Elizabeth Stark, a novelist (Shy Girl: FSG, Seal Press, finalist for the Ferro-Grumely and Lambda Literary Awards) and award-winning filmmaker (most recently, producer of Lost in the Middle: Best Feature, Broad Humor 2019, a Festival Favorite, Cinema Diverse), co-hosts the podcast Story Makers Show, co-directs and teaches at Sonoma County Writers Camp and Book Writing World, and writes novels, and a newsletter to inspire writers.

Angie Powers is an award-winning filmmaker and writer. Her first feature, Lost in the Middle won Best Feature a the Broad Humor 2019 Festival, and was a Festival Favorite at Cinema Diverse. Angie has an M.F.A. in English and Creative Writing from Mills College, where she won the Amanda Davis Thesis Award for her novel, The Blessed. She also has Master’s in Film by Negotiation from Staffordshire University, and a Certificate in Screenwriting from the Professional Programs at UCLA. She is the co-director and co-writer of the short Little Mutinies (distributed by Frameline and an official selection of the Palm Springs International Short Fest) and was a quarter-finalist for the Nicholl Fellowship and at Blue Cat Screenplay Competition for the full-length screenplay of Little Mutinies. She’s twice made it into the second round of consideration for Sundance Labs and was a Cinestory semi-finalist. She also wrote and directed the short Hot Date, and The Truth About Love and Panic, a short comedy about anxiety, which both premiered at the Frameline Film Festival.