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Melissa Mollen Dupuis is a member of the Innu community of Ekuanitshit on Quebec's Côte-Nord. In 2012 she created the Quebec branch of the Idle No More movement (with Widia Larivière). In 2014 Melissa became president of Wapikoni's Board, and in 2017 Amnesty International named her Ambassador of Conscience along with five other figures from Canada's First Peoples' movement and Alicia Keys.

Ruth Beckermann studied journalism and art history in Vienna, Tel Aviv and New York, and earned her doctorate in 1977 at the University of Vienna. She contributed as a journalist to several Austrian and Swiss magazines. In 1978 she cofounded the distribution company, Filmladen, in which she was active for seven years. Since 1985 she works as a writer and filmmaker. Her film The Dreamed Ones was screened widely and won several awards. Her latest film, The Waldheim Waltz, won, among other prizes, the Glashütte-Original Documentary Award at Berlinale (2018).

Claude Lanzmann (1925–2018) was a French journalist, writer, and film director best known for Shoah (1985), a nine-and-a-half-hour documentary on the Holocaust. As a teenager he joined the French Resistance and fought against the Nazis. After WWII, he studied philosophy at the University of Tübingen, later taught at the Free University, and began writing for Le Monde on the persistence of Nazism. Lanzmann directed several films on the Holocaust and Israel, using firsthand interviews to construct his narratives. His distinctions include the Resistance Medal with rosette, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour, and Grand Cross of the National Order of Merit. Lanzmann is one of the few French intellectuals and artists of international stature whose body of work left its mark on millions of viewers all over the world. His memoirs, The Patagonian Hare was published in 2009.

Fernand Melgar was born in 1961, in Tangiers, Morocco. He has lived in Lausanne since 1963, and has worked as an independent director and producer since 1985. In 2006, his film, Exit: The Right To Die, received the Swiss Film Prize for Best Documentary Film. And in 2012, his film, Vol special, was awarded the Swiss Film Prize for Best Documentary Film.