Film director and producer who founded Bill and Ben Productions in 1998 with his colleague Bill Jones. The company initially produced short films and music videos, but quickly grew to produce feature films and documentaries.

Cosmologist and professor of astronomy at the University of Arizona. He is the author of popular science books based on astronomy, including studies of distant galaxies, the large-scale structure of the universe, and the search for exoplanets and extraterrestrial intelligence. He has lectured to NASA engineers and Buddhist monks in India. At AFO this year, Chris presents a talk on the end of the universe.

Drew Xanthopoulos is the award-winning director and cinematographer.

Emma is a geographer and documentary filmmaker based in Copenhagen.

Director of documentary film After Nature introduces the film and participates in the debate afterwards.

Norwegian film director. She studied film photography and editing at NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation) from 1965 to 1967. In 1986, she founded her own production company RAMPELYS, located in Sortland, Northern Norway.

American documentary filmmaker, cinematographer, and producer who has been nominated for two DocEmmy Awards. Since graduating from Yale University, he has participated in the making of several documentaries. He is the director of Wicked Delicate Films, a documentary production company based in Maine.

Head of Programming & Industry at the SILBERSALZ Science & Media Festival.

 She has founded several ambitious projects including the Greenland Eyes International Film Festival, which is the world’s largest festival about Greenland, and which most recently visited the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC. 

Filmmaker, Audio-visual artist. Film Curator. Researcher. Originally born in Yugoslavia, Kumjana has worked in the field of film and arts since 2006.

Argentine-born film director, dramaturg, and projectionist. Since 2015, he has been the leading technical coordinator of the Film Museum of Buenos Aires. He has been in charge of the Film Archive at the Buenos Aires Film Museum from 2016. He made a series of short films in Super 8 exhibited in several festivals including the Edinburgh Film Festival, Anthology Film Archive, and Ann Arbor. His first feature film “Dead Youth” (2010) premiered at IDFA and has been featured at Viennale and Doclisboa.

Independent filmmaker, based in Brussels, Belgium.

Film historian from De Montfort University in Leicester, UK, returns to AFO yet again to lecture on blockbuster films and the possibilities of analysing them in a social, scientific, and historical context. This year he focuses on the iconic animated film Bambi (1942) and the way it portrays animal welfare.

Studied the history of science and German literature at Humboldt University of Berlin. She was a television producer for documentary programs at Deutsche Welle and the German-Swiss-Austrian television station 3sat. Her television documentary “The Mystery Conman” (2016) was shown internationally. “Dead Birds Fly High” is her first feature-length documentary

Australian producer, science documentary filmmaker, and Emmy Award winner.

Tom Millen is a Director of Crossover Labs specializing in the production and exhibition of immersive content as well as arranging cross-media training and events.

Member of the jury of the International Competition and director of the documentary Bigger Than Trauma.

Adam Táborský is a Czech psychologist and therapist.

Adéla Chalupová is a student and popularizer of nuclear energy.

Alena Lašková is an expert in mindfulness.

Aleš Stuchlý and Vít Schmarc are currently best known for the popular Radio Wave podcast Čelisti.

Michal Zlatkovský and Dominik Zezula are behind the podcast Aging Millennials, in which they gloss over today’s world from the perspective of millennials.

Eva Szczyrbová is an experimental biologist and PhD student at Palacký University.

As a freelance screenplay writer and co-writer Hynek has contributed to numerous series, documentaries, and animated films for Czech Television as well as others.

Ivo Bystřičan (1980), director and dramaturg, graduate of sociology and social work at the Faculty of Social Sciences MU and documentary filmmaking at FAMU.

He’s part of the How to Dress a Prehistoric Man team.

Science journalist Ladislav Loukota and physicist-popularizer Jan “JaRon” Tomáštík are the main personalities of the scientific popularization project Vědátor.

He is a university teacher and biologist. He graduated from the Faculty of Science of Charles University in Prague.

Klára Grantz Šašková is a Czech biochemist working at Charles University.

Psychiatrist Klára Vyhnánková focuses on the reasearch of post-traumatic stress disorder in refugees.

Science journalist Ladislav Loukota and physicist-popularizer Jan “JaRon” Tomáštík are the main personalities of the scientific popularization project Vědátor.

Lucie Brulíková works at the Faculty of Science of Palacký University, Department of Organic Chemistry.

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.

Presenter, radio documentary filmmaker, and science populariser Martina Mašková returns with the show Laboratory (Laboratoř), which is broadcast on the Czech Radio Plus. During the festival, Laboratory is live in front of AFO visitors in its classic format – scientists talk with well-known personalities about news from a scientific field.

Martina Spurná is a Czech director of documentary and popular science films.

Michal Zlatkovský and Dominik Zezula are behind the podcast Aging Millennials, in which they gloss over today’s world from the perspective of millennials.

Mikolas Arsenev was born in Prague, where he currently lives and studies.

Nina Kadášová is a student of medicine and biophysics at Palacký University.

Oldřich studied organic chemistry at VŠCHT in Prague.

Patrick Bárta is a swordsmith by profession who specializes in making replicas of European weapons from the birth of Christ to the 9th century.

Patrik Kořenář is a Czech journalist, youtuber and influencer who has been doing fact-checking since 2017.

Pavla Hubálková is a former neuroscientist who is now a science communicator.

Petr Salaba is a young documentarist, who is returning to AFO as a winner of the Czech and Slovak competition as well as the Spotlight award.

Sara studied archaeology and anthropology at Oxford with a PhD in human cognition and music.

Tereza Porybná is a cultural producer and curator.

Tomáš Kratochvíl graduated from the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University and spent a year at the editing department at FAMU.

He studied at the Film Academy of Miroslav Ondříček in Písek, then transferred to the department of documentary filmmaking at FAMU in Prague.