcerated, he co-founded Uncuffed, an award-winning podcast amplifying incarcerated voices; ForwardThis Productions, a pioneering film collective inside San Quentin; and the Inside/Outside Fellowship with the Ella Baker Center, supporting incarcerated organizers. Now the director of Finding Má, a feature-length documentary exploring identity and family separation, Thanh also serves as a Policy Consultant at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights, working on legislation to improve prison conditions and civic engagement. He is the Interim Executive Director of the Asian Prisoner Support Committee (APSC) and sits on advisory councils for New Breath Foundation, APSC, and Uncuffed. A Creative Capital grantee, Thanh merges art and storytelling to inspire change, build solidarity between Asian and Black communities, and transform public narratives on incarceration and race.