Jac Renée Bruneau is a film programmer, screenwriter, and critic who lives between New York City and Hatzic Lake.

Kelly is a Brooklyn-based researcher and curator of contemporary art and media. She most recently co-organized the exhibition, Sci-fi, Magick, Queer L.A.: Sexual Science and the Imagi-Nation, with ONE Archives in Los Angeles, and co-edited the accompanying catalogue, published in 2024 by Inventory Press.

J Triangular is a transmasculine, non-binary experimental filmmaker, poet, curator, and spiritual artivist from Colombia, creating between Taiwan and Colombia. Their fierce, collaborative practice builds queer and trans avant-garde collectives and film cooperatives across Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Thailand, Colombia, New York, London, and South Africa—crafting spaces of experimentation where queer and trans lives become poetry and resistance. J’s work has been exhibited at IMMA’s Living Canvas, the Hong Kong Human Rights Film Festival in Taipei, New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Whitney Museum, Asian Art Museum, Cinemateca de Bogotá, State of Concept (Athens), and documenta fifteen, alongside international film and music festivals. J is also a mentor for Visual AIDS’ Day With(out) Art 2026. J is currently developing two feature-length projects: The First Kiss of the Night, an avant-garde trans punk feature film, and Transmigrants (The Musical), an expansive experimental documentary

Lucy Talbot Allen is the Director of Development and Communications at Anthology Film Archives and a freelance writer and programmer. Lucy’s work has been published in Screen Slate, Little White Lies, and In the Mood Magazine. Lucy holds a master’s degree in Moving Image Archiving and Preservation from NYU.

Payton McCarty-Simas is an author, programmer, and film critic based in New York City. They hold a Masters in film and media studies from Columbia University, where she focused her research on horror film, psychedelia, queerness, and the occult in particular. Her essays and film criticism have been featured in Film Daze, Rue Morgue, The Brooklyn Rail, and Horror Studies among others, while their short films and screenplays have been featured in several film festivals and shown at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Payton is also a member of the Online Association of Female Film Critics and the author of two nonfiction books, One Step Short of Crazy: National Treasure and the Landscape of American Conspiracy Culture and the forthcoming That Very Witch: Fear, Feminism, and the American Witch Film.

Sasha is a film programmer, lapsed filmmaker, writer, and tragically a now-former New Yorker. She is thrilled, however, to keep in touch with nyc through her work in MIX and other nyc based groups. She lives on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada, and is currently working on her PhD in political theory. She visits as much as she can.

Xavy Lang is a filmmaker and programmer from Northern Appalachia currently based in Chicago. They’ve worked with the Chicago Underground Film Festival, Le Cinéma Club, and guest programmed at Los Angeles Filmforum. As a filmmaker they make non-narrative reexaminations of familial and personal history using video and photochemical film. Place is very important to their work. They use foraged material in the development process to infuse the image with organic memory.