Director - "The Outsider"

A. Burnett is an illustrator and animation student from Montreal with a particular love for monster movies. "The Outsider" is their second animated film and their USA directorial debut. When not studying, they have a passion for knitting and torturing their D&D players.

Chris Rentzel is a Portland-based filmmaker, songwriter, and photographer whose work blends dark comedy with surreal and poignant storytelling. A native of Dallas, Texas, Chris has created feature films, quirky shorts, and experimental music videos that showcase his unique humor and cinematic style. His latest work continues exploring the strange and the beautiful, often through improvised performances and one-take scenes.

Parker Clements is a queer filmmaker based in Portland, Oregon who focuses on films around identity and femininity with getting women in front of and behind the camera. She runs a production company @sockbox_studios over on instagram with a specific focus on storytelling. While mainly focusing on producing she steps back into the directing seat after nearly four years.

Over the course of a 26-year career spanning Emmy Award-winning television, cult genre cinema, and Cannes-calibre historical horror, Casey Walker has consistently done things his own way — and consistently come out ahead. His is a filmography defined not by the path of least resistance but by the conviction that the stories worth telling are the ones worth fighting for. He began his filmmaking career with the legendary Frank Oz, working on the Robert De Niro thriller The Score.