Geraldine Zambrana is a writer, filmmaker, and producer from Bolivia. She studied filmmaking at the Prague Film School following a bachelor’s degree in International Relations and a master’s degree in Human Rights from Sciences Po Paris. While working for various NGOs in India, South Africa, and France, she began her career as a documentary filmmaker. She directed Incendios, a feature about the fires in the Amazon rainforest, which won several Best Documentary awards including the Pukañawi Award at the Festival Internacional de Cine de los Derechos Humanos (Bolivia) and was selected by 17 international film festivals, including One World – International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, one of the world’s most prestigious human rights festivals. She also directed Pachakuti, a documentary on Bolivia’s sociopolitical landscape, recognized as a cultural heritage work by the Permanent Assembly for Human Rights of Bolivia.
Lisa Miller returned to her Bavarian hometown in Germany in 2016 after studying art and photography in Madrid and London, to shoot her debut film Landrauschen, a satirical take on the traditional "Heimatfilm" (homeland film) genre. This low-budget, crowdfunded project earned her three Max Ophüls Awards at Germany’s most prestigious festival for emerging filmmakers and took her around the world. Since then, she has lived between Leipzig and Madrid, working as a writer and director. She develops original series concepts and contributes to writers’ rooms, with a focus on dramedy and comedy. Her dramedy series 2 Minuten (ARD) was nominated for the Grimme Award and won Best Series at the Seriale in 2024. In 2022, she received the German Television Award for Best Comedy Series for Oh Hell (Magenta TV).
Cherine Karam has over a decade of experience in cultural production in Beirut, before transitioning from advertising and contemporary art to pursue her passion for filmmaking. With Dépôt-Vente, her feature debut in development, she won the Malmö Arab Film Festival Pitching Competition, earned a scholarship at the Thessaloniki Film Festival Pitching Forumfor the MFI Script 2 Film Workshop, and participated in DOK Leipzig’s Co-Pro Market, as well as Stockholm's Tempo Documentary Pitch. Her documentary short, Yellow is the Color of Happiness, premiered in competition at Tempo Documentary Festival in Stockholm in 2024. Cherine is one of the 2025 (Egg)celerator Lab grantees.
Nakesa Ndou is a filmmaker and writer from Johannesburg, South Africa, with a passion for crafting bold and resonant stories. She studied a BA in Dramatic Arts before pursuing an Advanced Degree in Screen Production at the University of Cape Town. She is currently working on her research paper about the African Female Gaze. Nakesa is best known for her short film, Mbokodo (Rock), which had its international and national premiere at the Durban Film Festival. The film has gone on to win awards at international festivals, including the Discover Awards in London, and was a quarterfinalist at Le Festival International du Film Pan Africain de Cannes. Nakesa focuses on writing stories that centre women, crafting narratives for an African female audience. Through her work, she seeks to challenge perspectives and bring authentic, multifaceted female experiences to the forefront of cinema.
Kyoko Kasuya is a Japanese visual artist and filmmaker based between Paris and Tokyo. After studying African American literature in Japan and earning a Master of Fine Arts in France, her audiovisual work took a more introspective and political turn following the 2011 earthquake and nuclear disaster. Since then, her practice has explored personal and collective identity through history and archival material, with a poetic and experimental approach. Her films have been shown in Brussels, Prague, and Tokyo. In 2023, she received the Allotment Travel Award Grand Prize for her film Diary of Eve’s Land, shot in Jeddah and premiered at MEM Gallery, Tokyo, during the 2025 Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions. Kasuya is also a member of the international women artists' collective The Crown Letter, with whom she has exhibited in Paris, Córdoba, Montevideo, and Kyoto, building a transnational artistic practice that weaves together the intimate, the political, and the aesthetic.