Lesya Pishchevskaya
Executive Director
Born and raised in Ukraine, Lesya relocated to the U.S. in 2005. She earned two bachelor's degrees from UC Berkeley and a master’s degree from Columbia University. With over 15 years of experience in the tech industry, she has held leadership roles in client success and marketing. In 2013, she co-founded the nonprofit NovaUkraine.org. Lesya has been involved in film productions since 2017 and is passionate about social causes, travel, fashion, and decor.
C.J. Stussi
The AWARD winning Excutive Director and Actress. C.J. Stussi is an international actress who is fluent in 5 languages. C.J.'s career began at age 3 when she won a model contest. In the following years she starred in several commercial campaigns and numerous plays. She gained her first international attention as one of the Swiss finalists for the feature film "Courage Mountain". Her first leading role in a major film was in the feature film ''Secret Trees of Inspiration'', which is based on her life. In July 2017 she won Mentioning as Best Actress at the NYC Indie Film Awards. In August 2017 she got admitted as an attorney in California after having graduated with a Master of Laws at the University in Fribourg, Switzerland, and a LL.M. at Southwestern Law School in Los Angeles.
Alessandro Derviso
The AWARD winning Executive Director, Film Director and Producer is from Napoli, Italy. He has Produced and directed over twenty titles. creative goal as an artist is to combine, blend and/or unite intangible similarities. My experiential consumptions create a digestive process that expels objective matter to be inspected, avoided or re-consumed by the audience. Subliminal bells prompt viewers to dig through the layered depth of intuition. Public presentation of these works creates it’s own virtual hybrid of culture and globalism. He was also nominated for an Acadedy Award and is well known in the film industry globally.