Mariam Abou Ouf is an Egyptian film director and writer. She was born in Cairo, Egypt. After graduating with a degree in political science and philosophy, she went to pursue her postgraduate studies in filmmaking.

Her directing career started in 2004. She is one of the few women directors in the Middle East who works on feature films, TV series, and TV commercials. Her work is best known to push the boundaries and taboos that women face in the Egyptian society.

Brigitta Portier has been active in the film industry for over 35 years. It all started back in 1986 when she was in charge of the TV call at the Cannes Film Festival. Her main role there was handling all the requests of international publicist’s requiring interview spaces during the Festival. This led to international publicist Richard Lormand asking her to become his assistant.

After two years working with Richard, Brigitta decided to start her own company Alibi Communications and since has been the international publicist for over 200 films at all the major film festivals around the world; Rotterdam, Berlin, Cannes, Locarno, Venice, Toronto, San Sebastian, Namur, Ghent, Rome, Tallinn…

Besides doing international press for films, Brigitta also does the press for the festivals such as FIPA Biarritz (2017–2018),  Cairo International Film Festival (2018–2021) and Antalya (since 2021)

Her gift for languages (fluent: Dutch, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, and now learning Arabic and Indonesian) along with her passion for cinema has played a significant part in her success. Her openness and knowledge have enabled her to create good, friendly, honest relationships with directors, actors, producers, sales agents, local and international journalists.

A journalist from Variety even says : Brigitta is the best press representative out there, a woman who’s both passionate and knowledgeable, with all the connections needed in our crazy industry. She knows it’s a business, but she also knows film is the fruit of artistic and creative energies.

She is always open to new challenges and loves promoting African and Arabic films or films about  the Arabic world.

Dušan Milić is a film director and screenwriter born in Belgrade, Serbia. He graduated from the Department of Film and TV Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in his hometown. First two feature films he directed, Strawberries in the Supermarket (2003), produced by Emir Kusturica, and Gucha: Distant Trumpet (2006), produced by Karl Baumgartner, were screened in the Panorama Program of Berlin International Film Festival. His third feature film Travelator (2014) premiered at Montreal Film Festival in the Competition program and won the Innovation award. His screenwriting credits include The World is Big and Salvation Lurks Around the Corner (2008) directed by Stephan Komandarev. He has also written and directed two television series: Folk (2012-2014) and Suspicious Persons (2016-2017). Darkling (2021), his latest feature, premiered at the Trieste FIlm Festival and won an audience award.

Ivan Šijak, born in 1969 in Belgrade, is a Serbian director, cinematographer, photographer and visual artist. He graduated from the Camera Department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in his hometown. He returned to his alma mater to teach in 2004 and became a professor in 2019. During the nineties he began intensive exploration of different visual forms and developed his own visual style of expression through amalgamation of techniques  and technological processes. He was a part of the editorial staff and director of photography at the New Moment magazine devoted to visual culture between 1994 and 1997. From 1994 until 2004 he was a co-owner and author for production company Mechanical Duck Creative Production. Recipient of multiple awards for his music videos, commercials, posters and other forms of photography and videography. In 2000 he started working in film productions as a visual effect supervisor. His credits in this field include Blue Gypsy (2005) and Promise Me This (2007) by Emir Kusturica, Tears for Sale (2008) by Uroš Stojanović, and 12 (2007), The Exodus: Burnt by the Sun 2 (2010), Burnt by the Sun 3: Citadel (2011) and Sunstroke (2014) by Nikita Mikhalkov. He is a co-founder of the Serbian Association of Cinematographers S.A.S.