Anayansi Diaz-Cortes, John Dilworth, Ali Hossaini, and Gregory Pace

Anayansi is currently the Programs & Content Associate at Arts Engine. She works on putting together the Media That Matters film festival,?curates content for MediaRights.org and organizes workshops, panels and conferences around social issue media, independent film, impact and distribution. Anayansi has a background in International Affairs and Latin American Studies and came to New York City because she thought a graduate degree from the global media hub would "really" teach her the extent to which media influences international social policy. She has found that getting good stories to key spaces can have more social impact than eighty dissertations. Apart from working on programs and content for Arts Engine, she has discovered a new found love for the story-telling power of audio. She?ulti-tasks with some amazing projects at Radio Diaries, a non-profit organization dedicated to documenting people's live for National Public Radio.

John Dilworth

Academy Award nominated director John R. Dilworth is a New York-based animation director and designer whose work has appeared on HBO, FOX, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon, MTV, Canal +, and Arte, as well as the Museum of Modern Art, and the Guggenheim Museum in New York City. He has produced thirteen award-winning independent and sponsored films, which have screened around the world, including "The Dirdy Birdy," "The Chicken From Outer Space," and ìLife in Transition.îÝ Dilworth is also the creator of the top-rated Cartoon Network series, "Courage the Cowardly Dog."

Ali Hossaini

Ali Hossaini is a philosopher, filmmaker and television executive. He serves as executive producer at Voom HD Networks, where he manages Equator HD, a channel that features global adventure and green living. In 2004 he launched LAB HD, a high-definition channel devoted to avant-garde work, and developed the Voom Portraits, directed by Robert Wilson, which includes performances by Johnny Depp, Salma Hayek, Brad Pitt, Winona Ryder, Princess Caroline of Monaco, Juliette Binoche and other cultural icons. He is an active scholar, writing on the origin and philosophy of optics and, and a filmmaker who works in experimental idoms. His avant-garde feature, Epiphany, debuted at Anthology Film Archives in 2006, and was exhibited at the Museum of the Moving Image in March, 2007.

Gregory Pace

Greg Pace started his career producing a local TV show with youth at risk on Long Island.  He later met Alec Baldwin and was hired as his assistant and soon after promoted to Director of Production for Baldwin's El Dorado Pictures, where he developed and identified new projects. He was Associate Producer on The Confession, with Baldwin and Ben Kingsley and served as a liaison between Baldwin and various studios and producers during the filming of Ghosts of Mississippi, The Edge and Mercury Rising. He left El Dorado to start his own production company, Kismet Films, where he produced Race for Glory The Story of Drill Team Racing, Overnight Sensation, Don't Explain and Seven and a Match (assoc prod), as well as three short films: including one with Joel Schumacher Productions. The company is in development on several features and in production on its second documentary.  With Kismet's commercial/corporate division, he has produced commercial spots and corporate films for clients including Proctor and Gamble, Stacy¹s Pita Chip Co (a Frito-Lay company), J.A. Henckels Cutlery and Cable Positive. He has won a ProMax Golden Muse Award, TV Cares Award from Television Academy of Arts and Sciences, an ADDY and a TELLY award for his commercial productions. In 2003 Pace founded the Golden Wagon Film Festival and was appointed to the Suffolk County Film Commission in 2004.  Pace received his Bachelor's degree from Syracuse University and has a Master's in film and television production.