SERIINA COVARRUBIAS is a Mexican American screenwriter, director, and producer based in Altadena, California. Born in Arizona and raised in Alaska, she brings a distinct voice shaped by diverse landscapes and communities. Her work spans art house features and comedy, and most recently, vertical microdrama. She continues to pioneer the microdrama space with fresh, emotionally grounded takes including SHE FELL FROM SPACE, one of the first hybrid vertical microdrama and movie projects of its kind and one of the first sci-fi entries in the space, now streaming on the Inverted app and drawing 1.2 million global views on TikTok and Pine Drama in its first week of release. The film is currently nominated for multiple Best Sci-Fi Short awards and took home Best Art Direction at Shock-A-Go-Go Film Fest. Additionally, FROM NBA DROPOUT TO TENNIS ACE is a sports branded microdrama with Embr Entertainment that has premiered on FlexTV, and continues to work with new cutting edge platforms like TikTok. She has also written for Inkitt and Dramapops, streaming platforms for vertical microdramas and short films. Her award-winning feature IN-BETWEEN THE MOUNTAINS AND THE OCEAN, which she wrote and directed, has been picked up for distribution by Cardinal XD and […]

ERIC KONIGSBERG is from OMAHA, NE & is a former reporter for The New York Times and a longtime contributor to many magazines, including The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Atlantic, New York, Tin House, GQ, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. Eric is the author of the critically acclaimed book BLOOD RELATION, about his uncle, the Mafia hit man Harold (Kayo) Konigsberg. His stories in The New Yorker have been finalists for the National Magazine Award (for feature writing) and the Livingston Award for Young Journalists (for national reporting). At the Times, he was part of a team whose coverage of the Bernard Madoff scandal was nominated (in the category for "breaking news") for the Gerald Loeb Awards for Business Reporting. His work has been anthologized or cited in several collections, including the Best American Essays and Best American Magazine Writing series. He is currently adapting BLOOD RELATION for television, and his 2018 article in Vanity Fair, THE CHAIRMEN, is being developed as a feature film, which Alexander Payne will direct. He is at work on a novel.

ERICA TREMBLAY writes and directs on AMC's DARK WINDS & directs on LITTLE HOUSE ON THE PRAIRIE. Previously, Erica was a Co-Producer on RESERVATION DOGS at FX, where she directed her first and second episodes of television. Erica is a Native American filmmaker from the Seneca-Cayuga Nation. Her first feature film, Fancy Dance, starring Academy Award Nominee Lily Gladstone, premiered in competition at Sundance in 2023 and was acquired by Apple Original Films where it was released in 2024. Erica began her career in 2007 after moving to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she made her first documentary film, TINY RED UNIVERSE (2007), serving as writer and director. The short film aired on IFC. In 2012, Tremblay released HEARTLAND: A PORTRAIT OF SURVIVAL. The documentary was shown at the Omaha Film Festival, and at the St. Louis International Film Festival. She has also worked closely with grassroots organizations like the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center and Wica Agli, using film as a tool for advocacy on issues such as violence against Indigenous women and restorative justice.