Paul Soileau
Paul Soileau is a performer and artist manipulating and perverting the realms of gender, identity, and good taste. He is best known for his personae CHRISTEENE, Cherie, and Rebecca Havemeyer. Soileau, Silky Shoemaker, and Lex Vaughn together constitute the performance collective SHABOOM! With Michael Cavadias, aka Claywoman, he presents A NIGHT INSIDE, a monthly salon at New York’s Parkside Lounge. His solo work has been featured at venues all over the world, including London’s Barbican Centre, the Dublin National Concert Hall, and Berghain nightclub in Berlin. He resides with his cat, Tickles Pickles, in Brooklyn.

PJ Raval
PJ Raval is a queer, first-generation Filipinx American filmmaker whose documentaries center queer and marginalized communities. His films include Trinidad, Before You Know It, and Call Her Ganda, which chronicles the murder of trans woman Jennifer Laude by a U.S. Marine in the Philippines. An accomplished cinematographer, Raval shot the Academy Award-nominated documentary Trouble the Water. He is a Soros Justice Fellow, Guggenheim Fellow, member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and co-founder of the queer transmedia arts organization OUTsider.