Eli Stewing was born in Annapolis and raised in Brooklyn, NY. 

She helmed a long career spanning over forty-five years working in television network news—including stints at ABC, CBS, and CNN.

Jacob Chandler is a rising senior at Saint John’s College Santa Fe campus. He plans to earn an associate's degree in Media Production after earning his bachelor's degree from St. Johns. 

Jackie Mednick is a Producer, Animator, and Composer from Annapolis Maryland. She is heading to Parsons School of Design this fall and plans on majoring in Design and Technology with a Minor in Film. They enjoy discussing music and films with others and are excited to bring her creativity to New York City.

Juda Goldstein is a Director/Producer and a Visual Effects Artist from Arnold, Maryland. His latest film was officially selected at the All-American High School Film Festival for screening at the AMC Empire 25 theater in New York. He also runs the production company, Premiere Studios.

Maia Finlayson is a Director, Producer, and Storyteller based in Annapolis MD who, through a variety of mediums, works to create entertaining and creative pieces. With her work, she hopes to inspire others' passion and creativity, or at the very least entertain them.

Justin Shirey (Writer, DIT, Music Supervisor) has been in Filmsters for 4 years and has learned and created a lot from the experience. He plans to pursue film in college for writing and music composition, with the goal of sharing ideas with others by bringing them to life on the screen.

Lydia “Sawyer” Richardson is an aspiring director, animator, and production designer. She is driven, confident, and focused on the tasks at hand, and has a passion for their projects.

Saquoya is a rising screenwriter and actress in training. Despite her training in theater, she is looking to pursue film in college.

Tricia is a native Annapolitan with expertise in Directing, Producing, and Assistant Directing. She's directed two episodes of Half Life, a half-hour comedy shown on NYCLife and WhoHaha. Her short Sucker, who a Block Island FF Lighthouse Award and National Board of Review Student Film Award. She has produced/Assistant Directed on many shorts and branded content including Assistant Directing for Stevie Van Zandt. In Television Production, Love Life seasons 1&2 as a Showrunner's Assistant, and The Bte (CBS/Spectrum), The Outsider (HBO), and The Affair season 5 (Showtime).

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Will Fritz is a recent graduate from the Savannah College of Art & Design (SCAD) where he earned his B.F.A in Dramatic Writing and a minor in Film and Television. This past year Will has been both a finalist in the 2023 Annapolis Film Festival short film pitch competition as well as the Coca-Cola Refreshing Films Program, the latter of which saw him write, co-direct, and oversee all phases of production for a 50-second commercial for Coca-Cola.

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Vera J. Katz is a Professor Emerita from Howard University in the Department of Theatre Arts where she taught both acting and directing for 32 years. She has directed over a hundred productions, originally working under the famed playwright-director-author, Moss Hart, on Broadway. She has taught such notables as Debbie Allen, Anthony Anderson, Chadwick Boseman, and many others. She has completed the work on her book, A Katz's Walk, which focuses on the technique of acting and directing which is geared towards beginning and experienced actors, and teachers of acting; especially those of diverse ethnicity. She also teaches privately.

Kenny's first love was editing. He began editing stop motion videos at the age of 11 and moved on to short films in high school. He attended Full Sail University and earned several editing credits. After graduating he became the Director of Photography and Lead Editor of Digital Feast. There he would shoot and edit hundreds of commercials and live events. He is proficient in Davinci Resolve, AVID Media Composer, and Adobe Creative Cloud.

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With over nine years of experience as a professional soundman, Zach Trees owns the company 15Four. His work ranges from production sound mixer on commercial productions, films, and television shows and series. Some of the work he is known for includes: Roulette (2012), The Haunting of Pearson Place (2015), Love Dot Com: The Social Experiment (2019), and FILMSTERS production Don't Hold Your Breath (2022) screening at festivals nationwide. He is currently working with Filmsters on a new feature documentary titled Learning to Fly. He teaches at Towson University and lives in Baltimore, MD. 

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Lauren is a local makeup artist from Annapolis, MD, and has been working in the makeup and film industry for nearly 10 years. her work ranges from commercials and broadcasts to feature films and documentaries. She attended FX University and Cinema Makeup School where she trained under winners of SyFy's hit TV show Face Off and some of the industry's top leading professionals. She specializes in beauty and special effects makeup, creating customized prosthetics for characters, and has won multiple awards for her creations.

Wes has been a part of Filmsters since 2010,l starting as a beginner and working his way up through the ranks, where he ultimately found and Design, and now works as a freelance in the NYC Metropolitan area as a director, writer, editor, and grip/electrician.

Jacob is a rising senior at St. John's College Santa Fe campus. he plas to earn an associates degree in Media Production after he earns his bachelors from St. John's.

Joining the army right out of high school at 18 years old, Joshua Kruger enlisted as a 25V Combat Documentation/Production Specialist. He did his basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and his Advanced individual trainig at Fort Meade, Maryland where he spent the next five years photographing and filming training exercises and deployment operations. His first deployment was to Pakistan for four months in support of a Humanitarian Aid relief mission when they were struck by a flood in 2010. Later he deployed to Afghanistan for 10 months supporting Special Forces operations by providing imagry and documentation for their missions. After he left the Army in 2014, he went back to school at Anne Arundel Community College for an associate's degree in graphic design where he graduated cum laude.