Dr. Sikandar Sidhu graduated from the University of Southern California with an MFA in Film & Tv Production. Before USC he was working as a General Physician in India and a stand-up comedian who was voted in the top 10 in the country and the creator of the channel Hollyshit which was voted top 10 by Youtube India in 2014.

After graduation Sikandar has worked as a writer and a director on music videos, commercials, infomercials and short films. Sikandar got his first debut Hindi feature as a writer and a director in 2021 with a psychological thriller titled, Room starring Anupam Kher(Silver Linings Playbook) and Parvin Dabbas(Monsoon Wedding). He then directed his debut English feature in November of 2021 which is a romantic comedy titled Chindia. He is the creator and director of a sitcom titled, Patel Motel which is premiering as a Cpics original series. Currently Sikandar is working on developing narrative as well as non fictional content that highlights the power of diversity through his own production company, Kailasa Productions. Sikandar Sidhu is a published author at the age of 16 with a fantasy novel which is currently in development for a series. Sikandar is an optioned writer with Suburban Entertainment, Samuel Goldwyn and Oceana studios. Currently he is in pre-production on a family comedy feature titled, Meet the Singhs which is set to begin filming in January of 2024.

Marco Valerio Antonini is a Los Angeles-based, classically trained Italian composer of music for Film, TV and Videogames. He also collaborates with composer Jeff Beal on projects such as Netflix's House of Cards and NatGeo's The Long Road Home, and Videogame composer Gordy Haab, for whom he wrote additional music for Star Wars: Battlefront II (EA), Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order (EA) and Halo Wars 2 (Microsoft). He won several awards including the prestigious Krakow Film Music Festival Young Talent Award, and the Juan Gil International Soundtrack Prize. Marco graduated from the USC Scoring for Motion Pictures and Television program, being awarded the 2015-16 USC Henry Warren Screen Composing Award. He attended the ASCAP TV & Film Scoring Workshop with Richard Bellis in Los Angeles, and was awarded for his achievements in the program. In 2018, his music was performed at the Tauron Arena in Krakow in a videogame music gala with thousands in the audience, as part of the prize for the Young Talent Award. In 2020, he completed the score for COVID-19 Ground Zero, a feature drama about the condition of frontline workers during the first wave of the coronavirus pandemic in New York City. In 2021 he joined the rich legacy of composers writing music for the long-standing video game series Star Wars: The Old Republic. In 2023, he scored the multicultural romantic action comedy Chindia, directed by Sikandar Sidhu. The score combines the tradition of acoustic romcom scoring with traditional instruments from India and China.

Ino Yang Popper is a cinematographer based in Los Angeles, and a lecturer for the Advanced Cinematography program of the Department of Cinema and Television Arts at California State University, Northridge. Her cinematography approach is committed to portraying the inner lives of the characters. She's drawn to characters that suffer from lingering in their past experiences, struggling to find their true identities and the meaning of life. Through photographing these characters, her work tends to have a fair dose of desolation, disassociation, and self-recognition.

Ino is a recent Cinematography program graduate in the class of 2020 at the American Film Institute. She holds a BA in Directing & Editing from Beijing Film Academy and an MFA in Directing & Screenwriting from the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. She previously worked as an editor for 12 years in China. Over the past 17 years working in the film industry in both China and the U.S. Ino integrated her experience in directing, editing, and screenwriting into advancing the craft of cinematography with a unique voice in visual storytelling. American Film Institute Cinematography Fellow 2020. Film Independent Project Involve Fellow 2021. Panavision Grant & Fellowship Recipient 2021.

SHRUTI TEWARI has spent over two decades in the creative arts with acting projects ranging from a Bollywood blockbuster to numerous award winning independent films. After stints in investment banking and tech, she, an MBA from Mumbai and MIA from Columbia University, changed course to authentically represent minority voices in the arts.

A member of Playground writer's pool in San Francisco, she has written several plays and screenplays. In 2020, she was selected for the Sundance Collab directors and producers programs to develop her first feature film, "Flares," the screenplay for which is an award winner at the Alliance of Women Filmmakers Scriptwriting Competition and a finalist at WeScreenplay Diverse Voices Screenwriting Lab as well as the Big Apple Film Festival. She was also a finalist at the Austin Film Festival Pitch Fest, 2020. Through her pilot and feature scripts, she has placed at the Austin Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Big Break, 1497 Screenwriting Lab and the Atlanta Film Festival screenwriting competition, among many others.

Lee Chen was born in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia of China. She got her start in acting during her elementary school years, when she toured with Chairman Mao Zedong's Communist Propaganda Performance Troupe throughout Inner Mongolia. She was of the founding year graduate students in the Chinese and American Studies Center of Johns-Hopkins University and Nanjing University, and later immigrated to the U.S. to earn a MA in Education and a MFA in theatre from the University of Hawai’i, Manoa.

As an actress in film and TV, she has appeared as a co-star and guest star in many TV shows including: AMERICAN BORN CHINESE, GOOD TROUBLE, THE MORNING SHOW, VEEP, GENTRIFIED, and ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT.

Writer, producer, and actor, AJ Singh is one of the very few Sikh-Americans navigating through Hollywood. With a background in Business Administration and Film Production, Singh recognizes the power of cinema, an ideological apparatus to deconstruct our ways of thinking, and raise awareness of cultural, social, and economic differences.

AJ has now started his own production company, Seva Films, in hopes of providing opportunities to diverse talents, both in front of the camera and behind. His upcoming feature, "Singh in the Rain" is a Hollywood Musical that takes passage through a diverse and inclusive America.

As a survivor of childhood abuse, severe depression and multiple severe health issues for most of her life. She felt hopeless and helpless. Then one day, she stumbled into a yoga class, a happenstance that saved her life.

Her name is Dimple Bindra, and today she is a FITNESS & Spiritual Coach & Founder of YogaCanHeal. For the last 12 years, She’s worked alongside multiple physicians in the SF Bay Area, applying her training as a Yoga and Meditation Coach and Medical Intuitive to help people heal physically and emotionally.

Saila, a filmmaker, writer, and entrepreneur pursued a career as an electrical engineer and builder while dreaming of filmmaking and writing. After obtaining her Ph.D. in electrical engineering, Saila worked as an engineer, manager, and marketeer at IBM and at a start-up. She also founded a residential construction company, Mukti Properties.

Saila studied film at San Jose State University and was the valedictorian of the class of 2008. She made several short films before embarking on her first feature which she wrote, directed, and co-produced. The Valley is the story of an Indian American entrepreneur seeking answers after the suicide of his daughter; it is a commentary on the anxiety and depression faced by young people, especially in Silicon Valley. It was selected by over twenty film festivals and won best feature film in four, notably being invited to the Mumbai Film Festival. The Valley is currently streaming on Peacock and Roku. Her other feature screenplays include Gods and Demons, Love in the Time of Corona, Release, Gray and Jesus Land, which is currently in development. She is a member of The Writer’s Grotto, Film Fatales, and SFFilm.