Zhuojie Chen (Writer, Director, Producer) is a filmmaker from Charlotte, North Carolina. She has worked for the Food Network’s Sweet Genius and Rachael vs. Guy: Celebrity Cook-Off, the inaugural Frieze New York Art Fair, and Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street. She received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her master’s degree from New York University’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study. In 2014, she was a Fellow at the Sundance Screenwriters Intensive. Once upon a time, she went by Suzy; then she decided she liked her given name more.

Jheanelle Brown (Producer) is a current graduate student in Critical Studies at USC’s School of Cinematic Arts, where she has produced various films. She received her bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and worked in public service for four interesting years. Before Los Angeles, she called Washington, DC and Lithonia, Georgia home (and thinks of Jamaica as home in a motherland sense).

Jacqui Brown (Associate Producer) has political inclinations and her love of storytelling revolves around the personal as political. She has worked in law enforcement and management consulting, and looks forward to developing her own scripts and films. She has a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Columbia University and has just received a Fulbright grant to study corruption in Jamaica in 2015-2016.

Sheldon Chau (Director of Photography) Born and raised in Los Angeles and of Cantonese descent, Sheldon first discovered his greater passion for films in his mid-teens when he was introduced to the Criterion Collection DVDs by both his artist uncle and high school drama teacher. From there, Sheldon further realized the power of storytelling when he learned of his parents’ tale of survival during the Fall of Saigon in which they fled the country and ended up in the U.S. after an arduous journey. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Film & Media Studies at the University of California, Irvine, and finding a natural enthusiasm for visuals and camerawork, Sheldon decided to fully pursue cinematography as an MFA student at NYU Tisch School of the Arts, where he was the winner of the prestigious 2015 ARRI Volker Bahnemann Award for Cinematography and a 2013 Kodak Cinematography Scholarship nominee. He is also an avid lover of pugs and pineapple buns.

Catherine Regio (Consulting Producer) has many of years of experience in the film world, starting out her career at CAA in the independent film finance and sales department. She then moved on to work at Warner Bros in Creative Development before landing at new indie distribution outfit Alchemy, focusing on digital distribution. As a native New Yorker living in LA, she misses the seasons and public transportation.

Yusuf Siddiquee (Composer) is a musician and music producer living in Brooklyn, NY.  He has worked on an original ​score for the indie short film Sea of Fog (in production) and as audio engineer (live and post production) for two independent web series under the “MIPSTERZ” moniker, including the upcoming concert series SUNDAYS/cool. Yusuf has been writing music ever since he stole his brother’s guitar in middle school, and is currently recording and producing an EP with his band atlantic / pacific.

Christina Ventura (Graphic Designer, Photographer) is a community manager and sometimes photo taker living and working in NYC.