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Edivan Guajajara is from the Zutiwa village, located in Arariboia Indigenous Land (Maranhão, Brazil) and one of the creators of the communication network Mídia Índia. As an activist & filmmaker, he creates photography and documentaries centering indigenous peoples’ perspectives, showcasing their struggle of land protection and defense of Mother Earth. As a designer and video editor, he uses his gift to create art pieces that give visibility to the ongoing fight of the Brazilian indigenous peoples, a people who have resisted for 521 years. “Film has given us the opportunity to show our culture and our resistance. Today we have our own way of communicating and spreading our works so that people can know our true history and strengthen our struggle. My greatest inspiration as an indigenous is showing our reality and telling that we are also capable of being what we want to be, and showing to the world how much we indigenous peoples are important to the survival of our planet.

One Forest was formed with the mission to help people reconnect to themselves and to nature. Comprised of filmmakers Chelsea Greene (she/her) and Rob Grobman (he/him), One Forest is dedicated to creating impactful and heartfelt films and media. They view the art of storytelling as a sacred work, which endows their stories with a deep reverence for the earth and the characters they feature. They have recently produced two award winning short documentaries, BORNEO’S VANISHING TRIBES and GORILLA GIRL. Their commitment to authentic, integral and informative stories paired with their youth, ambition and drive as individuals, make this unique duo and their work exceptional, relevant and inspiring. One Forest lives and works in the mountains of Southern Oregon.

Rand Beiruty is a writer, director, and co-founder of Shaghab Films, a production company based in Amman, Jordan. She holds a practice-based Ph.D. revolving around questions of representation and participatory filmmaking from the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf. She has pitched her projects on international platforms and received awards from, among others, the Tribeca Film Institute, Mifa Animation du Monde, the Arab Cinema Center, and the European Network of Young Cinema. Her debut feature documentary Tell Them About Us (2024) premiered at CPH:DOX and received the ECFA Award for Best European Feature Documentary for Young Audience at the 64th Zlín International Film Festival.

Marek Šulík studied documentary film direction at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. After finishing his studies, he established himself primarily as an editor of documentary films that received worldwide acclaim at important festivals. He collaborated on feature projects directed by Peter Kerekes (66 seasons, Cooking History, Velvet Terrorists), Martin Kollár (October 5), Viera Čákanyová (FREM, White on White), Filip Remunda (Czech Journal, Meet the Movie), and many more. In addition, he worked on his own directing projects. His work includes films with social themes, educational films, portrait work, ethnographic documentaries, and films that work with found footage.

In his artistic practice, Alex Baczyński-Jenkins explores the structures and politics of desire through gesture, addressing the issues of queer feelings, corporeality and relationality. His works were presented, among others, at the Venice Biennale, Kunsthalle Basel, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Chisenhale Gallery in London. The artist is also a co-founder of the queer-feminist collective Kem. In 2019, he was nominated for the Polityka Passport award.