Brigid O’Shea is a documentary consultant, helping documentary projects and filmmakers reach their full international potential and professional goals. Her international network spans the globe, working on all continents, with both emerging talent and industry veterans. She’s worked with ARTE on projects like the Generation Africa and Generation Ukraine, working on festival strategy for the collections of films. Films she has consulted on have premiered at all the major international festivals including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, IDFA etc.. She serves on the boards of Circle Women Doc Accelerator, and Dokufest in Prizren, Kosovo. She is an intersectional queer feminist. She founded together with other colleagues the Documentary Association of Europe, a members network and support system for documentary filmmakers inside and outside of Europe that has grown to 800 members in just four years and recently started the project Ateliers Cocoon to offer documentary filmmakers a space for recuperation and transformation. She currently serves as the director of this organization. She was head of the DOK Industry Programme at DOK Leipzig and worked for the Berlin International Film Festival for more than 10 years. She moderates and curates programmes and discussions on non-fiction filmmaking as an internationally-respected curator with a wide and diverse network. She serves on selection committees and scouts works for international platforms. She tutors across the globe, particularly in Asia, Africa, the Eastern Partnership countries on festival strategy, international co-financing and pitching as well as cultural management. 

Inka Achté is a Finnish filmmaker and a former sales agent whose career in the field of documentary film spans 20 years. Alongside directing non-fiction in short, feature and series formats, Achté currently works as the Artistic Director of DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and as Head of Acquisitions at Raina, an agency focusing on all aspects of festival distribution of documentary films from all over the world. A frequent mentor and lecturer, she has taught at Aalto University in Helsinki, the Norwegian Film School Lillehammer, Raindance Film Institute in London, EICTV Cuba, and consulted/tutored at numerous professional industry contexts, for example at IDFA, Asian Documentary Clinic, Baltic Sea Docs, Astra Film Doc Tank and Tempo Documentary Film Festival.

Janka lives in Budapest and completed her Bachelor's degree in Liberal Arts, where she pursued a specialization in Aesthetics as well as Film Theory and History. Her primary field of research has been the Czechoslovak New Wave, with particular focus on the Slovak director, Juraj Jakubisko. She was moved by the social sensitivity of his works and the subtle nature of his artistic vision. It was also Jakubisko whose movies made her reflect on the role that archival footage can play within feature films. For her analysing films is all about seeking a deeper understanding of their subjects, because to understand a film we must also try to understand the world that it reflects.

Virginia is a film programmer with a background in cultural management. She holds a Master’s degree in Innovation and Organisation of Culture and the Arts (GIOCA) from the University of Bologna. She works in festival programming for Concorto Film Festival (IT) and has collaborated with Indy Shorts Film Festival and Heartland Film Festival (Indianapolis, USA). She writes reviews for independent online film magazines.