JosÈ Arriaga is a filmmaker, editor and artists teacher. Based in San Francisco, JosÈ is a freelance editor, cutting and assisting on various feature, short and documentary films in addition to television and commercial productions. JosÈ, with Streetside Stories, has produced hundreds of short films by bay area youth and international short films by Colombian youth with Viajes Personales/Personal Journeyís. In 2007, Arriaga, a first-generation Mexican-American, edited Viajes Personales, a short documentary and video workshop series that visited marginalized Afro-descendant communities in participating host nations, including the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia, and Venezuela. Arriaga also operated assistant camera and was a workshop facilitator through the course of the project, which was sponsored by the U.S. State Departmentís Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs and the Inter-American Foundation.

Karla Claudio Betancourt is a multimedia artist from San Juan, Puerto Rico, working primarily in film/video, installation, performance, and collaborative group projects that engage with immigrant communities in SF. Her work revolves around media literacy, marginalized histories, culture jamming, public interventions, and other practices set on challenging corporate media. She draws from her personal experiences in a neo-colonial setting, where she has been able to shed light on the transformation of colonial and minority cultures through consumerism and their (mis)representation in mainstream media venues. Karla is currently is finishing her BFA in Film/New Genres at the San Francisco Art Institute.

Patrick Biggs is a Producer, Filmmaker, and Video Instructor. In addition to creating short films, music videos and documentaries he has also set up programs at The Fresh Air Fund in New York and The Jewish community Center in San Francisco for Youth Media.

John Dilley is a director and filmmaker whose films have screened at the Sundance, Clermont-Ferrand, Los Angeles, STARZ Denver, and San Francisco Independent film festivals among many others. His work has been broadcast on PBS, and featured in a program of films by emerging directors at the CinÈmathËque FranÁaise in Paris. John has directed commercials and web spots for companies from Microsoft Xbox to Torani Syrup. He was born and raised in Oakland, California and is a graduate of San Francisco State University's Film School.

Harris Kornstein is the Youth In Motion & Outreach Coordinator at Frameline by day, and a drag queen by night. He has worked in a number of contexts with diverse LGBT youth, and is also involved in work towards racial and economic justice, especially in solidarity with Palestine. He graduated from Swarthmore College in 2006 with a degree in Sociology/Anthropology, and a minor in Film & Media Studies. Kapi`olani (Pi`o) Lee is a filmmaker and visual artist living in the Bay Area. Through live action and animation, she is interested in exploring traditional indigenous storytelling in new and innovative ways. A Pacific Islanders in Communication grant recipient, her previous work has aired on the ‘Olelo channel in Hawai’i, as well as archived and used in Ethnic and American Studies curriculum at schools such as UC-Berkeley, Arizona State University, University of Washington, and Wesleyan University. Kapi’olani’s current project, In the Land of Po, is an experimental animated short which channels the unique and vibrant mythology of Hawai`i through stories inspired by her personal family history.

Chris Morocco is a musician, director, photographer, web-designer and graduate of San Francisco State University. At TILT, he is the Technology Director and instructor for the Freestyle Media Lab. Aside from his work at TILT he owns and operates his own business called Movements In Media (MIM) that specializes in music video production and artist management.

Laura Zaylea is a filmmaker and media educator. She has written/directed three short videos about young queer women and recently co-directed her first feature film, ìHold The Sun.î Laura holds her MFA in Film from the San Francisco Art Institute and BA in Art-Semiotics from Brown University. She is currently working on hand-dyed 16mm film collages tinted with dyes she bakes out of flower petals, leaves and tea. Laura teaches media arts and animation classes at the East Bay Center for the Performing Arts and at CMAP: Community Media Access Partnership.