Gabriele Brunnenmeyer is a script mentor, project consultant and pitching coach. After starting as a journalist and film critic, she works in various fields within the film industry. She was running the MEDIA Antenna Berlin-Brandenburg, has been an artistic advisor for the Maia Workshops, developing events including Connecting Cottbus, IDM Film Conference Incontri and MDM’s Meet Your Neighbour in Leipzig. For the last fourteen years, Brunnenmeyer was involved in the scouting of emerging talents as a project advisor for the German Funding Foundation Kuratorium Junger Deutscher Film. Alongside consulting on script development, packaging, and pitching for individual projects, she consults for the First Films First script development programme, Midpoint Feature Launch, Baltic Pitching Forum, FilmProSeriesEA, Interfilm Script Pitch, Cannes Court Metrage, Euro Connection Clermont- Ferrand, Berlinale Talents and Sarajevo Talents among others.

Benjamin Mirguet is an editor, consultant, director, festival curator. As an editor, he was involved in films such as Batalla en el cielo by Carlos Reygadas, Meteora by Spiros Stathoulopoulos, Dau by Ilya Khrzhanovski, The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes are not Brothers by Ben Rivers, Rey by Niles Atallah, Memory House by Joao Paulo Miranda Maria, and recently Il Buco by Michelangelo Frammartino. Programmer at the Directors’ fortnight in 2010 and 2011, consultant editor for First Cut Lab since its first edition in 2015, he also designed a Trailer Workshop for the Istanbul Film Festival and is editing tutor for Doha Film Institute’s Qumra. Benjamin directed the short film The Dead Hear Not The Bells, which premiered in Premiers Plans Angers and International Film Festival Rotterdam. He is developing his first feature film.

Giovanni Robbiano was born in 1958 in Italy. He studied film in Bologna and later at Columbia University in New York as a Fullbright student. After returning to Italy he worked as a screenwriter and directed three features and a TV movie. He wrote many other films, documentaries and TV series in Italy and Europe. He also worked as creative producer and for the series Kommissar Rex. He wrote the short feature Anomalia directed by Luca Franco, and is working on a Russian- Italian feature and a TV series developed by Climax Films Bruxelles. He is also developing the film adaptation of a stage play La Maratona di New York by Edoardo Erba. Since 1998 Robbiano has been teaching at many universities, media programs, workshops, forums and festivals. He works as story editor and script consultant for many international companies. He has published a book on screenwriting, as well as other essays and articles. Since 2013, he has been a member of the European Film Academy.

Matthieu Darras designs and leads programs of film-talent development and consultancy that are active worldwide including the First Cut Lab, the Pop Up Film Residency and the Full Circle Lab. Previously, he founded and directed the European Network of Young Cinema NISI MASA, wrote for the film magazine Positif, and was the artistic director of the TorinoFilmLab. Darras worked for major film festivals in Europe as a programmer for the Cannes Critics’ Week, as a consultant for the Venice Film Festival and as a delegate for the San Sebastian Film Festival. He also directed the Bratislava Film Festival.

Chadi Zeneddine is a writer, director and festival programmer, based between Beirut and Buenos Aires. Holder of a MA in Film Studies, he then pursued his PhD in Film and Philosophy at the Sorbonne. His first feature Falling From Earth was selected in 45 film festivals before signing a three year development deal with Walt Disney International Studios. In 2010 he joined the Doha Film Institute working with the executive management on its mission and vision including advising for the film financing and grants departments and being part of the selecting committee for eight years. Until 2018, he was managing the film programming team and part of the core team that created QUMRA, supporting young talent from around the world. He participated in several juries and film funding commissions. Since 2021 he is the head of the Cairo Film Connection in Egypt, and still consulting for various film festivals and institutions.

Ilaria Gomarasca, former Pyramide International’s Festivals Manager, who handled the launch in the international festivals’ circuit of award-winning films, is an independent film professional with over ten years of experience. She is Head of First Cut+, a program supported by Creative Europe’s MEDIA, created for boosting promotion and audience engagement strategies for films at the stage of post production, predominantly from European countries with a low production capacity. Since 2017 she is consultant and member of the selection board for several film festivals including De Rome à Paris, Cinemania and FIFF Festival du Film Francophone de Namur, and festival strategy and audience development advisor to independent producers or during international workshops.

Marija Razgute is a Lithuanian film producer. She has been running a film production company M-Films since 2008. Meanwhile she has produced films such as Runner, Nova Lituania, Summer Survivors and The Saint. Razgute works with the most talented new generation of filmmakers such as Marija Kavtaradze, Andrius Blazevicius, Vytautas Katkus, Karolis Kaupinis and Ignas Meilunas. Since 2011, Razgute has been an active member of the Independent Producers Association of Lithuania. She is also a graduate of EAVE Producers Workshop 2016, Producer on the move 2020, ACE Producers 2020. She has been a member of European Film Academy since 2015 and EWA Network since 2018, a host at Pop Up Film Residency Vilnius since 2020. Razgute has become a Producer Tutor for Midpoint Shorts program since 2019.