Manuela Penafria is a professor of the undergraduate and master's degree courses in Cinema at UBI-University of Beira Interior. She has a PhD from UBI and is a researcher at Labcom. IFP (www.labcom.ubi.pt). Co-editor of DOC Online (www.doc.ubi.pt) and coordinating member of the WG "Filmmakers Theory", from AIM - Association of Researchers of the Moving Image.

Margarida was born in Tomar, Portugal (1963) and lived in Mozambique until 1975. She studied Imaging and Audiovisual Communication at the António Arroio School in Lisbon. She worked for several years in France and Portugal as a photographer and assistant director and has developed work of a very personal nature between fiction and documentary since 1985. She was awarded the "Léopards of Demain" at the 52nd Festival of Locarno and her first feature-length film, "The Murmuring Coast”, premiered at the Venice Film Festival - Venice Days 2004. In recent years Margarida has established herself as one of the most consistent names in Portuguese cinema. "Natal71", "Kuxa Kanema – The Birth of Cinema", "The Murmuring Coast" and her latest film "Yvonne Kane" share in common an interest in colonial and post-colonial themes in a very unique perspective, exploring the memory and feelings of loss and guilt. In 2005 she received the Commendation of the Order of Infant Don Henrique. Assistant Director to Inês de Medeiros and Edgar Pêra. The Murmuring Coast (2004) became her best-known film. She is a teacher of Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication at Lusófona University in Lisbon and a tutor at the Docnomads Master’s degree.

Renato Athias is the general coordinator of the Recife International Festival of Ethnographic Film. He holds a degree in Philosophy from Dom Bosco Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences ad Arts (1975), MA in Ethnology – Université de Paris X, (Nanterre, 1982) with a dissertation on the Notion of Ethnic Identity in Brazilian Anthropology. Holds a Doctorate in Ethnology by the same University (1995). He conducted studies in the fields of Media and Television at the University of Southampton (UK). Coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research on Race (NEPE), UFPE and is Assistant Professor of the Graduate Program in Anthropology at UFPE. Currently coordinates the Visual Anthropology Laboratory of the Image, Sound & Human Sciences at UFPE.

Xurxo Chirro (A Guarda, Spain, 1973) has a BA degree in Art History at the University Santiago de Compostela. He worked in the Axencia Audiovisual Galega and AGADIC, entities dependent on the Xunta de Galicia. He is a film critic and collaborates with several newspapers and magazines. He also works as a film script-writer and he is the director of the documentaries Vikingland (2011) and Une histoire seule (2013).