CHITRANGADA SATARUPA (India)

Born and brought up in a family of academicians and artists the inclination towards arts happened at a very early age. Association with theatre happened since 2010 from her hometown Calcutta with the eminent Bengali theatrician Bratya Basu. After moving to Bombay in 2013 got actively involved with many theatre productions directed by the stalwarts Manav Kaul, Makarand Deshpande and many more.
The first appearance on the national platform happened with stories by Rabindranath Tagore directed by Anurag Basu, as the protagonist of one of the episodes.

LEENA ALAM (Afganistan)

Leena Alam (born in Kabul, Afghanistan) is an award-winning Afghan film, TV and theater actress who has appeared in films such as Kabuli Kid, Loori, A Letter to the President and “Hassan”. She has also been known as Shereen of Afghanistan after playing in the taboo-smashing feminist TV drama, Shereen, the first of its kind to have been made in Afghanistan, directed by Ghafar Azad and produced by Kaboora and Tolo TV.

In 1989, Alam and her family moved to America because of the civil war in her homeland. She began her acting and cinema career in 1998.

MODHURA PALIT (India)

Istudied cinematography from Satyajit Ray film and Television Institute; one of the premiere film schools of the country. I am also a member of Eastern India Cinematographers Association (EICA). I am also Alumni of Asian Film Academy (AFA), Busan. Also was part of Looking China Youth Film Project 2015. I have shot one of India’s first virtual reality short films. Watchmaker – experimental short film I shot is part of Dhaka University film studies curriculum. I love playing with light and images and try to tell a story with my craft. After all I deal with one of world’s most glamorous trick of the eye. Else than that, I like to enjoy myself and have fun. Take in all that life has to offer. I’m also a trained classical dancer and I paint. I like reading books, contemplating about random things and having a good time when I’m not busy in work.

Cinema is something I love and I want to spend the rest of my life with this ; getting closer; making it more intimate.

MELINA LEÓN (Peru)

Melina León is a Peruvian director based in Lima and New York. Her debut feature, Canción sin Nombre, premiered at the 2019 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, garnered a Golden Camera nomination and was Peru’s official nominee for the Oscar for Best Foreign Film. The film has been selected at numerous international festivals, obtaining more than forty awards, including Best Direction at the Thessaloniki Film Festival, Best Film at the Stockholm Film Festival and the Cinevision Award for Best Emerging Director at the Munich Film Festival.

A graduate of Columbia University, New York, her short film, Lili’s Paradise, had its international debut at the 47th New York Film Festival.

BRIDGET IKIN (Australia)

Bridget Ikin is a passionate champion of new and innovative filmmaking, having produced award-winning films, short films, documentaries and moving image projects over many years, in both Australia/ NZ: initially through Hibiscus Films and now through Felix Media.

Bridget has been the Head of SBS Independent (commissioning 400+ hours of distinctive Australian television programming), and was the Associate Director – Film, of the Adelaide Festival 2002, under its maverick artistic director, Peter Sellars (commissioning four new feature films). During 2005-2006 she was a feature film Evaluation Manager at the FFC (now Screen Australia). She was also a long-serving board member of the South Australian Film.

ANJALI MONTEIRO (India)

Anjali Monteiro is a Professor at the School of Media and Cultural Studies, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai. She has a Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, a Masters degree in Economics and a Ph.D. in Sociology. She is involved in documentary production, media teaching and research. She teaches courses in documentary and video production as well as theoretical approaches to image making practices and has done pioneering and innovative work in critical media education with various groups including activists, school and college students, parents and teachers.

Ridhima Mehra (India)

Trained in Political Science and initiated into film curation through the creation of a queer rights media collective, Ridhima is Executive Producer at the Public Service Broadcasting Trust, India, where she leads the commissioning, creative realisation and outreach of non-fiction films, having mentored over 500 films on a variety of concerns for over fifteen years. These films have travelled around the world and won over two hundred awards. She is the Director of the Open Frame Film Festival, curating films, conversations and trainings. She has also been involved with the production of research papers and installations.

Olga Korotko (Kazakhstan)

Olga Korotko started to study filmmaking with a course of an arthouse director Darezan Omirbayev, in collaboration with whom she later created films-research on the history of cinema titled “Reverences”, “Sisters” and others. In 2011 she was selected for Asian Film Academy and in 2013 she shot a short film DOVE ON THE ROOF which was selected for more than 20 film festivals. In 2016 she was selected to Berlinale Talents Campus and in 2017 she shot a documentary film in support of women’s rights “House of mothers” about a shelter for single mothers. In 2018 Olga Korotko finished her first feature film BAD BAD WINTER which was premiered at Cannes Film festival 2018 (Acid Cannes).

Olga Khlasheva (Kazakhstan)

Since 1997 has worked in film industry: at Kazakhfilm Studios JSC (as head of international relations / promotion of Kazakh films), at Eurasia International Film festival (since its creation in 1998) and as film producer (including international promotion of full-length features by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, e.g. his recent film “The gentle indifference of the world” premiered at Un Certain Regard/Cannes IFF-2018).

APSA Academy Member (Best Producer Nomination for the films “Owners” and “The gentle indifference of the world” by Adilkhan Yerzhanov, in 2014 and 2018 respectively).

Daniela Creutz (Germany)

Born in Munich, she moved to New York in 1995, where she completed a two-year postgraduate course (Direction) at the University of New York. Then she founded her own production company “Blue Circe Filmproduction LLC”. Initially she worked for broadcasters such as ABC Networks and CBS Studios, but then produced independent film projects: commercials, image films, short films and documentaries. The development and creative realization, as well as the technical realization of different cinematographic projects, from research, script and writing to filming and final postproduction. Daniela has been a member of WGA-Writer’s Guild since 2000.

Kim Do Kyung (South Korea)

Born in Seoul, South Korea. MFA in film directing the graduate school of Advance Imaging Science, Multimedia & Film at Chung-Ang University, Seoul, South Korea.
Director of the films Love is professional, Be My Guest, The First Day of Snow, Persona.
Screenplay for the films L’amour, The Storyteller, The Pen name, and producer of Cheoyongmoo.

Hernán Zin

War reporter, writer and documentarian, Hernán Zin has worked in more than 80 countries in Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America. War, human rights and poverty have been his obsessions.

His documentaries include “I want to be Messi”, “The war against women”, “Born in Gaza”, “Born in Syria”, “10 years with Bebé”, “Die to tell” and “2020”, for which he has received awards such as Forqué, Platinum, he has been nominated for the Goya and the Latin Grammy, as well as winning the Montreal Festival and the Seminci.

Since 2002 he has directed DOC LAND FILMS, a production company based in Madrid and Los Angeles, which works for Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Movistar Plus, National Geographic, Al Jazeera, TVE …

Mehdi Rahmani (Iran)

Iranian director and producer who was born in 1979. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Iranian Cinema and Broadcasting university-Tehran as a director and made 18 short films and documentaries.

He started to make feature film from 2009 and made 4 feature films as a director and produced 3 feature films and participated in many film festivals around the world and won prizes such as Best Children Feature Film in Asia Pacific Awards, Best Film in Avanca Film Festival, Jury prize in IBBAF Film Festival, Best documentary in Noor Film Festival and many more.

Sougata Bhattacharyya (India)

Writer and filmmaker, is a postgraduate in Film Studies from Jadavpur University. He did academic research on studio system of Bengali Cinema, more specifically, 100 years of Aurora Studio, supported by SARAI, CSDS, New Delhi. He is the writer of several research articles and also a story book titled ‘Sahanagarik’. At present he is the Film Research Officer of Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, Kolkata. He is the editor of one annual research journal ‘SRFTI Taake One’. He produced several television programme from 1998 to 2003 and then nonfictions for NGOs. His documentary ‘Trash’ (2013) won best film, NETPAC Jury award in 13 ISIFF, Dhaka and also won ‘Special Jury’ mention in 7th IDSFFK. His recent film ‘An Iconic Genius’s (2018) won best science film in 16IFF, Jaipur.

Féliz Sabroso Cruz (Spain)

Screenwriter and Spanish film director, Felix Sabroso Cruz is known for his work for several television networks, as well as for the feature films directed along with the screenwriter and director, Dunia Ayaso.

José Luis Guerín (Spain)

José Luis Guerin (1960), is one of the maximum representatives of European author cinema, for the ability to create a unique, poetic work, in continuous renewal of filmic language and the same idea of ​​beauty. After a series of short films, directed between 1976 and 1981, he debuted in the feature film with The Motifs of Berta (1985), which obtained, among other awards, the Quality Prize awarded by the Ministry of Culture and the Sant Jordi Prize (RNE).

Pedro Hernández Santos (Spain) PRESIDENT

Pedro Hernández Santos began his career as a producer with the film Here and There, by Antonio Méndez Esparza (Critics’ Week 2012), when the director of this film presented his script; at the same time he lost his job as an industrial engineer in a company and with that indemnity he set up his production company, Aqui y Hay Films, which produced the widely praised Magical Girl, by Carlos Vermut (Concha de Oro in San Sebastián 2014), Speak, directed by Joaquín Oristrell and Las furias, debut of the theater man Miguel del Arco.

Luis Coderque (Canada)

Luis is a Spanish-Canadian graphic designer with more than 15 years of experience in the Branding sector. He has worked all over the world (Europe, Australia, now in Canada) for the best international branding consultancies, such as Saffron, Landor or Bruce Mau Design. Luis brings a global vision and understanding of brands worldwide. It has strategically positioned and re-positioned brands for a multitude of industries ranging from technology, fashion, sports, or culture sectors. His work has been awarded internationally and recognized in numerous publications.

Andrés de la Torre (Spain)

Born and raised in Madrid, Andres started his career as a video editor in one of the leading production companies in Spain, MediaPro. His true passion, though, was always to compose music for film. His first feature as a composer, “Going Nuts” (2006), had a theatrical release and was the first film in the world to feature peanuts as the main characters. The score earned Andres national recognition with the Ateneo Coste Cero Award in 2008 for Best Soundtrack. Shortly after, Andres wrote the music for the Spanish-North American co-production “Disney: Through the Looking Glass” (2010), a score that earned him his first Jerry Goldsmith Award after 5 years of consecutive nominations.

Alberto Luchini Solano (Spain)

Alberto Luchini (Madrid, 1968) is Editor-in-Chief of the Metrópoli magazine and the metrópoli.com website, as well as director of the Metrópoli Comer y Beber Guide in Madrid. For more than 25 years, he has been a film critic. He has been an organizer and / or jury at various festivals.

He is a member of the European Film Academy and in 2014 he received the National Gastronomy Award for Best Journalistic Work.

Guillem Oliver (Spain)

Guillem Oliver was born in Valencia in 1985, studied Audiovisual Communication and later a Postgraduate and Master in Photography Direction from the ESCAC (Escola Superior de Cinema i Audiovisuals de Catalunya). Since then he has worked as a cinematographer and camera operator shooting spots, fashion films, video clips, short films and feature films such as “El Lodo” (Iñaki Sánchez Arrieta), “Visitante” (Alberto Evangelio), “Amor en Polvo” (Juanjo Moscardó, Suso Imbernón), “Assembly” (Álex Montoya), or “El Club del Paro” (David Marqués). He also usually performs the grading of his works.

Dov Hassan (USA)

Dov Hassan is an American actor, director and teacher for film and theater. He received his B.A. in Theater Arts from UCLA and an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing in a conservatory training program at the University of Missouri – Kansas City.
As a professional actor, Dov Hassan has appeared in a number of independent films, as well as working with many theater companies in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.
He is a college professor and also teaches privately. The subjects Dov teaches include acting for film and for theater, directing, film history and theory, text analysis, and voice over technique. His current and former students include many award winning actors who work extensively in film, television and theater.