Marcus is a cinematographer from Birmingham, Alabama with a penchant for textured and emotional imagery. He received his MFA from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and Television where he was nominated for the ASC Student Heritage Award and won the 2017 Norris Film Foundation Award. His feature The Way You Look Tonight premiered at Cinequest Film Festival and went on to play Atlanta, Nashville, and Dances with Films. Most recently, he shot Farah Shaer’s Soukoon which premiered at Telluride Film Festival in 2019.

Born and raised in Pune, India, Aishwarya Sonar is a producer, actor and writer working at the intersection of US Projects focused on identity and humanity. Prior to moving to Los Angeles, she worked with Priyanka Chopra’s Purple Pebble Pictures, assisting on national award-winning film, Ventilator. Her feature, normal., was distributed by Buffalo 8 after premiering at Oscar qualifying LAAPFF. Three's Definitely a Crowd, a short, has been one of the top 10 films to watch on disney+/hotstar in India.

She recently produced a short, Happy Rakhi , as part of the CAPE and Janet Yang Productions short film fund. Her other award winning shorts are distributed at ShortsTV, Disney+ Hotstar, MX player, Jio Cinema, Seed&Spark, LesFlicks. With 7 years of combined experience in India and LA, Sonar currently has a slate of projects (TV, Film, documentary) in development under her production, Lambe Log Productions.

Shaurya Nanavati is a producer and Vice President of Content Analysis in Lionsgate's Motion Picture Group. He manages the greenlighting process and provides guidance to drive content, distribution, and strategy decisions. Prior to his work at Lionsgate, he managed a music publishing company, wrote & toured as a musician, and, as a CPA, worked in public accounting at PwC in Texas.

Shaurya considers himself a citizen of the world - born in India and raised between Mumbai and Houston. Providing cultural touch points and a common thread upon which many of his relationships formed, media and entertainment remains a fixture in his life. He aspires to bring to life content that will provide similar opportunities for finding common ground to the next generation of global citizens to create and live in our shared world.