Danielle Beckmann is a bicoastal actress, director, writer and filmmaker with a penchant for creating connection, community, and comedy in the film industry. As the co-founder of her production company Brooklyn Quarter, her work has been seen at over 60 film festivals internationally. She is best known for producing and starring in the Tribeca Film Festival acclaimed dark comedy short LIZA ANONYMOUS, and she is thrilled to be reprising the title role of Liza in the feature film. In 2023, Beckmann produced and starred in Amy De Paola's award-winning dark comedy short TIKI BAR FUNERAL HOME as well as the award-winning horror comedy SAM & KIKI. Beckmann won Best Actress in a Comedy at the Brightside Film Festival in EX-HUSBAND in which she plays opposite SNL veteran Bobby Moynihan. In 2024, Beckmann co-wrote, produced, and starred in the award-winning period drama short THE FUSCOS that provides a twist on classic 70s mob film. She also wrote the micro-short POOPED, which won Best Short Film at the Stockholm City Film Festival. Beckmann is fresh off of directing Raji Ahan’s comedy short film DR. SAM, featuring comedic legend Lucie Arnaz. As a crowning achievement of her nerd life, you can catch her hosting her annual Power of Women in Entertainment panel at San Diego Comic-Con.

Leah McKendrick is a true-blue multi-hyphenate. She specializes in creating work about women behaving badly. She wrote/produced and acted in the rape revenge film MFA -- directed by Natalia Leite which premiered at SXSW and was released theatrically by Dark Sky Films. She went on to write the GREASE prequel, SUMMER LOVIN' for Paramount and Tristar's upcoming TROOP BEVERLY HILLS reboot. She returned to SX this year with her directorial debut SCRAMBLED which she also stars in and wrote about the real experience of freezing her eggs. Lionsgate released SCRAMBLED in 2024, and is now available on Hulu. Up next, she is penning the legacy sequel to 90s slashic, I KNOW WHAT YOU DID LAST SUMMER.

KELLY WALKER is an Australian multi-hyphenate award-winning filmmaker. For her 12th birthday, Little Kelly asked for Final Draft and Adobe Premiere (cause that’s normal), and by the time she graduated high school, she had 4 (deliciously bad) feature films in the can. On moving to LA, Walker found her tribe working on short films and won The Jury Award for best short at Bentonville Film Festival for her co-directed short, The Brownlist. That win was the nudge she needed to dive back into features.  Walker’s first (profesh) feature, My Fiona, a queer grief story, was selected for AIF’s Writers Lab, premiered at BFI Flare, secured a ReFrame Stamp, and was distributed by Freestyle Digital.  Walker’s screenplay, The Beauty of a Woman, an Audrey Hepburn biopic, was a semi-finalist in The Black List x WIF Residency, The Black List x Stowe Story Lab and short-listed for Austin Film Festival’s Script Competition. Combining her love (addiction) of books, Walker penned the adaptation of The Upside of Falling Down, based on the book by Rebekah Crane, for Embankment Films and A Leg in Oklahoma City, based on Greg Hoetker’s novel, is currently optioned by LiquidFish.  Most recently, Walker won Script Pipeline’s 2024 First Look Project with her erotic thriller, The Stag and the Bull. Walker’s storytelling dives into messy, intimate relationships — blurring the lines of desire, humor (the darker, the better) and raw emotional truth.  She is a member of WIF, AIF, Film Fatales, ULSC & Gotham and, most recently, was selected for the Women In Film Writer Fellowship program.