VINAY CHOWDHRY is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and media educator. His work includes 2004's "Line of Control" on the partition of India and Pakistan. Vinay is a faculty member at the New School University's Media Studies Program and is the Media Arts Director at LREI/Elizabeth Irwin High School. In 2004, he formed the media group Hindi Kids and started producing and directing educational DVDs to teach conversational Hindi to second and third generation South Asians. He holds an MFA from Bard College's Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, and a BA in Film and Video from Pennsylvania State University.

STEPHANIE GAROIAN is a producer of narrative and documentary films. Her work as producer on "Whole: A Trinity of Being" was recognized with the 2005 Superfest Best of Festival award and the 2006 Black Maria Film Festival Second Place award. Garoian also was chosen to create the 2006 Philadelphia International Film Festival opening trailer. She received her BA in Film and Video from the Pennsylvania State University and her MFA in Film and Media Arts from Temple University. While working as an independent producer, Garoian teaches producing and directing courses at Temple University and University of the Arts in Philadelphia, PA.

VIPAL MONGA is a filmmaker and writer living in Brooklyn, NY. His writing has appeared in international publications such as The Globe and Mail, India Magazine, and The Toronto Star. His video pieces include "Down," with Dance Theatre of Harlem dancer Tai Jimenez, chosen as a festival favorite at New York's Rooftop Film series in 2004. "The Fragile Stone Theory" premiered at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in 2002, and "My Great Descent" premiered at the Mythic Journeys 2004 conference in Atlanta. Vipal is currently working on a film about the music of renowned jazz composer Lawrence D. "Butch" Morris, and "No Family History," a documentary about the environmental causes of breast cancer. He recently completed shooting a concert in New York City for Arcade Fire, the renowned Canadian rock band.

SARITA KHURANA is an independent filmmaker and educator living in Brooklyn, NY. Sarita's work is focused on documentary and experimental narratives of South Asian history, culture, and community. She directed and produced the documentary, "Bangla East Side," about immigrant teens growing up in the Lower East Side of NY, which premiered at the Queens Museum of Art in 2004, and screened at festivals throughout the US, Europe, and India. Sarita also produced "History-Makers" (2002) about the impact of 9-11 on two local high schools, shown at the Tribeca Film Festival in 2004.

MADHURI MOHINDAR is a documentary filmmaker and journalist from Mumbai, residing in New York. She has worked on a series of films that examine the contradictory experiences of South Asian immigrants in New York City, with her second film "Red Roses" playing at a number of national an international film festivals. She has published numerous articles in the global newswire, the Inter Press Service, and is currently producing and editing media and educational tools for Breakthrough, a human rights organization that uses pop culture and education to talk about immigration in the United States and HIV/AIDS in India.

ZACHARY LUDESCHER is a freelance filmmaker who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. The first feature length documentary he edited, "LifeLink PSU: A Road to Independence" received a 2006 Mid-Atlantic Emmy Award for documentary. Zachary is currently working on "No Family History," a feature length documentary about the environmental causes of breast cancer.