Christian Hui (Co-Director and Co-Producer; He/They; Undetectable) is a queer, poz BIPOC settler HIV/AIDS activist, a Vanier Scholar, and a #ViralInterventions resident artist. When Christian shared his experience as an Asian living with HIV with intersecting key priority population identities, he was approached by a community-driven creative collective Rice Roll Productions (Vince Ha and Mezart Daulet) to star in an auto-biographical "Empty Nest: Gay Short Film". As a community-mobilizer, Christian co-founded Ontario Positive Asians and the Canadian Positive People Network, and was one of the HIV-positive chefs featured in the HBO-documentary "June's". Christian is currently a Senior Global Community Advisor at Prevention Access Campaign (Undetectable=Untransmittable), and UNAIDS Programme Coordinating Board NGO Delegate. “Walking In These Shoes“ is Christian's documentary directorial debut.

Samuel Lopez (Co-Director and Co-Producer) was born in El Salvador. He left with his family during the civil war of the 1980s and settled in Montreal. Samuel is a certified translator and an HIV+ AIDS activist. HIV has been a theme of interest in his work and in his life as a community activist long before he tested positive. In 1993, Samuel made his directorial debut with the documentary "Samuel & Samantha," an autobiographical documentary about his life as a Latino drag queen. In 1996, while at the University of Toronto, Samuel wrote the screenplay “L’Histoire d’Henri” (“Henry’s Story”). In 2008, Samuel directed and produced the short documentary “Our Faces, Our Stories” for the group Latinos Positivos (HIV+ Latinos). He has directed several short documentary videos for Latinos Positivos Toronto and the Canadian AIDS Treatment Information Exchange (CATIE). He completed the feature documentary “The Sugarcane” (2013) that premièred at the Festival Internacional del Nuevo Cine Latinoamericano in La Habana, Cuba.