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Nick Rowland is known for Calm with Horses (2019), She Rides Shotgun and Floodlights (2022).

Bart is a multi-award winning writer, director and executive producer known for creating ground-breaking work and pushing the boundaries of conventional story-telling techniques.

Bart has been the Creative Director of leading British production company RAW for the past 14 years where he has created and directed numerous award-winning documentaries and series.

In 2012 Bart directed his first documentary feature film, The Imposter, which received huge critical acclaim for its originality and storytelling following its debut at Sundance. The film picked up numerous prestigious awards including two British Independent Film Awards, a BAFTA for best debut and being shortlisted for the Academy Awards.

Bart's first narrative feature, American Animals, which he wrote and directed, premiered at Sundance in January 2018 to an equally rapturous critical response. He has since gone on to win screenwriting awards at both the British Independent Film and Writers' Guild Awards.

Jamie M. Dagg is known for Sweet Virginia (2017) and River (2015).

Christopher Smith is an acclaimed British filmmaker known for his work in horror, thriller, and dark comedy, with a reputation for blending genres. He was born in Bristol, England, and attended Bristol University, where he attained an MA in Film Studies and Production.

Smith made his feature film debut in 2004 with the hit horror movie Creep, set in the London Underground. He followed this success in 2006 with Severance, a horror-comedy that mixed corporate satire with slasher elements. The film was sold worldwide and became the first horror film to screen at the Telluride Film Festival.

In 2009, Smith directed Triangle, a psychological thriller exploring time loops and alternate realities. The film, starring Melissa George, was lauded for its ambitious and complex narrative structure and has since gained a passionate cult following. A year later, he directed Black Death (2010), a medieval horror film set during the plague, starring Sean Bean and Eddie Redmayne.

Smith took a seemingly unexpected detour into family entertainment with his Christmas film Get Santa (2014), starring Jim Broadbent, before making the neon-noir film Detour (2016), starring Tye Sheridan and Bel Powley.

Recently, Smith has been splitting his time between TV and film, with projects ranging from the spy thriller series Alex Rider (2020), based on Anthony Horowitz's novels, to HBO's Spy/Master (2022). He returned to film with the horror film Consecration (2022), starring Jena Malone.

Smith has just completed a six-part TV series called Video Nasty, set to be released in 2024, and is about to start production on the comedy-horror film Spider Island.

Tim Sutton is known for Donnybrook (2018), Funny Face (2020) and Dark Night (2016).

Dan is an American screenwriter, director, editor, and producer known for The Signal, The Vault (starring James Franco), The Dark Red, and Tomorrow's Monsters (Starring John Boyega and Darren Criss). Dan has been obsessed with storytelling and filmmaking his entire life. He's worked in various positions on a multitude of film sets for thirty years. He's known as an actor's director and is celebrated for making character-driven films. In 2007 Dan co-wrote and co-directed The Signal. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was released by Magnolia Pictures. It was nominated for several awards, including Best Picture at the Sitges Film Festival and the John Cassavetes Award at the Independent Spirit Awards. In 2012 Dan co-wrote and directed his acclaimed sci-fi thriller, The Reconstruction of William Zero, and his award-winning, mind-bending short, Ghost of Old Highways. Dan's latest film, The Dark Red, premiered at the prestigious Austin Film Festival and was released in theaters on March 6th, 2020. Dan is writing, directing, and producing several intellectual properties, including Tomorrow's Monsters, (a Flynn Picture Company production starring John Boyega (Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker) and Darren Criss (Glee, The Assassination of Gianni Versace: American Crime Story), The Mantawauk Caves (a Blumhouse Television / iHeart Podcasts production starring Jonathan Tucker and Edi Gathegi), and The Passage (starring Dan Fogler and Scott Haze).

William Eubank was born on 15 November 1982. He is a cinematographer and director, known for Land of Bad (2024), The Signal (2014) and Love (2011).

Jamin Winans is known for Myth of Man (2025), Ink (2009) and The Frame (2014).

Dean Kapsalis is known for Jigsaw Venus (2000), The Swerve (2018) and Sara Goes to Lunch (2004).

Trey Edward Shults was born on 6 October 1988 in Montgomery, Texas, USA. He is a director and writer, known for Waves (2019), It Comes at Night (2017) and Krisha (2015).

Ari Aster is an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He is known for writing and directing the A24 horror films Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019). Aster was born into a Jewish family in New York City on July 15, 1986, the son of a poet mother and musician father. He has a younger brother. He recalled going to see his first movie, Dick Tracy, when he was four years old. The film featured a scene where a character fired a Tommy gun in front of a wall of fire. Aster reportedly jumped from his seat and "ran six New York City blocks" while his mother tried to catch him. In his early childhood, Aster's family briefly lived in England, where his father opened a jazz nightclub in Chester. Aster enjoyed living there, but the family returned to the U.S. and settled in New Mexico when he was 10 years old.

Tina Satter was born in Concord, New Hampshire, USA. Tina is a writer and director, known for Reality (2023), Late Night with Seth Meyers Podcast (2016) and Girls on Film (2018).

Edson Oda is known for Malaria (2013).

Colin West was born June 5, 1987 in Columbus, Ohio, USA. He received an MFA from the University of Southern California's School of Cinematic Arts in Film & TV Production and a BFA from Ohio State University. He is a Writer, Director, and Producer living and working in Los Angeles, California.

Franklin Ritch is an independent filmmaker- writing, directing, and editing with a passion for unique ideas and sharp storytelling. Since high school, Franklin has developed a vast filmography of short films, web series, features, and other anomalous explorations into the medium of film. Collaborating with Emmy-winning cinematographer, Britt McTammany, Franklin's early short, "Bedridden" (Fantastic Fest, 2018), kicked off a marathon of short film productions that included "Still Life" (Sleeping Giant Fest 2019), "Powerful" (SERFF 2019), "The 27 Deaths" (Fantastic Fest 2021), and many more. In 2018, Franklin was presented the Rising Star Award by the mayor of his hometown, Jacksonville, Florida. In 2022, Franklin premiered his debut feature film, "The Artifice Girl", starring sci-fi legend Lance Henriksen, at Fantasia International Film Festival in Montreal, where the film won the Golden Audience Award and later took top prize at its European premiere in Trieste, Italy. Franklin has been named one of the "25 New Faces of Independent Film" by Filmmaker Magazine, and his work continues to be recognized in media outlets such as Screen Anarchy, Movie Maker Magazine, and The Film Stage. "The Artifice Girl" will make its public debut in the spring of 2023. Franklin is currently (2022) developing an ambitious follow-up feature film, with several more projects on the horizon.

Rose Glass is an English film director and screenwriter. She made her feature film debut with the 2019 psychological horror film Saint Maud, which was nominated for two awards at the 74th British Academy Film Awards. In 2020, Glass was named Best Debut Director at the British Independent Film Awards. Her second feature film Love Lies Bleeding had its premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in January 2024.

William Oldroyd is known for Lady Macbeth (2016), Eileen (2023) and His & Hers. He has been married to Romana Londi since October 2023.

Sarah Daggar-Nickson is known for A Vigilante (2018), The Light in the Night (2012) and Dead Hands (2010).

Born in Kyiv (Ukraine) in 1974, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi graduated from the filmmaking department of the Kyiv National I. K. Karpenko-Kary Theatre, Cinema and Television University, majoring in feature film directing. He has worked at various Ukrainian film studios in Kyiv (such as the Dovzhenko Film Studio) and Russian film studios in St. Petersburg (such as the Lenfilm Studios). He also worked as a script writer on numerous TV films and published a number of stories, one of which The Chornobyl Robinson won the prize of the All-Ukrainian Script Contest Coronation of the Word (2000). His debut short "The Intsydent" has competed in 25 festivals in 17 countries. His second feature film "Diagnosis" has been nominated for Golden Bear. His latest short film "Deafness" is his second Berlinale outing that got him another Golden Bear nomination. In autumn 2010 Myroslav received a grant to create his first full-length feature film 'The Tribe" from the Hubert Bals Fund of Rotterdam Film Festival. In 2012, Myroslav won the Silver Leopard of the Locarno Film Festival's competition program "Pardi di domani" for his film "Nuclear Waste". "Nuclear Waste" was nominated for an EFA Award in 2013. His latest film, "The Tribe" (2014), won the Nespresso Grand Prize for La Semaine de la Critique in 2014.

László Nemes was born on 18th Feb. 1977 in Budapest, Hungary. He moved to France at 12 with his mother. He grew up in Paris, where he studied History, International Relations and Political Science at the Institut d'Études Politiques, because he couldn't go to film school. After that he started working as an assistant director on short films. With 26 he moved again to Budapest, Hungary and worked on short films there, where he met cinematographer Mátyás Erdély and sound designer Tamás Zányi. Together with them he finished his own 35mm short With a Little Patience (2007) in 2006. He subsequently studied from September 2006 on in a 'Film Directing' post-graduate program at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. He quit after less than a year, because he "did not like it", but met the poet Géza Röhrig during his time in New York. Frustrated with film school, he called director Béla Tarr: "I speak French and English, and I offered my services," said Nemes. He worked for two years as Tarr's assistant director, mostly on The Man from London (2007). In September 2007 his first short was presented at the Venice International Film Festival in competition and in Dec. 2008 it was nominated at the European Film Awards as 'Best Short Film'. Nemes shot his second short The Counterpart (2008) in Romania and after that The Gentleman Takes His Leave (2010) again in Hungary, finishing it in January 2010. The 3 short films have won more than 30 awards at more than 100 international film festivals. Nemes' first feature film project "S.K." was selected for the Résidence program which is overseen by the Cannes Cinéfondation. The resulting feature film Son of Saul (2015), with Géza Röhrig in the lead role, was surprisingly invited into the main competition and won the 'Grand Prix' at the 68th Cannes International Film Festival in 2015. Since then the film has become an international art house sensation and is Hungary's official submission for the 'Best Foreign Language Film' category at the 88th Academy Awards.

Derek Cianfrance began making movies at age 13. He later attended The University of Colorado where he studied under avant-garde film legends Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon. His first three films, 'Five O'clock Shadow', 'Raw Footage', and Brother Tied (1998), won consecutive Goldfarb Awards for best film. Raw Footage went on to be awarded a Special Deans Grant for Achievement in the Arts, as well as The Independent Film Channel's Award for Excellence in Student Filmmaking. He directed, wrote, shot, and edited his first feature, Brother Tied, at the age of 23. The film made its American premiere at The Sundance film festival where it was lauded as "one of the most striking American independent debuts in some time," by The Guardian's Jonathan Romney, and hailed a work of "visual genius," by New York Newsday's John Anderson. The film traveled to over 30 festivals and won international awards at 6, including The Orson Welles First Feature Film Award at Huntington, the Ecumenical Jury Award at Mannheim/Heidelberg, and Jury Prize for Bold, Original Expression at Florida. Cianfrance then ventured into documentary filmmaking where he explored a wide array of subjects and characters for both theatrical exhibition and TV. He has made portraits of musicians, Cassandra Wilson - Traveling Miles: Cassandra Wilson (2000), Mos Def - Work And Progress, Run-D.M.C. and Jam Master Jay: The Last Interview (2002), Annie Lennox - Live In Toronto, gained access to Vietnam veteran biker clubs in Rolling Thunder - Ride For Freedom, exposed the mysterious world of crime photography for Shots in the Dark (2001), and revealed teen racing and Hispanic subculture in Quattro Noza (2003) for which he won best cinematographer at Sundance 2003. Cianfrance is currently in pre-production on his second narrative feature, Blue Valentine.

Yuriy Bykov was born on August 15, 1981 in Novomichurinsk, Soviet Union is a Russian filmmaker, screenwriter and actor. He is best known for directing the social films The Major (2013), The Fool (2014) and the crime TV series The Method (2015).

In 2009, he directed a short film Nachalnik (2009), in which he appeared as a screenwriter, director, composer, producer and actor. The film was awarded the prize for Best Short Film at the Kinotavr Film Festival.

In 2010 Yuri Bykov made his feature film debut with the film To Live! (2010).

In 2013, his film The Major (2013) premiered in the International Critics' Week at the Cannes Film Festival. The crime drama was awarded at several festivals, including prizes for Best Picture, Best Director and For Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 16th Shanghai International Film Festival. In 2016, the American company Netflix received distribution rights and plans to remake the film as a mini-series, titled Seven Seconds (2018), which will include 10 episodes.

In 2014, the social drama film The Fool (2014) was released. The picture received a number of prestigious awards, including the Grigori Gorin prize for the Best Script and the diploma of the Russian Guild of Film Critics ("For the uncompromising artistic expression") at the 2014 Kinotavr Festival. Also the film was highly rated by The New York Times critic Stephen Holden, who named it as one the five best films of 2015.

In 2014 he became the director of the first season of the crime drama TV series The Method (2015), which was released on the screen next year. Konstantin Khabensky, who liked Bykov's work on the film The Major (2013), invited him to work as director on the series. Yuri Bykov notes that he shot the series "according to the principles of the comics" in its light form and followed the instructions of the showrunner Alexander Tsekalo about creating a Sreda ("Russian HBO"). The series received the TEFI award in the category "Television Film / TV series" and several other awards. Bykov refused to participate in the shooting of the second season because he wanted to concentrate on making more auteur films.

He shot two-thirds of the film Spacewalk (2017), dedicated to Alexey Leonov and his spacewalk, but because of creative disagreements he was removed from the project. According to the producer of the film Timur Bekmambetov, the film has some scenes which were filmed by Yuri Bykov. Bykov noted in an interview that is not interested in seeing the movie because the story became drastically simplified and the film's tone became overly patriotic.

Director and screenwriter Andrey Zvyagintsev is the winner of the Venice Film Festival (2003) and the Cannes Film Festival (2011, 2014, 2017). Two-time the Academy Awards and the BAFTA Awards nominee. Winner or the Golden Globe Awards (2015) for his film "Leviathan". In 2018, his latest work "Loveless" was awarded Best Foreign Film by the César Academy, France.

Born on the 6th of February in 1964 in Novosibirsk, Andrey Zvyagintsev attended the Novosibirsk Theatrical School, class of Lev Belov, before pursuing his studies in Moscow. In 1990, he graduated from the acting faculty of the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS), class of Evgeny Lazarev. In the following years Andrey gave several theatre, film and TV appearances as an actor.

In 2000, he debuted as a director. He made three short films for REN TV Channel's "The Black Room" series - "Bushido", "Obscure", "The Choice" - that was followed by his first full-length feature.

In 2003, "The Return", a debut not only for the director but also for the majority of the crew, played the main competition at the 60th Venice Film Festival and won its highest prize, the Golden Lion. Besides, Zvyagintsev was awarded the Lion of the Future for best debut, "a very delicate film about love, loss and growing". It captured the attention all over the world becoming one of the cinema sensations of the year.

His second film, "The Banishment", competed for the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 2007 and won Best Actor (Konstantin Lavronenko) - the first-ever for a Russian artist.

In 2011, Zvyagintsev's third film, "Elena", premiered at the 64th Cannes Film Festival and won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section.

His fourth film, "Leviathan", screened in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014 and won Best Screenplay (Andrey Zvyagintsev and Oleg Negin). In 2015, the film won the Golden Globe becoming the first Russian feature to win this award since 1969. The film got an Oscar nomination in the same category at the 87th Academy Awards.

Zvyagintsev's next film, "Loveless", won the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2017 and was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2018. "Loveless" was released in all major territories earning nominations for all acclaimed cinema awards worldwide including The Golden Globe Awards and BAFTA. It was awarded Best Foreign Film at France's César Awards, for the first time in history of both Soviet and Russian cinema.

In 2018, Andrey Zvyagintsev served on the Cannes Film Festival jury.

Darius Marder is known for Sound of Metal (2019), The Place Beyond the Pines (2012) and Loot (2008). He is married to Liza Cassidy. They have two children.

Joshua Oppenheimer was born on 23 September 1974 in Texas, USA. He is a director and producer, known for The End (2024), The Act of Killing (2012) and The Entire History of the Louisiana Purchase (1998).