Allison Waid is an independent filmmaker, writer, and producer living in Los Angeles, CA. She was raised in Nashville, TN where she studied jazz drumming and went on to form the post-punk band, Feral Beat. She attended Fordham University in NYC and the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London. She was awarded a Fulbright research grant to Wuhan, China where she studied rural-to-urban migration. With a passion for the underrepresented, her work seeks to uplift and shine a light on people whose stories could otherwise be left untold.

Kira Simon-Kennedy is the co-founder & co-director of 爻 yáo collaborative, a multifaceted arts nonprofit supporting hundreds of different international creative exchanges since its inception in 2013. Kira is also an Academy Award nominated documentary film producer (Ascension 登楼叹, 2021) & co-curator of the exhibition Meme Tactics. She is currently producing films by artists Jiayu Yang, Yeelen Cohen, Shelley Cheung, Morehshin Allahyari, AX Mina and Mia Bendrimia as well as studying for a masters degree in environmental transitions in Paris. Through all of her work, she committed to redistributing resources and mentoring the next generation of artists, cultural workers & organizers.

Stephen Sutton is a record distributor, producer and musician from Nashville, Tennessee. He has worked with some of the most influential, pioneering artists in Southern hip-hop history to archive, reissue and distribute thousands of long out-of-print recordings to a worldwide audience. His efforts have helped revive the careers of numerous regional artists whose music had languished in obscurity and never been available outside of the South.