New York based Casting Director, Avy Kaufman has worked with directors Ang Lee, Robert Redford, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott, Michael Mann, Jodie Foster, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Wong Kar Wai and many others on numerous acclaimed films. She was awarded an Emmy for the pilot of Showtime's Damages and received Emmy nominations for HBO's Empire Falls and The Night Of. Other honors include Casting Director of the Year (Hollywood Film Festival 2005), several Artios awards from her colleagues and inclusion in Variety's 2018 New York Women's Impact List.

Ingvar Sigurdsson, a graduate of The Icelandic Academy of the Arts in 1990, is one of Iceland's most respected actors, with an extensive background in classical and contemporary theatre, international films and TV series. He has also written and produced several films. Sigurdsson has been honored with numerous awards and recognition for his acting, including seven Edda Awards as Best Actor; The European Film Award as Best European Actor - People's Choice for his lead role in Angels of the Universe (2000); and selection as a European Shooting Star in 1999.

Macdara Kelleher is the Managing Director of Fastnet Films, one of Ireland's most successful production companies and Founder of leading Irish distribution outfit, Wildcard. He serves on the board of Screen Producers Ireland. Among his recent successes is the Irish box office #1 hit, BLACK'47, which premiered at the Berlinale (2018). Other productions include Mammal (2015), and Strangerland (2016), both of which premiered at Sundance. His most recent production is Nightflyers, the new George R.R Martin TV series from NBC-Universal and Netflix.

Tara Karajica is a Belgrade-based film critic and journalist. Her writings have appeared in Indiewire, Screen International, Variety, Little White Lies and Film New Europe, among many other media outlets, including the European Film Academy's online magazine, Close-up. She is a board member of NISI MASA as well as a member of the Online Film Critics Society and the Women Film Critics Circle. In February 2018, she launched Fade to Her, a magazine about successful women working in Film and is a regular at film festivals as a film critic, moderator and jury member.

Macedonian born Teona Strugar Mitevska started as a child actor, trained as a painter and graphic designer and studied film at NYU. She directed her first short, Veta, in 2001 and her award winning feature debut, How I Killed a Saint, in 2004. She followed this up with several features, most recently, God Exists, Her Name is Petrunija. In 2016, Mitevska set up SISTERS AND BROTHER MITEVSKI with her siblings and has co-produced The Wild Pear Tree, Nightlife and Sieranevada. In 2018, France's Ministry of Culture awarded her the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.