Emilie is an award winning filmmaker, a Rotterdam Producers Lab alumni, and an Andy Warhol Foundation grant recipient.

Emilie spent ten years living in Trinidad and Tobago, where she began making films and worked as the Creative Director for the trinidad+tobago film festival spearheading the Caribbean Film Database and the Caribbean Film Mart. Her debut narrative feature is “Moving Parts”, a human smuggling and sex trafficking film, set in the capital city of Port of Spain. She is currently in post production on “Leo Sacer”, a social documentary that delves into fraught interactions between residents of a small mountain community and a relocated mountain lion. And is in development on her second feature film, “Silt” a climate justice story, to be set in the near future on the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon.

Originally from Colorado, Emilie now lives in Oklahoma and teaches at the University of Oklahoma.

Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Melanie Archer is an award-winning book designer and partner/editor at Robert & Christopher Publishers. Melanie also writes on art, design, and culture. She has been director of engagement at Unqueue (2020–2024), a part-time lecturer at UWI St Augustine (2019–2022), art director of the trinidad+tobago film festival (2010–2015) and co-curator of its New Media programme of experimental works (2012-2015; 2021–2023). Melanie’s other curatorial experience includes the exhibitions “Public Spaces” (2012, Port of Spain, based on the work of architect Colin Laird) and “Pictures from Paradise” (2014, Toronto, a survey of contemporary Caribbean photography). Her book design awards include two 2024 Gold and two 2024 Silver ADDYs, a 2023 Silver ADDY, and a 2022 Gold ADDY.

Jamie Wagner is the Moving Image Archivist at the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries. She has an MLIS and a MA in Film, both from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She currently serves as the Continuing Education Coordinator for the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA), the Rocky Mountain area liaison to the AMIA Regional Audiovisual Archives Committee (RAVA), and a member of AMIA's Continuing Education Advisory Task Force.

Vanessa Cornejo is originally from the Denver, CO area. She is a video producer and social media content creator for the Department of Student Affairs at the University of Colorado Boulder. Vanessa obtained her BFA in Cinema Studies and Moving Image Arts, also from the University of Colorado Boulder, in 2021. Before beginning her work with Student Affairs, she created video content for CU’s performing arts marketing department, CU Presents. Currently, Vanessa also works in assistance to Assistant Teaching Professor Emilie Upczak, for which she has been involved in creating a digital exhibition from the collection of Ann Roy.