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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.

Daniel is a villainous knave who grew up in the jungles of Africa and the mountains of Nepal before attending Brown University and launching his New England-based film studio, Skyship Films. With a penchant for adventure and environmental action, he's tracked cartels along the rivers of Honduras, chased the elusive snow leopard through the mountains of Afghanistan, and rafted through the icebergs on unstable glacial lakes in the shadow of Everest. His documentary films have been featured at numerous international festival screenings including the Banff Mountain Film Festival and International Wildlife Film Festival.

When not in the field, Daniel has a love for crafting dark fantasy films with his narrative film studio, Dark Tower films. This includes everything from zombies in the French & Indian War (in the recently completed short film "Bloodyback") to pioneering the revolutionary new genre "Drunk Fantasy" in his web series, "DungeonBros." He also plies his directorial skills in other such abominable fashions as Dungeons and Dragons games and tarot readings.

Daniel is based in Manhattan, New York, and is currently pursuing his MFA at Columbia University.

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.

Tom Kircher discovered his love of horror and film at a young age after being terrified by the Wes Craven classic, A Nightmare on Elm Street. In the years since then, he has pursued these passions by taking extra-curricular film classes and making numerous short films in his home state of New Jersey during grade school and high school. His short horror films made during those years received festival attention, even winning best student short awards at The Garden State Film Festival and Eerie Horror Film Festival in 2013.

His love of film and genre storytelling led him to study film at Chapman University, where he graduated in 2018. It was during this time that he was able to make “The Dionaea House,” a short film adaptation of a terrifying viral story, as his senior thesis.

Michele is an award-winning writer director. A London Film Academy 2010 graduate, he has written and directed numerous short films, and the feature film “Fat Cat”.
His works have featured on publications such as EMPIRE Magazine and La Repubblica (Italy’s N.1 newspaper.)
His films have been selected and nominated in numerous Oscar-Qualifying and BAFTA-Qualifying festivals, including Sitges Film Festival, Cleveland International Film Festival, Brussels Fantastic Film Festival, BIFAN (Bucheon Fantastic Film Festival), Leeds Film Festival and many more.
He has directed content for brands such as Nike, P&G, Kiehl’s, FIAT, Campbell’s, Barilla and numerous others, including the United Nations.
Michele has recently directed the official trailer for the largest Asian film festival in Europe, the Far East Film Festival 20th.
He's currently developing his latest thriller short film Rain Catcher, starring Jo Hartley (This is England, Eddie the Eagle) and Dudley O’Shaughnessy, into a feature film.

Carlota Pereda has spent her career working in TV fiction. She has been a screenwriter and script supervisor for series such as Periodistas and Motivos Personales, has directed series,”El secreto de Puente Viejo”, LEX and Lalola and has worked as [realizadora] on series such as Los Hombres de Paco, Red Eagle, Luna, the Mystery of Calenda and B&b, de boca en boca. Her fist short, The Blondes, was selected in over 137 festivals worldwide and/or awarded in prestigious festivals such as Medina del Campo, La semana del Corto, Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de Soria or CortoEspaña. “Piggy” is her second short film as a director and already has several selections in screenwriting festivals such as Oaxaca Film Festival (nominated for “Perfect Page” and “best international Screenplay”), Austin Film Festival, Busca Film Festival, Shriekfest, GenreBlast,Austin Revolution Film festival and WeScreenplay, amongst others.

Danny Isaacs:
Danny graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in film theory & rhetoric, and although he understood how to tell a story, he had no clue how to make a movie. So he did what any good jewish boy would do: he became an attorney. Since law school, he reignited his flame for filmmaking and learnt his craft by shadowing industry friends on film sets. He has written & directed several award winning shorts, web series and sketch comedies. Immortal is his first venture into drama.
Jon Dabach:
After attending UCLA film school, Jon was fortunate enough to find a niche in the market creating animation and pilots for Mtv, G4tv and VH1. After a successful run of it for a couple years Jon settled down made the crazy decision to have four kids. 8 years and one vasectomy later Jon has turned back to filmmaking as an excuse to get out of the house and has found himself at home both writing and directing with actual actors instead of cartoon characters this time around.
Rob Margolies:
Rob Margolies has been an icon to ULB indie films since 2007 after graduating from Chapman University where he was mentored by William Friedkin. Rob has written, directed and produced feature films including She Wants Me, Lifelines, Roommate Wanted, Never Heard, I’d Like to Be Alone Now, Weight, Yes, and Immortal. Look out for many other films in pre-production.

Tom Colley is a filmmaker and cinematographer who grew up in Dallas Texas. He received a BFA from MICA in Baltimore Maryland where he produced the groundbreaking documentary “12 O’Clock Boys”. Tom cut his teeth in production on documentaries, television and commercial work in Baltimore and DC before moving to Los Angeles where he has made a career for himself as a union camera operator. When not operating camera or directing photography for network television shows he is developing and directing indie scripted projects.