Adam Rosenberg, CEO of ARO Pictures. Most recently, he produced the hit animated feature film GOAT for Sony Pictures Animation and is currently overseeing a slate of projects at studios including Paramount, Sony, Netflix, and Amazon. Before ARO Pictures, Adam co-founded the production company Modern Magic with Oscar-winning writer/director Rodney Rothman. While at Modern Magic Adam served as an Executive Producer on Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut, CREED 3, for MGM and also Executive Produced SAMARITAN, directed by Julius Avery and starring Sylvester Stallone, for Amazon. Prior to that, Adam was an executive at MGM for eleven years, where he ultimately served as Co-President of Production for its Worldwide Motion Picture Group, overseeing feature film development and production. During his tenure, he oversaw such projects as CREED 1 & 2 with Ryan Coogler, Michael B. Jordan, and Sylvester Stallone, Jordan Peele’s CANDYMAN, the Aretha Franklin biopic RESPECT directed by Liesl Tommy starring Jennifer Hudson and Forest Whitaker, BAD TRIP starring Eric Andre, Little Rel and Tiffany Haddish, Antoine Fuqua’s THE MAGNIFICENT SEVEN starring Denzel Washington and Chris Pratt, Dwayne Johnson’s FIGHTING WITH MY FAMILY and HERCULES, and Jose Padilha’s ROBOCOP.

Laura Gutin, executive producer and writer. She was executive producer for the hit TV series BLACK-ISH (2014-2022), for which she received a 2018 Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series. Laura has also written for and produced such shows as NIGHT COURT (2023-2025) and BOJACK HORSEMAN for Netflix (2014). In 2024, she was a writer for the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards.

Joel Potrykus, independent film director. He has been called the "New King of Underground Cinema" and "indie cinema's patron saint of misfits." Joel has written and directed five features, including APE (2012), which won the Best New Director prize at the 2012 Locarno Film Festival, and BUZZARD (2014), which was awarded the FIPRESCI Prize at the 2014 Ljubljana International Film Festival. BUZZARD and Joel's most recent feature, VULCANIZADORA (2024), are available on the Criterion Channel. He has directed eleven short films, earned his MFA in screenwriting from Emerson College, and teaches filmmaking at Grand Valley State University.

Adam Cohen, producer and operations manager for ECHOBEND, which creates premium commercial work for national brands like Sonic, Dr. Squatch, Jimmy John’s, and more. Adam has worked as a production supervisor for Netflix and produced the independent revisionist genre film GOLDMINE (2016), currently available on Prime. Adam is an experimenter with gen AI, VR, immersive theater, and digital content for brands big and small (Solawave to Liquid Death).