Rowan Angela Roudebush: Producer and Director
Rowan Angela Roudebush is a writer, filmmaker, musician and gardener. She is a community organizer and storyteller across mediums, and disciplines. She studies earth science and filmmaking at Wesleyan University. Her early experiences coming up against the edges of what can be said as an investigative journalist for print and radio turned her towards documentary film as a powerful subjective medium for telling urgent stories. Written on her camera is Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s call to “make the familiar strange”. She believes in art and music as working tools for revolution and as a spiritual and emotional basis to make a more livable world. Her previous work can be seen here.
Rosalina Michele: Editor, Archivist and Assistant Director
Rosalina Michele (she/her) is an independent filmmaker and writer from New Jersey. She is the co-founder of P2C Collective, alongside Justice Wilson. Their first creative effort was the publication, Femmespread Magazine, of which they are editors-in-chief. Michele’s first completed film is All Tomorrow’s Parties (2024). Here you can read selections of her work. She has contributed interview transcriptions to the New York Trans Oral History Project. Michele identifies as a first-generation American, auteur hopeful, and fifth wave transsexual. She hopes to one day concretize the first museum dedicated to preservation of trans feminine history and culture and reintroduce foam parties and discotheques to New York City nightlife.
Cecilia Dondorful-Amos: Director of Photography
Calling Cecilia Dondorful-Amos a creative would just scratch the surface of what she is: an observer. As a black autistic woman, Cecilia does not have a choice on how deeply she observes the world around her, her safety requires it. Therefore, Cecilia reclaims those survival tactics thrust upon her by using them to create stark and utterly raw art: radical observation. Along with gaining personal autonomy through her projects, Cecilia seeks to do this with the people she captures, amplifying and highlighting their voices. Cecilia has an obsessive relationship with the images she creates–still, moving, through word–they’re not just things she does, they’re things she must do. Cecilia also likes cats.
Luz “Sunshine” Hernandez: Writer
Luz Hernandez, MPH, BA, is a justice-impacted multidisciplinary artist, advocate, and public health professional whose work bridges art, healing, and policy to advance systemic transformation. She is the founder of Project Beloved, a trauma-informed initiative that merges creative expression, restorative justice, and community-based reentry to empower justice-impacted individuals, survivors of human trafficking, domestic violence, and gang involvement, as well as those affected by ACS/foster care, immigration challenges, and LGBTQ+ discrimination. Originally conceived as a collaborative policy proposal through Columbia University’s Justice Ambassadors program, Project Beloved has since evolved under her leadership into a scalable social venture dedicated to transforming pain into purpose and building pathways of healing, opportunity, and liberation. See Luz’s full professional bio linked here.
Christopher Cardinale: Illustrator
Christopher Cardinale has worked as a graphic novelist and community muralist in New York City since 2000. He illustrated the graphic novel, Mr. Mendoza’s Paintbrush, by Luis Alberto Urrea and the award winning children’s book, Which Side Are You On? The Story of a Song, by George Ella Lyon. Excerpts from journals he kept while leading murals at Rikers Island Jail were published in World War 3 Illustrated and The Guardian. He recently illustrated the book, Dorothy Day, Radical Devotion, a graphic biography by Jeffry Odell Korgen.
Damian Huffman Orpustan: Animator
Disappearing Island Film 