Migdalia Melendez is a Producer with more than 15 years of experience bringing ambitious creative projects to life. Throughout her career, she has led productions across commercial, branded, digital, and narrative media, developing expertise in budgeting, production management, operations, client relations, and creative consulting. Her work has been recognized with a Webby Award in the Social, Belonging & Inclusion category, and she received a Best Producer nomination at the Indie Short Film Fest. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Radio/TV/Film from Rowan University. Migdalia is driven by stories that entertain while inviting audiences to reflect on the human experience. Drawn especially to horror and psychological thrillers, she is fascinated by the genre's ability to explore fear, vulnerability, identity, and the complexities of our relationships with one another. She believes that some of the most powerful social commentary can be found within genre storytelling, where suspense and emotion create space for deeper conversations about humanity. As a producer, Migdalia is committed to supporting filmmakers who take creative risks and tell stories that resonate long after the credits roll. Through her work, Migdalia hopes to help create films that are emotionally honest, culturally relevant, and artistically bold. She is particularly interested in projects that challenge audiences to examine themselves, their relationships, and the world around them while remaining accessible through compelling, entertaining narratives.

Dr. Shamell Bell is a mother, interdisciplinary scholar, street dance activist, documentary filmmaker, and Emmy-nominated producer. She holds a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from UCLA and currently serves as the Visionary Escalator for the Debt Collective, where she designs imaginative, healing-centered strategies for social impact and advocates for debt-free higher education. As the founder of Street Dance Activism, Dr. Bell bridges performance, somatics, and organizing to uplift global Black liberation movements. With over two decades of community-based leadership, Dr. Bell has also held teaching appointments at Harvard, Dartmouth, Berea College, and across UC and CSU campuses. As a graduate student at UCLA, she co-led a campus-wide task force to address anti-Black racism, collaborating with senior administrators to implement culturally responsive mental health resources and institutionalize compensation for student organizers. She also led the Legislative Theater for Racial Justice, using Theater of the Oppressed to confront anti-Blackness in UCLA Family Housing. In the entertainment sector, Dr. Bell served as Cultural Historian and Supervising Producer for Apple TV+’s Lessons in Chemistry, shaping the series’ Emmy-nominated racial justice narrative. She also co-directed social impact at Dartmouth’s Hopkins Center for The Arts for “Ritual of Breath is the Rite to Resist,” an opera-theater work honoring Eric Garner, in partnership with his mother, Ms. Gwen Carr.