Anna-Lena Ponath (Eudaimonia) is a freelance filmmaker and green consultant (sustainability manager Film and TV). She first studied media science and media practice as well as sociology at the University of Bayreuth, Germany. While there, she began creating her first short film projects which were successfully screened at film festivals around Germany. After completing her Bachelor's degree, she worked as an assistant director and production assistant at a freelance production company. In 2021, she received her Master’s degree in “Studies in European Culture” with a focus on images and narratives at University of Konstanz and University of California, Berkeley and completed further training to become a certified Green Consultant. Alex Romania (Yo Obsolete) makes multidisciplinary work at the crux of expansive task and deteriorating form, investigating bodies of cultural debris amidst the invisible everyday and toxic ingestions, consuming, purging, and breaking apart. Romania’s work delves into spaces of the unimaginable, staring into the unknown to consider a crude and splendid humanity, embracing the unruly to liberate the governed body. Based in NYC, Romania has presented work and taught nationally and internationally. Mersolis Schöne (Reading Through the Body) is a German artist, researcher, and filmmaker based in Vienna, Austria. He works on film-based philosophical and scientific research as well as the communication of science and philosophy and combines these topics with experimental, poetic, and artistic forms. In 2017 he founded “Moving Thought – Film+Philosophy” ( www.movingthought.org ) to implement projects focusing on this purpose. Website: https://www.mersolisschoene.com Pioneer Winter (he/they, b. 1987) (Gimp Gait) is a Miami-based choreographer and artistic director of Pioneer Winter Collective, an intergenerational and physically integrated dance-theater company, rooted in social practice and community, queer visibility and beauty beyond the mainstream. Recognized in Dance Magazine's 25 to Watch, Pioneer Winter's work democratizes performance in public spaces, museums and galleries, stage, and film. An extension of his creative practice, Pioneer has curated and directed ScreenDance Miami Festival since 2017, presented by Miami Light Project; Pioneer’s own films screen internationally. http://pioneerwinter.com/pioneer - winter-bio KEY CREATOR BIOS - 27