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Although she started out her college career as a pre-med student, Julianna auditioned for the prestigious BFA acting program at UCSB during her first year of school and as luck would have it, she got in. During a performance of a play in Santa Barbara, Julianna was “discovered” by director Martin Denning. He asked her to come and audition at Paramount Studios for their first ever CD Rom game of Star Trek. She booked the role and was able to get her SAG card, work side by side with the original Star Trek cast and she made enough money to send herself to school abroad in London for a summer to study Shakespeare with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Since living in LA she has performed in countless plays, short films, TV shows and she’s also been the lead in a few award winning independent feature films (Aaah Zombies!, Nun, The Funeral Guest and Gunrunner Billy Kane). For her role of Emily in The Funeral Guest (available on Amazon) she won a best actress award from LA Indie Film Fest and she was nominated for a best actress award at Hoboken International Film Fest for her role of Sister Gracie Rose in Nun. Julianna has written and produced a couple of comedic short films but The Party is Julianna’s directorial debut. She owns Physical Artistry (a busy pilates studio in Santa Monica), she's a core member with Santa Monica Repertory Theatre company and she rescues cats...much to the dismay of her husband.

Lucky McKee is an award-winning screenwriter, director, and novelist best known for work in the horror genre, such as the 2002
cult hit May, the 2006 schoolgirl chiller The Woods and the notorious 2011 Sundance shocker The Woman.
In 2006 McKee joined Showtimeʼs groundbreaking anthology series MASTERS OF HORROR directing the one hour original film “Sick Girl”.
McKee also contributed a segment to the 2015 anthology film TALES OF HALLOWEEN. McKee has recently shifted his creative
sights to noir-thrillers with BLOOD MONEY starring John Cusack and the upcoming KINDRED SPIRITS starring Caitlin Stasey, Thora Birch and Macon Blair.
He has also co-authored 3 award-winning novels with Jack Ketchum: THE WOMAN, IʼM NOT SAM, and THE SECRET LIFE OF SOULS.

HENRY EVANS is a British writer born and raised on a farm in southwest London. As the first person in his family to finish high school, he went on to graduate with honors from Columbia University with an MFA in Screenwriting and Directing and a concentration in TV writing.

Before his Columbia MFA he had acted for the National Youth Theater of Great Britain, trained as an underwater videographer in Thailand, and gained a huge amount of experience as a production assistant on films including Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Guardians of the Galaxy.

He has illustrated a scene for Amazon’s The New Yorker Presents and his pilot BEYOND THE DROP won the Best Drama Teleplay award at the Columbia University Film Festival and has been shortlisted in multiple screenwriting competitions, reaching the quarter and semi-finals of the Slamdance Screenplay Competition and the Screencraft Pilot Launch Contest. His student short SHE FORGIVES has so far made it to the official selection for the Golden Door Film Festival and Screamfest.

He is currently living is L.A. and recently found representation at Writ Large.

Daniel Slottje is an award-winning writer and director from Upstate New York, currently enrolled in the graduate film program at Columbia University in the City of New York.

Slottje's screenplay, 'See Ya' was produced in Iceland and had its world premiere at Aspen Shortsfest in 2017 before later playing in film festivals around the world.

Slottje was the recipient of the Best New Director prize at the 6th Annual Columbia Gorge International Film Festival.

Slottje is a vegan and horror aficionado.

Tamara is a NY-based actress, writer, and first-time filmmaker from Philadelphia, PA whose artistry spans theater, poetry, short fiction, and TV/film. A 2017 graduate of The William Esper Studio, which was listed as one of “The 25 Best Drama Schools in 2015” in the Hollywood Reporter, Tamara completed her studies in acting, movement, and voice & speech. Before becoming a filmmaker, Tamara has also worked in the TV business at renowned networks such as NBCUniversal, BET, and HBO.

Tamara considers herself an “activist through art,” noting her affinity for creating unique and nuanced stories for the purposes of bringing awareness to important social and cultural issues not normally explored. She seeks to be a vessel for stories that uplift and entertain.

Nicholas's first short film as a writer and director, "Elevator People Bring You Up When You're Feeling Down", a sci-fi body-horror tale, played such festivals as Cannes and Santa Barbara. Most recently Nicholas produced the dark comedy "International Falls" that's currently playing various festivals and won best narrative feature at Ashland and premiered at Atlanta. Previously Nicholas directed 2nd unit and co-produced the horror feature "The Watcher" that premiered on Lifetime and Netflix, as well as producing episodes of the docu-drama series "The Warfighters" that aired on The History Channel. He has also won screenwriting prizes at the Williamsburg and Oaxaca festivals, and "The Orchard" a feature length adaptation of his short film "Orchard Girl" is currently in active development.