Anna Barsan (Director) is a filmmaker and visual artist based in Boston. Anna’s work has been featured at Sundance, HotDocs, Camden International Film Festival, Rooftop Films, The Brooklyn Museum, Leslie Lohman Museum and published by Field of Vision, The New Yorker, Art21 and Democracy Now. Her short film, Libre, investigates the use of GPS ankle monitors by private companies and has screened in more than twenty festivals both nationally and internationally. Anna is a former supervising producer at The Laura Flanders Show and coordinated workshops in filmmaking and live video performance at the Allied Media Conference in Detroit. Anna is currently at work on various projects including her first feature film, Softly in all directions, with support from Field of Vision and the Sundance Institute.

Shannon Fitzpatrick is a producer and editor working in documentary and fiction films. In addition to Softly in all directions, she is producing Cisco Kid, a feature-length vérité documentary about a young queer person who moves to a desert ghost town in southern Utah, determined to build an independent life. She was an additional editor on A24’s forthcoming Past Lives, and is currently editing two short films: Goldilocks, a 16mm mixed-media narrative short about imagination, wilderness, and growing up in the pre-internet era; and Venus Melite, the story of a queer photographer visiting the island of Malta. Shannon completed a Master's in Media Studies at The New School, where she studied cinematic representations of trauma and healing. She is based in Brooklyn, NY.