Born in Seoul, Korea, in 1973, Gina Kim moved to the US after completing her BFA degree in Seoul National University, School of Fine Arts. Using video diary format, she explored her identity while studying at Cal Arts where she received her MFA in Film/Video. Her works have been widely screened, at Berlin International film festival, Vancouver International film festival, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival, short film festival Oberhausen among many others. She directed first feature film Invisible light about two Korean women struggling with their identities. She has directed 4 other films Never Forever, Cooktails, Faces of Soul and Gina Kim’s Video Diary.  "Gina Kim." n.pag. Hancinema: The Korean Movie & Drama Database. Web. 7 Dec 2012. .

Ava DuVernay made her feature directorial debut with the critically-acclaimed 2008 hip hop documentary, "This is The Life". Winner of Audience Awards in Toronto, Los Angeles and Seattle, the film was released theatrically and debuted on Showtime in April 2009. The Los Angeles Times raved, "This Is the Life vaults into the upper echelons of must-see hip-hop documentaries."In 2010, she wrote, produced and directed the feature, "I Will Follow," starring Salli Richardson-Whitfield, Omari Hardwick and Beverly Todd. Released theatrically in 2011, the family drama was hailed by critic Roger Ebert as "one of the best films I've seen about the loss of a loved one."DuVernay directed and produced three network music documentaries in 2010. "My Mic Sounds Nice" is a definitive history of female hip hop artists and holds the distinction of being BET Networks first original music documentary. "Essence Music Festival 2010" is a two-hour concert film for TV One chronicling the nation's largest annual African-American entertainment gathering. "Faith Through The Storm" is a documentary for TV One about women in New Orleans who have reclaimed their lives after personal devastation during Hurricane Katrina.Most recently, DuVernay completed principal photography on her second feature, "Middle of Nowhere". The film will be released in 2012. -The Huffington Post, 2011

Aurora Guerrero is a queer-identified Chicana raised in the San Francisco Bay Area. Guerrero wrote and directed Mosquita y Mari, which premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in the NEXT category. She holds degrees from the University of California, Berkeley in psychology and Chicano studies and CalArts in directing. From Seattle International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival webistes

Zeina Durra is a writer/director. She received her BA in Oriental Studies from Oxford University and MFA from NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, Graduate Film Programme. Her directorial debut, THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE!, starring the French actress Elodie Bouchez premiered in US Competition at Sundance 2010. Sundance called THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! " an exceptional work and heralds the arrival of Durra as an exciting new directorial talent" and Movieline labeled her, " Sundance's most fascinating filmaker, ". Warsaw also awarded THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE! Best First Feature. Durra is currently working on her second feature and other art projects. "Filmmakers." THE IMPERIALISTS ARE STILL ALIVE. N.p., n.d. Web. 7 Dec. 2012. .

Novaro graduated from the University Center for Cinematographic Studies in Mexico City. Her first films, Lavaderos, Sobre las olas, and De encje y azucar, were made in 1981 with a super-8mm camera. Later that year she also became part of Cine Mujer, a Mexican film collective, where she directed Es Premera Vez. Her portrayal of the duality of female realities can be seen in films such as her 1983 film Querida Carmen, in which a young professional woman imagines herself to be Calamity Jane in her daydreams. Her best known film is Una isla rodeada de agua (1985), which chronicles an orphaned teenage girl's quest for her mother along the lovely Costa Grande. http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/movies/principal/bio/0,,1972468,00.html

Jennifer earned her BFA from New York University, Tisch School of the Arts. After winning numerous awards on the film festival circuit, Jennifer's feature film directorial debut, 'I'm Through With White Girls', has had a limited theatrical release through Image Entertainment in 2007. Other credits include: 'Boxed', a 12 minute short,  'Waiting', a 24 minute short, and a spec commercial, all of which, she wrote, edited, and produced as well. 

Cardoso directed the HBO feature Real Women Have Curves, which won the Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. The film also earned a Special Jury Award for acting at Sundance and became the first HBO film to be released theatrically. Her films have been shown at festivals including: Toronto, London, Sundance, Telluride and New Films/New Directors at MOMA. Cardoso has been awarded the National Board of Review's Excellence in Filmmaking award, a Smithsonian Institute Recognition Award, a UCLA Filmmaker of the Year Honor, the Youth Prize from the San Sebastian Film Festival, a California Governor’s Commendation and the Hubert Bals Fund from the Rotterdam Film Festival among others. As a programmer for the Festival, Cardoso was the director of Sundance's Latin American program. Cardoso has developed feature projects with Universal, Disney, Ciby 2000 and Open City Films. She is an active member of the Directors Guild of America and its Independent Director's Committee. She is also a mentor for Film Independent’s Project Involve. USC School of Cinematic Arts Directory Profile, Accessed December 12, 2012 http://cinema.usc.edu/directories/profile.cfm?id=25027&first=&last=&title=&did=1&referer=%2Fproduction%2Ffaculty.cfm&startpage=1&startrow=1

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Born in 1961 in Cleveland, OH. Leslie Harris is a promising young American filmmaker whose first feature-length film, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T., concerns a teenage girl's coming of age in the Brooklyn projects. The movie achieved recognition and acclaim for its writer-director at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival, a major event that provides exposure for independent filmmakers. After being awarded the Special Jury Prize for Distinction at Sundance, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. was released nationally in February of 1993 to good reviews. The Washington Post called it a "breakthrough film," while Rolling Stone called Harris "a bracing new voice." Harris is a graduate of Denison University, B.F.A., 1982; and studied film at New York University. She worked for an advertising agency in New York City during summer of junior year at Denison; relocated to New York City after graduating in 1982; worked at various jobs in New York while writing first feature-length film script; Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. released by Miramax in 1992. Source: http://www.answers.com/topic/leslie-harris

“…Trinh T. Minh-ha builds much of her work around the theme of the ‘other’ (the persona one considers him/herself to be in relation to), challenging cultural theorists' traditional notions of the subject or/subjected duality. She performed three year's worth of ethnographic field research in West Africa the Research Expedition Program of the University of California, Berkeley. This fieldwork led in part to her first film, Reassemblage, which was filmed in Senegal and released in 1982.”   -“Biography/Criticism,” University of Minnesota, accessed November 21, 2012, http://voices.cla.umn.edu/artistpages/trinhT.php