Lucia Small is an award-winning 30-year veteran independent filmmaker best known for her daring, boundary-pushing first person non-fiction work — “My Father, The Genius” (2002), “The Axe in the Attic” (2007) and “One Cut, One Life” (2014). Her films have premiered around the world, including at The New York Festival, Cinema Du Real, Torino International Film Festival, International Documentary Festival Amsterdam, Full Frame, Independent Film Festival Boston, and Slamdance. From a Yaddo Residency to The Sundance Documentary Institute Edit and Story Lab, to a Camden International Film Festival Fellowship through LEF, Lucia’s work has received important creative and financial support. Embracing the notion of personal as political, artist as responsible participant, Lucia tackles complex political and social issue themes on gender, race, class, and the environment with unique intimacy, nuance, and humor. “Girl Talk” (2022) is her first longitudinal verite study.

Stephanie Sunata is an independent filmmaker and impact producer who believes that films are an important artform and engagement tool for positive social progress. She has worked for acclaimed filmmakers including Gordon Quinn, Diane Quon, Jennifer Tiexiera and Camilla Hall for projects that have appeared on PBS, HBO, Starz as well as numerous independent projects. While she mostly works with social issue documentaries, Stephanie has also worked for commercials, reality TV, series, indie shorts and major Hollywood productions in all phases of filmmaking including planning and development, production, post-production and distribution. She is currently working on her first feature documentary titled “Gaman,” which explores how one family continues to grapple with the multi-generational trauma caused from the Japanese internment camps during WWII.