Jaime Bofill is a musicologist and an assistant professor at the Conservatory of Music of Puerto Rico. His research focuses on Latin American music and the relationship between sound, music and environment.

Michael Brims is a documentary filmmaker & video artist from Germany living in Houston, Texas. He is also an associate professor for Art, Communication & Digital Media Studies at the University of Houston Clear Lake. His documentary work focuses on Latin American musical traditions and as aspects of sustainability.

As an award-winning filmmaker and social media strategist, Jeremy Clancy advocate for unions, charities, and progressive movements across the globe. He collaborates with organisations, individuals and groups to create narratives that make an impact. Stories are not just told; they are experienced.
 https://jeremyclancy.com/

Rosalind (Rozy) Fredericks is an urban geographer and Associate Professor at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized study, specializing in urban environmental social movements in West Africa. She has been working in Senegal for over 20 years conducting research on the politics of waste labor in Dakar. 

Kirk French is an award-winning professor of anthropology and Emmy-nominated filmmaker at Penn State University.
https://www.kirkfrench.com/

Paula Froehle is a director with a strong visual style shaped by her years as a visual artist and filmmaker, collaborator and mentor. She has directed and produced films for over 30 years. As a filmmaker Paula has directed 12 films and 20+ media projects, including her feature-length documentary, “The Show Must Go On, An Intimate Portrait of The Flying Wallendas,” which is distributed by MVD Entertainment Group.

Growing up in a family of filmmakers, I have been on film sets my whole life. I am a professional music producer, composer, and filmmaker. I am a bilingual (English, French) artist who creates music and film with a focus on documentary, sound design and composition.

Ilja Mlosch is an engineer and artist who lives and works in Berlin.  He has been constructing stage sets for several theatres for many years. Now he is working on giving the small and overlooked things their due.

Gordon Pepper is an internationally acclaimed documentary and experimental filmmaker from Regina, Canada. Gordon’s short films, including Annabel Lee, Discarnate: McLuhan’s Wake and This is Maki have been selected to screen at numerous film festivals around the world. Each film finds its unique voice capitalizing on cinema’s unlimited potential for artistic expression. Gordon teaches both film production and studies courses and was the recipient of the University of Regina’s ‘Inspirational Teaching Award’.

Kelly Saxberg is a Canadian film producer, director, editor, and cinematographer who has worked on well over 100 films. She works in English, French, Spanish and Finnish.

Chen Sing Yap (he/him) is a Singaporean-born filmmaker living in Oakville, Ontario. Before moving to Canada he was an established picture editor working primarily in long form factual television in Singapore. In recent years, his work has leaned heavily on visual and auditory juxtapositions to give mental health issues tangible form, whether it’s depression or the collapse of civilization. He is currently developing an animated documentary on climate anxiety, Hiroshimas per Second.

Stephen A. Smith has been exploring the Far North since the late 1970s. A wildlife biologist, Smith has three decades of experience in polar wildlife research. He has led more than 60 expeditions in the High Arctic. As a director, Smith’s films have been informed and shaped by the intensity of his experiences on polar ice.

Originally from Sydney, Australia, Genevieve trained professionally as an actor with Hugh Jackman at WAAPA – ranked as one of the top 30 Drama Schools Drama in the world. She went on to appear in commercials, films and TV shows such as Home & Away over the next 10 years. A lateral move into the corporate world saw her living and working in China, Singapore, the U.S and Europe. She returned to the film industry in 2018 graduating with a masters in Film & TV Producing.

I am a teacher of 15 years. I have taught Indigenous Studies 10, 20, and 30, Social 7, 8, and 9, Cree and Culture 7, 8, and 9, Physical Education 7, 8, 9, and 10, and currently working at amiskwaciy Academy, a public school planned by Elders and Knowledge Keepers for Indigenous students. I have always worked with First Nations youth and have a passion for passing on our culture, our language, and our ways of knowing and being to the next generation. As a nêhiýaw nâpêw (Cree man), I feel it is my responsibility to keep our culture, traditions, and customs alive. I have made it my life’s work to make sure that the knowledge I have obtained is passed onto future generations. I enjoy all sports especially basketball, golf, and volleyball. I love to hunt and fish. Basically, anything active that gets me onto the land is a passion of mine.

Mika Taanila’s documentaries have been screened at several international film festivals. Return of the Atom (104 min, co-directed with Jussi Eerola) won the Nordic Dox Award (Best Nordic documentary) at CPH:DOX in 2015, Tectonic Plate (74 min) was premiered at Berlinale in 2016. Other festival screenings for Taanila’s films include TIFF Toronto International Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Clermont-Ferrand, Karlovy-Vary, IDFA and Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen. His moving image installations have been shown at major international group shows, such as Kassel Documenta, Venice Biennale, Aichi Triennale, Shanghai Biennale, Berlin Biennale and Manifesta.

Marleine van der Werf (1985) is a filmmaker, visual artist and artistic researcher who works from a documentary starting point. She often collaborates with experts in the fields of science, philosophy, and technology. Her films have screened at international festivals where she has won several awards, including the Scientist Award (2019) at the Abu Dhabi Imagine Science Film Festival.

Sami van Ingen is one of the pioneers of experimental filmmaking in Finland. He has made over 30 short films, mostly dealing subtly with the act of seeing and using various strategies to manipulate found or forgotten footage like in Fokus (40 min, 2004, Just One Kiss (42 min, 2008) and Flame (15 min, 2018). His films have been screened at festivals like Edinburgh FF, Karlovy-Vary, IFF Rotterdam, BFI London Film Festival, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, and at institutions like National Gallery of Art in Washington and Centre Pompidou.