Rakefet Abergel is an accomplished director, writer, and producer known for her unique voice. She began her career as an actress and later created three award-winning short films: Jax in Love, Boo, and Still, along with several screenplays. Her first short, Jax in Love, which she wrote, produced and starred in, played dozens of film festivals, winning a plethora of awards, and is currently available on Amazon Prime, Red Coral Universe, Screambox, and ShortsTV. She also wrote, produced, starred in and directed her second short film, Boo. It screened at over 85 film festivals across the world including HollyShorts and New Filmmakers LA, and garnered her multiple awards for Best Director, Best Female Filmmaker, Best Genre Filmmaker, Best Writing in a Short, Best Horror Short, and Best Actress and others at top genre festivals such as Filmquest, Nightmares Film Festival, GenreBlast, and others. Boo was picked up and distributed by Gunpowder & Sky’s ALTER channel, ShortsTV, Bloody Disgusting’s Bloody TV, Red Coral Universe, and multiple anthology BluRays and DVDs. Her new short, Still, based on her experience with miscarriage, premiered on the east and west coast at two Oscar-qualifying film festivals, Cleveland International Film Festival and Hollyshorts Film Festival . Her films explore issues related to identity, relationships, and personal growth, and she has been praised for her ability to tackle these topics with sensitivity and nuance. An established multi-hypenate, Abergel’s creative vision has earned her a loyal following of fans and admirers, and continues to inspire and provoke audiences around the world. In her spare time, she works as a Hebrew School teacher in Los Angeles, where she teaches 6th and 7th graders and also tutors Bar and Bat Mitzvah students.

Sophia Cacciola is a director and cinematographer concentrating on sociopolitical horror and genre feature films including a horror social satire, Clickbait (2019), the feminist vampire throwback, Blood of the Tribades (2017); the cerebral time-loop trance, Magnetic (2016); the murder mystery, TEN (2015). She is currently on the festival circuit with a horror mockumentary called, The Once and Future Smash. Her award-winning films have played at more than 40 film festivals and have been distributed worldwide. Sophia began her arts career in music, most notably as the no-wave punk singer-songwriter-drummer in Do Not Forsake Me Oh My Darling, building up a following based around their music video recreations of the TV show, The Prisoner. Sophia was awarded an art residency at Museumsquartier in Vienna, Austria in autumn 2017, where she built an interactive musical cocktail robot installation, Nothen für die Tothen, for the event Roboexotica. Sophia also combines her love of music and film as the head videographer for the Women of Rock Oral History Project, documenting the lives and careers of women in rock who have been underrepresented or omitted from rock journalism and historical scholarship. She's a long-term vegan and passionate about senior chihuahua rescue.