Mika Anttolainen is the director of the Oulu International Children’s and Youth Film Festival and a board member of the Metka Centre for Media Education in Helsinki. The festival takes place in the coastal city of Oulu on the Gulf of Bothnia and features a varied programme for younger people and works consistently with local audiences. As a sharp contrast, Anttolainen was previously the Chairman of the Board of the iik! week Horror Festival for 14 years, and curated events for Oulu Arts Night for eight years.

Jo-Anne Blouin has spent her entire professional career creating and developing content for children. At the age of 16, she started working with children's theatre in her native Quebec, and later turned to audiovisual media, creating the Montreal International Children's Film Festival (FIFEM) going on to become its Executive then Creative Director. From 1998 to 2008, she worked as the Executive Director of the International Center of Films for Children & Young People (CIFEJ), and in 2017 she was awarded an honorary membership of the European Children's Film Association (ECFA).

Hanna Reifgerst studied visual communication at the Bauhaus University in Weimar and the College of Arts & Design in Barcelona. Since 2007, she has been working as a project manager for script development and dramaturgical content for young audiences at the funding platform Outstanding Films for Children. Previously, she curated the youth film competition at the Goldener Spatz Children's Media Festival in Germany. Since spring 2022, she has been programming the children's and youth film screenings at the Lübeck Nordic Film Days. She currently lives in Weimar with her two children, husband, and elderly cat.