Sarah Vick is an accomplished XR producer and entertainment technology business leader. As Business Lead and Executive Producer for Intel Studios, Sarah brought immersive cinematic experiences to the Sundance Film Festival, SXSW, Tribeca Film Festival, Venice Film Festival, and Cannes XR. Her first project Runnin’, a collaboration with Reggie Watts, won the “Best of Interactive” Award at SXSW after premiering in the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier. Her subsequent project Grease XR, a collaboration with Paramount Pictures directed by Randall Kleiser, won the Lumiere Award for Best Use of Augmented Reality in a Musical Experience.

Sarah is a sought-after speaker, sharing her experience in integrated collaboration between storytellers and technologists at forums including CES, Sundance, and CannesXR.  A longtime advocate for diversity and inclusion, Sarah also speaks to the advantages of representative voices in emerging media with past engagements including AWE, Venice Film Festival, and Hulu.

Sarah is currently a VP of Strategic Growth & Development at Peacock and previously held positions as the Senior Director of Digital Strategy at CNN and a leader of Strategic Growth at Hulu. Vick holds a B.S. in Physics from Stanford University and an MBA from the Sloan School of Management at MIT, where she was awarded with the prestigious Siebel Scholar.  Sarah is also a Fulbright Scholar and a DAAD Scholar.

Laura Lionetta is a film director, writer and producer, as well as the head of Gorgoness Films.  Her first film, The Strawberry Jam, won the Chicago Arthouse Charlie Chaplin Award for Best Short Film of 2023, and her second short, The Folly of Paris, or, the Original Snub, will premiere in competition at the Oscar-qualifying Cleveland Film Festival in April 2024.  Laura is also a Miami-based attorney and a long-standing supporter of independent film.  She is an annual donor to the Sundance Film Festival and Miami Film Festival and regularly hosts events at the Cannes International Film Festival. Laura served on the board of directors of FilmGate Miami, a non-profit organization in the virtual reality and augmented reality space, where she advised on financial and strategic opportunities in the local and national film community.

Laura holds a J.D. from Yale Law School.  Publications of her innovative legal theories have earned several prestigious awards, including the Burton Award in 2017 and designation for the best student article on restructuring law published in America in 2014.  Laura holds a B.S. from Stanford University in biochemistry, and in 2014 led the team representing the United States in the Left Bank Bordeaux Cup, a blind wine-tasting competition hosted by Baron Rothschild.

Bernice Yu is a corporate lawyer, real estate professional, and film enthusiast based in Ithaca, New York who brings years of experience in corporate structuring and capital raising to the Strawberry Jam executive team.  She has attended numerous independent film festivals over the last decade, including the Sundance Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival, and made her first foray into film production with The Strawberry Jam.

Most recently in her legal career, Bernice was a lawyer at Helbraun & Levey LLP, a boutique law firm in New York, where she counseled entrepreneurs and established players in the hospitality industry on a wide range of transactional legal matters.  Prior to her work at Helbraun Levey, she led multi-billion-dollar, cross-border private equity fund formations in the New York and Hong Kong offices of Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP.  Bernice is currently pursuing a master’s degree in real estate at Cornell University’s SC Johnson College of Business.  She holds a J.D. from Yale Law School and a B.A. in Economics and Philosophy from Pomona College and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Yelba Adumbire is a film producer and has been the head of communications, research & data analytics for Gorgoness Films since its inception in 2022.  Her film credits include The Strawberry Jam and The Folly of Paris, Or, the Original Snub.  

Yelba manages business affairs as an authorized agent for Gorgoness. Among other things, she liaises with SAG reps, runs actor payroll, and advises on the finer points of compensation packages with actors.  She stepped into an active on-set role on the short film The Folly of Paris, Or, the Original Snub, acting as the point person for the film’s ensemble cast of ten, managing call times, all actor on-set needs, liaising between HMU and the first AD, and as any producer, putting out fires at all stages of film production.

In her research role, Yelba coordinates research and execution on everything from film locations to festivals to private investor events and film promotional opportunities.  Her training in data analytics gives Gorgoness an edge at the development stage by empowering quantitative and qualitative research in assessing audience interest within a narrow subgenre, identifying target reference films, and positioning a project optimally for investors.

Yelba has attended Sundance Film Festival as a representative of Gorgoness Films, co-hosted private screenings and investor events in New York, Park City, and Miami, and looks forward to adding several more festivals to her calendar in 2024.

Shannon Corey is a freelance casting director based out of New York City. A musical theatre enthusiast hailing from Chicago, IL, she discovered her passion while performing at the Writer’s Theatre and the Lyric Opera of Chicago. This led her to Vanderbilt University, where she earned her degree in Vocal Performance, Theatre, and Corporate Strategy. After leaving Vanderbilt, she moved to New York and in 2017, completed the Tepper Semester Casting Apprenticeship program through Syracuse University while interning at Telsey & Company.

Since then, Shannon has been fortunate enough to work with the most inspiring and empowering casting teams throughout NYC & LA. She attributes her success to the strong women and offices she has worked for, including ABC, CBS, Bialy/Thomas, Cindy Tolan, Rori Bergman, and Julie Schubert. Shannon’s most notable projects include Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story, Love Life and Mrs. Fletcher for HBO, Kaleidoscope and Manifest for Netflix, The Walking Dead: World Beyond (AMC), and the feature film Cabrini, set for release in 2024.

Shannon cast her first independent feature film with Music for the Requiem Mass, and her first short film for Gorgoness Films, The Folly of Paris, or, The Original Snub, and is currently serving as casting director for Junction Films’ Skin Deep.

Sarah Meziane is a designer and creative director with over a decade of experience across a breadth of media in the fields of art, products, and branding.  As a creative director with L’Oreal, Sarah managed concept design, direction, and execution of company creative assets.  She has specialized experience in graphic and package design, and most recently in millinery (hat design and construction), and now works as a freelance designer across a range of artistic projects and media, including film production design.

Sarah grew up in Clermont-Ferrand, France and has spent extensive time in Morocco.  She holds a BTS in multimedia visual communication from the École de Condé Lyon and numerous certificates from the New York Fashion Institute of Technology in web design, graphic design, and millinery.  She currently splits her time between New York City and Park City, Utah.

Hsin-Hua Wang (汪新樺）is an LA-based Taiwanese composer and multi-instrumentalist whose work spans films, animation, musicals, and chamber and orchestral music, among many other mediums. She has composed and orchestrated for short films and animations worldwide, including work in the United States, Portugal, the Czech Republic, India, and Taiwan. She was named a finalist in Composers for Opera/ Theater/ Film/ Dance, Professional divisions, 2021, and was awarded the Judges’ Citation: “Special Achievement in music for animation” by The American Prize.  In addition, Hsin-Hua was named a semi-finalist at the 2021 California Independent Film Festival Film Scoring Competition and “Sound of Silences: A Competition of Musical Composition for The Moving Image” by Edison Studio; the Cineteca di Bologna (Film Archive of Bologna); and the 2019 Romaeuropa Festival in Italy.

Hsin-Hua is recognized as an emerging composer to the modern classical music scene. A highlight of her recent engagements is a recording session of her original chamber work by the internationally renowned Arditti Quartet.

Hsin-Hua holds a MFA in Music Theory and Composition from the California Institute of The Arts. She performed Balinese gamelan as an ensemble member of “Burat Wangi” at the 2018 premiere of the Academy Award-nominated documentary film Bali: Beats of Paradise.  Before moving to the US, Hsin-Hua received a B.S. in Industrial Design from the National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.