Meet the Guest Experts for the 2025 Moonshot Feature Accelerator

These 2025 Moonshot Feature Accelerator guest experts listened to our seven fellows' 10-minute pitches and provided valuable feedback in order to prepare the fellows for pitch week.

The fellows pitched their projects to executives from HBO, Neon, Netflix, and more during pitch week.

Here are the impressive bios of our guest experts!

Christina Raia is a New York born and based writer/director of Indo-Caribbean descent who focuses on character-driven and socially conscious horror and comedy, using genre as a lens to represent, discuss, and dissect social issues, otherness, and real world anxieties. With a dozen shorts, a web series, and two features under her belt, Christina's work has screened at film festivals all across the country, most recently at Sidewalk Film Festival and Chattanooga Film Festival. Christina is currently in development with executive producer Lilly Wachowski (The Matrix, Bound, Work in Progress) on her next feature as writer/director, a horror-comedy titled Midnight Harvest, slated for production in fall 2025. Through a desire to support and inspire other artists, she co-hosts the educational podcast Breaking Out of Breaking In and teaches workshops on audience building and creative distribution methods.

Lee Bonvissuto is a Self-Expression Strategist and Founder of PresentVoices where they help people liberate their voices from anxiety and overthinking. They’ve spent the past 10+ years helping thousands of empathetic leaders express themselves in every room so they can be seen as experts and elevate their careers. Their approach focuses on building genuine confidence through comfort, not force (because we're confident when we’re comfortable). Their work has been featured in Harvard Business Review, WIE Suite, and Forbes, and is trusted by leaders at the world’s top companies. For more info, visit www.presentvoices.com.

Quincie Li is a literary manager at Kaplan/Perrone Entertainment, where she represents writers and directors in film and television. Her clients work across all genres at all of the major studios including Netflix, Apple, HBO, Showtime, Amazon, Lionsgate, Sony, Paramount, Fox, CBS, and NBC. She began her career as an assistant in the television literary department at ICM Partners and worked at Thruline Entertainment before joining Kaplan/Perrone. Quincie grew up in Orange County, California, and graduated from Vanderbilt University.

Kristen Konvitz is a film finance and packaging agent in the independent film group at UTA. She specializes in structuring and arranging financing, packaging, negotiating distribution, and crafting marketing and sales strategies for independent and co-financed features, helping elevate the world?s most acclaimed emerging and established filmmakers.

As part of the independent group, Konvitz has arranged the financing and distribution of approximately 40 films a year, from development to worldwide distribution and ranging in budgets from $500K up to $50M. The independent group has represented many high-profile, critically acclaimed, and independently financed films from a diverse range of American and international filmmakers and producers, including Greta Gerwig, Asghar Farhadi, James Pondsoldt, Michael Showalter, Marielle Heller, Haifaa Al-Mansour, Mike Mills, and Will Graham among others. 

Prior to joining UTA, she spent 5 years as an independent film agent at ICM Partners. As an agent in ICM Partners' Independent and International Group, she helped in the packaging and sale of numerous high-profile projects, including HBO's "American Utopia" and the record-breaking Sundance sale of "CODA" to Apple TV+.

Prior to ICM, Konvitz spent a decade working in New York and served as Head of Production at Stay Gold Features, where she helped launch and grow the company. During her tenure, she worked on several notable films including "Patti Cake$," which sparked a bidding war at Sundance before being acquired by Fox Searchlight and A24?s Under the Silver Lake. She also oversaw the development of "Harriet" for Focus Features and ?Black Lion? with Andrew Garfield.

Konvitz's innovative approach to film financing was mined during her time at Indiegogo, where she revolutionized film crowdfunding by growing market share in the film space from 35% to 52% and managing six million-dollar-plus campaigns. Her experience also includes 6 years working in acquisitions & production at Wild Bunch, where she acquired acclaimed films like "The Wrestler," "Two Lovers," and "The Immigrant." She began her career at The Weinstein Company.

Konvitz is a graduate of Columbia University's School of the Arts with an MFA in Film, and New York University's Steinhardt School of Education where she graduated Magna Cum Laude in Media Studies. She has established herself as a respected voice in the industry, regularly speaking at events and maintaining strong relationships with distributors, sales companies, financiers, producers, and filmmakers worldwide.

Mitzi Miller is a best-selling author, veteran magazine editor, award-nominated podcast host, and well-respected TV/film executive.  

Most recently, Miller served as Vice President of Scripted Drama Development at Warner Bros. Television Studios, where she led creative on projects for powerhouse talents including Oscar-winning writer Cord Jefferson and Emmy-winning producer Greg Berlanti. Prior to that, she was Head of Development at Rainforest Entertainment, where she sold and produced a range of projects, including the hit BET series The Quad. Miller also independently co-produced several original movies for BET Networks, including Friend Request and Holiday Heist.

Before transitioning into television and film in 2015, Miller served as editor-in-chief of two of the nation's most historic African American magazines—EBONY and JET. She is only the second person, and the first woman, ever to hold both positions. 

Since stepping away from WBTV, the talented multi-hyphenate has turned her sights inward. Miller is now focused on sharing her personal story of surviving cancer—her second life-threatening medical diagnosis—and how the experience sparked a profound transformation, shifting her from a driven career executive to into a fearless, wholehearted advocate for the healing power of living a life full of authentic joy.

The Connecticut native has co-authored five popular books: The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life; The Vow: A Novel; and the three-title Hotlanta young adult series. In 2015, Lifetime Network adapted The Vow: A Novel into the movie, “With This Ring.” In 2019, BET Network adapted The Angry Black Woman’s Guide to Life into the movie, “Angrily Ever After.” 

Janine Beach is an attorney and strategy consultant with over twelve years of experience across film, television, digital media and theater industries. 

As an entertainment attorney, her practice has focused on representing creative talent and production companies. She has had roles in both private practice and in-house, with equal experience as an advocate for celebrity and emerging clients. She has also been a senior strategist at two preeminent international media companies, advising C-suite executives about acquisition targets, growth initiatives and industry disruption.

Janine began her legal career at a leading Wall Street law firm and her consulting career at the foremost international management consultancy.​​​

She has been a guest lecturer at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts,  Columbia University School of the Arts, London Film School and City University of New York; and a speaker at Tribeca Film Festival, Gotham Week (formerly IFP Week), Oxford University, NYC Media Center and ACTRA. She is admitted to the bar in New York and California, and as a Foreign Legal Consultant in Ontario.

Janine holds a Juris Doctor and an MBA from Columbia University in New York City, and a Bachelor’s degree with joint honors from McGill University in Montreal. She is also a classically trained pianist, having received Associate Diplomas in piano performance and piano pedagogy from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.  Janine has lived and worked in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Toronto, and was born and raised in Dundas, Ontario.

Brooke Solomon is a propulsive genre writer with experience in the worlds of feature development, scripted audio, and short form content. She grew up as a bisexual Lebanese girl on a farm in rural New Hampshire, where animals generally outnumbered – and outranked – the local people. Before her life of writing, Brooke worked in film development for FIFTH SEASON/Endeavor Content and Entertainment Studios, on projects such as 80 FOR BRADY, CHA CHA REAL SMOOTH, and 47 METERS DOWN: UNCAGED. Her writing work has been recognized by The Black List Episodic Lab, the WIF Fellowship Program, Moonshot's Pilot Accelerator, the Athena List, the Austin Film Festival, Final Draft’s Big Break, the Stowe Story Labs, and SeriesFest. Brooke is currently a story editor on Audible Original THE COLDEST CASE. She has co-created an original neo-noir series with The Lab, and developed standalone thrillers with Emmy Award winning Leepson Bounds, Kontent Farm, and Bill Block. Brooke also co-hosts "The Queer Quadrant," a podcast focused on LGBTQ+ representation in blockbusters. She is repped by Mitchell Bendersky at Expectation Management.

Meet the Moonshot Feature Accelerator fellows here!