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Between Fire and Water

Viviana Gómez Echeverry is a Colombian director and cinematographer. She studied social communication at the Javeriana University in Bogota, and cinematography and scriptwriting in Spain. She wrote and directed the short films Exotic Tropical and 16th Birthday, and co-directed Life is Sacred (with Andreas Dalsgaard). Her first feature film, Keyla (2017), was selected for competition at many festivals, along with the Warsaw Film Festival. Viviana was DoP for several documentaries including The Eternal Night of Twelve Moons, selected at Berlin Film Festival–Generation, and Neonatal, selected at the Chicago International Film Festival.

Angels of Sinjar

Auteur-director Hanna Polak (1967, Katowice, Poland) has Oscar and Emmy nominations under her belt for Children of Leningradsky, and a Producer Guild of America nomination for Something Better To Come, amongst many other awards and accolades. Her emotional bond with her protagonists allows her to deliver visceral, poetic films that celebrate the power of the human spirit, and portray the beauty of humanity in the most adverse circumstances.

After the Rain

Fan Jian is a documentary director addressing Chinese social issues through character-driven storytelling. He is a Documentary branch member of the Academy. His work has screened in competition at Hot Docs, Full Frame, Sheffield, Busan, and dozens of other film festivals around the world. Jian studied at the famed Beijing Film Academy, and is now based in Chongqing, China.

The Conductor

Bernadette Wegenstein is an Austrian-born linguist, author and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker living in Baltimore. Her work brings together feminist thought and an interest in human-centric storytelling. She holds a PhD in linguistics and is currently a professor of media studies at John Hopkins University. She’s directed four documentaries, including The Conductor, See You Soon Again, and The Good Breast.

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