Ashley is a producer and Managing Director of Sisyfos Film in Stockholm, Sweden together with Mario Adamson. Recently Motherland won the main prize at CPH:DOX and received an EFA nomination for Best Documentary. Prior to producing, she worked at film festivals, taught Cinema Studies, and published a PhD dissertation on the archival life of home movies. She is currently developing documentary, fiction, and immersive projects and co-directing the feature documentary Punk Rock Aerobics: The Movie.

A graduate of Concordia in Film Production (Montreal, Quebec), Audrey-Ann works on 17 feature and short films with the award-winning company Metafilms. Eurodoc and the Entrepreneurship Program from HEC Montreal strengthened her journey.
To this day, she has launched 8 features including Rojek by Zaynê Akyol (Canada's choice at 96th Oscars, Vision du Réel, Doc NYC), That Kind of Summer by Denis Côté (Berlinale, Karlovy Vary) and Damascus Dreams by Emilie Serri (IFFR, FNC).

Danai Anagnostou is a creative producer for film and artists' moving images, and a doctoral researcher in production studies. In 2019, she co-founded Kenno Filmi, a production company in Helsinki that hosts projects by international filmmakers, artists and researchers. She studies film collectives and their influence on contemporary conduct and strategies for producing films at Aalto University's Critical Cinema Lab.

Daniel Pereira founded The Stone and the Plot in 2017 after working in cinema for ten years. In 2007, he started a path in producing, directing and acting in films, both his own and those of other filmmakers, with national and international exhibitions. The Stone and the Plot develops its projects in cinema in a transversal way, focusing on production, distribution, and publication of books.

Danilo Lazovic is a producer, director, and media and cultural theorist. He holds a Master's Degree in Film and TV Production from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. He has participated in various eminent industry programs like Eurodoc, BDC Discoveries, goEAST East-West Talent Lab, EAVE Marketing, and is an Erich Pommer Institut alumnus.

Elena holds a BA in screenwriting and an MA in film production. Since 2019, she has worked at Manifest Film and co-founded Filmways in 2021. She has contributed to projects like Acasă, My Home (dir. Radu Ciorniciuc), premiering at Sundance; Between Revolutions, premiering at Berlinale Forum 2023, Tata (dir. Lina Vdovîi and Radu Ciorniciuc) premiering at Toronto 2024. Elena develops and produces feature films, series, and short films in both documentary and fiction genres.

Elise studied visual arts, cinema and film theory for four years. She then obtained two Master’s degrees, one in documentary filmmaking and one in documentary production. In 2014, Elise joined Alter Ego Production (based in Orléans). The films she defends are auteur-driven documentaries that express a unique and affirmative point of view. In recent years, Elise has been a member of film commissions for the CNC and regional funds. She is also a Eurodoc alumna (2020).

Irene is a Spanish film producer based in Geneva, focusing on socially and politically-oriented documentaries. She specialized in Fine Arts and later obtained a bachelor's in cinema. In 2022, she co-founded Autre Terre film production. Her first documentary production, Para no olvidar premiered at Visions du Réel 2023 and was released in Swiss cinemas. Currently, she is producing two documentaries, Subterranea and Fortune and Kevine. Irene was part of EURODOC (local) and Rotterdam Lab.

Loránd Balázs Imre is a communications expert turned filmmaker, holding an MA in journalism (2008). He co-founded SpeakEasy Project (2008), a boutique film production company in Budapest. He is one of the creators of the Erasmus EuroMedia Award-winning documentary series Leave/Stay (2014), and other SpeakEasy feature docs. Since 2016, Loránd has been based in Berlin, where he works as a freelance cameraman and videographer and produces motion picture products under his own brand, filmDOUGH.

Luiza Paiva is a Creative Producer with an MA degree in Media Practice for Development and Social Change at the University of Sussex as a Stuart Hall Scholar. She specializes in the production of films with a human rights angle and is a member of the Global Impact Producers Alliance created by DocSociety. She started her career at VideoFilms working for the award-winning filmmaker Walter Salles and has recently worked on several features, including Firebrand, directed by Karim Ainouz (Official Competition Cannes Film Festival 2023), and on projects produced under the slate of the Academy award-winning UK production company Violet Films.

Mariia Ponomarova is a Ukrainian film director & creative producer based in the Netherlands. She studied at Kyiv National University of Theatre, Cinema & Television and the Netherlands Film Academy. Mariia's fiction and documentary films were selected at DokLeipzig, IDFA, Sarajevo FF, NFF, Sheffield DocFest and more, including her feature documentary Nice Ladies having its International premiere at HotDocs in 2024. Mariia is a member of the European Film Academy and a Senior Consultant at DAE.

Michael Kalb is a producer and director. He is a graduate of the University of Television and Film in Munich and has worked on numerous film projects in Germany but also in the USA, Italy, Greece and Brazil, among others. His recent productions were showcased at renowned international film festivals like Berlinale, Visions du Réel or IDFA. His films cover all kinds of different topics. What remains constant, however, is a lot of passion and, above all, the focus on a good and fair working atmosphere.