My Life in Chapters, Sight Unseen

Virtic Emil Brown is a writer, director, producer and actor whose work spans feature films, short films, documentaries, and theater. Her writing and directing credits include How to Make My Baby Free, The Antecedent Interventions and Consequence Strategies (Varona Productions & Easterseals), You'll Never Meet My Friends (Cornucopia TV Series), Apartment 205 (play, The Vagrancy Theatre), Hindsight (Easterseals), Will Unplugged (with Bruce Glover and Randall Park), and the documentary short On Tour. On Tour marked her directorial debut and screened at the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

Her feature script FREE! was selected for the Sundance Institute's Accessible Futures Initiative Lab and received the Institute's Accessible Futures Initiative Award. She is currently directing the feature documentary MLICSU, which participated in the South East European (abrv. SEE) Film Festival Accelerator program. Ms. Brown has also worked on the Apple TV+ series Loot (three seasons).

As an actor, her credits include WIT (McCadden Theater), Harlem South (Grammy Museum), Light in Dark Places(Amazon), Without a Trace (CBS), The Shield (FX), The Human Spirit (The Odyssey Theatre), and How to Hack Birth Control. Additional film credits include Mission in Kosovo, You'll Never Meet My New Friends, How to Make My Baby Free and Hindsight.

Brown has worked behind the scenes at the Academy Awards, serving as Press Guide Manager to over two thousand media outlets for the Oscars. She is active in the theater community as a Board Member of The Classical Theatre Lab and a member of Ensemble Studio Page 1 of 3 Theater/LA. She is also a member on multiple inclusion committees, including IWC, CBW, DWC, CWW, MEC, the Education Committee, and Genre Committee. A proud member of the disabled community, her work consistently centers accessibility and inclusive storytelling.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Henry Tuason is a documentaryminded visual storyteller drawn to real people, lived experience, and the quiet details that reveal truth. His work sits at the intersection of image and empathy, using photography and film to observe rather than impose. Deeply rooted in his community, Henry has played an essential role in developing educational media programs for schools across Los Angeles, believing storytelling to be a tool for access, understanding, and social impact.

Working as a photographer and freelance videographer, Henry collaborates on films and sizzle reels with a focus on authenticity and character. His credits include MLICSU, L.A., I Kinda Like You, Hindsight, and Jacob Stone.

Delphine Figueras is the General Manager of the American Society of Cinematographers (ASC), where she plays a central role in advancing the organization's mission and shaping its presence during awards season. Balancing strategic leadership with hands-on production, Delphine oversees the ASC's high-profile events, including the ASC Awards and Clubhouse Conversations, helping position the ASC as a vital hub for cinematography culture and discourse.

Alongside ASC leadership, Delphine drives the organization's event programming and editorial impact, particularly during awards season, when the ASC becomes a gathering place for the world's leading cinematographers. She has been instrumental in the evolution of Clubhouse Conversations, which began as an in-person educational initiative and grew into a widely respected interview series spotlighting award-season projects. The series offers cinematographers a rare peer-to-peer space to discuss craft, process, and visual storytelling.

Delphine manages production and collaborates on writing, bringing meticulous attention and deep pride to the work and its impact on the industry. That impact is reflected in the reverence filmmakers such as James Cameron and Paul Thomas Anderson have expressed for American Cinematographer, citing it as a formative part of their film education—testimony to the lasting influence of the ASC and the care behind its stewardship.