Simon Liu was raised between Hong Kong and Stoke-On-Trent, UK and lives in Brooklyn. His films and 16mm multiple projections have been presented at film festivals globally including the Toronto, Rotterdam, BFI London, Edinburgh, and Hong Kong International Film Festivals. He has presented media performances at institutions such as the M+ Museum, Tai Kwun Contemporary,  SFMoMA, China Central Academy of Fine Art, Yale University, and as part of Dreamlands: Expanded - an expanded cinema series presented by the Whitney Museum of American Art and Microscope Gallery. Liu is a member of the artist-run film lab Negativeland and he is a 2019 Jerome Hill Artist Fellow and a recipient of the NYSCA / Wave Farm Media Arts Assistance Fund in 2018. His work has been featured in publications including the South China Morning Post, MUBI, Nang Magazine, Millennium Film Journal, and Senses of Cinema. He is currently in post-production on his first feature film, Staffordshire Hoard and is developing a non-fiction work which imaginatively traces the passage of an ancestor who traveled from Guangzhou to Amsterdam by foot over 150 years ago. He received his BFA in Film & Television Production from NYU.

Tatiana Istomina is an artist and writer based in New York; her practice includes painting, sculpture, installation and video. Her projects have been featured in exhibitions and screenings across the US and abroad; venues include Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Blue Star Contemporary Art Museum, the Drawing Center, the Bronx Museum, Gaîté Lyrique, and Haus der Kulturen der Welt. Istomina is a recipient of several awards including the AAF Prize for Fine Arts, Joan Mitchell Foundation grant, the Chenven Foundation grant, the Puffin Foundation grant and the Spillways Fellowship, and worked at multiple residencies, such as Yaddo, the Core program, the Drawing Center’s Open Sessions and Jan van Eyck Academie (Netherlands). Istomina holds a PhD in physics from Yale University, a MFA from Parsons New School, and a Diploma from Moscow State University.

Savannah Knoop is a NY-based artist, and writer. From 2009-2016 Knoop co-hosted the monthly queer audio-visual party WOAHMONE. They received their BA at CunyBa under the mentorship of Vito Acconci, and their MFA at Virginia CommonWealth University in Sculpture+Extended Media. They have shown and performed at the Whitney, MoMA, the ICA Philadelphia, the Leslie Lohman Museum, David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, Nina Johnson Gallery in Miami, and Nicelle Beauchene in New York. 

In 2007, they published their memoir Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy (Seven Stories Press) and adapted it into a screenplay, co-producing the resulting feature-length film JT Leroy (Universal Pictures, 2019) directed by Justin Kelly, and starring Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern. Alongside Brontez Purnell, Knoop is working to adapt his novel, Since I Laid My Burden Down, into a feature length film of the same title. Knoop has written essays for the LA Review of Books, 032C, Dazed, BOMB, Critical Correspondence, and Cultured Magazine.