Molly is a writer/director and production designer residing in Brooklyn, NY. Born and raised in a small rural town in Vermont, she is inspired by the theatrics & intricacies of smaller worlds. through film, she seeks to illuminate the nuance and inevitable contradiction in people & the everyday.

Emma Pillsbury is a filmmaker based in New York City who graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a BA in Cinema Arts & Sciences - concentrating in directing and experimental film. From the Metro - Detroit area, she grew up figure skating for Team USA.

Rachel Rambaldi (she/her) is a first-generation Italian writer/director based in Los Angeles. Growing up in Los Angeles and her homeland of Italy allowed her to stay connected to her roots which have significantly impacted her artistry and perspective. Rachel’s short film, "Cream or Sugar" (co-wr...

Megz Tillman-Trufant – hailing from New Orleans, LA – is a writer, performer/songwriter, and filmmaker, working under the moniker SOLTHOUGHT. Tillman-Trufant is based in Austin, TX where she studied Creative Writing and Rhetoric at St. Edward’s University and co-founded genre-defying hip hop band...

Hamilton O’Toole is an award losing director, writer, producer, comedian and VFX artist. After graduating from NYU, his work could be seen in sketch shows all over the city. Most recently, his show LET’S GET SUED, ran monthly at the Pack Theater. He is also the producer and curator of the Freak S...

For reasons one cannot explain, a crazed sense of curiosity has struck and electrified Bretton A. Miller’s imagination his whole life. From once believing that there were “flying time machines” in the night sky to becoming a young cryptid hunter searching for the Cincinnati Frogman, Bretton has a...

Gen z auteur + ceo of [REDACTED] EMOTIONS. Note: NoBudge is not sponsored by Celsius. The mention of brand affiliation is parody.

Hope Green is a writer, director, and artist from central New York. She uses film to create worlds and hauntings. Her work explores the estrangement of people from nature, the emotional activation of commercial spaces, and love.

Wylie Anderson is a director, writer & actor based in Los Angeles. She is represented by Brillstein Entertainment Partners, and she’s studied at both Emerson College and Upright Citizens Brigade. Up next, you can see Wylie’s award-winning short film How to Cry on Command, which is out now, or sta...

Ted Marsden is a writer, director, and editor. He likes to create dramatic, surreal visuals and irreverent, character-based comedy. He is a founding father of the radical editing collective Racer Trash and visual art collective Dream Video Division. He is the Festival Director + Senior Programmer...