Anne Rethfeld joined DAE in May 2021. She is a project manager, cultural producer,  writer and podcast producer who has worked for European film festivals and documentary organizations since 2014, including DOK Leipzig, CPH:DOX, DOX BOX e.V., European Film Market and Berlinale.She holds a Bachelor's in European Media Science and a Master's in Design Studies at Burg Giebichenstein, University of Art and Design Halle.

Born in 1964, Jannik Splidsboel studied film and art in Copenhagen and Rome, before graduating from EAVE. He has worked as a producer since the early 1990s, for RAI and ZDF, among others, on art, culture, youth, and more. Since 2004, he has been active as a documentary film director, with a dozen long and short films to his credit. His films have been praised internationally, including at the Berlinale and IDFA. He both wrote and directed Misfits, about LGBTQ young people in the American Bible Belt. The film was nominated for the Danish film critic award, Bodil. He has been a dramaturgical and artistic consultant since 2008, and teaches creative writing, pitch, development, and production.

Bernadett Tuza-Ritter is a documentary film director, editor, mental health specialist, coach. In the film industry since 2006, he has worked as an editor, scriptwriter, and director in numerous feature film and documentary productions. In 2017, his first full-length documentary entitled "A Woman Captured" was presented, which achieved huge international success. During his studies at SOTE and Károli Gáspár University, he began to deal with the mental health of filmmakers and creative professionals, as a result of which he and his colleagues created the film and mental health center called The Well-being Center, which is specifically for the mental health of those working in the film and theater arts profession. focuses on its protection and service.

Mária Takács is a documentary filmmaker, video journalist and LGBTQ activist. Hidden Years, her first documentary about lesbian stories of the years before the regime change in Hungary, won the Audience Award of the 11th Verzió and the ERSTE Social Award. Her documentaries Hot Men, Cold Dictatorships (2015), More Than a Relationship (2016), and Game On – Queer Disruptions in Sports (2020) have been screened at numerous film festivals in Hungary and abroad. Her film about Márta Bolba evangelical pastor, The Pastor of Mandák House (2019), was fined by the current government for addressing contemporary political issues, but has been screened in cinemas and religious and civil communities. Currently, she is working on a participatory human rights soap opera, The Second Golden Age..., and as a video journalist, she continues to document the events of Józsefváros (the district 8th in Budapest). She received the Hégető Honorka Award in 2020 for her journalistic work and the Emma Goldman Snowball Award in 2023 for her work as a lesbian feminist documentary filmmaker.