Karolis Kaupinis received an MA in Comparative Politics from Vilnius University, where he made a theoretical film on the concept of freedom during the Third National Awakening in the Baltic states. After working as a journalist at the Lithuanian public broadcaster LRT, he made several award-winning short films: The Noisemaker (2014) and Watchkeeping (2017). Both shorts have screened at festivals in Latvia. Later, Kaupinis made his feature debut with the historical fantasy Nova Lituania (2019), which won prizes at many festivals, including the RIGA IFF International Feature Competition. He is currently working on the project Hunger Strike Breakfast.

Uldis Cekulis founded the independent production company VFS FILMS more than 20 years ago. As one of the most important pioneers and representatives of Latvian cinema, Cekulis has worked in more than 20 countries around the world. He was named one of seven international innovators to watch at the 2007 MIPdoc in Cannes and has worked on more than 50 documentary projects and television docuseries both as a producer and as a cinematographer. Most of Cekulis' films have received international awards and nominations, e.g. from Shanghai, Karlovy Vary, Warsaw, IDFA, and from the European Film Academy. One of Cekulis’ last films, The Rossellinis (2020), opened RIGA IFF in 2021.

Marcin Pieńkowski has been the director of the largest Polish film event, the New Horizons International Film Festival in Wrocław, since 2020, having previously worked as its artistic director. He runs the New Horizons Association distribution company, co-founded the New Horizons VOD platform that is dedicated to art house cinema, and the PR agency Storyteller. Additionally, Pieńkowski works as a film marketing and communications expert, a lecturer, a film historian, an editor, and is the co-author of several books.

Barbara Wurm is a programmer, curator, film critic and researcher. Her current research interests at the Humboldt University of Berlin are Eastern European culture, and film history and theory. Wurm has a background in Eastern European cinema and her doctoral thesis focused on Soviet-era educational films. She has studied Slavic and Comparative Literature in Vienna, Moscow, Munich, Leipzig, and Berlin and has served on the selection committees of the Leipzig Documentary Film Festival, the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, as well as many other festivals and cinematheques. Currently, Wurm is a member of the selection committees at Berlinale and the goEast Film Festival in Wiesbaden.

Ollie Charles has worked in film marketing for the last decade, focusing on the global distribution of independent arthouse films. He has worked for Peccadillo Pictures, Picturehouse Entertainment, and Trafalgar Releasing. Charles is currently part of the streaming and film distribution team for the platform Mubi. He has managed campaigns for films such as Kelly Reichardt's First Cow (2020) and Celine Sciamma’s Petite Maman (2021). Current projects include Charlotte Wells' Aftersun (2022) and Lukas Dhont's Close (2022).