Nava Mau is an award-winning filmmaker, actress, and cultural worker from Mexico City and San Antonio, Texas. Nava wrote, produced, directed, and starred in WAKING HOUR (Outfest 2019) and ALL THE WORDS BUT THE ONE (Iris Prize 2024), two short films that screened in festivals around the world. She was a Production Fellow for the Netflix documentary DISCLOSURE (Sundance 2020), and worked as a producer on the short film WORK (Tribeca 2022). She has also appeared as a series regular in the HBO Max series GENERATION (2021), and the award-winning Netflix limited series BABY REINDEER (2024), for which she received Emmy and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress and won the coveted Independent Spirit Award for Best Supporting Performance in a New Series. For eight years, Nava worked in the fields of healing justice and culture change with community-based service providers, student organizations, and survivors of violence. She first worked with immigrant survivors as a legal assistant, and then as a peer counselor and advocate for LGBTQ survivors of violence in the San Francisco Bay Area. Nava has been recognized with awards from PFLAG National, the Hispanic Heritage Foundation, and the Critics Choice Association. more...

Moi Santos is the Manager for the Equity, Impact, and Belonging Program at Sundance Institute. She is the founder of the Trans Possibilities Intensive, an incubator program that provides a supportive environment for transgender artists of color to work on their projects, sharpen their craft, develop community and challenge the obstacles that continue to exclude transgender artists of color. Moi was one of the curators for the Queer Rhapsody Film Series, a community-led film series celebrating contemporary LGBTQIA+ cinema. She holds a degree in Ethnic Studies with a concentration in visual culture and gender studies from the University of California, Berkeley. more...