Rio Contrada
Rio Contrada is an award-winning filmmaker and nihilistic flower child from Northampton, Massachusetts. His films have screened at over 40 festivals globally and his writing has placed in premiere competitions such as Austin Film Festival, Screencraft and the Black List's Top Pilots List.
He recently produced the Boston crime drama How to Rob, starring Chinaza Uche (A Good Person, Dickinson), which took home audience awards for best feature film at IFFBoston and New Hampshire Film Festival.
Rio cut his teeth in development working for John Lesher (Birdman, Black Mass), earned his first producer credit on the Lifetime series American Beauty Star, and went on to assist TV legend Debbie Allen on Grey's Anatomy. He currently resides in Hollywood where he can be found waxing poetic about New England autumns or pointedly brushing past sidewalk-lookers at the walk of fame.
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.