Elizabeth Corbett

Meet Elizabeth, a writer from New York City who earned a B.A. in Latin American Studies from New York University and several fines from the New York Public Library when she discovered its screenplays.

Dorothy Jane Stewart

Meet Dorothy, a Scottish screenwriter with an MA in TV Fiction Writing from Glasgow Caledonian University. Formerly an actress, she created her own theatre company touring throughout Scotland and has subsequently taught Theatre Arts in schools and children’s filmmaking workshops within the community alongside a myriad of other jobs.

Carmen Maria Vega and Marguerite Didierjean

Meet co-writers :

Carmen is a singer, actress, writer, and director who has released three solo albums, including "Santa Maria" in 2017, and published her autobiography with the French publisher Flammarion. Her performance credits include the Casino de Paris, David Bowie with Mark Plati, and Gérard Presgurvic's "Romeo and Juliet" in Taiwan and China.

Marguerite was born and raised in Paris. After studying literature, she began a course in film directing at INSAS, a film school located in Belgium. In 2022, she completed a year of development for her feature film, L'Éclat de Grace, at the Atelier Scénario de La Fémis.

Alyssa Loh

Meet Alyssa, a filmmaker and writer, fellow of the 2021 Sundance Lab Fellow and TIFF's 2023 Breakthroughs program. Alyssa holds a joint MBA/MFA from NYU, where she was a winner of the 2022 Purple List. Alyssa's essays on technology and surveillance have also appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, and The Los Angeles Review of Books.

Julie Mayhew

Meet Julie, a journalist turned actress turned writer-director. She recently received BFI Network Early Development Funding and was invited to Stowe Story Labs. She is an alumnus of BFI Network x BAFTA Crew and a member of BAFTA Connect.

Rose Lichter-Marck

Meet Rose, whose writing and photography have appeared in publications such as Vice, The New Yorker, Lenny, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and Rookie. She is the screenwriter of Stand Clear of the Closing Doors, a film about a boy who disappears into the NYC Subway while his mother searches for him. Stand Clear played over 60 festivals, winning prizes at Tribeca, Deauville, and Athens, and was distributed by Oscilloscope Labs in 2014. The New York Times called it "a small miracle of a film.

Bethan Marlow

Meet Bethan, a Welsh writer who creates fictional worlds that contain real voices. Bethan works closely with and within communities on the fringes of our society. Bethan is currently developing original TV series' for 5 Acts Productions, World Productions and Film Nation. She is also working on feature films for ieie productions and BFI, Ardimages UK and Film Cymru. Bethan was recently selected for the BAFTA x BFI Flare mentoring programme.

Diana Peralta

Meet Diana, a Dominican-American writer, director, and creative producer from NYC. Her debut feature film, DE LO MIO (Criterion Collection), premiered as the closing night film of BAMcinemaFest in 2019 and was initially distributed by HBO. Diana was featured in Filmmaker Magazine's "25 New Faces of Independent Film".

J. Bulluck

Meet Jim, a non-binary filmmaker from North Carolina and AFI alum. Their work largely focuses on critiquing systems of dehumanization while still underlining the inherent joy of personhood. They like the color purple, but it's not their favorite.

Lauri Donahue

Meet Lauri, an award-winning American-Israeli playwright and screenwriter who has worked with Amazon Studios and with producers and directors on five continents.

Lily Landecy

Meet Lily, a swiss, french director and screenwriter based in Paris. Lily has directed four fictional short films and two music videos, as well as a dozen series of photography and drawings. Her short The Chrysalis (2019) was awarded in festivals worldwide. She was also a member of the Youth Advisory Board at Locarno Film Festival for six years.

Coralie Watanabe Prosper

Meet Coralie, a graduate from the National Film School of Nice. Her final project, Mathi(eu), is a multi-award-winning short film screened all around the world. The film showcases a transgendered teenager’s daily struggles. In 2016, Coralie earned her Master of Fine Arts in Directing from East 15 Acting School in London. After that, she founded a French-Japanese Theatre Company, Sakura no Ki no Shita 桜の木の下, where she wrote, directed, and performed in several shows.

Coralie is now focusing on her short film Kotowari 断り and her first feature film, Wagako 我が子 produced in Japan by Miyuki Fukuma from Bunbuku, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s film production company.