Rio Contrada

Rio Contrada is a writer/director/producer from Northampton, Massachusetts with experience producing primetime television and working in development for Academy Award-winning companies. 

His career started in production on large scale motion pictures like The Judge and Black Mass. He cut his teeth in development working for industry heavyweights John Lesher and Norton Herrick, and gained his first producer credit on the Lifetime series American Beauty Star, hosted by Victoria's Secret supermodel Adriana Lima. He currently works for TV legend Debbie Allen on Grey's Anatomy.

Rio's writing has been featured in the Black List's Top Pilots List and as a finalist in the Acclaim TV Writing Contest. In the past two years, he has produced seven short films, including Put Your Feet Up (official selection IFFBoston), and his directorial debut, Time to Go (official selection Provincetown IFF).

Peter Horgan

Peter Horgan is a writer/director/producer born and raised in Massachusetts who has worked on films in Boston, New York, Los Angeles and Greece. 

After graduating from Emerson College, Peter started off his indie filmmaker career by directing music videos for rappers around Boston. Since then he’s switched his focus towards mainly writing and directing or producing and assistant directing narrative fiction. His last film, PUT YOUR FEET UP, premiered at IFFBoston in 2019 and went on to screen at Provincetown, Woods Hole, South Dakota and Cinekink among other festivals. 

Peter’s feature length screenplays have placed As quarter-finalists and semi-finalists in acclaimed screenwriting competitions such as ScreenCraft Drama and Horror, BlueCat and Shore Scripts.