Dániel Deák was born in Budapest, where he currently lives. In 2007, he founded Daazo.com, an online short film-sharing website supported by the MEDIA program, which made numerous high-quality short films accessible. In 2013, he launched the Friss Hús festival, which has since become Hungary's largest short film forum. Between 2015 and 2020, he served as the professional leader of the Filmalap Incubator Program. Since 2019, he has been organizing the Budapest Debut Film Forum, a workshop for first-time filmmakers in Central Europe. He has been involved in creating various publications and magazines, including World of Shorts, Hungarian Film Magazine, and as the publisher and author of the Friss Hús Future Cinema magazine.

Anna Petrus is a filmmaker, film critic, cultural researcher, professor, and currently, Artistic Director of DocsBarcelona International Film Festival. She holds a degree in audiovisual communication from Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona). She has directed multiple films, including video art, fiction, and documentary, which have toured festivals such as the Cannes Film Festival, Festival des Films du Monde (Montréal), Sitges - Festival Internacional de Cinema de Catalunya, and FicXixón, among many others. She has worked as a film critic for several relevant film magazines and newspapers in Spain (such as Dirigido por, Cahiers du Cinéma -Spain, and La Vanguardia). She is currently a contributor to the newspaper Ara, where she writes about cinema, audiovisuals, and feminism. She is a member of the Board of Directors of Dones Visuals (Visual Women), the association of women filmmakers in Catalonia.

Natalia Libet is a film producer and a co-owner of the female-led production company, "2Brave Productions," based in Kyiv, Ukraine. She has produced and co-produced several successful feature debuts, including Kateryna Gornostai's Stop-Zemlia (2021 Crystal Bear Berlinale Generation 14+), Mantas Kvedaravičius's Parthenon (2019 Venice FF's International Critics' Week), Marta Smerechynska's Diary of a Bride of Christ (2022 Sarajevo FF), and Anna Buryachkova's Forever-Forever (2023 Venice FF's Orizzonti Extra Competition). She is a member of the European and Ukrainian Film Academies, and an alumna of EURODOC 2021. Currently, Natalia also serves as the program manager of Tatino Films' First Cut+, a semiannual workshop focused on marketing and positioning of feature films.

Gyula Gazdag is a screenwriter and director of film, theater, and television, and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UCLA’s School of Theater, Film, and TV. He has served as Artistic Director of the Sundance Filmmakers Lab since 1997. He has worked with young screenwriters at the Script Station of the Berlinale Talents since 2006, and mentors young talent at Sarajevo Talents since 2015. He has conducted directing and screenwriting workshops in several countries. Gazdag has directed several films, his documentaries include:  A Poet on the Lower East Side – A Docu-Diary on Allen Ginsberg, Hungarian Chronicles, Package Tour, The Banquet, The Resolution [Co-directed with Judit Ember], The Selection and The Long-Distance Runner. Most of Gazdag’s films were banned in Communist Hungary and were denied foreign exhibition.