Alice Wu is a American film director and screenwriter. Alice Wu was born and raised in San Jose, California, where she graduated from Los Altos High School. In 1990, she received her B.A. in Computer Science from Stanford University. Two years later, she completed her Master's degree in Computer Science at Stanford. Before being a filmmaker, Wu worked as a software engineer for Microsoft in Seattle. She then left the corporate world to pursue a filmmaking career full time. Wu's most noted work is her 2004 film, Saving Face. It was inspired by her own experiences coming out as a lesbian in the Chinese American community. ¨       - http://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/alice_wu/biography.php, Alice Wu Biography, Rotten Tomatoes

“Cauleen Smith was born in Riverside, California and grew up in the Sacramento area. She completed her B.A. at San Francisco State University in 1991 and her M.F.A. in Film at UCLA in 1998. Her feature length film Drylongso received a lot of attention after its showing at the Sundance Film Festival. It earned Smith the Movado Someone to Watch Award as well as Best Feature Film at the Urbanworld Film Festival and the Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival in 2000. Since then she has been very busy, completing many films including The Fullness of Time which was filmed in New Orleans only two years after Hurricane Katrina hit. Her most recent project is an experimental documentary about the late Chicago-based jazz artist Sun-Ra, whose eclectic style changed the Chicago jazz scene forever. Smith teaches in the Visual Arts department at the University of California, San Diego and continues to write, direct, and produce.” ("IMDB" - http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0807646/bio)

Terence Nance is comes from a Dallas family of actors, photographers, and musicians.. He studied visual art at New York University where he developed his art making practice to include mixed-media installation, music, and film. Terence is currently bicoastal, residing in both Oakland, CA and Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn - along with the rest of The Swarm, an independent collective for artists of color in NYC. -Festival Scope, https://www.festivalscope.com/director/nance-terence

Black British filmmaker Ngozi Onwurah takes on the issues of time and space in her work which embraces heterogeneity and multiple sites of subjectivity. Onwurah consistently navigates and challenges the limits of narrative and ethnographic cinema by insisting that the body is the central landscape of an anti-imperialist cinematic discourse. An accomplished director with several episodes of the top British TV drama series "Heartbeat" to her credit, Ngozi Onwurah also wrote and directed the prize-winning feature "Welcome II the Terrordome." Sometimes fierce and at others more gently humorous, Onwurah tackles the clashes and ironies of the apparent gulf separating black and white, whilst showing that under the skin, emotions are universal. Onwurah’s films have won prizes at the Berlin Film Festival, Germany; Melbourne Film Festival, Australia; Toronto Film Festival, Canada; and at NBPC, USA. (“Women Make Movies” - http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/makers/fm280.shtml)

A native of Tupelo, Miss., Tina Mabry graduated from the University of Southern California, School of Cinema-Television, with an MFA in Film Production in 2005. Her first short film, Brooklyn's Bridge to Jordan, which she wrote and directed, has been screened in more than 50 film festivals worldwide. In 2007, she also co-wrote a feature screenplay entitled Itty Bitty Titty Committee, directed by Jamie Babbit. In 2008, Tina participated in the FIND Directors Lab with her feature film, Mississippi Damned, which an impressive 13 awards from participation in 15 film festivals, including the awards for Best Feature Film and Best Screenplay at the Chicago International Film Festival (2009). The film premiered on Showtime in February 2011.Tina was named among the 25 New Faces of Independent Film in Filmmaker Magazine in July 2009 and was recognized by Out magazine as one of the most inspirational and outstanding people of 2009. Huffington post description- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tina-mabry

Graduate of Dartmouth College and NYU Graduate Film School, New York native Rashaad Ernesto Green was included on the 2010 edition of Filmmaker Magazine's elite 25 New Faces of Independent Film list as well as indieWIRE's 2009 Ten New Voices in Cinema. He won the 2011 Horizon Award at the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts. His short films have screened on HBO, BET, at the Sundance Film Festival, and have won accolades at festivals internationally. Green, Rashaad Ernesto. “About the Director.” Mi Alma Films. Accessed November 3 2012. http://www.mialmafilms.com/aboutdirector.html.

Writer/director Rose Troche grew up in the Midwest suburbs as part of a large Puerto Rican family, which may be related to her knack for ensemble casts. After making short films and videos, she made her feature debut with the romantic comedy Go Fish, which she co-produced and co-wrote with lead actress Guinevere Turner. Shot in 16 mm black-and-white around the Chicago neighborhood of Wicker Park, the film premiered at Sundance and has become something of a lesbian cult hit. In 1998, she directed the British romantic comedy Bedrooms & Hallways about gay men in London. She focused on the heterosexual suburbs her 2001 feature The Safety of Objects, an adaptation of several short stories by A.M. Homes starring Glenn Close and Dermot Mulroney. Moving over to television, she directed an episode of Six Feet Under for HBO. Her latest project is a series about the lesbian community in L.A. called The L Word, which premieres January 2004, on Showtime. (Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide - http://movies.nytimes.com/person/166476/Rose-Troche)

Maryam Keshvarz is a New York born Iranian director receiving her MFA in film direction at NYU’s Tisch School of Arts. She has directed four films; the documentary styled Rangeh eshgh (2004), two shorts in 2006, Not For Sale and The Day I Died. Her film Circumstance (2011) won the Audience Award at Sundance. Her newest project is called The Last Harem. http://www.stardustbrands.com/directors/maryam-keshavarz/bio

Campbell’s previous films include the award-winning BD Women about Black lesbian lives and history; Legacy which explores the lasting impact of slavery on Black families; and Fem, a butch homage to queer femininity. Campbell curated No Heroes as part of the Progress Reports 2010 at Iniva. They have written published short stories and articles on film, sexuality and gender for Diva Magazine, Feminist Review, The Pink Paper, Critical Quarterly, Chroma Magazine, BFM Magazine, Luxonline, and BFI Screenonline.

Rea Tajiri is a Japanese American video artist and filmmaker. She was born in Chicago, Illinois. Tajiri attended California Institute of the Arts and worked as a producer on various film and video projects in Los Angeles and New York. Tajiri's video art has been included in the 1989, 1991, and 1993 Whitney Biennials. She has also been exhibited at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, The Guggenheim Museum, The Walker Art Museum and the Pacific Film Archives.  -"in.com"