Adelina Borets is a screenwriter and director born in Mariupol, Ukraine. She is a graduate of directing at the Warsaw Film School and the Script course at the Wajda School, and is currently defending her master's degree thesis in directing at the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice. Her debut documentary film The Wormwood Star (2018) won the Grand Prix and the audience award at the 15th International Ecological Festival EKOFILM, and the Grand Prix at the Golden Frames festival - International Festival of Short Fiction Films. The medium-length feature film Eden House (2021) was recognised as the best feature film at the Coal Film Festival in Katowice and was awarded the special critics‘ prize at the Critics’ Festival in Kiev.

Alina Simone is a Ukrainian-born journalist and filmmaker whose work has appeared in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Guardian Long Read, among many others. Her articles have been featured on best-of lists in The Atlantic, NPR and Rolling Stone, and have been optioned for film by major studios. She is the author of an essay collection and a novel, and has taught writing at Yale University. Simone is the recipient of the Andrew Berends Film Fellowship, an NYSCA/NYFA Film Fellowship and the Mountainfilm Emerging Filmmaker Fellowship. Black Snow (2024) is her first documentary feature film.

Born in Uzbekistan in 1974. In 2010, he graduated in documentary filmmaking at the Marina Razbezhkina Film School in Moscow. In 2012 he was one of the directors of the award-winning documentary Winter, Go Away!. His next films Leninland (2013), Children 404 (2014) and The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov (2017) won critical acclaim and screened at numerous festivals. His work focuses on human rights issues and social conflicts in contemporary Russia.

Max Duncan is a British filmmaker, journalist and cinematographer. His work has shown on platforms including BBC, Al Jazeera, PBS and the New York Times and been exhibited at galleries including Tate Modern. Now based in Madrid, he previously lived for a decade in China and speaks fluent Mandarin and Spanish. He is an alumnus of Logan and Yaddo fellowships and has received funding from organizations including Pulitzer and Ford Foundation. His half-hour film Down from the Mountains (2018) won a World Press Photo award. Other work has received recognition including Webby and One World Media Awards.