Gabriel Spahiu is one of the best known actors of the Romanian New Wave. In 1992 he graduated from the University of Bucharest, in Mathematics. Following his passion, he took up acting classes at the National Film School in Bucharest, where he had Olga Tudorache, one of the greatest Romanian actresses, and Adrian Pintea as his teachers. He graduated in 1996. He played in more than eighty shorts as well as feature films, some of them awarded at international festivals …
 

Mihai Chirilov is a well-known film critic, he works as a curator for the Romanian Film Festival organized by The Romanian Cultural Institute in New York, and is the Artistic Director of Transilvania International Film Festival (TIFF). He has a monthly column on HBO Club, was the editor-en-chief of the Re:publik and conceived the special edition of the AperiTIFF, dedicated to the Romanian film productions from 2010, and he is also a co-author of the book Lars von Trier: The …
 

Matthijs Wouter Knol is the program manager of the Berlinale Talent Campus since 2008. In 2001 he joined the renowned Pieter van Huystee Film in Amsterdam, becoming Head of Development in 2004. In 2007, he started working for the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (IDFA), spreading his activity between the co-production and sales markets and the IDFAcademy training program. As producer for Foundation Arts&Ex (2001-2007), he organized several photography exhibitions, lectures, video-installations, and retrospectives – all closely related to cinema …
 

Andrew Legge is an award winning short film director. He worked on a variety of documentaries, feature films and TV programs, he lives in Dublin and he has made a number of short films, such as The Unusual Inventions of Henry Cavendish (2005) or 1902 (2001). At present he is working on a feature script entitled Clovis Teazle which he developed through the Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation. Andrew won the Audience Award at NexT 2011 with his short film The Chronoscope. …
 

Hanna Sohlberg is a Commissioning editor of Short and Documentary film at Film i Skåne, the Southern Sweden regional fund. Since starting there in 2004, she has managed numerous film projects and programs and she initiated and developed the talent department of Film i Skåne. She has served as a jury member in several international film festivals and is also the festival director of Pixel, the largest short film festival of Southern Sweden. Hanna is a former short film director and …