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.
Noémi Soltész
Hungary
An architect, graduated from Vitus Bering UC Denmark and Budapest University of Technology. Curator of the KÉK – Hungarian Contemporary Architecture Centre and its film festival, the Budapest Architecture Film Days. 2010 she co-founded her architecture and design studio Nanavízió.
Oksana Kazmina
Ukraine
Graduated from the Faculty of Journalism at the Ivan Franko Lviv National University and the Faculty of TV-Directing at the Kyiv National Karpenko-Kary Theater, Film, and Television University. Since 2011 she is an independent filmmaker. Her first documentary, My Cristal, is the winner of MyStreetFilmsUkraine in 2015.
Niels Ackermann
Switzerland
A photojournalist working for international press since 2007, founding member of agency Lundi 13. Magazine L’Hebdo selected him in 2015 as one of the 100 young Swiss shaping the future of Switzerland. He lives in Kyiv, Ukraine since February 2015.
Vikrtoriya Trofimenko
A film director. Studied at the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, TV, and Television University. Her feature-length debut Brothers. The Final Confession is a participant and award-winner at the international film festivals.
