Kara Magsanoc-Alikpala is a Broadcast Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker, Impact Producer and Cancer Patient Advocate. She is a Co-Founder of Storytellers International Inc, a contributing Producer to CNN International, ARD German TV and ARD German Radio, and the Founding President of FilDocs or the Filipino Documentary Society. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She has been Jury at the Emmy Awards’ News and Documentary category since 2020. She is also a Member of the Global Impact Producers Transitional Advisory Committee, the Board of Trustees of QCinema, and Doc Society’s Good Pitch Southeast Asian team, Indonesia.

She has produced documentaries for the History Channel, ARD German Television, the Australian Broadcasting Company, Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and the Probe Team. She has also reported for the Public Broadcasting Service, Voice of America, and ABS-CBN.

Kara produced the Emmy nominated documentary Delikado (2022) that had its world premiere at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival in Toronto. The film won the Sustainable Future Award at the 2022 Sydney Film Festival, the Special Jury Prize - Best Documentary Feature at the 2022 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Special Jury Mention - Best International Feature at New Zealand’s 2022 Doc Edge, and was nominated for the Tim Hetherington Award at the 2022 Sheffield International Documentary Film Festival. It will broadcast on POV on the PBS (Public Broadcast Service) in September 2022.

She produced Call Her Ganda (2018) as well, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. It earned over a dozen Grand Jury Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards including a nomination from the GLAAD Media Award. The film was broadcast on POV reaching millions of viewers of the Public Broadcast Service (PBS). It was awarded the 2020 Excellence in Documentary Award by the NLGJA Association of LGBTQ Journalists.

Kara also produced the critically acclaimed documentary Batas Militar (1997). To date, it has been the highest rated independent documentary broadcast on Philippine Television. Sweeping all major awards in the Philippines, it was also a finalist at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam and the New York Festival.

Jeannette Ifurung is a Co-Founder of Storytellers International Inc. and Director of various content for Television. She has produced several Martial Law-themed documentaries including The Fall of a Dictator - History Channel Asia (2011), The Housewife Who Led A Revolution - History Channel Asia (2011), The Assassination of Ninoy Aquino - History Channel (2010) and Batas Militar (1997), the most extensive documentary on Martial Law and the dictatorship of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Sr. To date, it been the highest rated independent documentary broadcast on Philippine television. The documentary swept all major awards in the Philippines and was a finalist at the International Documentary Festival in Amsterdam and the New York Festival.

She was a Producer for CNN International, Channel News Asia, The Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism, and the Probe Team.

Miguel Alcazaren is a veteran Advertising Director who began his career heading the award-winning animation group Alcazaren Bros. in 1989. In 2007, he won first place in the Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature for his screenplay Prisoner Alpha, a bio-pic about the incarceration of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Sr’s biggest opponent, Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino. In 2013, he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film Puti (“White”), an art house thriller featured in the Orbit Competition of the 32nd Brussels International Festival of Fantastic Film, Belgium. His latest creative work is a comic book series entitled Patay Kung Patay (Death Be Damned); a political series about a zombie revolution in a remote hacienda.

Lee Briones is a Co-Founder of Storytellers International Inc. and a Director of Photography for films, documentaries, TV commercials, and content. She has won Best Cinematography for the films Memories of Overdevelopment (dir. Kidlat Tahimik) and Mana (dir. Gabriel Fernandez) at the 2015 Young Critics Circle and 2015 Madrid International Film Festival respectively. Some of her other award-winning works include Tanging Yaman (dir. Laurice Guillen), Santa-Santita (dir. Laurice Guillen), I Love You Goodbye (dir. Laurice Guillen), Crying Ladies (dir. Mark Meily), and Baler (dir. Mark Meily).

She believes that visual storytelling is part of the total film experience that can be achieved through a tight collaboration among the team. Grateful for the awards and recognition, she gives back by teaching and mentoring young filmmakers. Off camera, she is a Reiki practitioner, a grandmama of six and an advocate of organic farming for sustainability and healing.

Lawrence S. Ang started collaborating with filmmakers in 2005, and has since edited 66 feature films & 66 short films. He has won Best Editing awards for the films Kung Paano Siya Nawala (dir. Joel Ruiz), Respeto (dir. Treb Monteras II), Salvage (dir. Sherad Anthony Sanchez), Apocalypse Child (dir. Mario Cornejo), Lily (dir. Keith Deligero), and Violator (dir. Dodo Dayao). His other documentaries and feature films have also been screened and awarded at both local and international festivals, with his recent film Leonor Will Never Die (dir. Martika Escobar) bagging the 2022 Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award.

Erwin Romulo, Malek Lopez, and Juan Miguel Sobrepeña have won the Gawad Urian, Cinema One, and FAMAS awards for music scoring. They first collaborated on 2019's Never Tear Us Apart directed by Whammy Alcazaren and then subsequently on Midnight in a Perfect World directed by Dodo Dayao. This is their third collaboration. 

Erwin Romulo photograph by MM Yu

Malek Lopez photograph by Jason Tan (Celluloid Manila)

Juan Miguel Sobrepeña photograph by Jason Tan (Celluloid Manila)