Harrison Blackman is a writer and editor based in Los Angeles. Known as “a shamus of a tiger sort” at Princeton, he cut his teeth as a cub reporter in Taos, New Mexico and elevated his craft with an MFA in fiction at the University of Nevada, Reno and a Fulbright in the divided nation of Cyprus. With experience from the newsroom to the writers’ room, his work often follows noir-stained journalists out of their depth in international intrigue across the Eastern Mediterranean, or wayward architects struggling to build the world of tomorrow—whatever comes first.

Frederick Elmes has been a cinematographer of dramatic feature films, television limited series and commercials for most of his life, and is now living in New York. He was educated at Rochester Institute of Technology, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and the American Film Institute. He has collaborated with directors including David Lynch (Eraserhead, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart), John Cassavetes, Ang Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Lisa Cholodenko, Steve Zaillian, Mira Nair, and Charlie Kaufmann. His films have been shown at festivals world wide garnering numerous awards. He is currently teaching at New York University Graduate Film School.

Shana Moulton is a California-born-and-based artist who works in video, performance, and installation. In 2002, Moulton began the video series Whispering Pines, in which she performs as Cynthia, an alter-ego searching for purpose and fulfillment through home decor, self-help paraphernalia, and cosmetic rituals. Moulton has had solo exhibitions at international institutions including Palais De Tokyo, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Kunsthaus Glarus, Art in General, and MoMA. Her single-channel videos are distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and she is a featured artist on Art21: New York Close Up.

Yelena Yemchuk, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, is a New York-based visual artist. She is a photographer, filmmaker, and painter whose style is highly recognizable as it always connects the past with the present in a timeless, dreamlike, nostalgic but never melancholic way. She studied art at Parsons School of Design in New York and photography at ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena. She has exhibited photography, paintings, and films in solo and group shows at galleries and museums across the globe.

Edward Mendez is a PhD Candidate in Film and Media Studies at the University of California Irvine and co-film editor at the Brooklyn Rail. 

Laura Valenza is co-film editor at the Brooklyn Rail. Her writing has appeared in the Rail, Literary Hub, Los Angeles Review of Books, Gulf Coast Journal, and elsewhere. She has spoken about film at events hosted by TEDx, McNally-Jackson, and The Picture House theatre. She is co-host of a new podcast, The Silver Nitrate Witches' Movie Review Brew, launching in April 2025.