JUSTYN AH CHONG (Writer, Producer) Justyn Ah Chong is an Emmy-award winning Native Hawaiian filmmaker from Mililani, Oʻahu, a graduate of USC's School of Cinematic Arts, and a 2020 Nia Tero 4th World Fellow. From 2011 - 2018 Justyn worked as a cinematographer and editor at the ʻŌiwi Television Network, Hawaiʻiʻs first indigenous broadcast station. In 2019 his directorial debut narrative short DOWN ON THE SIDEWALK IN WAIKIKI screened at festivals around the world, winning several best short film awards. Justyn then worked as a producer on award-winning narrative shorts HAWAIIAN SOUL and E MĀLAMA PONO WILLY BOY. Following this, Justyn directed the short documentary PILI KA MOʻO which screened at numerous film festivals and garnered an Emmy award at the 2023 San Francisco-Northern California Regional Emmys. Currently, Justyn is in development on several narrative and documentary projects and has recently joined the Polynesian Voyaging Society as their Media Content Director. Concurrently, Justyn shoots, directs, and edits culturally-inspired, place-based films, music videos, and commercials on a work-for-hire basis through his production company, Olonā Media.

GEETA GANDBHIR (Director) embarked on her career in narrative film under the guidance of Spike Lee and Sam Pollard. As a Director, credits include the series "Born in Synanon" for Paramount, "Eyes on the Prize" for HBO, "Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power," which was nominated for the 2022 Critics Choice Award, won a 2023 SIMA Award, and is nominated for two 2023 Emmys. She directed and show ran the series "Black and Missing" for HBO which won a 2022 NAACP Award for Best Directing, a 2022 Independent Spirit Award for Best Documentary Series, a 2022 ATAS Honors Award, and a Cinema Eye Honors for Best Series. She directed the film "Apart," with Rudy Valdez, for HBOMax, which was nominated for an NAACP Award and won a 2022 Emmy Award. Her short film from 2020, "Call Center Blues," with Topic Studios was shortlisted for the 2021 Academy Awards. She directed an episode "The Asian Americans" for PBS, which won the 2021 Peabody Award. Additional directing credits include the six-part series "Why We Hate" for Discovery, and "I Am Evidence" for HBO which won a 2019 Emmy, DuPont Award, and ATAS Award. Her film "Armed with Faith"for PBS also won a 2019 News and Documentary Emmy, an episode of the Netflix series "The Rapture," focusing on rap artist Rapsody, "Prison Dogs," which she co-directed with Perri Peltz, and "A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers," for PBS. She also played a co-director and co-producer role in the "A Conversation on Race" series in collaboration with The New York Times Op-Docs. This series earned recognition, including an Online Journalism Award for Online Commentary, an AFI Documentary Film Festival Audience Award for Best Short, and a MacArthur Grant. She also co-produced the HBO film "The Sentence," directed by Rudy Valdez, which received a 2019 Primetime Emmy. In her role as an Editor, her films have garnered two Emmy Awards, four Peabod Awards, and one Academy Award.

GRACE LEE (Director) is an award-winning independent filmmaker who produced and directed two episodes of the Peabody Award-winning ASIAN AMERICANS series as well as AND SHE COULD BE NEXT, POV’s first broadcast series about women of color transforming politics and civic engagement, which was nominated for an NAACP Image Award. Other credits include the Peabody-winning AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY: THE EVOLUTION OF GRACE LEE BOGGS, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT, MAKERS: WOMEN IN POLITICS, OFF THE MENU: ASIAN AMERICA and K-TOWN’92, an interactive online project about the 1992 Los Angeles civil unrest. She co-founded and co-directs the Asian American Documentary Network (A-Doc), a Directors Guild of America member as well as a member of the Documentary Branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She’s also host and executive producer of a podcast investigating systemic inequities at PBS called VIEWERS LIKE US.