DINA ZARIF / ARTISTIC DIRECTOR / MANAGING DIRECTOR
Dina is an Iranian immigrant, performer, designer, and vocalist who combines Western classical singing with Middle Eastern styles inspired from her Persian roots. Some of her credits include SF International Arts Festival, Palace of Fine Art, San Jose Stage, Golden Thread Productions at Brava Theater, Yerba Buena Gardens Festival, and the staged reading of Layla & Majnun at BAMPFA as part of the symposium with Mark Morris Dance Group and the Silk Road Ensemble. She tours both nationally and internationally as a costume designer and actress in the shadow light production Feathers of Fire. Dina is also a part-time architect and received her MA in Landscape Architecture from the University of Tehran, College of Fine Arts.
CHELIS LOPEZ / OPERATIONS ASSISTANT
Chelis López is an award-winning Mexican journalist who has lived in San Francisco since 1996. For almost ten years she hosted the national radio show Línea Abierta at Radio Bilingüe, the National Latino Public Radio Network where she interviewed and produced diverse stories including the live broadcast of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, an annual celebration of communities and cultures in the U.S. and around the world presented annually in Washington, D.C. She is the host and producer of two Spanish-language shows on KPOO 89.5FM in San Francisco—Pájaro Latinoamericano and Andanzas—where she explores and offers news, comments, and interviews with newsmakers and artists throughout Latin America. López is also the San Francisco correspondent for Rompeviento TV in Mexico and hosts locally at Marin TV
.NICK LO KIM LIN / VIDEOGRAPHER / VISUAL CONTENT CREATOR
Nick Lo Kim Lin is a Surinamese born upcoming American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is currently living in San Francisco, California and hopes to make San Francisco a place that produces more films rather than an area films are known to be based in. Born in Suriname, South America, he moved to America in 2003 at the age of 13. Nick has worked with various artists in the bay, short documentaries that brought awareness to diverse artists and their struggles, short films that touch on the psychology of horror found in everyday life. His passion is to capture and share the dilemmas of the human experience and the surroundings that create them.