Isabel Sandoval

Lead actor

Filipina actor and director Isabel Sandoval is a rising star of independent filmmaking who toys with genre conventions in her subversive portraits of women whose personal journeys are tangled up in complex sociopolitical realities. Recognized by The Criterion Collection as "one of the most exciting and multitalented filmmakers" today, she has directed three narrative features, including Lingua Franca, nominated for the John Cassavetes Award at the 2021 Independent Spirit Awards. A true auteur, Sandoval wrote, produced, directed, and starred in her feature debut Señorita and follow-up Apparition, now streaming on The Criterion Channel. She recently directed the short Shangri-La for Miu Miu Women's Tales.

Andrew Ondrejcak

SCAD B.F.A., performing arts, 2002

Andrew Ondrejcak is a unique artist working at the intersection of fine art, film, and live performance. His work in experimental theater led to a career in creative direction and production design for the fashion industry, including special projects for Hermès, Vivienne Westwood, W Magazine, and New York and Shanghai Fashion Weeks, among others. Ondrejcak's theatrical works have been presented internationally, including at the Guggenheim Museum's Work & Process series, curated by Robert Wilson. Ondrejcak has been an artist in residence at The Watermill Center, the Park Avenue Armory, the Baryshnikov Arts Center, and with Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's Thread Senegal. In addition to his latest film The Actress, Ondrejcak's directorial credits include the shorts Story and The Writer with Tilda Swinton, Objet d'Art, Dido's Lament, The Three Graces, and Signed Sealed Delivered, as well as the music video for "The Sword of Damocles" with Rufus Wainwright and Darren Criss.

Paula Wallace

Executive producer

Paula Wallace founded SCAD in Savannah, Georgia, in 1978. In the past 20 years as university president, she has led the university's expansion to locations in Atlanta, Hong Kong, and Lacoste, France, and pioneered SCAD eLearning. With more than 100 academic degree programs and 15,000 enrolled students, SCAD is the preeminent source of knowledge in every discipline it teaches and has prepared more than 45,000 alumni for creative professions worldwide.

Over the decades, Wallace has created internationally renowned fashion showcases and signature events, and is widely heralded as a global luminary of aesthetic and style. Under Wallace's direction, the award-winning SCAD FASH Museum of Fashion + Film hosts premier fashion exhibitions, including Notre Ami, Pierre Cardin and the major retrospective Pierre Cardin: Pursuit of the Future. Wallace created the acclaimed signature event SCADstyle, which gathers top design minds from around the globe to share industry insight at SCAD Atlanta and Savannah. She is the executive producer of critically acclaimed SCAD film projects profiling designers like Cardin (I Am Thinking of Pierre Cardin and Pierre Cardin: Le Futur), among others.

Wallace is an honorary member of the AIA, a Senior Fellow of the Design Futures Council, a member of the Advisory Board of the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. She is a recipient of the ASID Nancy Vincent McClelland Merit Award, the Arthur Ross Award for Stewardship, the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Louise du Pont Crowninshield Award, and a Roger Milliken Honorary AIA Legacy Award. Wallace has also been named among Blouin Artinfo's "Power List: High-Wattage Women of the Art World" and Condé Nast's "Daring 25." The French Embassy in the United States of America appointed Wallace a Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques, the Georgia Historical Society named her a Georgia Trustee, the City of Atlanta presented her with a Phoenix Award, the City of Savannah awarded her a key to the city, and DesignIntelligence named her to its "30 Most Admired Educators."