Alexander Nanau is a German-Romanian filmmaker, born in Romania, who studied directing at the Academy of Film and Television in Berlin. His documentary film, The World According to Ion B, won an Emmy Award in 2010. His feature documentary film, Toto and His Sisters, was nominated for an Academy Award in 2015. Nanau worked as Director of Photography for the French-German documentary, Nothingwood (Sonia Kronlund), that was shot in Afghanistan, and which premiered in Cannes in 2017.

Deeyah Khan Emmy- és Peabody-díjas dokumentumfilm-rendező. 2016-ban ő lett az UNESCO első jószolgálati nagykövete a művészi szabadságért és kreativitásért. Banaz: A Love Story (2012) című dokumentumfilmje egy fiatal, Nagy-Britanniában élő kurd nő történetét beszéli el, aki úgynevezett becsületbeli gyilkosság áldozata lett. Khan második, Jihad című filmjéhez két éven át forgatott radikális iszlamisták, elítélt terroristák és korábbi dzsihadisták között. Khan több nagysikerű zenei albumot is készített, ilyen például a Listen to the Banned; ehhez olyan zenészeket hozott össze szerte a világról, akik üldöztetést, cenzúrát vagy bebörtönzést éltek meg.

Marianna Economou antropológiát, sajtófotózást és filmgyártást tanult Londonban. 2000 óta rendez és gyárt dokumentumfilm-sorozatokat és független filmeket a BBC-vel, az ARTE-val és a YLE-val koprodukcióban.

Jonas Mekas was born in 1922, in the farming village of Semeniškiai, Lithuania. He and his brother Adolfas were taken by the Nazis in 1944 to a forced labor camp in Elmshorn, Germany. After the war he studied philosophy at the University of Mainz. At the end of 1949, the UN Refugee Organization brought Jonas and Adolfas to New York City, where they settled in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Two months after his arrival in New York, he borrowed money to buy his first Bolex camera and began to record brief moments of his life. He soon became deeply involved in the American Avant-Garde film movement. In 1954, together with his brother, he started Film Culture magazine, which soon became the most important film publication in the US. In 1958 he started his legendary “Movie Journal” column for the Village Voice. He founded the Film-Makers' Cooperative in 1962, and two years later, in 1964, the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, which eventually grew into Anthology Film Archives—one of the world's largest and most important repositories of avant-garde cinema. During this time he continued to write poetry and make films. He published more than 20 books of prose and poetry, which have been translated into over a dozen languages. His Lithuanian poetry is now considered classic Lithuanian literature, and his films can be found in leading museums around the world. He is largely credited for developing the diarist form of cinema. Mekas has also been active as an academic, teaching at the New School for Social Research, the International Center for Photography, Cooper Union, New York University and MIT.