Gábor Hörcher studied Psychology, Law, Film, and is currently pursuing a PhD in Art&Design. He has lived in the US, France and Cambodia, where he taught courses on Human Rights at a local university. He started filmmaking and working with director-producer, Marcell Iványi in 2008. Since then they run a company, KraatsFilm together producing films and theatre performances. Gábor’s first feature film project, Drifter was selected for the European Film Award and won ten prizes including the Best First Appearance Award at IDFA, it went on to attend more than 40 international festivals and was screened in theaters. His latest fiction short, Ricsi was in competition at over 20 festivals and won the Best Short Fiction Prize at the Mediawave in Hungary. He is now finishing post-production on his second feature film, Emma and Eddie (working title). The film was co-produced with HBO and Oscar-winning French producer Christine Le Goff.

Bregtje van der Haak is documentary filmmaker, journalist, and since 2023 she is Director of Eye Filmmuseum in  Amsterdam. She studied dance in Paris, political science and law at the University of Amsterdam and the New School for Social Research in New York and journalism at Columbia University. Van der Haak directed multiple documentaries on social change, including the VPRO Backlight series as well as Philip Johnson: Two of a Kind (1998), Lagos Wide & Close (2005), Saudi Solutions (2006), Satellite Queens (2007), Grand Paris: The President and the Architects (2009), California Dreaming (2010), Aftermath of a Crisis (2011) and DNA Dreams (2013).