Meg LeFauve is an Oscar-nominated writer and Peabody award-winning producer. She was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for co-writing the script for Pixar's INSIDE OUT, also wrote the script for THE GOOD DINOSAUR which was nominated for a Golden Globe. She also worked on CAPTAIN MARVEL, and most recently she wrote the script for Netflix/Cartoon Saloon's MY FATHER'S DRAGON (2022) which is nominated for two Annie Awards. Meg has also been a consultant to Screen New South Wales and Screen Australia and has been a mentor at many writing labs, including The Sundance Labs, Cinestory Script Sessions, and the Meryl Streep Lab.

Lorien McKenna is an Emmy-nominated and NAACP Image Award-winning writer. Most recently, she was the Showrunner for the Emmy-winning YouTube/Kids at Play preschool show TAB TIME. She’s sold live-action and animated TV shows to NBC, Hulu, Comedy Central, and Netflix, and her feature HOW TO SET A FIRE AND WHY, based on the novel by Jesse Ball, has Raffey Cassidy attached to star. She has written two Red Raion projects and is in development on a third. She is currently in development on an animated project with Rideback and Titan1A producing based on the Zomben Comic books. As a Story Manager at Pixar Animation Studios, Lorien worked on UP, BRAVE, INSIDE OUT, and THE GOOD DINOSAUR.

Sheila Hanahan Taylor is a founding partner and producer at Practical Pictures, a feature film/television production company established in 2004. With over 25 feature films under her belt, including the Australian-set, box office hit ODDBALL, and the AMERICAN PIE, CATS & DOGS, and FINAL DESTINATION franchises, her films have grossed over $2 Billion in Worldwide Box Office. Her movies have been screened and awarded in competitions at many worldwide fests including Toronto, Beijing, Seattle, Miami, Chicago, Mill Valley, Tumbleweeds, and Heartland.

Pat Verducci is a screenwriter, film director and story consultant. She has worked with Academy Award winning screenwriters, and also newbies who are working on their first book or screenplay. Pat has penned scripts for Touchstone Pictures, Witt Thomas Productions, and Disney’s animation division. She wrote and directed a feature film for Trimark Pictures, and co-produced the award-winning documentary “Somewhere Between”. Pat teaches screenwriting in the MFA programs at UCLA and the American Film Institute and serve as a mentor at the Meryl Streep/Nicole Kidman funded Writer’s Lab in New York.

Jeffrey wrote and directed ALWAYS, LOLA, his feature directorial debut, which won multiple awards during its 2022 festival circuit. The coming-of-age camping dramedy closed The Boston Film Festival where it screened alongside DON'T WORRY DARLING in its US Premiere. The film was sold to Good Deed Entertainment, debuting globally on VOD in November 2023 with a 100% critics rating on Rotten Tomatoes. In 2016, he optioned a half hour comedy that was eventually produced. That pilot presentation screened at multiple festivals, winning an award of excellence from the Best Shorts Film festival, among others.

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