SEASONED FROM EXPERIENCE FILMMAKERS PANEL

FOUNDER | JUMPCUT COLLECTIVE
FILMMAKER | INTIMACY COORDINATOR | ACTOR | DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY | EDITOR

Let me introduce myself. My name is Tery Wilson. I'm a multi-award winning, freelance, self-taught DP and editor based in Atlanta. I own a full service production and post-production company called IntrygueGraphics Media. We're your one-stop shop for your production and video editing needs. We are based in ATL, black owned, women owned and operated. We travel and we're passport ready .

I'm also a self-taught filmmaker and have been working professionally in the film industry for over 13yrs now. My skills and ambition have won me many awards for films in festivals around the world, every year, since 2014. Including Cannes, The Academy, Tribecca, Out on Film, just to name a few. She also mentors filmmakers around the world through on set experience and speaking on festival panels.

Tery has served as an industry/indie DP for over 13 years, under brands such as Viacom, Peacock, Tubi, Fox, Amazon, Google, and Publix to name a few. Tery’s work has earned her a lot of Film Festival Accolades, including her latest win at ABFF 2024 for her work on the pilot, "Unsolicited", which won best TV Series. Tery was the DP & Editor for the pilot.

FOUNDER | MANN WOMAN | PRODUCTIONS, LLC
FILMMAKER | ACTOR | ACTIVIST | EDUCATOR | ARTIST

Sheri (SAG-AFTRA, AEA), founder of Mann Woman Productions, LLC, has been an Actor/Writer/ Director/Producer/Filmmaker/Activist/Artist/Educator for 5+ decades. She stars in Nana Dara is Gay (OOF ’23, Cannes ’23 American Pavilion, Best Cast: Comedy - NYWIF ’24, etc.) & is a co-producer of Becoming a Man in 127 Easy Steps (OOF ’24).  She is co-prod of award-winning Italian-US feature film, Bullied to Death (OOF ’16, starring Tendal Mann, numerous international awards), & Assoc. Prod. of Chris Anthony Hamilton’s Missing While Black, now in post-prod. Upcoming first Horror role in Dayna Noffke’s feature, Eidolon.

Sheri was mentored by Stella Adler. A native Atlantan with Athens roots, she’s taught on faculties at the Tony-Award-winning Alliance Theatre & various colleges & continues private coaching at her studio. She was the ATL director of Arena Stage’s rolling World Premiere of My Body, No Choice. Highlights include work with such luminaries as James Earl Jones (RIP), Mike Newell, Jeffrey Blitz, Jamie Babbit, Radium Cheung, Tyler Perry (3 times!), Ed Zwick, Peter Segal, Jack Lemmon, James Garner, Craig Robinson, Janet Jackson, Dale Shields, Esai Morales, Dwayne Johnson, Laura Dern, Kathy Bates, Sylvester Stallone, & countless highly talented, lesser-known colleagues. Sheri was chosen along with ATL icon Fran Burst as a 2018 Filmer (creating Amanda Torres: Relentlessly Alive, Bronze Lens Fest)  & was an early producer for Akil Dupont’s Underground stage production (ATL Black Arts Fest & Best Production at the New York Theater Festival, ’24). Co-writer of Skin Deep the Series, Co-Creator/Host: All the Latest ATL & A Mom for All; Host: Confession Box; Winner: Art of a Woman Writing Award, Emory Univ. for Turn Me On, with Scott Turner Schofield. Judge for True Colors Theater's August Wilson acting competition & faculty for the Governor's Honors Program. Facilitator: Equitable Dinners, Out of Hand Theater.

Sheri has been an activist in the GLBT+ Communities in NYC & ATL since the 90’s (now on SAG-AFTRA Diversity Committee) & served on ATL Pride Board (Community Builder Award) and GAPHR (Humanitas Award). She holds degrees in Drama (CUA) & Psych. (MA, Antioch). Proud mom to Tendal & Royce Mann & 18 year old rescue pup, Onyx. 5 Day Champion $25,000 Pyramid. Representation: People Store.

FOUNDER | OUT PROUD ORGANIZATION OF FILMMAKERS | FILMMAKER | ACTOR

Brent Duncan is an award-winning maverick director/writer with a 35+ year career in the Entertainment Industry. “I started in community theatre, then regional professional theatre, then boom, I got a national commercial and an agent”. Mr. Duncan went to film school in his early thirties, then began the climb all over again. “I was a terrible coffee boy. But I was watching everyone, learning everything I could.” He became a skilled “pitchman”, then jumped into business plans and distribution. Finally spending the most recent years in hands on production in the AD departments of Films, TV shows and Commercials. He saw a need for bridging the gap between student/intern to skilled industry positions. “We did our best to be certain the at least some doors could be opened for those willing to do the work.” He would go on to pioneer narrative storytelling for non-profit organizations, like the American Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity.

Most recently, he founded OUT PROUD ORGANIZATION OF FILMMAKERS, aka Out Proud Films. “There is this agonizing need for funding our own stories, if we want them told.” The years spent pitching to investors, then watching corporate structured productions water down the very core of the story so passionately sold, laid bare this weakness in Indie Film production and marketing. “I’m here in Atlanta to build the community of Independent Film, TV and all future media. It’s the most fertile storytelling environment, and we need great stories.”

Brent Duncan keeps up a fun acting career as well and lives a life of painful humor and satire. Home is Atlanta with his husband-soul mate of thirty-eight years and their three hilarious cats.

FILMMAKER | ACTOR

Scott Turner Schofield is a trailblazing transgender actor and producer. Making television history as the first out transgender actor in Daytime on CBS's The Bold and the Beautiful, and the first out trans man nominated for an acting Emmy, recent television roles include The Idol (HBO), Up Here (Hulu), and NBC’s The Blacklist. On film, Schofield starred in the cult-classic OFF RAMP (2024) and the 1920s period drama  The Conductor (2018), earning international critical acclaim for both roles. Scott’s one-hour special, Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps, premieres at Out On Film in 2024, with earlier iterations screening at Tribeca and Outfest. As a live performer, Scott has received a Princess Grace Foundation Fellowship, a “Fruitie” Award for Best Off-Broadway Performance, and a National Performance Network Creation Fund grant. The collection of his one man show scripts, Two Truths and a Lie, was a Lambda Literary Award finalist. A visionary advocate in the movement to tell better trans stories in Hollywood, Scott’s expertise shaped Peacock’s THEY/THEM, Blumhouse’s The Craft: Legacy, Disney’s ZOMBIES 3, and WE’RE HERE on Max, among many others, and most notably, the role of “Jules” on HBO’s Euphoria.

FILMMAKER | ACTOR

Dustin Lewis has built a multifaceted career in the entertainment industry, thriving as an actor, director, teacher, and producer for over 25 years. His transition from the stage to the screen has led to notable performances in critically acclaimed films and series, including Ozark, Cobra Kai, The Hate U Give, First Man with Ryan Gosling, Good Girls, Timeless, and the upcoming Captain America: Brave New World. He has also had the pleasure of working alongside Anne Hathaway in The Idea of You and Chiwetel Ejiofor in Come Sunday.

As a dedicated instructor at Drama Inc., Dustin teaches the Meisner Technique  and The Breakdown, blending tradition with practical applications for on-camera work. He is passionate about helping actors find authenticity and confidence in their performances, drawing on his extensive experience and dedication to the craft.

Beyond his acting career, Dustin and his husband, Matt, co-own Create Realty Partners, a real estate business committed to empowering members of the LGBTQ+ community and fellow entertainment professionals to achieve their dream of homeownership. Their mission is rooted in providing guidance, trust, and support through every step of the process.

Follow Dustin on social media @realdustinlewis.

FOUNDER & CEO | COLLECTIVE MOXIE |
DEI STRATEGIST & EXPERT

Julie Ann Crommett (she/her/ella) has been working in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) space for fifteen years leading disruptive, systemic change across media and tech. As Founder and CEO of Collective Moxie, Julie Ann works with organizations and individual artists to revolutionize their DEI creative and business strategies. Most recently, in partnership with The Black List, Julie Ann spearheaded the creation of the first-ever GA List to amplify writers from and with strong affiliation to the state of Georgia.

Previously, she was Vice President of Multicultural Audience Engagement at The Walt Disney Studios, spearheading efforts to diversify talent in front of and behind the camera, connect creative projects more closely to the communities they touch, and build a more inclusive culture within the Studios. Her team contributed to many projects, including ENCANTO, SOUL, COCO, BLACK PANTHER, RAYA AND THE LAST DRAGON, and WEST SIDE STORY, as well as launching the critically acclaimed Disney Launchpad: Shorts Incubator, an industry-leading program guaranteeing up to six directors from underrepresented backgrounds the opportunity to produce a short film for Disney+. Julie Ann was also instrumental in Disney's library review process, and, in partnership with Disney CEO Bob Iger, she launched and co-chaired the company's first-ever Creative Inclusion Council.

Before Disney, she was Google’s Entertainment Industry Educator in Chief, as well as having led Google’s DEI efforts in Latin America. She started her DEI career at NBCUniversal managing behind-the-camera diversity programs.

A thought leader in this space, Julie Ann has won numerous awards and been featured in leading publications, and creative projects using her DEI framework have conservatively garnered over $3B at the box office. She is a member of BAFTA, the Producers Guild of America, and several for-profit and non-profit boards, including WIA (Women in Animation), Hispanic Federation, Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Issue One, and the Woodruff Arts Center.

In academia, Julie Ann is an Adjunct Professor of the Practice at Georgia Tech, where she originated the first university-wide seminar course on inclusive storytelling. Previously, she served as an Adjunct Assistant Professor for Columbia University’s MFA film program and co-created a now mandatory course with her producing partner on inclusive storytelling.

A proud Puerto Rican and Cuban American, Julie Ann was raised in Atlanta, GA, and earned her BA in English at Harvard University. A true trivia nerd, she also competed on Jeopardy!

DIRECTOR AND PROFESSOR AT SCAD

Quinlan Orear is the Associate Chair of Film & Television for SCAD Atlanta, and has been an independent filmmaker for over twenty years (beginning with a feature film that he wrote and directed as a teenager). He holds a BFA in Theatre Studies from the University of Illinois and an MFA in Film from Columbia University. His past films have screened at over 50 festivals worldwide, including Outfest LA, Austin, Newport Beach, Palm Springs Shortfest, London Short Film Festival, Reykjavik, Atlanta, and of course Out on Film (where his film "Over My Dead Body" won "Best Local Short" in 2021).

After a decade in New York, his husband Dustin Presley and he relocated to Atlanta in 2018 where they have been making films and engaging with the local filmmaking community ever since.