Mary McDade feels most at home when she is collecting stories from her memories: the veins in her Mother’s hands, the glow of her grandmother’s eyes as she told a story in the midst of dementia, the synchronicity of her heart and limbs during a dance, and the shift in the air as a squall line moves across the sky in the spring. She was raised in the Arkansas Delta but calls New Orleans home. She seeks to give a voice to the women who raised her, those she still holds close, and those she wished she had known through veins of memory, movement, instinct, and nature.

Rashada Fortier is a queer, New Orleans based producer. Her aim is to support work that focuses on narratives centered around marginalized women protagonists, particularly women of color. She seeks to combat the idea that projects centering women of color are in any way niche, and instead works to highlight the importance and relatability of their experiences. She especially wishes to explore these narratives in genres that have traditionally regulated people of color to small or bit roles, such as horror and sci-fi.

Trenton Mynatt is a cinematographer and producer based in New Orleans. Trenton’s artistic sensibilities and the projects he chooses to take on can be traced back to the rural Ozark landscape he grew up in. Breaking away from five generations of farmers and emerging from a graduating high school class of 23 students, he endeavors to articulate his personal experiences and the essence of the rural lifestyle he cherishes through his work in film and photography. For him, filmmaking is a collaborative effort, underscored by the belief that community and fellowship are integral to the creative process.