Jason Todd is a writer, curator, and filmmaker based in Montréal. He curates short films for Rendez-Vous Québec Cinéma and SVOD platform Tënk Canada, where he previously was art director. He has been a board member of the Short Film Conference since 2023, is a pre-programmer for the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, has sit on panels and his writing - solely focused on discussing short films and the industry - has appeared in publications such as 24 images, Séquences, and Talking Short. Previous occupations include short film distributor (h264), filmmaking mentor with Indigenous artists (Wapikoni) and film lab technician (MELS). His films have been screened at festivals such as FIPADOC, FIDBA and Internationale Kurzfilmwoche Regensburg. ⬇

⬆ Aileen Ye is a film director and curator from Dublin working across sonic and contemporary subcultures. She has programmed for institutions including Eye Filmmuseum, Nieuwe Instituut, WORM, BAK, CinemAsia Film Festival, and Queer East, with a focus on films engaging the body and space as sites of social negotiation. She holds a Masters in Sociology from Erasmus University Rotterdam. Her films have screened at festivals such as BFI LFF and IFFR, and have been exhibited at venues including the Barbican, ICA, LUX, FACT Liverpool, NOWNESS Asia, and Art Rotterdam.

Edie Barnabas is a filmmaker and programmer from the North of England with an interest in experimental approaches to cinema. She began her programming career running her DIY film night Slime Presents, which was awarded funding by the British Film Institute. Following this she has contributed to programmes at festivals including Sheffield Docfest, Bolton International Film Festival and GoShort. In her programming and filmmaking practice Edie is interested in queerness, regionalism and dreamlike approaches to narrative cinema. Her work often features non-actors, exploring unheard voices, folklore, and overlooked regional histories, particularly those rooted in the North of England. She has worked with heritage venues in collaboration with Arts Council England, as well as English institutions such as the National Science and Media Museum. She is passionate about film culture, collective storytelling and reimagining how we show these on screen. ⬇

⬆ Najrin Islam is an emerging film critic and programmer from India, currently working in London and actively seeking new vocabularies through which to think about decolonial modes of film curation. Her writing has appeared in Time Out, Talking Shorts, ArtReview Asia, Art Monthly, Ultra Dogme, and ASAP Connect, among other publications. With the support of the Charles Wallace India Trust Scholarship, she pursued MA in Film Programming and Curating at Birkbeck, University of London, where she focused her thesis on the precarious futures of film archives in politically destabilised regions. More recently, she participated in the Talking Shorts/END European Workshop for New Curators #2 and the BFI Critics Mentorship Programme 2025. Najrin has presided as a Selection Committee Member with London Short Film Festival and Norient Film Festival, and is currently developing a series of curatorial strands on experimental cinema in the EU/UK.