Julianna Ugrin – The EFA nominated producer is the founder and owner of Éclipse Film, an independent film production company founded in 2011. She develops and produces films on an international level for more than ten years. Films produced by her, as A Woman Captured, Easy Lessons, or The Next Guardian were screened, nominated, and awarded at festivals like EFA, SUNDANCE, IDFA, LOCARNO, DOK Leipzig, Hot Docs, Sheffield, or Sarajevo IFF. Since 2013 she teaches at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Documentary MA studies and is a doctoral student there. In 2019 she was selected to Producers on the Move in Cannes. She is EURODOC and an EAVE graduate. She is an organizer of DunaDOCK Master Class & Pitching series, member of MADOKE, DAE, IDA, of the Hungarian and of the European Film Academy.

Miles Shebar is a New York–based editor, motion-graphics artist, and art director appearing at Verzio on behalf of the team behind Monk in Pieces, a feature documentary about visionary artist Meredith Monk. Beyond his involvement with the film, Miles collaborated with Monk as a technical creative on a series of virtual concerts in 2020. Other recent projects include serving as Head of Video on Dear New York, a large-scale installation that transformed Grand Central Terminal with multi-channel video, photography, and stories. Miles’s editing and motion-graphics work has appeared on Hulu, Max, and Discovery; at Berlinale, Tribeca, Telluride, and DOC NYC; and in commercials for major brands. Additional credits include Diane von Furstenberg: Woman in Charge, Humans of New York: The Series, and all 110th Street Films productions.

Rachel Leah Jones is an Emmy-winning nonfiction filmmaker whose trajectory in the field — from producer to director to editor to writer — has spanned three decades and three continents. Her work has been nominated for the PGA Awards, the IDA Awards, selected by the European Film Academy, awarded by the Asia Pacific Screen Academy, honored by Cinema Eye, and shortlisted for the Oscars. A three-time Sundance Festival and Institute alumna, her critically-acclaimed films
— ADVOCATE (2019); GYPSY DAVY (2012); ASHKENAZ (2007); 500 DUNAM ON THE MOON (2002) — have screened in festivals worldwide such as IDFA, True/False, Visions du Reel, Sheffield, CPH:DOX, DocNYC, Hotdocs, and aired on dozens of channels including PBS; BBC; ARD; France Television; RTS; YLE; DR; SVT; 2M; Radio Canada; and HBO. In addition to maintaining a prolific career as an activist-artist, Jones, a Documentary Branch member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, has collaborated extensively with other filmmakers and worked as a story consultant, directing mentor, and curator.

Two years after enrolling in a Documentary Filmmaking Master's Degree at Babeș-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, Ion Gnatiuc has decided to return to Moldova, his homeland, and chase the stories it had to tell using a camera. In Moldova he is building HaiDOC Productions, a platform dedicated to film production, as well as ethically connecting international film companies with local talent and film infrastructure. He is reshaping the local filmmaking landscape through his involvement in ALTFilm, an NGO committed to training, production and distribution for an emerging generation of filmmakers in Moldova, becoming their voice in the film industry worldwide. Simultaneously he is freelancing as a DoP or Producer for international broadcasters such as The Guardian, Deutsche Welle, ARTE. Ion Gnatiuc is following his dream of putting Moldova on the filmmaking map of the world, and strongly believes in the power of documentaries to generate change where other instruments might have failed.