Ian Daffern is a filmmaker whose work examines the ways in which art can inspire connection and communication in society at large. Ian directed 2023’s A Bullet Pulling Thread, which tells the story of a quilter using her art to seek justice after her mentally ill brother is killed by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. Bullet won best documentary at the Chilliwack Independent Film Festival; screened at the VIFF and Hot Docs Cinema; and was presented by the Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg.

Travis Huggett is a photographer based in New York City, originally from Rhode Island. He holds a BFA in photography from The Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. His photos have been exhibited in galleries and museums in New York City, Boston, and Connecticut. His projects have been featured in publications such as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The Atlantic. His upcoming works include Someplace To Be, a book of candid transit photography published by Photo Books Now.

Joe Tomcho is a Director/DP based in the New York City Area and graduate of the Cleveland Institute of Art in 2000. In the early Aughts, Joe and Travis worked side by side as photo assistants in NYC, for a wide range of artists. While Travis stayed in photography, Joe set his sights on film. Since then, his clients include American Academy In Rome (Red), American Express, Random House, National Endowment For The Humanities, CauseLab, and many more. Railfan marks Joe’s first feature as DP, and his first “official” collaboration with Travis.

Jeremy is a director and editor based in Toronto. He is known for the film Fastball. Other works as an editor include Between Us (2021; Outfest: Los Angeles Gay & Lesbian Film Festival; Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival), Rocking the Coffin (Hot Docs 2021) and Baraboo (2015).

Rich Vreeland ties the name Disasterpeace to the things he sends into the sonic ether. Disasterpeace has 63 albums and counting to its credit, in addition to having designed, scored and programmed sound and music related things in a number of mediums including games, film, and beyond. Selected works include Marcel the Shell With Shoes On, It Follows and Bodies Bodies Bodies, as well as games like Fez, Hyper Light Drifter and, most appropriately, Mini Metro.

Colin and Kat are the founders and lead consultants behind Ultra 8 Pictures, a prominent Toronto-based film consulting and production company. For 20 years, Colin was one of the world’s most experienced film programmers, in charge of the longest-running and best-respected selection of genre cinema at any top-tier international festival–TIFF’s Midnight Madness.

Katarina is a writer, editor, curator and producer with over 15 years experience in the Canadian film industry and the genre film world and several feature film producing credits to her name. From 2007 to 2023, she also worked in a variety of roles at REEL CANADA, most recently as the Director of National Canadian Film Day.

Together they are also parents and homeschooling their AuDHD child, which gives them the insight and creativity to shepherd our film about neurodiversity to the screen.