• Read more about Douglas Scott Hessler

Award-Winning Innovative Screenwriter Versatile, results-driven Film/Television professional with 20+ years of comprehensive experience developing and writing screenplays for Feature films and Television. Proven creative problem-solving and innovative skills, a fast-learning curve, and the ability to adapt to ever-evolving Film/Television industry techniques and standards. CORE COMPETENCIES

• Read more about Pamela Woolford

Pamela Woolford is an interdisciplinary artist and keynote speaker, intertwining her work as a writer, filmmaker, performer, and immersive-media director to create new forms of narrative work about Black women and girls and others whose joy, imagination, and inner life are under-explored in American media and popular art. She is the recipient of six Maryland State Arts Council Awards, five film-festival awards internationally, a Changemaker Challenge Award from United Way of Central Maryland and Horizon Foundation, and a Baker Artist Award in interdisciplinary arts.\

• Read more about Peter Brooks

Peter is an exceptionally rare kind of artist—a true polymath—whose work seamlessly blends music, visual art, cultural heritage, history, and cutting-edge digital media. Building on the legacy of his grandfather, the legendary entertainer Cab Calloway, and great-grandfather Andrew Reid, a prominent Baltimore activist in the post–Civil War era, Peter brings forward a tradition of social justice, community engagement, and creative innovation.

• Read more about Kid Balloon

Kid Balloon is a visual artist that specializes in graphic design, fine arts painting, event planning, creative direction, and fashion design. Kid Balloon has worked on many major projects with many well-respected organizations in Baltimore, Maryland, and outside of Baltimore. In partnership with BTST Services and BTST Cares, Kid Balloon served as the lead artist and curator for the Black Lives Matter mural in front of Baltimore City Hall.

• Read more about Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra

The Peacherine Ragtime Society Orchestra (PRSO) is the leading professional ragtime orchestra in the United States. Under the direction of virtuoso Andrew Greene, PRSO recreates the syncopated stylings of a bygone era - Ragtime, Theater, and Dance music, along with underscoring classic silent films using an immense archive of over 15,000 original orchestral scores. ​