Carolyn Kaylor is a New York-based filmmaker, educator, and exhibition specialist, with a wealth of experience across the film industry. Currently, she serves as Senior Manager of Exhibition at the Sundance Institute and Technical Director of the Telluride Film Festival. She has worked as a projectionist, technical director and consultant for a wide range of film festivals, including Nantucket, Savannah, Hamptons, TCM, Bermuda, and Dubai International to name a few. Carolyn’s films have been shown at festivals internationally and she has taught courses in filmmaking at The Museum School, Boston College, and CalArts. Her film experience began with a job as assistant editor for the documentarian Fred Wiseman. She is passionate about the future of cinema and the preservation of the collective movie going experience and recently collaborated with Upstate Films on the purchase and renovation of a historic theater in the Hudson River Valley. Carolyn holds a BA in Philosophy and Art from Umass Boston, and an MFA from The California Institute of the Arts. more...

Erica Elson is a Producer, Writer and Educator based in the mountains outside Los Angeles. Her short film, WING NIGHT, premiered at Method Fest in Los Angeles. She is the co-author of the book THE AWKWARD HUMAN SURVIVAL GUIDE and co-hosted a podcast by the same name on the 5by5 network for five years. Elson's articles have been published by HuffPost, Lifehacker, and Reader's Digest. Prior to working in education, she worked in television development and writers’ rooms such as VH1’s HINDSIGHT, where she had the chance to write for the spinoff web series PLANET SEBASTIAN. more...