Jake Bradbury: As a child, I was conditioned to relate to others through storytelling. That’s just the way my family did things. For my dad, that meant long-winded tales of Maine told in the regional dialect he grew up with. For me, film became the ultimate form of communication. As an 11-year-old, during a family screening of “Strange Days” my father said, “You know, people get paid to make movies.” I went on to graduate from UCSC with the highest honors in film for my Japanese costume epic, “Vengeful Spirit.” After graduation, the move to Los Angeles was inevitable. For the past 16 years I’ve had the opportunity to work with incredible talent from all corners of film and television. More recently, I’ve done work for Netflix, Maxim, and CBS as a Senior Content Producer. I’ve directed and produced more than 50 short films, 10 of which have won film festival awards. I’ve written 3 feature length screenplays and been reviewed in Indie Wire, Filmmaker Magazine and NoFilmmaker. Toni Blando: I was raised on classic Disney animated films and fell in love with the sophistication of the art form. I started making picture books before I could even spell. I would tell my mom what I wanted each page to say so she could write the words for me, and I would draw the pictures. That passion grew into making comics of my own and filming silly movies with my friends as a teen. I would later pursue independent animation and comic book projects while studying comedy writing at Second City in Chicago. I moved to LA in 2021 where I’d study comedy at UCB and sell my first horror screenplay. Read less