Former Exec. Director of the deadCenter Film Festival and Emmy-nominated filmmaker

Lance McDaniel is an Emmy nominated filmmaker from Alva who has worked on 22 feature films, including Oscar winner Million Dollar Baby. Lance has directed and produced five narrative features, two documentaries, four shorts, and a Virtual Reality film. Lance spent a decade as Executive Director of the deadCenter Film Festival. 

Emmy award-winning filmmaker, Director at Skit Guys Studios

Brian Cates is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker and is the writer and director of FAMILY CAMP, a feature-length family comedy from SONY / Provident Films and K-LOVE Radio. Over the past 15 years he has directed and/or produced nearly 500 short films with The Skit Guys, and with them has built one of the largest faith-based short film distribution networks in the world. Brian lives in Oklahoma City with his wife and best friend, Jina, and their three daughters.

Chief, AirVūz

Jenny was part of the original AirVūz management team, and as Chief Operating Officer, she currently is responsible for the Site Editing, Social Media, Community Relations, and Digital Signage / OTT functions within AirVūz. With a 20+year background in communications, technology and management, her previous posts in corporate, start-up, non-profit, and education settings include management positions with Citibank, IP Commerce, Business Aviation, and Augustana University. Jenny holds a MA in Rhetorical Criticism and a BA in Organizational Communication from the University of South Dakota. 

Vice President and Creative Director, Freestyle Creative

Sonni is an Oklahoman artist, adjunct professor for ACM@UCO and creative director for Freestyle Creative. As the creative director of Freestyle, Sonni brings her obsession for creating vibrant solutions while developing teams to deliver dynamic, integrated advertising systems across all platforms. She is active in the Oklahoma film scene by creative directing poster design and character photoshoots for films Freestyle produces. She thrives on moving brands forward by inspiring human connections with award-winning work created for the Oklahoma City Convention Center, Film Education Institute of Oklahoma, Braum's, OU Medicine, OKC Thunder, Chesapeake Energy Arena, and Onyx Lane.

Director and Professor, Fullerton College Drone Lab and Director of Southern California Drone Film Festival

Jay Seidel is a professor and the director of the Fullerton Drone Lab at Fullerton College where he trains pilots and helps to develop UAS workforce skills for drone operations. He is the director of the Southern California Drone Film Festival. He is a longtime photojournalist who has worked for the Los Angeles Times, La Habra Journal, and various automotive magazines. He continues to photograph and capture visual content for a variety of outlets. He has taught drone courses at Cal State Long Beach and Cal State Channel Islands, as well as trained diverse groups of industries including surveyors at the port of Long Beach, state conservationists, and sheriff deputies on drone operations. He has authored the drone training textbook Drones: Training and Applications to Digital Imaging, now in its fourth edition.

Founder, NYC Drone Film Festival and owner of Yeah Drones Aerial Cinematography

Randy Scott Slavin is an award-winning director, photographer and aerial cinematographer and is the founder of the New York City Drone Film Festival. He is a drone expert who is regularly featured on television and in publications around the world. As a director, he is known for his use of cutting edge camera technology to further the impact of storytelling.

Slavin has directed work for brands including Porsche, Peloton, American Express, AT&T, Bank of America, Mark Manson, Tribeca Film Festival, Island/Def Jam Records for which he has received multiple awards. As a surrealist photographer, his work can regularly be found in the pages of Time Magazine, Gizmodo, Mashable, The Washington Post, Fast Company Design and other publications around the world.

In 2014 Slavin founded the New York City Drone Film Festival, the world's first event exclusively dedicated to celebrating the art of drone cinematography. It has experienced rapid growth since its inception, counting companies like SAMSUNG, RED, GE, NBC News, Adobe and DJI as headline sponsors. The NYCDFF includes a dynamic slate of interactive panels and a "Day of Drones" hosted at the Liberty Science Center and hosts thousands of attendees over festival weekend and hundreds of millions of media impressions worldwide. In early 2020 NYCDFF was acquired by drone film platform AIRVUZ.

Slavin lives with his wife and young daughter in New York.