Anne Gaschütz is a festival organiser and curator who grew up in Dresden. She later moved to the United Kingdom to study film in Wales. She returned to her hometown after several years to develop short film projects at Filoufilm. She has been working at Filmfest Dresden since 2013, initially in the programming department, but later became in charge of the forum Visegrád in Short(s). Gaschütz is currently one of the festival's directors. Since 2021, she has been a member of the selection committee for the Pardi di domani competition at the Locarno Film Festival. She is one of the founders of the Talking Shorts platform, which is an initiative focused on short film criticism.

Inja Korać studied Political Science and Journalism in Zagreb and Audiovisual Content Production in Spain. She works as a feature film and shorts curator at the Motovun and Beldocs film festivals, and is the Director of Industry at the Zagreb International Film Festival. She has worked as a documentary film producer and curator for nearly ten years. Korać has experience in film distribution and did an internship at Dogwoof Sales in the United Kingdom. She has also worked in the festival department at Taskovski Films and coordinated film distribution in Croatia.

Sander Joon is an Estonian animation director whose short films Velodrool (2015), Moulinet (2017), and Sounds Good (2018) have been screened in Annecy, Leipzig, Ottawa, Stuttgart, Fredrikstad, Go Short, GLAS, and many other festivals. Joon also makes music videos, for example for Tommy Cash, he DJs, and participated in a commercial for Rick and Morty. He also worked as a 2D artist on the award-winning film The Old Man Movie (2019) and teaches traditional animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. His latest short film Sierra won a prize at the SHORT RIGA Test Screenings in 2021 and is currently touring festivals having qualified for the Academy Awards.