Born in the Mississippi Delta and raised in Chicago, Floyd Webb's background includes global work in cinema, photojournalism, publishing, advertising and design. He has lectured in Chicago, Los Angeles and London, worked with acclaimed filmmakers such as Julie Dash and Spike Lee, and helped organize several film festivals across the US and the UK including the acclaimed Blacklight Festival of International Black Cinema which he founded in 1984. He has also done media production work for high-profile companies and organizations like Nokia, PBS, Kino International and Thrill Jockey Records.

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Marisol Torres’ first feature film, Boricua, premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and was acquired by UNIVERSAL for DVD release. She has worked on several films, television, and multi-media projects in New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles. Most recently she has directed for LAW AND ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT, RAINES and working on a fiction script loosely based on her experiences in Iraq.

Maria Gigante works as freelance producer, director, and screenwriter in New York City and Chicago. In 2007, she earned her MFA in Film & Video from Columbia College Chicago and was a finalist for the 2007 MTV Movie Award “Best Filmmaker on Campus.” Her award-winning short film, Girls Room, continues to screen at festivals around the world, including BerlinInternational, Tribeca, and Montreal World.

Born in New London, Wisconsin, in 1974, Jon Steinhorst was initially trained as a lawn boy, maker-of-ice-cream-treats, hay baler, all-star wrestling test-dummy, fisherman, and builder-with-legos. Steinhorst pursued the visual arts in high school and received a BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Stout with a concentration in graphic design.