MARLY HERNANDEZ CORTES, grew up in Aguadilla, a small town on the west coast of Puerto Rico. In New York she studied acting at Circle in the Square and HB Studios. Marly received her M.F.A. in directing and film production at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. Most recently she became a 2023 Panavision New Filmmaker Production Grant recipient for her first feature film, “Stealing Cars,” that she co-directed and co-produced. In 2021 and 2020, she was a Saul Zaentz Innovation Film Fellow and Production Grant recipient at Johns Hopkins. In 2021 she received a Mayor’s Individual Artist Award from the Creative Baltimore Fund on behalf of the Mayor and the City of Baltimore. She is the recipient of a British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) scholarship, National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts (NHFA) grant/scholarship, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant. Her thesis film "Mala" was made with the support of a Panavision Production Grant and received an award grant from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, having its world premiere at the Austin Film Festival. In 2023, she became the assistant program director of the Johns Hopkins Film and Media graduate film program, where she is also a lecturer. When not being a filmmaker she is sewing, gardening, and parenting.

STEPHEN SCHUYLER grew up in Baltimore City. He completed his BFA in Creative Writing at Brooklyn College, where he won the Goodman Short Story award. He went on to finish his MFA in Fiction at the University of Maryland. Most recently, he received first place at the Austin Film Festival in the short screenplay category. In 2020, he received a production grant from the Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund through Johns Hopkins and won first place in both the feature and short screenplay categories of the Baltimore Screenwriting Competition in conjunction with the Maryland Film Festival. He is the recipient of a Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize. His fiction has been published in The Saint Ann’s Review. His short films have received grants from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, Panavision, and the National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts, among others, and have screened at festivals including Austin Film Festival and Sarasota Film Festival. He works as a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University Film & Media MA Program and at MICA’s MFA Film Program.