Alma is a documentary film producer and a recent graduate of the Film & Media dept. at Copenhagen University.

Director of Art of Looking

Director of Železná kráva.

Creators of project Turbulence: Jamais Vu

Beth Levison is an award-winning producer/director based in NYC.

Cédric Defert is a Franco-Belgian director and editor.

Craig Anderson received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, where he was a member of Dacher Keltner’s Project Awe research team.

David Sampliner is an award-winning documentary director, producer, cinematographer, and writer who uses personal narrative to address pressing and enduring social, political, and spiritual questions.

Éanna Mac Cana is an Irish filmmaker from Belfast. His work has screened at film festivals and galleries across Europe and North America.

Danish filmmaker

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Gannesh is a Doc Society Fellow and Sheffield DocFest Future Producer.

Writer and a director, developing several projects on the subject of ecology, intertwining science with art.

Jacob Fertig is a New York-based documentary filmmaker, archival producer, and fundraising specialist working in shorts, features, and interactive media.

Contemporary artist, filmmaker, and curator exploring socio-political themes and gender identity.

Jaydn Ray Gosselin is a New York-based, French-Australian documentary director, producer, and editor.

Jérémie Battaglia is a Franco-Canadian filmmaker based in Montreal. His films explore themes of the body, performance, and identity through intimate and socially engaged stories.

Jessica is an award-winning filmmaker fascinated by subcultures, myth and our connection to place.

Jessica Harrop is an Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has dedicated her career to inspiring passion about science through film.

Katerina Cizek is an influential figure in international media, with over 25 years of experience as a Peabody- and Emmy-winning documentarian, author, producer, and senior leader working with collective processes and emergent technologies.

Kumjana is a research-based filmmaker working also as a film curator and lecturer.

Lee is a science and climate communicator, writer, TV host, panel moderator, script-writer, director and producer.

Leslie Hills is a producer with Skyline Productions in Edinburgh, Scotland, producing a wide range of programmes and films. 

Producer of Art of Looking

Maria Bonsanti has been at the service of creative documentary film for over twenty years. She joined the Festival dei Popoli in Florence as a programmer in 2000, was appointed its co-director in 2012 and is still associated with this long-established institution as a member of the board of directors.

Graduate from INSAS (Masters in Radio Television Multimedia) and ULB (Masters in Information Science and Technology).

Michaela Kaliská is a producer based in Bratislava.

As a filmmaker, she likes to go against the grain of her training: she has no fascination for what is called a “beautiful” image.

She prepares festival strategies for One Play originals. In 2024 she co-founded Future Memory Lab.

Slovakian director

Ben Hayoun- Stépanian works with leading scientists and engineers, to devise subversive events and experiences. An advocate for plurality, she documents and builds platforms that support freedom of thinking, the creation of organised communities and public events, expeditions and projects with socio-political impacts.

Cocreator of project Soul Paint

Slovakian director

Dr. Richard White is an M.D., Ph.D. in oncology whose research focuses on the fundamental mechanisms of cancer biology.

Rob Key is Research Producer & Filmmaker responsible for producing live-action content at the University of Oxford.

Directors of Habbal et al. 

Creator of project Drinking Brecht

Sofie Benoot (b. 1985, Bruges) is a Brussels-based filmmaker whose work weaves together multiple narratives, uncovering hidden connections through a patchwork of stories.

Director of Testerep.

Slovakian director

Alice Růžičková is a Czech cinematographer, director, teacher and dramaturge.

Czech expert on the issue of biodiversity.

In parallel, he is engaged in music (as a musician, composer and producer, solo or in the collectives Insert the Cat and Mutants Seek the Way Out) and academic activity at the Department of Psychology of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Czech Republic (teaching in the field of general and experimental psychology, development of software for converting the electrical activity of the cerebral cortex into sound, research in the field of time perception).

Czech director and cameraman

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Audiovisual artist working in the Oscilloscope music scene and the world of scenic design.

Director, dramaturg, lecturer at the Audiovisual Arts of FMK UTB in Zlín. He perceives the so-called documentary film as a multi-genre phenomenon transforming reality: analysis, diary, essay, happening, intervention, performance, poetry, portrait, video art, research…

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llustrator and two-time winner of the Czech Grand Design award for illustration.

Josef Císařovský is a Czech director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and producer.

Julie Nováková is an evolutionary biologist active in astrobiology, science popularization and literature.

PhD student at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics AV ČR and science popularizer.

Kristína Žilinčárová works as a screenwriter, director, and film magazine editor.

Doc. PhDr. Luboš Bělka, CSc., lectures at the Institute of Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno.

Lecturer in improvisation and embodiment combining science, movement and stories.

Mgr. Martin Golec, Ph.D. is a specialist in the Hallstatt period, i.e. the older Iron Age, and since 2014 he has been working at the Department of History of Palacký University.

A geologist researching the deformation of rocks.

Director, cameraman, conservationist not only of slow loris, beer lover and future rock star – this is the official description of the name on the website of the series Na tříbě na Zemi.

Ondřej Vavrečka, PhD. is an award winning filmmaker, music performer and teacher.

He is mainly dedicated to the popularization of astronomy and light pollution.

Scientific researcher of historical building materials, mosaic techniques and popularizer of science.

Petr Cieslar has a long-standing commitment to bringing science and technology to children and adults.

Science and Technology Editor in Deník N.

Czech screenwriter, writer and filmmaker.

Tereza Mašínová is science communicator, trainer at academic institutions and moderator of science and research events.

Czech director

Scientific researcher of rock deformation and popularizer of geosciences.

Zdeněk Blaha serves as the Programme Director at the Institute of Documentary Film, where he oversees the East Doc Platform, a significant networking event spotlighting upcoming documentary films from the Central and Eastern European region.

Mgr. Zuzana Golec Mírová is a specialist in the Hallstatt period and since 2019 she has been a student of the Ph.D. programme at Charles University.