A former English teacher and high school administrator, Gwyn comes to filmmaking with a keen understanding of her teenage subjects and the nuances of their stories.  Having worked with youth in Nepal, California, and New York, she loves their honesty and complexity, and wants to illuminate their lives through film. Welcome to My World marks Gwyn’s directorial film debut. She has worked as Co-Producer for the award-winning film Youssou N’Dour: I Bring What I Love (Shadow Distribution, 2009), as Associate Producer for Florentine Films’ production Medal of Honor (PBS, 2008) and as Associate Producer and Director of Outreach for Whatever It Takes (PBS, 2010), which chronicles the first year of a new, public school in the South Bronx. Gwyn was a founding member of The Urban Assembly School of Business, one of New York City’s first all-girls public schools, where she connected low-income young women to the city’s business community.  She also spearheaded a comprehensive overhaul of humanitarian services in the Louisiana Governor’s office after Hurricane Katrina in 2005, ran a field campaign in Pennsylvania for America Coming Together (ACT) during the 2004 presidential campaign, and worked as an educator at the Whitney Museum of American Art. She graduated cum laude from Yale University in 2001 with a BA in American Studies. She currently resides in New York City.  

Basia, also a former teacher, studied at the prestigious National Film Academy of Poland in Lodz, and received her MFA from Columbia University’s Graduate Film Program in 2006. Since moving to New York City, Basia has worked regularly as a camera operator and editor for television and independent documentaries.  Basia has shot and edited films for the BBC, Britain’s Channel 4, The Travel Channel, and WNET Channel 13. Her documentaries, music videos and video art pieces have screened internationally at film festivals, galleries, sporting events and art museums.