Ukraine

Theater and cinema scriptwriter, curator. Natalia graduated from the Maxim Gorky Literature Institute in Moscow. She has written around 20 plays and worked on 50 theatre productions around the world. Natalia also works in the genres of testimonial and documentary theatre. She is the main scriptwriter of the “School” series and has written fiction movies “Steel Butterfly”, “Cyborgs”, “Wild Field” and the documentary “My Mykolaivka”. Natalia is a curator of social theatre projects “Theatre of the Displaced” and “Class Act: East-West”, and a co-founder of the Week of Contemporary Drama.

Czech Republic

He works as a head of the programme department of Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival (Czech Republic). Viktor was born and raised in Slovakia. Previously he worked for The Cinematheque, a non-profit arthouse theatre in Vancouver, as a theatre manager. He also participated in the Vancouver Foreign Film Society as an assistant curator and is a member of the screening committee for DOXA – Documentary Film Festival.

Russia

Journalist and film critic. Graduated from Moscow State University in 2000. Wrote for numerous media, including Séance, Afisha, GQ, Openspace, Colta. Curated a program at 2morrow Film Festival. Author of several books: “Balabanov” (2013, 2014), “Cinema as Visual Code” (2014), “Alexander Mindadze: from Soviet to Post-Post-Soviet” (2017). Lives in Saint Petersburg.