Trevor Mowchun is an Assistant Professor of film studies and production at the University of Florida. He works as both a film scholar and filmmaker. His first experimental dramatic feature film World to Come is a poetic investigation into the repressed unconscious of a religious community ravaged by tragedy. He is currently preparing his second feature called From a Great Height: the film follows a historian who goes in search of his ancestral past. As a film scholar, Trevor has published numerous essays on the philosophy of film.

Daniel Gerson is a visually impaired artist from Winnipeg. Upon hearing the news that his blindness was in fact not his imagination, he quit his job in pursuit of art. His last finished film, Welcome, in 2008 won a jury special mention at Festival du Nouveau Cinema. He spent the next eight years shooting street photography, but when he received that cursed news that he was going blind, he put down his stills camera camera to make films once again.