Bridget Besaw is a New England Emmy-nominated filmmaker and founder of Seedlight Pictures. She enjoyed a career as an award-winning photographer, capturing stories for Smithsonian, Newsweek, Time, Forbes, and National Geographic, among others. As a Nikon Ambassador and Leica sponsored photographer, Bridget created large scale documentary projects for The Nature Conservancy in all corners of the globe. Her first independent film project culminated in the Growing Local series (2015), and screened to acclaim at festivals nationwide. Her short film Seeding a Dream (2015), won several audience choice awards and was a finalist for the DCEFF Eric Moe Sustainability Award. Her two shorts, Guided and The Nature of Maps, both toured the 2016-2017 festival circuits winning audience choice awards. Bridget’s feature doc in progress The Mountain & the Magic City, was supported by the LEF Foundation and invited to the Points North Institute Fellowship and the PNI/TFI Retreat. Named one of “25 Screenwriters to Watch” by Austin Film Festival, Par Parekh is an Indian American filmmaker working in both nonfiction and narrative film. His debut documentary feature Sister Úna Lived A Good Death airs on PBS’ Independent Lens in February 2024 and can soon be found on PBS Passport and Amazon Prime. Six years in the making, the film was supported by ITVS and won the inaugural PBS/Firelight William Greaves Production Fund grant. Par was co-writer and producer of Glory at Sea, winner of the Wholphin Best Short Film Award at SXSW and named one of The Greatest Films of All Time by Everything Everywhere All At Once director Daniel Scheinert for British Film Institute / Sight and Sound. Par’s filmmaking has taken him all over the world, from Haitian disaster zones and New Orleans second lines to Himalayan peaks and Icelandic archaeological digs. His comedic short The Happy premiered at SeriesFest and has been described by Film Daily as “a good laugh for anyone who’s lost,” with “honest and personal charm.” Commercial work includes spots for Beyoncé, Willie Nelson, Bergdorf Goodman, and Neiman Marcus.