Jean's documentaries have been exhibited internationally in festivals, museums and on television. She Produced, Directed and Edited, SEX IN AN EPIDEMIC which premiered on Showtime Networks. This powerful documentary tells the heroic story of how the safer sex movement was born and how HIV prevention movements continue today. She created OFFERINGS, an interactive video altar that was featured in art exhibitions such as: Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum, UCLA and NOT ALONE, Durban Art Gallery, Durban, South Africa, and subsequently touring throughout South Africa. Jean is a professor of Media Arts and Director of the Television Center at LIU Post.

Sophia Luvarà received her MSc with merit in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Turin, where she also studied for a PhD in Cancer Research, but in 2007 she discontinued her studies and moved to London to follow her passion for documentary filmmaking. In 2008 she attended the Documentary Filmmaking course at the London Film Academy and subsequently directed a number of independent documentaries,

Hany Abu-Assad is one of the world's most distinctive filmmakers. The two-time Academy Award nominated director - Paradise Now (2006) and Omar (2013) - has won countless other awards including the Berlinale Blue Angel, Best Foreign Language Film at the Golden Globes, and the Special Jury Prize in Cannes' Un Certain Regard.

Dalibor Matanić was born in 1975 in Zagreb. He graduated in film and TV directing from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. His film debut was “The Cashier Wants to Go to the Seaside” in 2000 and it achieved huge festival and cinema success, followed by the equally successful “Fine Dead Girls”, which was awarded the Big Golden Arena from the jury, the audience award and the critics’ award in Pula. He then directed six more feature films, two of which premiered internationally at the Cannes International Film Festival. His latest feature film "The High Sun" was awarded with Jury Prize in the official competition program "Un Certain Regard" of the 68th Cannes Film Festival. 

George Amponsah is a critically-acclaimed director who has made numerous documentaries, including features such as The Fighting Spirit 2007), about boxers from Ghana in pursuit of the American dream, and The Importance of Being Elegant (2004), about a bizarre cult of fashion led by the flamboyant Congolese singer Papa Wemba.

Richard Todd produces provocative films, specialising in character-driven, social issues and natural history documentaries that have a positive impact on people, society and the environment. He’s worked with international companies and distributors including ABC, Discovery Channel, BBC and National Geographic.

George Kurian is a documentary filmmaker and photojournalist currently based in Istanbul. He has lived and worked in Afghanistan and Egypt and he has worked in Syria, Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Turkey and South Asia. He has worked on a range of documentaries from current affairs and history to human interest and wild life.

Director Andreas Koefoed has directed several character driven documentaries. His latest documentary “The Arms Drop” from 2014 about Danish Niels Holck and English Peter Bleach, was nominated for a Bodil award, and has been shown in more than 15 countries. Andreas Koefoed’s films have been selected for festivals all over the world, and has among others won awards at Tribeca Film Festival, Silverdocs, Full Frame, Sheffield Doc/Fest and CPH:DOX.

Living between Pakistan and New York, Emmy-winning filmmaker Mohammed is a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts and American Film Institute's Project 20:20 program. His work has received numerous awards, including the Amnesty Human Rights Award and the United Nations Association Festival Grand Jury Award, and has been showcased at the Museum of Modern Art. His documentary credits include Shame (Showtime-Toronto, IDFA, Tribeca), Pakistan's Hidden Shame (Channel 4, NHK, SVT, Sheffield, UNAFF), Shabeena's Quest (Al Jazeera), andTerror’s Children (Discovery). Mohammed has produced two narrative feature films, Big River and I Will Avenge You Iago, starring Giancarlo Esposito and Larry Pine, and recently directed the narrative short Happy Things in Sorrow Times. Mohammed is also the founder of MuNan Pictures, an independent production house which has developed programing for Showtime, Channel 4, NHK, Al Jazeera, SVT, CNN, MTV, Current TV, New York Times Television, and has recently worked with Oprah Winfrey's Harpo Productions.

Hemal has been a Mumbai and New York City-based documentary film editor/director for over a decade. Her credits include Outlawed in Pakistan (Editor, Emmy 2014, PBS Frontline, Sundance); Saving Face (Editor, Oscar 2012, Two Emmys 2013, HBO/Channel 4); Shabeena’s Quest (Director/Editor, Witness, Al Jazeera); Flying on One Engine (Editor, SXSW, IDFA); Laughter (Editor, BBC); When the Drum is Beating (Editor, ITVS, Tribeca 2011); and Beyond Mumbai (Director, Camera & Editor, OWN, 2011 Webby nomination). She has produced and edited over 50 award-winning shorts for Odyssey Networks.