Yanina Sokolova
Ukraine
A TV host and actress. Creator of the Cinema with Yanina Sokolova TV project. Studied Acting in Theater and Film at the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv National Film, Theater, and Television University. She is a TV skills coach at various TV schools.
Mark Cousins
UK
A Northern Irish filmmaker, writer, and curator living and working in Scotland. In the early 1990s he became director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Cousins adapted his book The Story of Film into a 930-minute film. Michael Moore gave it the Stanley Kubrick Award at his Traverse City Film Festival. It won a Peabody Award in 2014.
His film A Story of Children and Film was in the Official Selection in Cannes.
Diana Tabakov
Czech Republic
She is the head of acquisitions and film program at the international VOD platform Doc Alliance Films powered by 7 key European documentary film festivals (CPH:DOX Copenhagen, DOK Leipzig, FID Marseille, Jihlava IDFF, Planete Doc Film Festival, Visions du Réel Nyon, Doclisboa). She also curates documentary films for the art-house cinema Svetozor in Prague, holds educational seminars on online distribution and founded the film literacy project My Street Films in the Visegrad countries.