Boka-Grūbe is a producer and partner at Mistrus Media film studio. For nearly two decades, she has produced some of Latvia’s most financially successful and internationally acclaimed films, including Emily. Queen of the Press (2020), January (2022), and Maria’s Silence (2024). She is one of the leading and most prolific producers in the Baltics. In 2019, she was selected for the Producers on the Move platform in Cannes. Boka-Grūbe specialises in feature films, documentaries, co-productions, service film projects, and TV series. She studied European studies in Leuven, audiovisual arts and psychology in Riga, and is currently pursuing a doctorate while also serving as a guest lecturer. She is a member of the European Film Academy, the Latvian Film Producers Association, the ACE Producers Network, the EAVE Producers Network, and the European Women’s Audiovisual Network.

Lindblad is one of the leading and most experienced film critics in Scandinavia. Since 1994, she has been the film section editor and critic at Dagens Nyheter newspaper, covering various festivals and current film repertoire. She has studied film theory and journalism in Sweden and France, and focussed on the contradictions and trends in both qualitative and quantitative film criticism in her practice. She has served on the jury of several festivals, including Toronto, Stockholm, and others. In 2010, she was selected to be jury member for the Un Certain Regard competition at the Cannes Film Festival. Together with the Ingmar Bergman scholar Stig Björkman, she co-authored the book Fucking Film: New Swedish Cinema (2002), documenting the changes in Swedish filmmaking. Lindblad is the secretary of the Swedish Film Critic Association.

For over 20 years, Myklebust has been the director of the Nordic cinema and international co-production market New Nordic Films at the Haugesund Film Festival. It is one of the region’s most important industry events, bringing together professionals from Northern Europe and showcasing the boldest and most acclaimed projects across both auteur cinema and a diverse range of other film genres. Myklebust studied cultural science and film at the Norwegian Film School. She has also worked as a producer, creating the feature-length mystery The Comet (2017) and the award-winning father-son drama As I Fall (2018), which was shown at many international festivals and received four nominations for Norway’s national film awards, the Amanda Awards. Myklebust is a member of both the European Film Academy and the Norwegian Film Academy.

Priimägi is one of Estonia’s leading film critics and journalists, working as the film editor for the cultural and arts weekly Sirp. With a background in film semiotics, Priimägi is recognized as a keen-eyed and witty critic of culture and cinema. For the past two decades, he has written for various publications, reviewing Estonian and Baltic cinema, as well as festival and contemporary cinema. He previously worked at the Estonian Film Institute and founded the Tallinn DocPoint documentary film festival, where he now serves as curator. He has also curated the film programme for the Tallinn Black Nights Festival. Priimägi is the author of the extensive publication 101 Estonian Films (2020) and is a member of both the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) and the European Film Academy.

Kiauleikis has extensive and versatile experience in film distribution across the Baltics, particularly in Lithuania. For over five years he has distributed films under the banner of Bear, Lion and Branch. The playful title of the distribution company reflects its focus – award-winning, bold arthouse cinema and European films, showcasing them in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Kiauleikis helped establish a film festival in Lithuania with the same name, and in 2023 worked on a comprehensive retrospective dedicated to Lars von Trier, also screened in Latvia. Currently, he is the deputy editor at the cultural publication Literature and Art, continuing to develop his interests in culture. A bibliophile.