Meet the Team
Creator & Host
Deidra Catero
is an award winning Production Designer for film and a Third Degree High Priestess with over 20 years of experience and formal training in both Art and Magick.
Growing up in the mountains of New York, Deidra is a Design/Technology alumni from SUNY Purchase, a former specialty scenery shop manager, published illustrator, and high-end corporate designer for major global brands including FAO Schwarz, JCrew, and Universal Studios. Deidra is a design fabrication specialist that has worked on over 30 film projects in roles that include production designer, art director, scenic charge, historical magick consultant, and actress.
Deidra is formally degreed in Progressive Witchcraft, with direct lineage to Alexandrian-Gardinarian. Her training includes influences of Italian Witchcraft, Lakota, Druid, and many more. She has lead community rituals, directed festivals, and has taught within the community for over 15 years.
By reflecting inward as a witch while expanding outward as an artist, Deidra teaches how to bridge division between people and to witness The Thread connecting all of humanity. In honoring the past while moving forward, she loves to combine her passions by finding that extra level of depth and understanding of the world around us. Deidra’s gift is to help others make the abstract tangible, and foster connection.
Executive Producer, Elder
Jon Keeyes
Has spent 25 successful years in feature film production as a producer, director and screenwriter. Jon is also a Wiccan High Priest and has been the Tribal Leader in the Celtic Reconstructionist tradition for the past 30 years.
With more than 70 credits, he most recently produced the action-comedy Guns Up starring Kevin James and Christina Ricci, the Irish thriller Cult Killer starring Antonio Banderas, the dark comedy The Kill Room starring Uma Thurman the baseball drama Reverse the Curse directed by David Duchovny, and Bandit with Mel Gibson and Josh Duhamel.
Jon is an Academy Award Semi-Finalist with his short film Angela’s Body, has taught directing at the SAG Conservatory in Los Angeles, and is a frequent guest producer and director at film conventions across the country.
Director
Nora Unkel
is a writer and director, with award-winning narrative and documentary films and music videos. She is a graduate of NYU, with a degree in film and TV production. Her debut feature, A NIGHTMARE WAKES (2021, Shudder) was among the top 2% of entrants for The Academy’s Nicholl Screenwriting Fellowship Program, one of Slated.com’s top 10 scripts of 2016, pitched at IFP Week, and the Frontiers Film Market. Nora has been a founding partner at several production companies, and has directed over 25 short form documentary stories. Today, Nora teaches the essentials of storytelling at a nonprofit called Brink to justice-system-impacted youth and adults.
Producer, Dedicant of Witchcraft
Kayla Faede
has spent over a decade in Off-Broadway theater and events. She was the Associate General Manager for the Tony Award-Winning Signature Theatre (NYC), where over 11 seasons, she served on more than 55 theatrical productions, in addition to several hundred events, including productions with Bill Irwin & David Shiner, Katori Hall, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Anna Deavere Smith, and many more. She currently manages events at the historic 92NY, a world-class cultural center. Kayla is an alumni of SUNY Purchase’s Conservatory of Theatre Arts. As a practicing Priestess within Progressive Witchcraft for 15 years, Kayla has shown dedication to fostering connection within the community by helping to run a number of large-scale pagan festivals.
Briana Man
Director of Photography,
Student of Witchcraft
