Juan Palacios (b. 1986, Basque Country, Spain) is a filmmaker based in Amsterdam. Educated in Environmental Studies and Audiovisual Communication, With a particular predilection for the boundaries between human culture and the non-human, mysticism and materialism, he mostly employs imagery from a natural world to create an alternative universe. His first feature documentary film, PEDALÓ, was awarded at San Sebastian International Film Festival, 2016. His second feature film, MESETA (INLAND), it's a sensorial trip through the empty landscape of Spain. It has been awarded at CPH:DOX 2019, L'Alternativa 2019 and Mostra Internazionale del Nuovo Cinema in Pesaro 2019. In 2018 he began the Master Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy and in 2019 he was part of Berlinale Talents.

Co-Director Sofie Husum Johannesen has been a core part of the Elk Films producer team for the past 8 years where she has previously worked as a producer, line producer and project manager on a number of successful documentaries such as "See me as I am" (2021), "The Lost Leonardo" (2021), "The Great Game" (2018) amongst others. This is her first film as a co-director. Sofie has has a background from visual anthropology at Aarhus University/Akershus University.