MEI MAKINO (Writer | Director | Co-Producer)

Mei Makino has been making films since she was eleven when she swindled her friends and family into buying overpriced cookies to help her buy a video camera. Since then, she’s graduated from The University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Radio-TV and Film, received the Standifer Emerging Filmmaker Award from UT twice, and has written and directed short films that have played at The Rockport Film Festival, Dallas VideoFest, PBS, and ESPN’s Longhorn Network. For the past three years, she’s been teaching filmmaking and writing to youth in the Austin area through Creative Action and Film Camp for Girls where her students inspire her to tell honest stories about kids and teens.

IVY CHIU (Director of Photography)

Born in Taiwan, raised in Texas, Ivy is a cinematographer whose work has taken her across the globe. She has shot projects in Germany, Haiti, India, Mongolia, and all over the US. As a graduate of the University of Texas film program, she is also heavily involved in the Austin film community. Ivy has crewed in the camera department on Richard Linklater's Everybody Wants Some, AMC's Fear the Walking Dead, as well as numerous indie films and commercials in town. Hidden Summer, a feature film she shot in Houston, premiered this May 2018 on iQiyi, the "Netflix of China."

MATTHEW STRYKER (Co-Producer | 1st Assistant Director)

Matt Stryker is an Austin based filmmaker, having worked within the community for going on 7 years since his enrollment at the University of Texas, Austin where he graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Radio, Television, and Film. He’s enjoyed success for his short film work, including premieres at SXSW for Beach Day ‘17 (Director, Editor) and Joan on the Phone ‘16 (Editor, 1st AD), as well as notable festivals such as deadCenter, Cinequest, Austin Film Festival, and more. Recently he has just finished working on an independent Austin horror feature called Derelicts where he acted as Co-Producer, Editor, and 1st Assistant Director. It is currently enjoying its festival run where it has already played at Telluride Horror Show (‘17), Silver Scream Festival (‘18), and Arizona Underground Film Festival (‘18).

CONNOR PICKENS (Co-Producer | Editor)

Connor Pickens is a filmmaker based in Austin, TX. After graduating from the University of Texas at Austin with a degree in Radio-Television-Film, he has worked locally as an editor and colorist for 4 years, and is currently employed at Rooster Teeth as the lead editor of the 3D animation department, working on award-winning shows such as RWBY and Red Vs. Blue, as well as the upcoming release gen:LOCK. In addition, he has recently finished editing a feature called Cherrywood which is currently in post-production.

KATE GOLLAHON (Co-Producer)

Kate Gollahon is a producer for Inbetween Girl. Primarily a writer, she recently received her masters degree in fiction at University of North Texas where she designed curriculums as a College Writing instructor and completed her first short story collection, Unclean Slates. After obtaining her Bachelors degree in creative writing at University of Arkansas, she returned to Texas to coordinate fiction contests for American Literary Review, an online literary journal based in Denton Texas.

EMILY GOLLAHON (Co-Producer)

Emily Gollahon is a producer and writer in Austin who has explored different types of media creation from TV and radio journalism, to online marketing, to film. She has a BA in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Arkansas, where she wrote and produced for NPR affiliate KUAF. After moving to Austin, she worked for a marketing company where she managed the social media pages of over 100 local businesses. Over the past year, she’s turned her focus toward filmmaking.