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The Workers Cup

Adam Sobel is a writer and filmmaker living in Qatar. In 2013 he made a documentary series following the first woman from Saudi Arabia to climb Mt. Everest. The series won a 2014 CINE Golden Eagle. Since 2013 Adam has served as an advisor for Northwestern University in Qatar's film grant program.

Welcome to Sodom

Christian Krönes filmrendezői tanulmányai során legendás operatőrökkel dolgozhatott együtt mint Vittorio Storaro és Sven Nykvist. 1985-ben az osztrák tévéhez szerződött, ahol sokféle tévés műfajban alkotott. 1990-ben az egyik legjelentősebb német tévéadónál kezdett dolgozni, és ezzel egy időben felépíteni saját médiacégét Bécsben. 2006-ban megalapította a Blackbox Filmet több mint 30 éves filmes tapasztalattal, jelenleg is ott dolgozik igazgatóként és producerként.

Florian Weigensamer a Bécsi Egyetemen tanult politológiát és kommunikációt. 1995-ben csatlakozott a Vienna News International szerkesztői csapatához, ahol számos riportot és dokumentumfilmet rendezett európai csatornák számára. Később Christian Krönes-szel gyártották és rendezték az Arte politikai és társadalmi riport- és dokumentumfilmjeit Közép-Kelet-Európáról és Ázsiáról. Ezzel egy időben multimédiás anyagokon is dolgozott múzeumok és kiállítások számára. A Blackbox-Collective alapító tagja, alkotója és rendezője 2006 óta.

Liberation Day

Ugis Olte is a Latvian director and editor. He has created numerous original TV formats, music videos, ads, three short fiction films (The Red Spot, KK2678 and King Of The Wild Things), and the documentaries Stuck in Stikine (2007), Double Aliens (2015) and the co-directed Liberation Day (2016).

Morten Traavik is a Norwegian director and artist working across a wide spectrum of artistic genres. Trained as a theater director in Russia and Sweden, the notion of the world as a stage and identity as role play, as well as a characteristically blurred distinction between art, activism and social issues, has never been far away from his works.

The Island

Adam Weingrod is a graduate of the MFA program in Film at Tel Aviv University. His feature documentary, The Island, won Best Student Film at the Israeli Documentary Film Awards in 2017, and was screened in several international film festivals. He is currently working on his next documentary feature.

Granny Project

Bálint Révész started working in the film industry as a child actor. After university he became an editor, writer, producer and director. In 2012 he graduated at the University of Brighton, and had already received awards in South Korea and Japan. His production company, the Gallivant Film, produces feature films, documentaries and develops international co-productions. His film Granny Project premiered internationally at DOK Leipzig and won the MDR award.

Freedom for the Wolf

Rupert Russell holds a PhD from Harvard University, where he was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. He is currently working on a series of animated short films, How the World Went Mad, about the rise of political insanity, for the documentary streaming platform, Yaddo. Freedom For The Wolf is his first feature documentary.

Edie - A Dance for Mengele

Eszter Cseke and Andras S. Takacs have produced over 70 documentaries, across 5 continents, in the past 10 years. Their films have drawn the attention of the international press, from the Financial Times to the BBC, and have received the Golden Nymph Award in Monte Carlo, the Gold Plaque in Chicago, and have been presented at festivals from Karlovy Vary to Sarajevo.

Dawson City: Frozen Time

Bill Morrison is a New York-based filmmaker and artist. His films often combine rare archival material set to contemporary music, for which he has collaborated with some of the most influential composers of our time. Morrison's films are also in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Walker Art Center, and the EYE Film Institute.

Complicit

Heather White is the founder and former president (1995–2005) of www.verite.org, an award-winning non-profit organization recognized for its groundbreaking leadership in the areas of global supply chain monitoring and factory social audits. From 2011–2014 she was a Network Fellow at Edmond Safra Center for Ethics, at Harvard University. Complicit is her first documentary feature.

Beautiful Things

Giorgio Ferrero is a composer, director, filmmaker and photographer. He has composed soundtracks for dozens of films, theatrical performances and installations. Together with Rodolfo Mongitore and Federico Biasin, they run the multidisciplinary studio MYBOSSWAS, where they are creative directors.

Federico Biasin is a DoP, producer and filmmaker. With Giorgio Ferrero, they were the Italian winners of Biennale College 2016, at the Venice Biennale. Together with Rodolfo Mongitore, they run the multidisciplinary studio MYBOSSWAS, where they are creative directors.

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