Alex Kronstein is an autistic filmmaker, producer, entrepreneur and activist. He is the founder of KronAuteur Films, a boutique production company dedicated to nonfiction storytelling. His work focuses on documentaries and factual series that explore social justice, disability representation, and Atlantic Canadian stories with both creative vision and social impact. Alex is currently developing a feature documentary examining the harms of ABA therapy, a docuseries on the history and future of Nova Scotia’s cooperative movement, and a factual series on outdoor adventuring for autistic teens and tweens. With a passion for building inclusive narratives, Alex is committed to reshaping how underrepresented voices are heard on screen.

Anna Quon is a Mad poet, novelist, workshop facilitator and sometime filmmaker living in Kjipuktuk (Halifax), Canada, with her nonagenarian Dad and several ailing houseplants. She loves to practise a variety of creative arts, but at the moment, as HRM Poet Laureate (2024-27) she’s focusing on poetry. Quon has published three novels with Invisible Publishing, one slim volume of poems, Body Parts, with Gaspereau Press, and received several poetry commissions from the CBC Creators’ Network. She admits, however, that self-publishing her own poetry zines and creating simply animated films of her poems has, though messy, sparked the most joy.

Chris Turner is an award-winning writer and producer based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His films have been screened at over 90 festivals worldwide, including the Atlantic International Film Festival (AIFF) and the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF), winning more than 30 awards. Featured on platforms such as CBC, Bravo!, and Belfast TV, his projects display a diverse and impactful storytelling style. A graduate of Dalhousie University and the Vancouver Film School, he has trained in sketch, stand-up, and improv at the Upright Citizens Brigade. His writing spans publications in SlackJaw and Frazzled, an award-winning comic book series, and a #1 Amazon horror bestseller.

Cortney S. Cassidy is an emerging painter, based in Mi’kma’ki (Halifax, Canada). Their paintings involve bright colour palettes, movement, gender ambiguous forms and imagined environments to explore sense and perception, translated through a queer body. They have a wide range of experience in arts facilitation, accessibility advocacy, community engagement and arts administrative roles.