Fascinated by myths and legends, Çağla Zencirci uses the medium of cinema to tell real-life stories.

Khavn De La Cruz is a multiawarded filmmaker, composer, and writer.

Ali Jaafar was the international editor of film and TV industry bible Variety, where he covered extensively the Arab world and Middle East, as well as the British, European and Asian entertainment business.

Khaled Jarrar works in photography, video and performance.

Visual artist and filmmaker Lamia Joreige uses archival documents and elements of fiction to reflect on the construction of historical narratives and the relationship between individual stories and collective memory.

Amar Kanwar's poetic documentaries and video installations examine nationalism, politics, violence and social performance in the Indian subcontinent.

Documentary filmmaker James Longley’s projects have focused on amplifying the voices and perspectives of the most vulnerable through cinema.

Encompassing video, film and photography, visual artist Basir Mahmood's practice contemplates embedded social and historical terrains of the ordinary alongside his personal milieu.

Mehelli’s first love had always been cinema, and in 2005 he founded Second Run, a DVD company dedicated to releasing outstanding, award-winning films from around the world.

Jean Pierre Rehm studied Modern Literature and Philosophy in the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS), in Paris.

Marcel Schwierin studied photography, filmmaking, film history, politics and aesthetics.

Keith Shiri is founder and director of Africa at the Pictures, the London African Film Festival and the Africa Media Centre University of Westminster, London.

Tilda Swinton trained at Cambridge University and began her screen acting career working with the late Derek Jarman

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's lyrical and mysterious non-linear works deal with memory and subtly address social issues.