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.

Marilyn Ness is a two-time Emmy Award-winning documentary producer. She produced Katy Chevigny and Ross Kauffman's feature documentary E-TEAM and Johanna Hamilton's feature documentary 1971, both premiering in 2014. She is currently a partner at Big Mouth Productions and produces and directs feature length documentaries as well as short films for non-profits. 

Katy Chevigny is an award-winning filmmaker and a co-founder of Big Mouth Productions and Arts Engine. Chevigny’s films have been shown theatrically, on HBO, Cinemax, POV, Independent Lens, NBC, Arte/ZDF, Britain’s Channel 4, and others and have played at film festivals around the world, including Sundance, Tribeca, Full Frame, SXSW, IDFA, Sheffield and Berlin.

Born in Tehran in 1976 and currently living between Berlin and Iran, Ayat Najafi first studied scenography. In 1995, he set up a company for student theater at the University of Tehran, participating in several workshops led by some masters of Iranian theater. In 2005, he participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus with his short film Move It (2004). Lady Tehran, his second theatrical production in Germany with an international team, premiered in Berlin in 2009, followed by Pakistan [Does not] exist. In 2008, he made his first feature  documentary,  Football Under Cover. 

Andreas M. Dalsgaard graduated from the National Film School of Denmark as a fiction film director in 2009. In 2012 Dalsgaard finished the documentary/fiction hybrid called “Traveling with Mr. T” (co-directed by Simon Lereng Wilmont – premiered at CPH:DOX in November 2012) which is also produced by Signe Byrge Sørensen for Final Cut for Real. In 2013 Andreas M. Dalsgaard started ELK Film, a production collective. Most recently Andreas M. Dalsgaard finished “Life is Sacred”, produced by Anne Köhncke and Signe Byrge Sørensen, Final Cut for Real.

Camilla Nielsson holds a master's degree in Anthropology & Media Studies, New York University 2000. She has worked as an independant filmmaker since 2000. Producer/director of "The Children of Darfur" (2006). Director of "Mumbai Disconnected" (2009). "Democrats" will be Nielsson's featurelength debute.