Ildze Felsberga is a young film director with a deep interest in conceptual cinema. Her last film – documentary Darwin’s Darlings was one of the winners of Latvian National TV Creative Documentary Contest in 2023. Ildze is currently working on a metal-inspired radio play and playing in a dark country band.

Dārta Krāsone is an aspiring young film producer and film industry professional from Riga, Latvia. In 2023 she acquired a BA degree in film at the Paris-1 Pantheon Sorbonne University in France, shortly before joining the production studio Trickster Pictures. Dārta has five years of experience in the film industry where she has worked as a production coordinator, 1st and 2nd assistant director and for three years as the creative director of RojaL Film Festival in Latvia. Dārta’s projects have been chosen for such creative programmes as the Baltic Pitching Forum and Documentary Campus Masterschool. She has also been a part of the Locarno Film Festival’s MatchMe! producers’ program. In 2024/2025 she is taking part in MEDIA’s yearlong further education programme Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, which offers in depth specialisation in co-productions and legal aspects of filmmaking.