Juliana Curi is a Brazilian-Latina film director and visual artist. Deeply influenced by the Cinema Novo movement and with a strong background in journalism, she began her career in the creative department of MTV Brazil, developing powerful social-cultural impact campaigns about HIV, Politics, and Climate Justice focused on Brazilian youth. Since then, Juliana was the UN Women’s Award winner with the P&G Campaign as the best campaign in Latin America that defies gender stereotypes, 2021 Bric Brooklyn Film+TV Resident, part of the board of supporters and director of the launching campaign of More Grls, the first platform to female talent in Brazil which aims to fight gender inequality and author of the exhibitions Pink Intervention (Spotte Art NY, Artsy) and The Battle of the Body at Centro Cultural São Paulo (São Paulo Cultural Center). She currently lives in the United States, is founder of the filmmaking inclusion program EUETU Lab and signs the script, direction, and production of the documentary feature film UYRA – The Rising Forest, grated by Doc Society Climate Story Unit and Bric Brooklyn. The film had its first theatrical trailer exhibited during COP 26 and is slated to be released in 2022.

João Henrique Kurtz (they/them – he/him) is a Brazilian film and TV producer dedicated to projects that promote diversity and inclusion, especially within the queer community. Kurtz started their career in the film industry as Assistant Executive Producer, involved in a number of feature films and TV series. During that time, they co-wrote, co-directed, and produced their first short film "Satin Bird", presented at Cannes Short Film Corner in 2016. Most recently they were the Executive Producer to the children's series "Radio Zoo", Executive and Development Producer to Star+ Original Series "Impuros", and Development Producer to Lucas Camargo de Barros' feature film debut as a director, "Petit Mal", co-directed with Nicolas Thomé Zetune. The film was selected for the Buenos Aires Talents Campus and received the consultancy of Andrea Chignoli (editor of Pablo Larrain’s NO) and, after that, had its world premiere at the 29th FIDMarseille.

Lívia Cheibub (she/her) is a director, editor and producer with strong field logistics skills and global editorial experience. Her explorative artistic and production practices took her through several extensive journeys along four continents. She values and practices a decolonial approach to production processes. She has been inspired by the subjectivities within people and communities and how these coexistences sharpened her ability to connect empathically with others. Her portfolio includes the interactive hypermedia project called 'City Body', that won the Bolsa Funarte Visual Arts Award from the Ministry of Culture in Brazil and the short doc 'Mi Isla' about Cuban visual artist and performer Raychel Carrión. She is also the founder and creative director behind Wild Galaxies, a production company dedicated to creating narratives that explore new representations of sex in cinema. She was a 2020 fellow at the BRIClab Film+TV with Uyra - The Rising Forest. Lívia is currently the media manager at Story Syndicate, a production company devoted to providing a home for up-and-coming directors to be supported as they grow.

Martina Sönksen (she/her) is a Brazilian screenwriter and filmmaker. In 2021, she created, directed and wrote SOBREPOSTAS (2021) a 13 Episode TV Show on Canal Brasil about trans and cis female sexuality. In 2016, she co-produced the feature documentary The Karma Killings, available on Amazon Prime Video, selected by DOCS MX, DOCS Valéncia and recommended by Film Bazaar. And in 2015, she produced the short documentary The Pigeon Kings of Brooklyn (2015) was featured on Narrative.ly, chosen as Staff Pick on Vimeo and selected by Brooklyn Academy of Music/BAM to be exhibited at the Brooklyn Bridge Park Free Summer Movie 2015. As a subtitle translator she worked on projects for VICE on HBO, VICE NEWS and VICELAND. In 2022, along with her partners Juliana Curi, Lívia Cheibub and João Henrique Kurtz, she will premiere the documentary feature UYRA - The Rising Forest, with which she was a 2020 fellow at the BRIClab Film+TV and a grantee at the 2020 Doc Society Climate Story Fund. She lived in Brooklyn, NY from 2010 to 2020 and she’s currently living in São Paulo.