Elena is a documentary filmmaker, educator, and anthropologist from the Bronx and Lower East Side of Manhattan. She co-directed a film entitled Bronx Lives that explores homelessness for Latinx and African Americans in New York. Her work has shown at MACLA/Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana and she has received grants from Scribe, Leeway Foundation, Cornell Council for the Arts, Society for the Humanities, and the 2020 Summer DocuLab sponsored by Haverford College. As a part of her work in film, she co-founded a feminist filmmaking collective called Ethnocine and is a producer of the podcast Bad Feminists Making Films.

Kim was a writer, mental health advocate, and dancer born in Baltimore and raised in Ithaca, NY. She was a published author and wrote a blog that focused on eating disorder recovery and dissociative identity disorder. She self-published memoirs including Kim Unscripted: My Unfiltered Life Story (2014) and Dear Deena: A journey of loss, grief and overcoming an eating disorder (2017). Her work has been published in the Chicken Soup for the Soul Series and she has done public talks and signings for her writing. She is a former gymnast and used dance as a way to express herself. Kim studied psychology and aspired to continue her advocacy work for people living with mental health conditions. She was a creative producer on the feature documentary Smile4Kime, a film that chronicles her experiences with mental health illness.

Cybee is a nonbinary animator and producer whose work explores surreal stories of a pedagogical nature. Their work currently focuses on land-stewardship, development, and the commons. Their work has been supported by The Leeway Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, and Philadelphia Independent Media Fund, and Scribe Video Center, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and Doc Society. When they are not working on video projects, they are gardening in South Philadelphia, animating with the Philadelphia Animation Ensemble and learning about ecological restoration.

Laura Menchaca Ruiz is an educator and filmmaker from the borderlands of the U.S. Southwest. Laura is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies at Al-Quds Bard College; Co-Founder and Creative Director at Element Media; Co-Founder of the feminist filmmaking collective, Ethnocine; and a Producer for the Bad Feminists Making Films podcast. Her creative work celebrates the marks that people make on the world, highlighting the extraordinary in the ordinary, and her scholarship explores the reach for autonomy amidst marginalizing constraint. Her approach to all her work treasures the local, the small-scale, the personal, the eccentric, the intimate.

Mad Bishop (they/them) is a queer, Philadelphia-based filmmaker and cinematographer from East Tennessee. Their work is often location-driven and aims to expand understanding of how critical moments manifest in life and reflect on their own role within them. Mad was the director of photography on Lindsay Vitale’s short film High Tide, which was officially selected for Temple University’s Diamond Screen: Women’s Fest in 2019. Bishop’s experimental documentary thesis film, Doctor’s Creek No. 1, is currently in post-production. Bishop and Rossetti recently collaborated on Feathers Wise’s music video, Your Love Is Giving Me Life, currently in post-production, for which Bishop was the director of photography. They also recently collaborated, along with Eppchez Yes! on POLLINATION: FIG/WASP, an experimental video found on Rossetti’s Vimeo page.

Malachi Lily (they/them) is a black, shapeshifting storyteller, illustrator, and director. As an energy worker, they practice spiritual channeling to summon stories of queer love/cosmic horror that decompose colonial fears such as nature, unconsciousness, and femininity. They embrace the monstrous as a pathway to remembering the mycelial networks of the spiritual body. This depolarization of nature/human/spirit is essential for liberation and collective evolution. Their work has been utilized/recognized by Black Quantum Futurism, In These Times, 3311 Productions, Hachette Publishing, The Baffler, Autostraddle, Forward Together, Beyond Queer Words, Roxanne Gay, and more. Lily was a scholarship fellow of the 2022 Lighthouse Writing in Color retreat and a fellow for both the 2023 winter sessions of Tinhouse and Roots.Wounds.Words.

Alex is a children’s and editorial illustrator. She has a BFA in painting and printmaking from The Cooper Union and a Certificate in Digital Media from Moore College of Art and Design. She is illustrating a children’s book about love, queer family, siblinghood, and owls, for which she received a grant from the Leeway Foundation.

Noure is an illustrator, graphic designer, and animator from Lebanon and now living in New York. She works as a character designer and storyboard artist as well. She loves telling people's stories through her art.

Pace Ford is a graphic designer, illustrator, doula, and gardener based in Philadelphia and the upper Shenandoah Valley of West Virginia. Their illustrative work explores themes of vulnerability, isolation, humor, and magic. As a designer, they prioritize participatory and accountable processes, sharing design knowledge, and supporting people to design what they need for themselves. Pace holds a B.A. from Agnes Scott College in Political Science and Economics and an R.B.A. with a specialization in Graphic Design from Shepherd University.

Sabrina Pantal (they/them) is a queer first-generation Haitian artist and self-taught musician. By combining trance-like melodies with layers of guitar, piano, and harmonies, they are able to translate more than just sounds that are pleasing to the ear. Their creations arouse a full body experience that feels like a spell being cast. They consider their sound a form of musical alchemy and hope that whoever is listening is left with feelings of wonder, curiosity, and expansion

Hilary is a filmmaker and freelance editor/ videographer living and working in Philadelphia. She has worked as a producer and production manager on Doculab 2018, Dizhsa Nabani and Doculab 2019, Bicentenntial City. She is excited to work with Cybee on Doculab 2020 after collaborating with Cybee on her short docu-fiction film about an abandoned, magical park with an identity crisis, Squirrel Hill Falls. She was the recipient of a 2017 & 2019 Puffin Foundation and 2018 Scribe Video Center Independent Media Finishing Fund grant in support of the film. The film was selected for the 2020 Philadelphia Independent Film Festival and is beginning distribution. In addition, she works as an associate producer, co-editor and web producer on award winning documentary filmmaker Vicky Funari’s feature film Pool Stories (working title), about a group of older women who find wellness, grace and community in an aquacize class at their neighborhood pool, currently in post production.

Shiko is a Senior at Swarthmore College, majoring in Sociology and double minoring in Film and Media Studies and Black Studies. Her dream career is to write and direct films that bring a spotlight to marginalized communities and is truthful and authentic in their representation, particularly in the Black community and other POC communities. Her passion project of recent, was her first ever directed short film: BLACKSKIN. In it, she used the experimental/non-narrative genre to combat false anti-Blackness ideas on the inferiority of Black femme and non-binary folk. She directed 7 actors and a dancer and had them reenact poetry from Claudia Rankine’s Citizen: An American Lyric, through dance and other movements. In this film, She tried to showcase the motifs of Black power, strength resilience, beauty and justified rage to expose the pain and trauma caused by a racist society but also she wanted the characters to be seen with joy and contentment- the beautiful strength of loving yourself in spite of. She is excited to be a part of Smile4Kime because she believes it’s going to be a film that is salient not only for a long time, but importantly, for so many people.

Zarahy is a rising junior at Haverford College from Miami, Florida. She’s majoring in Film and Media Studies at Swarthmore College. During her time at Haverford, she’s been most closely involved with the efforts of the POC and FG/LI communities on campus. Her own experiences with community and survival within spaces and structures meant to exclude are a large motivation in her interest to create media which centers underrepresented communities. In the future, she hopes to continue the work of meaningfully expanding representation in film.

Cindy is a senior at Bryn Mawr College majoring in Fine Arts at Haverford College, concentrating on photography and printmaking. Born in South Korea, she has been studying in the U.S and Korea since a young age. She is a member of SASH (Students Against Sexual Harm), and is interested in the ways in which art can offer stories/messages and evoke emotions. She has experience making a short auto-ethnographic film, “Resemblance” that explores passed down beauty standards and gender roles from looking at the relationship between the director’s mother and the director. Recently as one of her interests and concentration, she has been working on documenting changing landscapes around her neighborhood through taking photographs.

Sam is a senior at Haverford College from Mesa, Arizona. She is a Fine Arts Major with a Printmaking Concentration, and she is interested in how emotions and past experiences reside in the body and how this can be conveyed through art. She is looking forward to working on this DocuLab project and exploring the connections between spirituality and friendship, and discovering how they can be represented through the mediums of documentary film and animation.

Lyvia is a sophomore at Haverford College. She plans on majoring in Mathematics or Economics with a minor in Spanish. This past semester, she took the course Feminist Filmmaking Studies and co-produced her first film, A Mental Dream. On campus, you will likely find Lyvia on the squash courts with her team or sketching on Founder’s green. Outside of Haverford’s campus, she spends her time as a student group guide at the Barnes Foundation, an art museum in downtown Philadelphia.