January Rogers is a Mohawk/Tuscarora writer and media producer. She lives in Six Nations of the Grand River where she operates Ojistoh Publishing and Productions. January combines her literary talents with her passion for media making to produce audio and video poetry. Her video poem Ego of a Nation won Best Music Video at the American Indian International Film Festival 2020 and her sound art The Battle Within won Best Experimental Audio with imagine Native International Film and Media Festival 2021.

She is a literary mentor with Audible’s Indigenous Writers Circle since 2022. January wrote, produced and directed the 10-episode comedy series NDNs on the Airwaves (found on the Ojistoh youtube channel) and her play Blood Sport, a comedy about the pretendian crisis in Indian Country has received numerous stage readings and was published by Turtle’s Back Publishing in 2023. January also has a background in radio production and is part of the 2024 and 2025 A Day to Listen hosted by the Downie Wenjack Fund. She guest-hosted 10 episodes of the Kim Wheeler show on SiriusXM The Indigiverse through the summer of 2024, and produced 6 episodes of Words and Culture (The Haudenosaunee language series) with SiriusXM in January 2024.

In 2025 she received an Indigenous Arts Award nomination from the Ontario Arts Council in recognition of her scope of work spanning over 30 years and was awarded an Indigenous Niagara Outstanding Achievement Award for Performing Arts in September 2025.

Moriah HánJiāXiù Hayes (they/she/he) has worked on a variety of narrative, documentary, and educational film projects. Moriah’s Tlingit name is Keeyées Tláa, and they are Wooshkeetaan, Eagle/Wolf clan, Áak’w Ḵwáan of the Auke Bay region in Juneau, Alaska.

As a queer Indigenous filmmaker, they have a strong passion for amplifying truths that have been historically undermined, underrepresented, and pushed aside throughout the cinematic medium. Their first documentary feature is a student film, California to Ghana (2018), and they are currently entering the festival circuit for their newest documentary feature: Dear Alaska,. In 2022, they served as the Art Director for Zeinabu irene Davis’ short film Pandemic Bread (2023).

This is their fifth year as the Pacific Arts Movement’s Reel Voices Media Arts Instructor, teaching documentary filmmaking to high schoolers. They founded the production company, Shark House Cinema, named in honor of the Tóos Hít, Shark House. Moriah graduated from UC San Diego with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication and a double minor in Ethnic Studies and Native American & Indigenous Studies. With a wide variety of film projects, it’s Moriah’s lifelong goal to create a strong enough ripple in the film industry to inspire, encourage, and amplify the many stories that are longing to be told.

Tara Audibert is a multidisciplinary artist & filmmaker with 25+yrs experience in animation, comics and fine art. She combines Traditional First Nations Art and Storytelling with contemporary design and digital mediums.

Tara is the creator/writer/director/producer of Lil Glooscap and the Legends of Turtle Island (2022), and currently in production of the feature film Qaqsoss naka Wahuntuhsis (Fox and the Tiny Demon) to be released in 2024. Award-winning works include animated short films I am the Warrior (2021), The Importance of Dreaming (2017), comics This Place: 150 Years Retold (2019), and Lost Innocence (2011) which has been placed in the Archives of Canada, Nitap: Legends of the First Nations a storytelling app.

She has worked in TV animation on Gemini award winning Oliver’s Adventures (2002-2005), Delilah & Julius (2005-2008), Johnny Test (2009). Books include Loaf the Cat goes to the Pow Wow (2023), the award winning Jo Jo Makoons series(2021-2023), Fiddleheads for Fox (2019) and Moonbeam (2020). She is of hybrid Wolastoqey-French heritage residing in Sunny Corner, NB.

Judith Schuyler is a writer-director and filmmaker from the Onyota’a:ka (Oneida) Nation, currently focused full-time on developing her craft in screenwriting and directing. Her debut short film, Love Kills, was a horror story about a Native teenage serial killer, an homage to 1980s slasher films. In 2022, she wrote, directed, and starred in Once Upon a Time in the Bay, a dramatic gay comedy shot in Aotearoa (New Zealand), which screened at the Inside Out 2SLGBTQ+ Film Festival, among many others.

Her latest project, There is Light an Indigenous dark fairy tale blending live-action and VFX was completed in late summer of 2025. Schuyler won the Pitch Please! competition for the film at the Inside Out Festival in 2023.

She is currently in post-production with her dramatic short film Lakeni’ha’ (My Father), developed through the imagineNATIVE Screenwriting Lab and winner of the short film pitch competition at the Forest City Film Festival 2023. The film is set for release in 2026.

Her first feature film script, Strippers Have No Names, is currently in development with support from Telefilm Canada. The story explores the sexual exploitation of Indigenous women and the loss and reclamation of Indigenous values. Schuyler is also developing a spiritual horror/thriller, continuing to expand her voice across genres while remaining rooted in Indigenous storytelling.