Marianna Yarovskaya In 1998 Marianna directed and produced Undesirables, which won a Student Academy Award (Student Oscar) and screened at Cannes. Since 2000 she has worked for Discovery Channel, National Geographic, History Channel, and Greenpeace as Producer and Senior Editor. In 2006 she was Head of Research on An Inconvenient Truth, which won an Academy Award.

Petr Lom is an independent documentary director and producer. Entirely self-taught, he directs, shoots and edits his own films. He is a former academic with a Ph.D. in political philosophy from Harvard University. To anyone contemplating a career change, he says: do it as soon as possible.
His previous films are: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004); On a Tightrope (2007); You Cannot Hide from Allah (2007).

Ditsi Carolino is an award-winning Filipina documentary director and producer. Her films, hailed by many for their rawness and authenticity, deal with basic human rights issues in the Philippines such as child labor and adult illiteracy. She had a hand in a number of the industry’s most acclaimed contemporary documentaries, a few of which are Minsan Lang Sila Bata, Masakit sa Mata, and Bunso. Nearly all of her documentaries are character-driven, and most, if not all, revolve around symbolic faces like the delinquent orphan and the unlearned elder.