Hungary

László Csuja graduated in screenwriting from the University of Theatre and Film Arts (Budapest). His short film, Phosphorus, was screened at festivals in Tampere, Cork and Edinburgh. His first feature, Blossom Valley, premiered and was awarded at the Karlovy Vary IFF. Nine Month War is his first feature-length documentary, premiered at the Sarajevo FF where it received Special Jury Prize.

Máté Artur Vincze is a Budapest-based filmmaker. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, where he studied documentary direction, in 2015. His graduation film, Separated, premiered at the Budapest International Documentary Festival and was part of a national campaign initiated by the Hungarian Civil Liberties Union. In 2016, Máté was selected to take part in the European Social Documentary (ESoDOC) workshop with a multimedia project called “Quiet Achievers”. He is currently working on his first feature-length documentary about international adoption.

Balázs Mészáros was born in 1991 in Dunaújváros, Hungary. He has worked as a video-journalist. He graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest in 2017 as a documentary film director.

Yossi Aviram, born in Jerusalem in 1971, is an Israeli writer and director. A graduate from the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School of Jerusalem, Yossi Aviram splits his career between his work as a director of photography and his own films. In 1998, the Year of Israel in France, he participated in a cultural exchange with the well-known French film school, La fémis. He directed his second short film, ANNA during the four weeks he spent in Paris. His first feature, The Dune, won Best First Feature Film Award at Haifa Film Festival, and has also been selected for San Sebastian, San Francisco and other film festivals.

László Bihari has designed online campaign videos for non-profit organizations for the past nine years. He is one of the founders of the creative team, ZPOK. This is their first documentary film production.

Kata Olah began work as an editor, host, and director for a variety of television productions in the mid 1990's. For 10 years, she produced television series and short films. It was only in 2010 that she began to focus on directing. In that year, she completed a documentary for HBO entitled Romacops. Since then, she has directed several mid-length documentaries and popular science miniseries. Her first short fiction, En Passant, has won a number of international awards.

Ábel Regős studied filmmaking at the Novus Art School in Hungary. He has worked for creative workshops since 2013, and has made music videos for several bands, as well as independent short films.

Loránd Balázs Imre is a co-founder of SpeakEasy Project, and founder of SpeakEasy Project Berlin. He has worked on a number of documentary films since 2012, and is the director and producer of the Erasmus EuroMedia Awarded documentary series, LEAVE/STAY.

Gergely Pápai studied documentary filmmaking at the Cultural and Visual Anthropology faculty of the University of Miskolc. He is a co-founder of Zpok Medialab. His work focuses mainly on human rights and environmental issues. He has worked on several documentary films as a cameraman and an editor. This documentary, Iza, is his directorial debut and his first festival-nominated film.