Emmett Jack Lundberg (he/they) is a queer and trans filmmaker and lifelong film fanatic whose work has been compared to Andrew Haigh and Wong Kar-Wai, and whose series BROTHERS was dubbed by The Advocate, “Among the boldest and frankest representations of trans male love on-screen to date.” His films have screened at the LA Film Festival, Austin Film Festival, Outfest, New Orleans Film Festival and more, while his scripts have been recognized at the Nashville Film Festival, Hollyshorts, Coppola’s Zoetrope Contest, among others. After an almost 20-year-stint in New York City, he finds himself happy to call Portland, OR home for this moment.
Sheyam Ghieth (she/they) is a queer Egyptian-American abolitionist, known for art and design on Hulu/A24’s Ramy, FX’s The Americans, Netflix’s Orange Is The New Black; and for producing and co-directing the award-winning web series BROTHERS about a group of transmasc friends. Sheyam is making art about the role of diaspora children in collective liberation; creating and disseminating anti capitalist and anti mass-death propaganda; and is on the steering committee of the new SWANA Rose Pdx Culture + Community Center.