Since founding Adrenaline Films in 1998, Alessandra Zeka has created a dynamic cinematic style wherein her subjects tell their stories compellingly and intimately. Her work often focuses on the lives of women and gender identity.

Following a screening of experimental films in 1983, Fernand Melgar turned himself into a self-taught independent film director and producer. He created experimental films and iconoclastic television segments, and in 1985, he joined the production company Climage, with whom he has stayed a faithful collaborator, and has produced over twenty well-regarded documentaries on the subjects of immigration and identity.

Francois Verster is a multiple-award winning independent documentary filmmaker based in Cape Town, South Africa.  His films generally follow “creative” observational approaches to social issues and have all won local and international awards and been broadcast around the world. He has taught documentary directing and film studies and his films have been used in various seminars on the intersection between creative documentary and social activism.

Mikael Wiström is an internationally acclaimed documentary director from Sweden. On his credit list you will first of all find a trilogy of a Peruvian family consisting of THE OTHER SHORE (1992), COMPADRE (2004) and FAMILIA ( 2010). Mikael is also a stills photographer, writer and international lecturer on documentary film.

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.