Festival de Cannes nominated filmmaker, Sayla U'ilani Whalen, has written and directed thirty projects with nominations at Long Beach Horror Festival, Monarch Festival, etc. She crewed on over twenty projects (music videos, short films, commercials) as script supervisor, camera operator, and production designer with budgets ranging from $1K-$25K. Her most recent project "First Comes Love" is a coming-of-age story between two teenage girls struggling with grief, identity, and first love. As a queer, female, Kanaka Hawaiian, Sayla hopes to encourage more inclusion through her art.