Ashley Phelps won the Best Emerging Filmmaker Award at the San Francisco Women's Film Festival 2007 for her first documentary Blank Canvas. Now distributed through Aquarius Health Care Media, Blank Canvas screened in April 2008 on PBS/KTEH along with a filmmaker interview. For many years Ashley has worked as a graphic designer and computer artist for clients including Levi's, Presence and Publicity (Music and Film Promotions) and Protozoa, an innovator in motion capture animation.

Renee received her degree in film from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1993 and studied cinema in Paris, France in the year 1989. While attending UCSB, RenÈe received a Corwin Award for her short documentary, Persistent Discretion, a 16mm film about domestic violence. She also received Best Cinematography for her work on a fictional short, Girl in the Window, in 1992. Sadaa E Zan (Voices of Women), a documentary about Afghan women, received the Social Justice Award for Best Documentary at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival in 2003, as well as the Audience Award and Best Director Award in the Documentary category of the New York International Independent Film & Video Festival, held in Los Angeles in the spring of 2004. Other works include: Urban Canvas, a documentary about three contemporary street painters and Fashion Slaves, a documentary about the garment industry.

Born in the U.S., Monsterrat was raised in Paris, France by her artist mother. In Paris, Montserrat studied textile and fashion design at the Studio Bercot. These foundations led Wassam to become a fine arts painter, which she has been for 34 years. Montserrat also has 25 years experience in the convention industry in the Sign and Display Union Local 510 as an installer. Montsearrat's expertise ranges from graphics to industrial design, as well as teaching and running shows. Wassam's work in the sign industry is the basis for her love of combining art and installations.