Marlene “Mo” Morris is the award-winning producer and director of  FROM HERE, FROM THERE (DE AQUÍ DE ALLÁ). Her feature-length documentary, A NEW COLOR: The Art of Being Edythe Boone, was nationally broadcast on PBS’s America ReFramed and won several festival awards. Mo produced and directed Tomorrow, We Carry On/Mañana, Seguimos, winner of best short documentary Migrant Voices Challenge at the San Diego Latino Film Festival. Mo’s approach to filmmaking is informed by ten years as an immigration attorney and extensive experience as a mediator and social justice organizer. Mo is a former Bay Area Video Coalition MediaMaker Fellow and winner of the CINE Golden Eagle Award.

Jed Riffe is a documentary film director, producer, and multimedia storyteller who has produced 15 nationally-broadcast public television specials including PBS series California and the American Dream and four interactive media programs. He is best known as the director of these award-winning films Ishi, the Last Yahi; Who Owns the Past? and California’s “Lost” Tribes. Jed produced Mo Morris’ directorial debut feature, A New Color (2015). He was also the producer of A Dangerous Idea: Eugenics, Genetics and the American Dream (2017); One Voice: The Story of the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir (2018); The Long Shadow (2020); Pleistocene Park (2022) and The 9 Lives of Barbara Dane (2023).  Jed’s films have won 40 major awards and he is a Sundance Documentary Fund Alumni and Gerbode Fellow.

Nicole Solis-Sison is a multi-racial DACAmented writer, producer and creative director. Her work focuses on cultural equity, diversity and sustainability in digital discourse across the art, media and film industries. Nicole is a proud founding member of the Undocumented Filmmakers Collective, a nationwide organization that tackles systemic inequities facing undocumented immigrants in the media field. Nicole received her BFA at University of California, Berkeley. Nicole is a 2022 Rockwood Documentary Leaders Fellow, 2022 Define American Fellow, a Sundance Asian American Collab Fellow, and the recipient of the 2016 Eisner Award for the Highest Achievement.