David Holbrooke (Director) is a filmmaker whose latest project is The Diplomat. The film is about his father, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke, who brokered the peace that ended the Bosnian War. He is also Festival Director of Telluride Mountainfilm in Colorado since 2008. His last film, Hard as Nails, aired on HBO in December 2007. Other documentaries include Freaks Like Me, Time for a New God and A Redwood Grows in Brooklyn, featuring acclaimed nature photographer James Balog. All are part of an ongoing series he created called "Original Thinkers." Other notable projects include The Soul of Healing with Deepak Chopra and co-producer of The Trials of Henry Kissinger. Before he became a filmmaker, David spent a year in the dotcom world and previously, worked extensively in television news, producing long- form pieces for "The Today Show," CBS News and CNN. David has also written for the Huffington Post, CNN.com and National Geographic Adventure. His production company, Giraffe Partners, is developing narrative features and several documentaries. He lives in Telluride, Colorado with his wife Sarah, three kids, two big dogs and a bunch of bikes.

Florian studied Directing at the Film and Television University “Konrad Wolf” (HFF) in Potsdam Babelsberg. His graduation film LEBENDKONTROLLE won the Dialogue en perspective prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2010. Since then, he has worked on television documentaries and independent film productions.

Katharina studied Montage at the Film and Television University “Konrad Wolf” (HFF) in Potsdam Babelsberg, but soon began directing projects of her own. She concluded her studies with the film MY GLOBE IS BROKEN IN RWANDA, which won the Documentary Film Prize at the Max Ophüls Film Festival in 2010. Since then, she has continued to work in documentary filmmaking and WE WERE REBELS is her second documentary feature.

"The boundaries, the ones drawn up and familiar, like countries, caste, and gender feel easy to define and to direct a finger at. It is the confines tucked in between those more tangible that make being human beautiful, complex, and difficult. 

When we set out to make a film about a girl in Nepal who left her village to get an education on scholarship, we believed we were telling a story about a girl who was breaking cultural and social boundaries. We naively—stupidly even—made assumptions about what this looked and felt like—we had so predetermined the end to our story that we were blind to the obstacles she was actually facing—the ones we should have seen because they are familiar."

- Amy Benson and Scott Squire | Directors, Drawing the Tiger

Tamara Erde is a French-Israeli filmmaker living and working in Paris. She often deals in her work with political and social issues focusing on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Her works mixes her personal and imaginary reflections, with a documentary approach accompanied by profound researches on the selected themes.

David Felix Sutcliffe is an independent documentary filmmaker whose work explores issues of national security and civil liberties in the post-9/11 era. In 2013, he was included in Filmmaker Magazine's annual list of "25 New Faces of Independent Film." (T)ERROR, co-directed with acclaimed photojournalist Lyric R. Cabral, marks the first time that filmmakers have had access to an active FBI informant in a domestic counterterrorism investigation.

Lyric R. Cabral is a New York-based filmmaker and photojournalist who documents stories seldom seen in mainstream media. Cabral recently completed (T)ERROR, her first feature length documentary, co-directed with David Felix Sutcliffe, which premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival, where it won a Special Jury Prize for Break Out First Feature, as well as the Grand Jury Prize at the 2015 Full Frame Film Festival.

Laurent Bécue-Renard is a French director and producer. In 1995 and 1996, while living in Sarajevo during the siege, he served as editor-in-chief of the magazine Sarajevo Online and published a series of short stories called The Sarajevo Chronicles. Shifting focus to young men returning from battles in faraway lands, Bécue-Renard continues to explore war’s psychological aftermath with Of Men and War, the second volume of his Genealogy of Wrath trilogy.