Founder and publisher of Women and Hollywood, an initiative and website that educates, advocates, and agitates for gender diversity and inclusion in Hollywood and the global film industry. She is a speaker and consultant with extensive expertise in the area of women and Hollywood. She is the Artistic Director and Co-Founder of The Athena Film Festival at Barnard College.

As a graduate of Howard University, Carla Renata is a member of Critics Choice Association, AAFCA, AWFJ, OAFFC and is the Host/Creator of The Curvy Critic with Carla Renata at Black Hollywood Live. She has been featured and/or a contributor to LA Times, Variety, Ebony.com, Crisis Magazine, Maltin on Movies and RogerEbert.com.

An award-winning entertainment journalist, film critic, writer and editor. She writes for FF2 Media, Cultured Focus Magazine, Montana Press and has her own entertainment blog. She is a film critic for CherryPicks. She is supporter of the Support Women Artists Now (SWAN) movement and has covered the Oscars representing the SWAN movement two years in a row.

Matt Fagerholm is an Assistant Editor at RogerEbert.com, publisher of Indie-Outlook.com and longtime member of the Chicago Film Critics Association. He has covered film festivals in Toronto, the Czech Republic, Iceland and around the US.

Deborah Kampmeier is an award-winning filmmaker. "Tape" is her fourth feature film. Deborah's first feature “Virgin,” starring Elisabeth Moss and Robin Wright was nominated for two 2004 Independent Spirit Awards, including Best Actress for Elisabeth Moss and the John Cassavetes Award. Her second feature, “Hounddog,” starring Dakota Fanning and Robin Wright was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. Deborah’s third feature, “SPLit,” won Best of Show at the 2016 Female Eye Film Festival and was nominated for the Independent Vision Best Film at the 2016 Sarasota Film Festival. Kampmeier made her television directorial debut on Ava DuVernay’s critically acclaimed series “Queen Sugar” in 2019 and followed immediately with two episodes of DuVernay's new series "Cherish the Day." Deborah is prepping her next feature “Dirt Rhapsody,” as well as her limited series "Pilgrim"s Wilderness."