Adrian Spring
Writer/Creative Producer - Swiss, b. 1987

Living in Lucerne. Writer and producer of the SRF TV/web series NR. 47, which won the Swiss TV Prize 2018. Graduate of Swiss School of Journalism.

Akos Gerstner
Director/Writer · German, b. 1979

Born in Budapest, based in Berlin and Munich. Scholarship recipient of Drehbuchwerkstatt Munich and Alfred Döblin Award. Graduated from HFF Munich with MR.LOVE BOMB (2016).

Beatrice Minger
Director/Writer · Swiss, b. 1980

Studied Film, German and Modern History in Zurich, Berlin and Lausanne. Short LOVE A LITTLE shown at 54th Solothurner Filmtage. Currently working on 3 projects incl. 1st feature DIE FLUT.

Corinne Steiner
Producer · Swiss, b. 1985

Producer at tellfilm (Zurich) and BearPit Films (Berne). Previously she worked for production companies such as C-Films AG, Vega Film AG and Turnus Film AG.

Ion Papaspyrou
Director/Writer · Greek, b. 1987

Currently based in Athens. He directed a number of commercials, TV shows and doc series. Latest short I AM NOT HERE NOW won several awards. Debut feature ANNA NORA CHLOE in development.

ionpapaspyrou.com

Kantarama Gahigiri
Director/Writer · Rwandan-Swiss

Born in Geneva. MA in Cinema and International Relations. TV5 Monde Best Francophone Film Award for 1st feature TAPIS ROUGE. Alumni of La Fabrique Cinéma, Cannes 2019 with 2nd feature in development TANZANITE.

Lou Rambert Preiss
Director · French, b. 1993

Based in Paris. ECAL graduation short STONE AGE won Best Swiss Newcomer Award at 71th Locarno Film Festival. Guest artist at “Fabrique du regard” (LE BAL). Currently writing his new short film.

Luis Campos
Director/Producer/Writer · Portuguese, b. 1985

MA in Film Directing and PhD Candidate of Media Arts. Founder of the production company Squatter Factory, the GUIÕES Festival and the Script Lab PLOT. His short CARGA won over 10 awards.

squatterfactory.com

Magdalena Chmielewska
Director/Writer

Vienna-based director schooled at the Filmakademie Wien and Wajda Masterschool of Directing. Several award-winning shorts e.g GRETCHEN AM SPINNRADE (2015) and AM HIMMEL (2018). Working on 1st feature.

magda.vision

Maria Sigrist
Director · Swiss, b. 1985

Sigrist’s focus lies in telling female-oriented stories for a variety of genres. She’s known for short films such as GIRL and BOY ON THE ROCKS, BEATRIX and the TV-feature DIE EINZIGEN.

Martin Monk
Director/Writer · German, b. 1985

MA-student at Filmakademie Wien. Latest short FAVORITEN (2019) premiered at Cannes Cinéfondation. Previous short ALPHAMÄDCHEN in official selection of Max-Ophüls-Prize. Working on 1st feature.

martinmonk.net

Min Min Hein
Director/Producer · Myanmar, b. 1987

Founder of BurmaCat Films in Yangon. 1st recipient of Myanmar/ US Fulbright Scholarship in Film. Credits include the award-winning LISTEN (2017). Working on 1st feature doc about a traditional woman dancer from Myanmar.

Nic Fforde
Director/Writer · British-Irish, b. 1986

London-based. Directed an array of commercials and music videos. Latest short RALPH STYLES ULTRA (2018) received a best short film award and several nominations. Feature project in development: A MODEL WIFE.

cinescope-anglais.co.uk

Satindar Singh Bedi
Director/Writer · Indian

Post-graduate of FTII, India. His thesis KAMAKSHI (2015) premiered at Berlinale, screened in over 40 festivals and won more than 20 awards. In development: WOMAN IN THE WELL, ARDHÁ and CUSP.

Sophie Linnenbaum
Director · German, b. 1986

MA-student at Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf. Berlinale premiere of short DUOLOGUE (2016). Several prize awarded shorts incl. PIX (2017) winning the German Short Film Award. Latest short: DAS MENSCH.

Sylvie Leray
Producer/Distributor · French, b. 1976

Based in Madrid. Founder, owner and managing director of REVERSO FILMS, Spain in 2018. Distributed more than 80 films in the function of General Director at ARTCAM FILMS in Prague. 3 films in production.

reversofilms.es

Torfinnur Jákupsson
Writer · Faroese, b. 1984

Writer of first Faroe crime series TROM, selected for Berlinale’s „Co-Pro Series“ (2019). Currently working on neo-western feature LÝ (announced) and a new political drama series (soon to be announced). 

Vojtěch Strakatý
Director/Writer · Czech, b. 1988

Writer and assistant director of various films, Industry Project Coordinator at Karlovy Vary IFF. In preproduction for 1st feature ETERNAL PEACE supported by The Czech Film Fund for the development stage.

Yan Decoppet
Producer · Swiss, b. 1994

Junior Producer at GoldenEggProduction, Geneva. Studied filmmaking at New York Film Academy and Interactive media design at ERACOM, Lausanne. Currently producing upcoming short film AS SEMIMORTAS.

Zoe Dobson
Director · British

Director of DURAN DURAN: THERE IS SOMETHING YOU SHOULD KNOW (BBC), WHY DO WE DANCE (Sky Arts) and Challenge Alexa winning short THE CUNNING MAN (2019) starring Game of Thrones actor Simon Armstrong.

zoedobson.co.uk/

Sarah Born
Producer

Alessandra Gavin-Mueller
Director

Lisa Gertsch
Director

Elena Hazanov
Director

Klaudia Reynicke
Director

Stefan Staub
Scriptwriter

Julia Tal
Producer, Director