Blerta Zeqiri is an award-winning Kosovar Director and Scriptwriter, and a member of the European Film Academy. She's worked on a number of shorts and feature films, which have participated in many International Festivals, such as: Sundance Film Festival, Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, etc., winning prizes in a number of them.

Electra Venaki is the founder of www.altcine.com, the web platform dedicated to the Balkan Cinema and of altcineAction! The 1st Online Short Film Festival for Balkan countries.  She is a researcher and lecturer in many Academic Establishments in Athens and former film editor.

Electra Venaki holds an M.A (D.E.A) in Cinema, Audiovisual, Television and an B.A (Maitrise) in Cinema Studies from University Paris I  Panthéon – Sorbonne. (1990)

She teaches Editing and Sound Design in private colleges and schools in Athens. (New York College, AKMI) and she is a longtime collaborator of University of Thessaly (Greece).

She taught for two years the course Editing Sound and Image, in Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Faculty of Fine Arts, School of Film Studies. (2005-2007) and the course of Moving Image in the M.A programme of Aristotle University (Athens, 2009-2010).

Elektra Venaki has 25 years of experience in film and digital video editing in Greece. Among her collaborations, there are many awarded films in Thessaloniki International Festival, especially in the Documentary Section and she has been awarded for editing in Drama Short Film Festival twice.

She served as a chef of Audiovisual Production in Lambrakis Press Group and chef editor of the cinema site in the biggest portal in Greece, www.in.gr (1999-2005)

She was a columnist in HiTECH, a monthly magazine in Athens and for almost ten years  she has not stopped writing extended reviews on classic and modern cinema. Her writings present the new possibilities of sound diegesis and new technologies in the filming process.

Her papers have been published in many collective books, official editions and renowned magazines. As passionate about new technologies and film sound theory and practice, she has participated in numerous conferences about cinema, exploring technical and aesthetic issues.

Robert Aliaj DRAGOT, Tirane 1960, not only began as a painter, but his painting was also the point of departure for all the other activities he manifested. In the end of 90's, after a long career as a musician, Robert Aliaj DRAGOT nearly stopped with music to come back to his first concern as an art painter. Dragot's work is figurative and makes extensive use of techniques from photography, television and film. Subjects of his paintings range usually from politics in Albania, to the very banal. For a while he abandoned painting completely to make shorts and video's. Now many years later in Brussels, he is focused especially to a multimedial research, experimenting with photography, moving images, animations, sounds and painting itself, without loosing the picturesque quality. His attention divides himself between a critical curiosity of the artistic scene in Europe and a renewed interest for the fast shock therapeutic change, which the Albanian state underwent..

Raimonda Nelku is first lecturer of TV Journalism / TV production, at the Faculty of History & Philology, Journalism and Communication Department, at University of Tirana; she graduates at Fine Arts Academy, Drama, Tirana 1984 –1988; SUNY College at Fredonia, NY, U.S.A;  Global Village Communications, Inc., Western-style  Washington DC, Television Journalism Training and  Internship Course in U.S.A, 1995; PFP Albania Communication Course II Spiez, Switzerland, 1999; Master Degree on European Studies, Tirana University, 2005-2007; Doctoral Studies, Communication Science, Tirana University 2009 -ongoing .

Born from Albanian parents in Paris on August 31. Graduated the Building Engineering Faculty of the Polytechnic Institute, Tirana.  Becomes a member of the Writes and artist Leagues as painter and architect. Designs Hotels, Schools, Swellings, Laboratories, Cinema and Parks in Tirana. Lecturer on perspective at the Higher Institute of arts in Tirana. Subject to criticism at the Plenum of Writers and Artist League and at the Tirana Party Conference of Art and Literature. Denied the right to carry out designing work, to hold lectures, to exhibit his works or to publish his articles. He is moved to a village in Tirana.  Subject to critics at the national Conference of Architecture where he was accused of modernistic trends in designing. Arrested, six months under interrogation, sentenced to 10 years imprisonment and hard labor. Suffer his punishment at the prison of Spac. Upon decision of the court 246 works in oil, pastel and ink, were all burnt, confiscated books, handwriting, 11 icons, richest collection of items from folk sculpture. Called seven times by Albanian Security to collaboration against others, but always rejected that. Released from jail and sent as a “simple worker” with the lowest category at the Abrasive Factory in Tirana. Declared by the supreme Court innocent. At the invitation of the Ministry of foreign Affairs and Culture of France he works at the Efemere Artistic Centre in Paris. He return annually to France for show exhibits. Granted American Citizenship. has double citizenship.  participated in  several conferences and missions for human rights: Polonia, Slovenia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia and France. Opened 38 one-man shows in Albania, France, Poland, U.S.A, Spain. Participated in several common exhibitions in Greece, Italy, France, Egypt, Tunis, U.S.A and Armenia. Invited to exhibitions work and given lectures by Faculty of Arts, Minneapolis (U.S.A); Art Academy in Poznan, Zelona Gora, Torun (Poland); Cornell University, Ithaca (U.S.A) San Petersburg (Russia). La Sapienza (Italia), Wien (Austria). Published 17 books and albums.

Born in Bucharest, 1961. Graduate of the University of Bucharest (Romanian and Bulgarian Philology) Ph.D. on Balkan cinema at UNATC (Romanian Academy of Theatre and Cinema) in 2007. Filmologist (since 1993) and curator of the Romanian Cinematheque (since 1995). Professor of history of cinema at Hyperion University in Bucharest. Visiting professor at the University of Vienna (2008- 2010). Member of FIPRESCI (2008) and of juries for film festivals. Artistic director of Divan International Film Festival (2010 till present).   Author of 4 scripts for television documentary films broadcasted in Romania, Greece, R.Macedonia, Albania. Author of four books on cinema “A Short History of Romanian Cinema” (2005, 2011, in Romanian and English), “Manakia Bros or the Moving Balkans” (2005, in Romanian and English), “Orient Express. Romanian and Balkan Cinema” (2008, 2011 in Romanian and English, Award of the Romanian Film Critics Association) and “Manakia Brothers or the Image of the Balkans” (2009) as well as articles included in volumes (Refugees and Film, Skopje, 1994; Cinematographies of Small Nations, Skopje, 1997; Cinema of the Mountains, Turin, 2003, Cinema of the Balkans, London, 2006).  Since 1995 collaborator to magazines with film criticism in Romania, USA, Moldova, Macedonia, Hungary, Russia and Bulgaria