MIAMI, FL

Elle Barbeito is an artist and designer based in her native Miami, Florida. Her physical and emotional proximity to the Everglades, coupled with her Cuban father’s firsthand experience as a snake hunter, enticed Elle to familiarize herself with the necessary survival skills of hunting, skinning, and preserving animal skins for leatherwork. Her craft occupies a specific niche of reclaiming the land, as the primary source material comes from the ecologically invasive Burmese python (Python bivittatus). With the Python’s havoc over the Everglades’ ecosystem, the dialogue around this process comes at a necessary time: where creatives should think to blend intention, sustainability, and function within their practice. Her work has been featured by Dazed, A24, and the Miami New Times.

CENTRAL CALIFORNIA

Morgan Laughlin was born and raised in the Bay Area town of Livermore, California. Hailing from a six-generation family that helped establish the Livermore Rodeo, Morgan attended her first event before she was one year old — and she’s been ringside ever since. By the age of 13, she began her pageant career as a Rodeo Queen: a young lady dedicated to promoting and advocating for the sport of professional rodeo. Morgan held several junior and high school titles before being crowned Miss Rodeo California in October of 2019. Morgan aims to continue her education and earn her Bachelor’s Degree of Science to become a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit nurse. When not at school or a rodeo, she runs a small herd of Corriente–Longhorn cattle, and is a mother to two beautiful young cowgirls.

QUEENS, NY

Director and Editor Annie Bercy has been manifesting visions both on- and off-screen since the early 2000s. Self-taught and driven by curiosity, Bercy graduated from Brooklyn College with a BFA in Film Production in 2021. The Haitian-American creative now aims combine visual ingenuity with socio-cultural commentary across both music video and branded content spaces. Resetting perceptions of beauty, love and life, Annie often taps into her experience growing up in New York City — specifically in Queen’s vibrant Jamaica neighborhood. Annie’s hands-on personality and youthful enthusiasm focuses on making the imaginary tangible, and has brought her work with names such as Cardi B, Ciara, SZA, Alex Vaughn, Shea Moisture, Aveeno, and more.