• Nduka Mntambo

    Image-maker working in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and pedagogy. He holds a PhD in Film and is currently the Head of Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy. He is also a Research Associate at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg.

  • Jyoti Mistry

    Professor in Film at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Mistry works in film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. Her films are presented at film festivals as well as museum exhibitions. Recent film works include Cause of death (2020) and When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017).

  • Deb Kamal Ganguly

    Independent Indian filmmaker, video artist, editor, researcher, and film teacher. His video work has been published under special curatorship from Lowave, Paris. His video art has been featured in the exhibition 'Indian Highway' and showcased in galleries of various cities in Europe and Asia.

  • Klara Björk

    Head of department of HDK-Valand in Gothenburg since 2021. She is interested in (critical) thinking through (artistic) practice involving visual literacy, decolonial practices, Sami identities, history, and politics. Over the last four years, Björk has been responsible for a Linnaeus-Palme-funded teacher student exchange between Sweden and South Africa.

  • Eduardo Santos Mendes

    Sound for audiovisual media professor and researcher at São Paulo University (USP) and a sound supervisor for films and series. As a sound supervisor, he collaborated on more than 70 films and series and had his work recognized by Brazilian and international film festivals, such as Brasília, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana.

  • Yu Ran

    Filmmaker and professor. He is the Vice Chair of the University Convergence Media Center at the Communication University of China in Beijing. He is also a CILECT Teaching Award winner and, as director, winner of the National Best Works Award of China.