Caryn Coleman is a New York-based film programmer whose work is focused on gender parity in independent film. She's the founder of The Future of Film is Female - an organization that amplifies the work of all women filmmakers through a short film fund, commitment to exhibition, and community building programs - that is also an ongoing screening series at the Museum of Modern Art. She's a longtime programmer at Nitehawk Cinema, having been the Director of Programming/Special Projects, and is the Director of the annual Nitehawk Shorts Festival. Coleman received the 2012 Creative Capital/Warhol Foundation Art Writers Initiative grant and has organized panels for the Art House Convergence, Nightstream, Athena Film Festival, Connective Conversations for the Ford Foundation, and CAA. She is a short film advocate, a horror film lover, and Delphine Seyrig superfan.

Chanelle Elaine is the Founder and Executive Producer of CreativeBionics, a production company committed to cultural and social transformation, through a lens focused on dismantling systems of racism, oppression, gender inequity and xenophobia. Some of Chanelle's clients have included the NoVo, Gates and Ford Foundations, and her latest production was Supercharge2020.com, a virtual event focused on energizing the electorate, and successful in registering over 150,000 voters leading up to the 2020 election.

Chanelle's first feature, First Match, is a Netflix Original and winner of the SXSW Audience and LUNA Gamechanger awards. Chanelle is honored to have been a fellow within the Sundance, SFFS, IFP, and Film Independent institutions. And was a Dean’s Fellow at Columbia University, where she received her MFA. 

Gerry Kim runs the Brooklyn based production company, PPW Films, which is committed to diverse and issue based storytelling. He has produced many award winning films, including Iris Shim’s THE HOUSE OF SUH (2010 Hot Docs Premiere / 2012 Cine Master Series Award), Jennifer Kroot’s TO BE TAKEI (2014 Sundance Premiere), Esra Saydam and Nisan Dag’s ACROSS THE SEA (Audience Award at the 2015 Slamdance Film Festival), and THE UNTOLD TALES OF ARMISTEAD MAUPIN (Audience Award at the 2017 SXSW Film Festival). His most recent film, Fernando Frias de la Parra’s I’M NO LONGER HERE, was released worldwide as a Netflix Original in 2020 and won 10 Mexican Ariel Awards, including Best Picture. It was also nominated for the 2021 Goya Awards for Best Iberoamerican Film, long listed for Best Film Not in the English Language at the 2021 BAFTAs, and shortlisted for Best International Film at the 2021 Academy Awards.

Gerry was awarded the Producers Award as part of the 2021 Film Independent Spirit Awards, and was selected as a Creative Producing Fellow at the Sundance Institute in 2014. An alum of Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program, Gerry has also written and produced several short films, including FAIRLAWN, which screened at the Seattle International Film Festival, Istanbul AFM International Film Festival & San Diego Latino Film Festival, among others. He wrote, directed and produced the DGA award winning short, LIVING THE DREAM, which screened at the Denver International Film Festival and the Boston International Film Festival. 

One of the most well respected executives in independent film, Jonathan Sehring is considered a maverick in the industry and is widely credited for helping expand the audience for independent cinema. He was one of the chief architects of The Independent Film Channel and later created IFC Films and its subsidiaries, including IFC Midnight, Sundance Selects, IFC Productions and the IFC Center. In 2018, 20 years after founding IFC Films and 37 years with AMC Networks Sehring stepped down from his role as President to spend more time in England where he and his wife own a home. He remains active in the film industry, is a voting member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and sits on the Academy’s New York Screening committee.  He has sat on several boards including The Criterion Collection, the Hamptons Film Festival and Film Independent in Los Angeles. He is the recipient of the Chevalier of Arts and Letters, awarded by the French government, the Sarasota Film Festival’s Filmmakers’ Tribute Excellence in Producing Award, the Woodstock Film Festival’s Industry Maverick Award and an IFP Gotham Tribute Award.

Sasha Silver is the director of original drama content at Hulu. Since joining, she has been responsible for Award-winning series true-crime series The Act (starring Patricia Arquette and Joey King), Little Fires Everywhere (starring Reese Witherspoon & Kerry Washington) and The Great (starring Elle Fanning & Nicholas Hoult). She also spearheaded several other dramas on the Hulu slate, including Castle Rock, Looking for Alaska, Marvel's Runaways and the upcoming Mysterious Benedict Society and Nine Perfect Strangers. 

Prior to joining Hulu, Sasha was the VP of TV development at Chernin Entertainment and director of development at Paramount TV, where she oversaw The Real Hotwives of Orlando and Las Vegas, Berlin Station and The Alienist. Sasha started her development career with Sarah Condon at HBO, where she worked on all three seasons of Bored to Death. 

Sasha graduated from Columbia University in New York with a major in English.