GEZA M. TOTH ( Hungray )
Awarded film director, founder of the KEDD Animation Studio and university professor at the University of Theatre and Film, Budapest. Worked as a guest lecturer at several foreign institutes and universities (ex: Royal College of Art, London, Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, Ludwigsburg, National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad). As a filmmaker he created short films (ex: Icar, MAESTRO, ERGO, MAMA) experimental art projects (ex: XYZ, The Miraculous Mandarin, The Blubeard's Castle) and animation tv series (ex: Berry and Dolly, Hungarian Music Channel IDs, Modern Folk-tales). His artworks successfully participated more than 200 film festivals worldwide and were awarded with more than 80 prizes. H is animation film, MAESTRO was nominated to the Academy Awards in 2007 in the Best Animated Short Film category.

LEFTERIS XANTHOPOULOS ( Greece )
Lefteris Xanthopoulos was born in Athens , 1945. He studied law at the University of Athens but never took his degree exams. He went on to study cinematography in England at the London Film School and following that he lived for more than ten years in various countries of Central and Northern Europe . He has directed a large number of documentary films: The Greek Community in Heidelberg (1976), Giorgos from Sotirianika (1978), On the Tourkovounia (In Athens Today) (1982), At Colonus (1983), The Great Procession (1988), Pavlos Zannas (1988), Who the Crazy Hare is (1993), The Dark Conspirator (1998) and many others. His first full-length feature documentary film Happy Homecoming, Comrade (Beloiannisz), filmed in 1985 in Hungary, was an award-winning film at the 39 th Locarno Film Festival. His second film Master of the Shadows (O Drapetis) (1991 ) was an official entry in the Directors' Fortnight Program of the 44 th Cannes Film Festival. In January 1967, Xanthopoulos' poems received an award at the 3 rd Pan-Hellenic Poetry Competition held by the university student magazine Panspoudastiki . In 1972, his first poetry collection Antipsycha ( 2 nd edition 1992) was published. These poetry collections soon followed: The Adventures of a Vagrant Dream Guard (1982), Keep your Chin up, Father (1995), The Rush of the Stormy Waters (1998), Why Women Don't Love the Rain (2004), The Seventh Rain (2010) and the novel Angel of the First Days (1999). Among his many recent projects are documentaries including: Giorgios N. Papanikolaou – Pap Test (2008), At Home by the sea – The novelist E. H. Papadimitrakopoulos (2007), A Wonderful Person –The mathematician Konstantinos Karatheodori (2006), The Garden With the Innumerable Windows – The painter Nikos Engonopoulos (2005), Inheritor of the Birds – The poet Miltos Sahtouris (2004) and many more. He has collaborated with a variety of newspapers and literary magazines including: Ta Nea, Eleftherotypia, Anti, Contemporary Cinema, Lexi, Entefktirio, Efthini, Nea Hestia. Skapti Hyli, Tram, Hypostego, Anti-Cinema, Nea Syntelia,etc. -

MADELEINE BERNSTORFF ( Germany )
Film curator/programmer and also active as writer and Super-8 filmmaker. She curates, programs and writes texts on themes such as gender & silent cinema, Fem-Sci-Fi, female immigrants' films and videos, urban development critiques, and was researching re-education films and film policies in the French occupied zone in post-war Germany. In 2008 she curated together with Brigitta Kuster a program called “Small Pathes - intertwined histories” about the connection of (architectural) modernism and colonialism (House of the World Cultures, Berlin). Her most recent program/conference (with Mariann Lewinsky) “Early Interventions: Suffragettes- extremists of visibility” was shown at Zeughauskino, Berlin, september 2010. Most of her programming works are collaborative. Teaching in the field of documentary/theory with a strong perspective on artist's film and video. Guestprofessor at Berlin's University of Arts 2011/2012. Working as programmer for the Oberhausen Short Film Festival since 2000.