Director

Faith Ivory

is a director, creative director, toast baker, and lover of color, with a degree in Advertising, with an emphasis in "Art Direction" and a minor in graphic design from Brigham Young University.  Awarded for her work in design and art direction, she has won One Show Young One's Portfolio award, Three Bronze Art Directors Club Cubes, Addy's National Best of Show - Student, and a National Gold ADDY. Faith has also studied design in London at the University of Arts London. 

After graduating from University, she moved to Los Angeles to work for Mullenlowe for brands like Facebook, Whole Foods, and EVA Air, developing, designing, and executing worldwide campaigns for two years.  Discovering her love for film came slowly, then all at once through the production design from designers like Kave Quinn and David Wasco, Currently, she is a graduate of the American Film Institute in Production Design and working as a founder and director for Studio Newf.

Producer

Tara Austin

is a Californian filmmaker who graduated from UC Santa Barbara with a BA in Film Studies. She also holds an MA in Film Studies from Concordia University in Montreal and an MFA in producing from American Film University. Her first job was assisting director Floria Sigismondi on music video and commercial productions in LA. Austin was the 1st AD on the independent action feature THE BADGE, assisted the lead actor and producer on both RIDDICK and FAST & FURIOUS 6, and worked in the VFX department on SMURFS 2.

Cinematographer

Bailey Salwey

is a Cinematographer and Photographer from Montana. She received a dual major in Film and Photography at Montana State University in Bozeman, MT. Her passion for creating images began from painting and playing scientists in the darkroom. 

In recent years, she graduated from the American Film Institute with a master's degree in Cinematography and was an awardee of the 2021 AFI/ Audi Scholarship. Bailey strives to push the boundaries of how she views filmmaking and continues her search for humanness within a moving and still image.

Production Designer

Brian Spadafora

After completing his undergraduate degree in Studio Art at Wake Forest University, Brian studied sculpture at the Accademia di Belli Arti di Firenze as part of his core curriculum for a graduate degree in Italian Language and Culture at Middlebury College. After an internship at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, Brian acted as the production designer for a short thesis film at the London Film School. More recently, Brian assisted in the fabrication of large-scale public artworks under the direction of the Florida-based sculptor- Mark Aeling. Recently graduated with an MFA in production design from the American Film Institute.  More often than not, Brian spends most of his time staring longingly outside a window or sighing deeply after a good cup of coffee in the morning.

Editor

Marshal Granger

is an editor and storyteller from Montana, based in Los Angeles. He produced and edited the feature film WE BURN LIKE THIS, which had its world premiere at the 2021 Santa Barbara International Film Festival and screened in competition at Deauville American Film Festival in France.

He discovered his love for connecting images and sounds while working for an art house theater in Missoula, MT, studying new and classic films and creating trailers for film series. Throughout those years, he produced his own short films and documentaries before taking on the editorial for friends’ films. This passion for post-production led him to California and to the American Film Institute, where he graduated with an MFA in editing and is determined to help bring challenging, emotionally resonant stories to the world.