Ben Leonberg is a film maker and creative director for Virtual Reality. Despite living in NYC, Ben makes movies that feature exciting outdoor locations like caves, deserts, and distant lands. He's also a cinematographer and special-effects enthusiast. After learning his technical craft in the New Zealand film world, Ben worked as a DP/Producer in commercial advertising and independent film.

J. Xavier Velasco is an award-winning Mexican writer/director based in Brooklyn, NY. His work is defined by the exploration of the otherly, set in an unsettling alternate reality and told through highly stylized visuals and emotional acting. His short film "Juan & La Borrega" (2011) got a Mexican Academy Ariel Award nomination in 2012 for Best Short Fiction Film and screened at more than thirty international film festivals like the AFI Fest.

Nick Spooner directs commercials, short films and other things, which occasionally win awards. Born in Boston and raised all around New England, he draws his own shooting boards, writes his own treatments and is proudly represented worldwide by The Sweet Shop. He was President of the Harvard Lampoon, wrote, produced and directed at Comedy Central, and once fronted a hardcore band in New York City. His new dark comedy short, “The Call of Charlie” can now be seen at a film festival near you.

Anya Martin has always rooted for the monster and regrets abandoning her earliest career aspiration--paleontology. She's also half-Finnish, still likes punk rock though now with a heavy side of blues and experimental jazz, has a bachelor's degree in anthropology, cooks dangerously hot curries, earns her living as a journalist and abides in Atlanta.