Terry George is a native of Belfast, Northern Ireland.  His first dramatic work, the prison escape play, The Tunnel, was staged at the Irish Arts Center in New York in 1986. The Tunnel was the first of numerous collaborations with writer/director Jim Sheridan. In 1992, George and Sheridan wrote In the Name of the Father. The film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including George’s nomination for best screenplay. In 1996, George was named Young European Film Director of the Year for his directorial debut Some Mother’s Son starring Helen Mirren. Since then, he has written or directed numerous feature films including, The Boxer starring Daniel Day Lewis, A Bright Shining Lie,  Hart’s War,  Reservation Road starring Joaquin Phoenix, and The Promise starring Oscar Issac and  Christian Bale.  In 2004, he wrote, directed and produced Hotel Rwanda starring Don Cheadle. The film was nominated for three Academy Awards including Best Screenplay. In television his work has included creating and executive producing the CBS TV series The District, and directing HBO’s Luck starring Dustin Hoffmann. In  2012, his short film The Shore, produced by his daughter Oorlagh George, won the Academy Award for the Best Live Action Short Film. 

Orwa Nyrabia is the Artistic Director of the International Documentary FF Amsterdam (IDFA), the world’s leading documentary film and new media dedicated festival. Before IDFA, Orwa co-founded Syria’s first independent FF, DOX BOX, together with Diana El Jeiroudi, and was a producer with credits that include Republic of Silence (Diana El Jeiroudi, Venice 2021), Notturno (Gianfranco Rosi, Venice 2020), Silvered Water (Ossama Mohammad and W. Bedirxan, Cannes 2014), Return to Homs (Talal Derki, IDFA 2013) and Dolls, A Woman from Damascus (Diana El Jeiroudi, IDFA 2007) a. o. His work was recognized by awards such as the George Polk Award, the HRW Courage in Filmmaking Award, and the Katrin Cartlidge Award, a. o. An actor by training (Gate of the Sun, Yousri Nasrallah, Cannes 2004), he started his film career as 1st assistant of Ossama Mohammad (Sacrifices, Cannes 2002) and worked as a journalist at the same time until he co-founded his first company in Damascus 2002, then followed up as he moved to Cairo and then to Berlin where he co-founded No Nation Films in 2014.

Florian Hoffmann was born in Berlin in 1987. After graduating from high school, he worked in foreign aid in West Africa. In 2008, he began his studies in ethnology, sociology and political science at University of Basel, Switzerland. Upon graduating magna cum laude with a bachelor's degree, Hoffman took up his directorial studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (dffb). As of 2015, he has directed multiple award winning feature and documentary films. From 2016 on, he regularly taught for the Goethe-Institut Abidjan, the Heinrich Böll Foundation, as well as for the Television Workshop on Development Policy. Between 2019 - 21 Florian functioned as a technical assistant for Carolin Emcke's and  Manuela Bojadžijev's video installation Archive of Refuge (HKW, Berlin). Since 2021, he has been assisting directors such as Kornél Mundruczó, René Pollesch and Julien Gosselin at the Berlin Theatre Volksbühne. Florian was a jury member at the Dokfilmfestival München (2016), a juror of the Berlinale "Friedenspreis" (2018) and was selected as a "Berlinale Talent" in 2022.  

Artist and filmmaker, Nora Martirosyan studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in her native Armenia, before graduating from the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten in Amsterdam and Le Fresnoy in Northern France. She currently divides her life between teaching art and video and directing films, which have received numerous awards in international film festivals. Her first feature film, SHOULD THE WIND DROP was supported by the Cinéfondation workshop at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as the Villa Médicis and Eurimages. SHOULD THE WIND DROP is the first Armenian film selected for the Official Selection of the Cannes Film Festival since 1965. It was awarded at numerous international film festivals.

He was born in 1963,Tehran-Iran and graduated from IR Broadcasting University.
He started his career as a filmmaker from 1987 and made some short films fot Iranian TV.
His first feature film was made in 1991.In 30 years he has involved in eight feature films as writer,Director and Producer.as well as directing seven TV series.
From 1989 he was placed in different managements:Managing Director of Farabi Cinema Foundation,Director of Isfahan International children Film Festival,Director of International Fajr Film Festival,Artistic Deputy of Cultural organization of Tehran Municipality,Secretary of the First international Tehran Sculpture Symposium,Managing Director of the Iranian Alliance of Motion Picture Guilds (Khaneh Cinema),Vice President of FIAPF (International Federation of Film Producers Association),Managing Director of Iranian Artists Forum