A writer and documentary filmmaker, Jodie Childers produced The Other Parade, and she directed and shot Down by the Riverside. Her writing has been featured in the Journal of Transnational American Studies, Comparative American Studies, The Conversation, Jacobin, Transatlantica, The Pittsburgh Review of Books, Boulevard, and The Hopkins Review, among others. She received the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Prize, a Leifur Eiríksson Foundation Fellowship, and two Pushcart Prize nominations. She holds a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.F.A. in creative writing from Brooklyn College. She is currently an assistant professor in the English department at the University of Virginia.

Dan Messina is a showrunner, director, and editor with twenty years of experience in nonfiction film and television. He directed the documentary feature Down by the Riverside, which premiered at the Woodstock Film Festival, and The Other Parade, which screened at Frameline and was broadcast on RTE. Dan is currently the showrunner for the hit series The Real Murders of Atlanta on Oxygen. He executive-produced Women on Death Row for A&E, and he has served as showrunner, producer, and editor for shows on Discovery+, National Geographic, Investigation Discovery, and OWN, among others. He holds an M.A. in the Humanities from the University of Chicago.