HAYLEY DOWNS is a documentary filmmaker, producer and fundraising/outreach consultant. She produced Hidden Battles, a documentary about the psychological effects of killing on soldiers by Victoria Mills. She Associate Produced Naturally Obsessed, a documentary about laboratory research by Dick and Carole Rifkind. Her installations and experimental films: Move, Coleslaw Wrestling and Boar Hog, exploring multi-generational Florida folk culture, have shown at underground film festivals including NY, Chicago and SF, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Miami and Art Basel. Her angst-filled teen journal was included in Mortified: Real Words, Real People, Real Pathetic, published by Simon Spotlight Entertainment. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, Marlan and kitten Herman.

JULIE KAHN is a filmmaker, producer and visual artist. She has also worked as an A&R executive at Columbia Records, content development director at Sony Pictures, producer for Annie Leibovitz, and investment banker at Morgan Stanley. Kahn has received numerous grants and awards for her projects including NEH funding for Swamp Cabbage: Cracker Culture in a Fast Food Nation. Her participatory artworks as well as two short films Taxidermy High and Möbius have exhibited at festivals, museums and galleries nationally and internationally including: Art Basel, Havana Biennal, Art in Embassies, Optic Nerve, hilo Film Festival, International Festival of Cinema and Technology, Anchorage Film Festival, and Rooftop Films. Her Dixie Dingo Film Festival was named top art event by The Miami Herald, and she was named Best Miami Photographer by CityLink. She graduated from Harvard with a BA and MBA. She is currently an affiliate artist at the Headlands Center for the Arts and lives on a houseboat in Sausalito with her two brown dogs, Logan and Hadley.