Matt Grady is the founder of Factory 25, an independent film production and distribution company launched in 2009. Factory 25 is a home for conceptually provocative narratives and documentaries. Grady was recently named "One of the Most Influential People in Brooklyn Culture,” and has been called "One of the most important curatorial voices of new, independent American films." His mission is to expose the world to under-the-radar films, music, and other curiosities theatrically and digitally, as well as on TV, VOD, VHS, Blu-ray and limited edition discs with vinyl LPs and books. Factory 25 music documentaries include Other Music, Out of Time: The Material Issue Story, Until the Light Takes Us, The Reverend, Apocalypse: A Bill Callahan Tour Film, Amateur on Plastic: Butch Willis, Brothers Hypnotic, Being Frank, Better Than Something: Jay Reatard, The Family Jams, Jobriath A.D. and Strange Powers: Magnetic Fields. Grady also produced Nathan Silver's The Great Pretender, Onur Tukel's Applesauce and Summer of Blood, Theodore Collatos & Carolina Monnerat's Queen of Lapa along with the upcoming films You Mean Everything to Me by Bryan Wizemann, All the Old Bells by Brent Green and Inspector Ike by Graham Mason. Factory 25’s headquarters are located in Brooklyn, New York.

Eliza Hajkova is Manager of Development at SAGindie and has worked in various capacities as a writer, producer, and editor on projects ranging from narrative films, commercials, trailers, and concert documentaries. At SAGindie, Eliza's duties include traveling to film festivals, speaking on panels and at seminars, and assisting independent producers worldwide. Currently, she is working on a project about the Wild West of cam houses in Arizona.

Melanie Addington is the Executive Director of Tallgrass Film Association as of 2021. She has worked in the film festival world since 2006, first as a volunteer, and then eventually becoming the Oxford Film Festival Executive Director in August 2015. She used to be a reporter for the Oxford Eagle (a community newspaper) and then Pizza Magazine Quarterly (a global trade magazine). She still loves pizza. And she still writes for Hammer to Nail and Film Festival Today about her other great love: movies. She is from Southern California originally but lived in the South for 20 years. She now resides in Wichita, KS, and has one son.