Jane Applegate is a writer/producer of award-winning independent films and other projects. She’s the executive producer of a global TV series about remarkable women whose accomplishments have not been recognized.  Applegate teaches the business of film course at the Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema at Brooklyn College. She also coaches writers and producers as co-founder of www.showbizing.com. Applegate lives in Cortlandt Manor, NY.

She’s produced several award-winning shorts and features including: Beauty Mark. The film, which debuted at the L.A. Film Festival, also won the Woodstock Film Festival’s Ultra-Indie Award. In 2014, she produced To Keep the Light, a period drama about a lighthouse keeper in the 1870’s.

Alicia Godmasch is a professional film producer and writer in the entertainment industry. She has produced both features and television series including Married at First Sight, The Real Housewives: Ultimate Girls Trip, Put A Ring on It and Titletown High. In 2021, she published her first sci-fi novel Retrograde: The Darkness, which was featured on TV Guide Magazine and Gizmodo’s Must Read List. Alicia is a New Jersey native and magna cum laude graduate of Fairleigh Dickinson University. She was first introduced to the industry by her late uncle Wilmer Ames Jr. who was a writer for the New York Times and later Editor-in- Chief of Emerge Magazine. In her free time, Alicia enjoys writing, reading and spending time outdoors.

Born & raised in Puerto Rico, Sol Miranda (she, her) is known widely for her roles as “mole woman” Donna Maria Nuñez in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, and the medium Beatriz on Archive 81 both series #1 globally on Netflix. She’s excited to come back to the Pkskl Film Festival with the short film Asynchronous, her second collaboration with writer-director Daniel Poliner. This time, Sol co-wrote it with him. She also co-starred in Daniel Poliner’s indie feature Come Find Me, a Latinx mother-daughter story with Victoria Cartagena and Tovah Feldshuh (Best of Fest, Pkskl Film Festival 2022). Her stage work has been seen Off-Broadway, New York City Opera, Regional, Europe & Puerto Rico. Her one woman show, I Am Here. I Belong. This is Peekskill a Friendly Town, based on interviews with Latino/a/e residents in Peekskill, was presented at MOCA in 2017 thanks to a NEA grant for artist Lana Yu’s What Matters? — a multidisciplinary project in collaboration with Embark Performing & Literary Arts. MFA/Acting from UC San Diego. Proud to be a Pkskl resident since 2001.

Carol Bash is the Founder and President of Paradox Films, a media production company based in Peekskill, New York. She is an award winning documentary filmmaker with over 20 years of experience. Her current project on the film festival circuit, Blueprint For My People, is a visual poem that interweaves spoken-word narration of Margaret Walker’s poem, “For My People” with contemporary images and rare 19th century cyanotypes (blue photographic prints known as “blueprints”). Also on the film festival circuit is the music video Windows that she wrote, produced, edited and co-directed (with Christopher Fox), which is a song on Future One’s latest album, Do We Need Another Psycho. Her short film which showcases the natural beauty of a local farm, Morning at Hemlock Hill Farm, screened at film festivals and art exhibitions in the Hudson Valley, New York area. Her feature documentary, Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band, on this renowned yet unsung jazz genius, is currently available on Showtime. Currently, Carol serves as the Programming Coordinator at Black Public Media. She is also a Peekskill Arts Alliance Board Member and an Organizer/Programmer of the annual Peekskill Film Festival. Carol is a former Black Public Media artist-in-residence and a Firelight Media Documentary Lab fellow.