Nicaragua

Independent filmmaker. Milton earned his BA from Colby College in Anthropology and studied film production at the Film and Television Academy of Performing Arts (FAMU) in Prague.  He’s directed several short documentaries in Brazil, Nicaragua, and Kenya and is committed to engage in multiple platforms that strive for social justice. Director, editor, director of photography of the movie ”The Maribor Uprisings”’.

Ukraine

Curator and coordinator of the Wiz-Art formation, co-founder and head of the Wiz-Art Lviv International Short Film Festival, film producer.

Azerbaijan

The executive editor of “Current Time”, the independent Russian language TV channel that is a project of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) in cooperation with the Voice of America. Kenan was previously the director of RFE/RL Azerbaijani Broadcast, Radio Azadliq. Before that, Kenan worked in Washington, D.C. as a regular contributor to the BBC World Service and as a broadcaster for Voice of America, receiving VOA’s Gold Medal Award for professional achievement in 2003.

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.