"Solidarity" is Nancy Kiang's first professionally shot film.  In desperation during her last year of grad school studying biometeorology, she finally pursued a childhood interest in film, taking off a summer to enroll in a New York Film Academy workshop in 2002, for which she wrote, produced, and directed the atmospheric semi-experimental short film “Butterfly Dreams” (16 mm, 10 min.). Personal identity - the true nature and existence of a man - was the theme in that film, and in "Solidarity" she moves on to the abstract treatment of social identity (adapting a short story by Italo Calvino). While making "Solidarity," Nancy was  a Filmmaker-in-Residence at Film/Video Arts, a New York City based independent film organization for whose nurturing support she is highly grateful. She is currently in development on a romantic comedy feature, while working as a research scientist in astrobiology at NASA. See her more recent work on IMDB.

Born and raised in Mexico City, Demian Barba began working as a production assistant on film sets when he was 16, and studied film, philosophy, art history, and dramaturgy at the University IberoAmericana. In 2001, he came to New York City, graduating from the New York Film Academy, where he is now an instructor while free-lancing as a Director of Photography. He has shot numerous short films, commercials, and a few features, in a variety of film and digital formats. "The Enchanting Box" (dir. Katharine Allen) was selected as a short film to precede Timothy Burton's latest movie at the 2005 Gotham City Short Film Festival.  An emerging cinematographer with talent for the straight narrative to the avant-garde, Demian Barba's reel may be viewed at http://www.demianbarba.com.

Richard Carrick is a composer, pianist and conductor who writes music for soloists, chamber ensembles, orchestra, film, theatre, electronics and concert music with video. Described as “charming, with exoticism and sheer infectiousness” by Allan Kozinn of The New York Times, Richard’s music has been performed throughout North America, Europe, and Japan by the New York Philharmonic Ensemble Series, Vienna’s Konzerthaus, ISCM World Music Days, MATA Festival, Royaumont Voix Nouvelles, Darmstadt Summer Festival, and other festivals. Carrick has received commissions by the Nieuw Ensemble, The Nouvel Ensemble Modern, JACK Quartet, the Ensemble-On-Line of Vienna, Brown University, soloists Magnus Andersson, Carin Levine, Rohan de Saram, and others.   As pianist and conductor he has performed a unique repertoire of solo works and unusual chamber pieces on the Green Umbrella Series in Los Angeles, at The Kitchen, the Banff Centre, Canada and regular appearances in New York. He co-founded the contemporary chamber ensemble group Either/Or in 2004 and is currently Adjunct Faculty at New York University. More information on Richard Carrick's work may be viewed at http://www.richardcarrick.com.