Andre Hörmann is an documentary filmmaker and has been awarded at many prestigious international festivals
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Anna Samo is an award-winning filmmaker with screenings around the world such as Berlinale, Annecy, Stuttgart, Zagreb, Encounters FF, Cork FF, Aspen Shortsfest etc.
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Dayna Reggero is an award-winning filmmaker, creative activist, and founding director of the Climate Listening Project.
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Jessica Villatoro is a student at The University of North Carolina at Asheville and is one the organizers for March for Our Lives here in Asheville and Students Demand Action.
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Justin Robinson is a Grammy award-winning musician and vocalist, cultural preservationist, and historic foodways expert.
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Cofounder and Lead instructor of JB Media Institute and President of Creative Original, Inc Sarah Benoit has worked in the web design, SEO, and social media fields since 2003 and has been teaching classes on related subjects since 2006.
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The artist and photographer Viviane D'Avilla, was born in the city of Rio de Janeiro and holds a degree in journalism, specializing in photojournalism.
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A native of Wagram, North Carolina, John Memory formed the folk-singing trio The Huntsmen in the Spring of 1962 while an undergrad at Wake Forest University.
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The lone entry in David S. Mull’s discography is a doozie—the self-released 45 “Far From Home” b/w “Some Guys Have All The Luck,” recorded in 1974 at David Rumsfeld’s Country Roads Studios in Marion, NC.
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Through the use of overdubs and overnight openings at far flung recording studios, Dan Lewis created the provate-press masterpiece, Towards the Light in 1979—one of only a handful of purely local musical artifacts that document Asheville’s underground music scene during the ’70s.
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Matt Arnett is an art historian, filmmaker, music producer, and curator, whose primary interest is in the art and culture of the African American South.
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Ellen’s passion for the medium of film is the result of both her personal journey and her professional career as a film development and acquisitions executive and producer. For more than 20 years, Ellen has worked at screening, programming, acquiring, developing and producing films.
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River Whyless, the North Carolina-bred folk-rock outfit has discovered their evolution is a subtler albeit monumentally important one.
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Shaye Moessner is the Director of Markets & Strategies for SameSide, the platform for activism through music, arts, and culture.
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Ehren Cruz is the Artistic Director & Co-Event Director for LEAF Community Arts, a non-profit that has for 24 years has served WNC with a mission to connect cultures, create community, and enrich lives through music & arts.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ashley Cooper believes in the goodness of humans — in our abilities to collaboratively address the complex challenges we face and care for one another along the way.
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Ben Rekhi is an award-winning filmmaker of mixed Indian and American descent. After working with the Coen bros. in the camera department of O Brother, Where Art Thou? Rekhi was hired by George Clooney to shoot the behind the scenes for Confessions of a Dangerous Mind.
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Lana Garland has worked as a Creative Director, Director, and Writer/Producer in television and film in the US and Europe, creating content for HBO, BET, and ESPN in America, and TV2 in Denmark.
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Alli Marshall is the the arts editor of the Asheville-based alternative newsweekly Mountain Xpress. She’s also a poet, fiction writer, and spoken word artist. She’s the author of the 2015 novel How to Talk to Rockstars, the 2017 chapbook It All Comes Rushing Back, and a number of zines.
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