Beth Murphy founded Principle Pictures in 1999 to do what she loves doing most: meeting inspiring people, telling great stories, and using media as a catalyst for good. She has directed, produced, written and in some cases narrated nearly 20 documentary films for national and international media outlets.

Juliano Ribeiro Salgado was born in 1974 in Paris, where he grew up in a Franco-Brazilian environment. Juliano Ribeiro Salgado has made a number of short films and documentaries for French television. He is now working on his first feature-length film that is to be filmed in Sáo Paolo, Brazil.

One of the most important figures to emerge from the "New German Cinema" period in the 1970s, Wenders was a founding member of the German film distributor Filmverlag der Autoren in 1971 and he established his own production company, Road Movies, in Berlin in 1975. He lives in Berlin, together with his wife, photographer Donata Wenders.

Patricio Henríquez fled repression in Chile and settled in Montreal in 1974. Patricio Henríquez’s prolific body of work, acknowledged by more than 70 awards and distinctions, consistently reflects the political engagement of a filmmaker who places dignity and respect for human rights at the core of his artistic practice. 

Joey Boink is a cum laude political sciences graduate and movie-maker. For the Netherlands Public Broadcasting, he made documentaries about child labor in India, education in Guatemala and the Millennium Development Goals in Latin America. He also co-founded Poldox, a documentary course for social science studies at the University of Amsterdam.

Born in 1974, USA, Joshua Oppenheimer is a recipient of the MacArthur “Genius” Fellowship (2015–2019). His debut feature film The Act of Killing was nominated for the 2013 Academy Award® for Best Documentary, and has been released theatrically in 31 countries. Oppenheimer is a partner at Final Cut for Real in Denmark and Artistic Director of the International Centre for Documentary and Experimental Film at the University of Westminster in London.

Virunga is Orlando’s debut feature length documentary. For ‘Virunga’ he has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA and a Director’s Guild of America Award. He co-runs London based film production company Grain Media.

Amer Shomali is a Palestinian artist and worked as multimedia designer at Birzeit University and ZAN Studio in Ramallah, Palestine. He uses art and technology to design posters, political cartoons and short animation to support local and international political campaigns and open local social debates.

Rachel Beth Anderson, a Sundance award wining cinematographer, has filmed around the world in several conflict zones including Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Liberia and South Sudan, for CNN, PBS Frontline, Human Rights Watch, and independent feature documentaries First To Fall and E-TEAM.

Iva Radivojevic spent her early years in Yugoslavia and Cyprus before settling in NYC to pursue her artistic goals over a decade ago. Her work explores the theme of identity, migration and immigrants. Iva’s films have screened at various film festivals including SXSW, Rotterdam IFF, HotDocs, PBS, The Documentary Channel as well as the New York Times Op-Docs. She is happiest when editing and hiding behind the camera lens where she’s transported into another world. Iva's first feature length documentary “Evaporating Borders," a selected project at IFP Film Week,  and is currently touring the world. Follow what she’s up to at www.ivaasks.com.