Yuri Makino received a M.F.A. from New York University in Filmmaking and a B.A. with Highest Honors in Film Studies and in German Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Yuri’s award-winning films have screened nationally and internationally, on public television and in museums. She is an Associate Director and Associate Professor in the School of Theatre, Film & Television at the University of Arizona. She has also served the School as Interim Co-Director. Yuri is the recipient of the 2011 Confluence Center Innovation & Collaboration Grant, the 2009 Emerging Artist Grant from the Contemporary Forum at the Phoenix Museum, the 2000 Roy W. Dean Grant, and the 1999 Arizona Commission on the Arts Visual Fellowship.

Christine Ryan Harland has worked in International Film and Television for HBO and other networks for more than twenty years. As the manager for International Programming and Operations at HBO, she was responsible for launching networks in Latin America, South Korea and Eastern Europe. She has worked in all areas of production through her career, including as Director of Interactive Production for WCIU in Chicago, Art Department Coordinator for New Line International in France, and now as the principal of C’est Tout Films, a documentary production company based in Tucson producing branded content and documentary features. She completed her film studies in the United States at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University and in France, at ESRA, École Superior Réalisation et Audiovisuel.