Nick Delgado de la Camara felt moviemaking’s call at a very early age; when he saw Jurassic Park for the first time, he knew he wanted to tell stories for the rest of his life. After graduating from the University of Madrid with a BA in English literature, he attended USC Film School, which was the best decision of his life. While at USC, Nick had the incredible luck of being mentored by one of his heroes, director Robert Zemeckis. His thesis film, The Macabre World of Lavender Williams, a fantasy short starring Christopher Lloyd and John Lithgow, was screened in over 40 film festivals worldwide and took Nick on a tour around the world. Nick splits his time between directing branded content, being a storyboard artist, and developing features, including the horror drama Blood of My Blood, which got him a spot in the 2019–2020 Universal Writers Program

Will DeWitt had one dream as an undergraduate at Baylor University—to write professionally. But Will was also worried about paying rent and utilities, so he made the obvious choice for someone who wanted to write and also afford to live; he became a reporter in a small town in the middle of Texas. That lasted about a year before he went into the private sector, working in media relations at the American Football Coaches Association and as a contractor at Facebook. At Facebook, the dream came back in full force, and Will soon found himself heading out west to get his master’s in screenwriting at Pepperdine University. Since moving to Los Angeles, Will has worked as a production assistant on short films, web series, commercials, and feature films, many of which as an intern with MPI.

Mariyam Temirova was always at the nexus of two opposite worlds. She was born in post-Soviet Union Kazakhstan but spent most of her formative years in the US. Mariyam is a London-based filmmaker attending Raindance Film School that hosts the largest independent film festival in the UK. She is interested in telling stories through satire and light existential comedy to illuminate the burdens of our collective human condition.

Viktorija Razevska is a fairytale enthusiast with a focus on dragons. When she isn’t occupied with searching for magic scrolls and convening with elves, she works as a film director in Los Angeles. She is currently directing a feature set in police station basements in 1984 as well as an art film series called A Study in Discovery. She is currently editing her two latest narrative short films and just wrapped principal photography for a slate of commercials. She has worked on over 100 film projects on networks such as HBO, MTV, and VH1 and has led film teams in countries around the world such as India, Ukraine, Serbia, Bosnia, and Poland.