Mark Cousins 1965-ben született rendező, író és filmkritikus. Egyrészt 2011-ben készült, 15 órás dokumentumfilmje, a The Story of Film: An Odyssey tette ismertté, amelyet televízióban és a Toronto Filmfesztiválon is levetítettek; másrészt 2018-ban készült, 14 órás filmtörténeti dokumentumfilmje, a Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema, amely női filmkészítők munkáit helyezi a középpontba. 1996-tól 1997-ig az Edinburgh Filmfesztivál programszervezője volt, valamint a BBC2 tévécsatorna Moviedrom és Scene by Scene műsorvezetője. 2009-ben Tilda Swintonnal közösen utazó filmfesztivált hoztak létre Skóciában.

Jerry Rothwell is a filmmaker whose previous work includes the award-winning feature documentaries: How To Change The World, about the founders of Greenpeace; Sour Grapes (co-directed with Reuben Atlas) a film about a wine counterfeiter; School In The Cloud, about radical educationalist, Sugata Mitra; Town of Runners, about two girls in an Ethiopian village who aspire to be athletes; Donor Unknown, about a sperm donor and his many offspring; Heavy Load, about a group of people with learning disabilities who form a punk band, and Deep Water (co-directed with Louise Osmond), about Donald Crowhurst’s ill-fated voyage in the 1968 round the world yacht race. His work has won numerous accolades including two Grierson Awards, an Audience Award and Special Jury Prize at Sundance Film Festival, an RTS Award, the IDA Pare Lorentz Award and a BAFTA nomination.

Naziha Arebi is a Libyan/British artist and filmmaker who returned to Libya during the revolution. Naziha works at the intersection of art and activism, and is co-founder of the film collective HuNa. Alongside her first feature Freedom Fields, she is currently producing the documentary feature After a Revolution, and has a fiction film in development. Naziha is a Hot Docs-Blue Ice and Sundance Lab fellow, a WEF Global Shaper and part of the Lumiere d'Afrique collective. Her artwork has been published extensively in print and exhibited globally.