Savanna Jones is an award-winning cinematographer and FAA-certified drone operator based in Biloxi, Mississippi, widely recognized as one of the region's top wedding and creative portrait photographers. Savanna has worked on series including Gordon Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares (FOX), The First 48 (ITV) and has filmed cinematography for FOX Sports. 

Savanna was honored as one of Gulf Coast Woman Magazine’s "100 Successful Women to Know 2024" - one of the recipients out of 800 nominated women. She is a four-time Telly Award winner, the Vice President of the Mississippi Film Alliance, and was selected as one of 14 for the NFL Films Women in Sports Filmmaking Experienceship 2025 in New Jersey.​​​​​​​

She earned her BFA in English and Film from the University of Southern Mississippi, where she directed her first environmental documentary "Gulf Coast Resilience - Bonnet Carré Spillway" (2019) which was screened as part of the "Waterlines: Blue Economies & Sustainable Futures" program at University of Southern Mississippi's Gulf Park Research Center in December 2019.

Savanna is the founder of two award-winning businesses: Savvy Snapshots Photography and Little Lighthouse Productions. Her photography business, Savvy Snapshots, has received notable recognition, winning *Sun Herald*'s Best of Coastal Mississippi in 2023 & 2024, also named Top 3 for Best Videography in WXXV’s Viewer's Choice Awards Wedding Edition, and earning a photography award from the Pascagoula River Audubon Center for her landscape work.

Corey Hart is a filmmaker from Bogue Chitto, MS. In high school, his love of drawing cartoons for local newspapers combined with an interest in videography to spark an obsession with visual storytelling. He studied film production at the University of Southern Mississippi where he earned his bachelor's degree, and the University of New Orleans where he earned his Master of Fine Arts. His student films have screened at the Crossroads Film Festival, UNO Film Festival, and Clarksdale Film Festival. He has worked as a PA on the children's television program Between the Lions (2010) and feature films Rites of Spring (2011) and 21 Jump Street(2012). From 2015 to 2020, Corey worked at Mississippi Public Broadcasting where he produced the live music program Amped & Wired, directed and/or edited documentaries such as Mississippians in Vietnam: A Shared Experience (2017) and Meet Carl Jackson (2020), and served as an associate producer for Mississippi Roads. Corey now works for Copiah-Lincoln Community College where he produces videos for the school's academic and athletics programs. In 2024 he formed CRH Media LLC which serves videography and video-editing needs for a diverse group of clients.

Apart from his obsession with cats, gardening, and aspirations to become a hobbit, Michael Williams is a writer, director, cinematographer, and producer known for "OzLand" (2015), "The Atoning" (2017). Williams began creating short films in 2004 while in high school, and later graduated from The University of Southern Mississippi with a Bachelor of Arts in Film where Williams was awarded the Top Film Student of 2009 Award.

When Williams was offered his first job in the industry in 2007, he was hired as a PA. However, upon arriving to prep, he was informed that he would now be the 1st AC. Over a few days of prep, he learned the definition of an assistant camera and how to pull focus... for a feature... with a lot of handheld. This sparked a 9 year career as a 1st AC that rack focused into a career as a cinematographer starting in 2010. During this time, Williams wrote, directed, and produced over 20 short films of his own while waiting for an idea worthy enough to attempt the terrifying task of making a feature. That film became "OzLand", an award-winning feature that premiered and screened theatrically in Hollywood, CA before gaining distribution throughout the U.S. and U.K.

His second feature film, "The Atoning", was released in September of 2017 via Redbox, Hulu, Best Buy, and all major VOD and Cable on Demand outlets before releasing in various international markets including Brazil, Germany, South East Asia, Mexico, Russia, Vietnam, and South Korea.

Williams' desire to tell unique and meaningful stories visually fuels his career as a visual storyteller. Williams writes, directs, and works as a cinematographer so that he can bring his passion for visual storytelling to every production giving the story a unique voice. Since coming out of the closet in 2016, Michael's voice as a storyteller has evolved, and it continues to develop with each new project. His passion for storytelling has always been present in his scripts and cinematography, however, discovering and living his true self continues to bring authenticity to his own work and how he interprets his work for other collaborators. His latest scripts, "Rosemary" and "Out in the Open", reflect the personal and creative growth Williams has experienced since coming out, and these in-development projects are just the beginning of a new era of cinematic expression for Williams' passion to share stories with the world.

Morgan Cutturini, a native of Vardaman, MS, teaches English and sponsors the Film Club at Itawamba Community College (ICC) in Fulton, MS. She received her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in English at Mississippi State University. She works with New Jersey Film Producer PJ Leonard to produce two films a year in Tupelo, MS. In these productions, ICC film students intern with a small group of professional filmmakers and actors to learn all aspects of filmmaking. Furthermore, she collaborates with Marlyn Mason, who was one of Elvis’ leading ladies, to produce films with ICC students in Mississippi. Cutturini serves on the Tupelo Film Festival committee, heading the Mississippi High School Film Competition. She hopes to continue pursuing the dream of the late Pat Rasberry, founder of the Tupelo Film Commission, to build a Film Program at ICC and to support creative young filmmakers in Mississippi.

Miles Doleac, PhD, a native of Hattiesburg, MS, has written or co-written 7 feature films since 2013, including THE HOLLOW, THE DINNER PARTY, DEMIGOD, and OPEN, all shot in MS, and produced or co-produced 4 others, including Lionsgate's THE DEVIL'S WORKSHOP, and the upcoming BONE FACE and ADULT BEST FRIENDS, directed by Delaney Buffett. Doleac has appeared as an actor in 60-plus films and television shows, including the Nicolas Cage-led RENFIELD (NBC-Universal) and the Mark Wahlberg-starrer THE FAMILY PLAN (Apple +). He holds a PhD from Tulane University and serves as chair of the Digital Filmmaking program at Loyola University-New Orleans.

Talamieka Brice is a an International award winning visual artist, poet, successful business owner, mother & former military spouse. Her company was started on the battlefields of Afghanistan when her husband, Former Army Sgt Charles Brice, photojournalist stated he wanted to tell a different story. Mr. Brice had spent years as a paratrooper, and an Honor Guard for the military performing the final rites for deceased warriors. He lost comrades on the field and wanted to focus on the living. The two visual artists who met in college combined forces created an award winning marketing and advertising agency, Brice Media.

Talamieka Brice serves as CEO for Brice Media and has worked with Kim Kardashian, Cassandra Wilson as well as creating marketing campaigns for many companies including the American Heart Association. They also recently completed the Barack Obama Mural for the newly minted Barack Obama Elementary School.

Brice has also worked with Antonelli College as an adjunct instructor. She was a member of the Mississippi Business Journal’s 50 leading business women class of 2013 and Top 50 under 40 for 2016. She was also named one of 2013’s People to Watch by Graphic Design USA, the first and only Mississippian selected in the magazine’s 50 year history. She was also recognized as one of 25 Women Changing the World by Conversations Magazine.

She also serves as a panelist for the Mississippi Creative Economy. Talamieka resides in Ridgeland, Mississippi with her husband Charles, son Honor, daughter Love and fur babies Luly and Gandalf.

https://www.talamieka.com/

Ben Powell aims to tell stories with humility and heart. Compelled to view the world through a lens since he was old enough to hold a camera, Ben has amassed a body of award winning work that has premiered at film festivals across the country. He began his career as a cinematographer, later going on to direct his best known film, BARGE which documents America’s most industrious waterway and the people who live in it. For GOOGLE, Ben worked as a Director of Photography managing camera crews on shoots in Seattle, India, Japan, and Canada. He’s currently working as a contributing cinematographer for the New York Times and producing videos for the GRAMMY Museum Mississippi. After living in Austin for 12 years, Ben now resides in the Mississippi Delta – the place he grew up – where he works collaboratively making movies, teaching, and learning the art of filmmaking.

Casey Heflin is a Mississippi native who has spent the majority of her life in the same Victorian house in Pelahatchie, MS. From childhood, a love of cinema was one of her greatest passions, and the industry in which she most desired to work. In 2008, she graduated from Mississippi State University with a bachelor’s degree in Communications (theatre emphasis). She has continued to study film and acting independently, including a short-course on acting for film and Shakespeare at Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Although her original goal was to be an actor, Casey has had the privilege of working as a crew member in the hair and makeup department on various film sets for the last 15 years. Most recently, Casey worked in the makeup department on The Last Starlet (Mississippian Stella Stevens Biopic), The Movers, Sunday Kinda Love, The System, and This Bloody Country (filmed in Utah). Some of her favorite projects to work on over the past couple of years have been the “Visit Mississippi” ad campaigns, tying together her love of film, travel, and Mississippi. Besides working in film, Casey also co-directs a high school drama program at East Rankin Academy and dabbles in the travel industry. Being raised by a writer and a librarian naturally means a love of storytelling is in her blood. She hopes she can be instrumental in the state’s growing industry and in helping Mississippi stories get told.

Caleb Hall is a North Mississippi based filmmaker, who has been in the industry for seven years. He was the 2023 MFA grant winner and has worked on projects such as; Fast Home Rescue, Brave Blue World and Killer Concept.