Andrea Shaffer has been in the film industry for 20 years. During this time she has worked in both in the west and the eastern block. She is passionate about challenging international film makers with ambitions concepts. At the beginning of her film career she directed and produced short films, worked for global companies such as Panalux & Vantage Film, joined Buzz Production as an International Producer, represented directors at Stink Production (Moscow) and later returned to her

    Arina has had over 20 years of experience in Communications and the film industry. This includes documentary research and testimonial gathering for the Spielberg fund’s Holocaust project, Production at Egor Konchalovsky’s Film Production Studios, UN subcomission (UNCN), The Sturgeon Society , Marketing & Communications Deputy Director for the Sochi 2014 Olympic Bid/Organizing Committees, Vice-CEO of Mountain Press Center, Head of Communications for Buzz Production House, Head of the JV TV Channel project and as Independent Communication Director for

            Erlend Hella Matre has been studying and working with visual art since his early teens. In Norway he studied fine arts and theater science at the University of Oslo. Since 1998 he has been working with design in theater and film in the Czech Republic, starting off studying stage design under professor Lubos Hruza at the theater faculty of applied arts at the Charles University, Prague. He has written short scripts for films as

MgA. Lucie Kralova, Ph.D. is film director, screenwriter, script and post-production editor, and lecturer (assistant professor at FAMU), focused on creative documentary filmmaking for more than 15 years. Lucie graduated from humanities at Charles University (2000) and from documentary directing at FAMU (Academy of Performing Arts in Prague – Film and TV School), (2006). Her films, often filmed on 16mm material, were screened in numerous international film festivals and cinemas worldwide and got several awards (e.g. two times price for

Director, cinematographer producer, and lecturer on FAMU. Martin Řezníček has been working in film for nearly three decades. Řezníček graduated as a documentary dpt. (Mgr.) and Cinematography dpt (Bc.) at FAMU film school in 1997. In 2002 he returned to the renowned institution to teach in the documentary department and proceeded to be appointed the position as Vice Dean of Science and Research in 2014-2016. He newly created on FAMU e.g. popular Investigative Documentary Seminary which he is teaching since

Vlad Lanne – a multi-faceted artist, director, writer, composer, and an actor, was born in St. Petersburg, Russia in 1970. Vlad started his career as a composer and a poet. His poems were published in France (almanac "Poesie", Marceille, 1993) and in the USA (almanakc "Chernovik", New York 1993). He studied acting and directing in Russia (RGISI (www.rgisi.ru) and SPBGIKIT (www.gukit.ru) and later – completed his Master degree in film directing at Prague based FAMU under Věra Chytilová (Czech Republic).