Rōgan Graham is a freelance film journalist and programmer from South London, with a background in cinema marketing. Her writing has appeared in Little White Lies, i-D and Total Film and has a focus on Black British cinema and depictions of pop-stardom on screen, having recently presented a sell-out screening of Glitter (2001) at London's Barbican Centre and in 2021 was the commissioning editor of The Underground Railroad FYC awards book.

Originally hailing from Birmingham, Alabama, Laure Bender is a short film programmer and writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She has screened short films for Sundance Film Festival, SFFilm, Camden International Film Festival, and New Orleans Film Festival, among others. Presently, Laure serves as the Manager of Public Programs at Sundance Institute where she produces screenings and filmmaker events for students and emerging artists. Previously, she worked in new play development for Sundance Institute’s Theater Program. Laure is currently working on a short story, titled “Teeth.”

Soraya Nadia McDonald is the senior cultural critic for Andscape (formerly known as The Undefeated). She writes about film, television, and the arts. She is the 2020 winner of the George Jean Nathan prize for dramatic criticism, a 2020 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in criticism, and the runner-up for the 2019 Vernon Jarrett Medal for outstanding reporting on Black life. She was a contributing editor for Film Comment and has contributed criticism to Fresh Air with Terry Gross.

Soraya was a 2018 Eugene O’Neill National Critics Institute fellow and she is a member of the New York Drama Critics’ Circle, the National Society of Film Critics, and the Television Critics Association. She is a member of the board of trustees of the Eugene O’Neill Theater Center. Before joining Andscape in 2016, she covered pop culture for the Washington Post, where she focused on issues surrounding race, gender, and sexuality. Soraya graduated from Howard University with a degree in journalism in 2006. She spent six years covering sports before turning her focus to culture writing. Soraya grew up in North Carolina and lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Blair McClendon is a director, editor and writer living in New York City. His work as a filmmaker includes the award-winning essay film America for Americans, which has played in festivals and at universities in the United States and Europe, and the short narrative I'm The One Who's Singing. His editorial work spans documentary and fiction and has played at Sundance, Cannes, Tribeca, TIFF as well as other festivals around the world. He most recently edited Charlotte Wells' Aftersun. His writing has been published in n+1, The New York Times Magazine, and The New Yorker.