Born in Katowice, Poland, Alexandra Wesolowski studied political science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität in Erlangen and finished directing at the University for Television and Film in Munich. Alongside her studies she became a fellow of the Leo-Kirch-Foundation for Media Art and worked as a lecturer and concept developer. “Impreza – The Celebration”, her the debut feature documentary as a solo director, won the Jean-Loup Passek Award for best international documentary in 2018.
Born in 1984 in Shiraz, Iran, he studied cinema and directing at the University of Tehran in Iran. Now he is studying for a PhD in Culture and Media Studies at the University of Cologne in Germany. He has directed and edited several documentaries and short fiction films. One of his previous documentaries, "A Movie for You", was premiered at the Visions du Réel, one of the most important documentary film festivals in the world, and was afterwards shown at the Zurich Film Festival in 2015. "Amour du Réel", another of his documentaries, was officially selected to screen at the Oscar qualifying and BAFTA recognized film festivals "Flickers' Rhode Island Film Festival" and "Aesthetica Short Film Festival" in 2018.
Literary and visual artist of formation, is currently screenwriter and reader in Pôle Image Haute-Normandie. She also works in the field of production - accompanying the development of projects for the films produced by Antoine Martin Production and Sancho et Compagnie, both in terms of writing and in the support and advice of authors and re-recording of archives. She has been documentary and docfiction filmmaker since 2008.
Graduated in Letters by the University of São Paulo, Masters and PhD in Communication and Semiotics: Literature, by the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo. Post-Doctorate in Literary Theory by the Federal University of Minas Gerais and Social History by the University of São Paulo. Researcher at Diversitas / USP and Professor of Diversitas / USP's Postgraduate Program in Humanities, Rights and Other Legalities. Professor of Literature and Drama, of the Armando Álvares Penteado Foundation and of Communication and Expression of Fatec. Was Vice-Coordinator of Diversitas / Usp and Coordinator of INOVA / FATEC. Coordinator of the Art, Culture and Subjectivity Studies Group. Researcher of Research Groups Jean Rouch and Redhart.
Director of the National Archive of Motion Pictures, the conservation center of the Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema. PhD in Film and Screen Media from the University of London (Birkbeck College), is an integrated researcher at the Institute of Contemporary History-NOVA FCSH and a lecturer at the Faculty of Human Sciences at the Portuguese Catholic University.