Born in 1953, Copel Moscu graduated from the National Institute of Drama and Film Bucharest in 1978, after which he worked at the Sahia Documentary Film Studio. One of the key authors of the Romanian Documentary New Wave from the ’80 (together with Ovidiu Bose Pastina, Tereza Barta, Laurentiu Damian, Sabina Pop) he was a pioneer in challenging the borders of cinema language in controversial subversive films which concealed, under daring conceptual and formal experimenting, a fierce criticism of the communist regime, films banned by the establishment’s censorship. Copel Moscu created over 50 short and feature films, as director and scriptwriter, for which he was awarded over 25 international and national prizes (The Evening School, On the Ozana Shore, My Beloved School, The Bronze Age, A Day Will Come, and I Chose Freedom). Presently he teaches film directing at the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest (UNATC) and video-art at Bucharest Art University (UNARTE) and is referred to as an artistic consultant for television and cinema. In 2010, consistent with his free innovative vision and educational commitment, he took the challenge to offer Romanian audiences, particularly to cinema and visual students, the first international experimental film festival in Romania.

Born in The Netherlands, based in Rotterdam, Rik Vermeulen studied Economic Engineering in Dordrecht; Art and Culture Science at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and received his Master's from Film & Television Studies at the University of Amsterdam. He produced a number of short films before joining the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 1998 and worked until 2010 for the festival's CineMart, Film Office and Programme Department. As a freelancer, Rik is Executive Director of the Transilvania International Film Festival, the most important international feature film festival in Romania, and main programmer of the Noordelijk Film Festival (Leeuwarden), the largest film festival in the northern regions of The Netherlands. He is a member of the advise commission of the Dutch Film Fund for feature length fiction, artistic and crossover, development, production and international co-productions, and made recently his first moves into script doctoring. He was involved also in the Cent East Market Warsaw, a project of the Warsaw Film Festival and a platform where Eastern European films (in post-production) are presented to buyers and distributors, and the Sarajevo Cine Link Co-production market. He was involved with the set up and execution of the first 5 CineLink editions.  From October 2009 he studies a new field, Energetic Integration (Body Psychotherapy).

Adina Pintilie is a Romanian filmmaker, recent graduate of the National University of Drama and Film Bucharest, Directing Department. At the border between fiction, documentary and visual art, her films are very particular in the new Romanian cinema landscape, distinguishing itself through a highly personal visual style, daring experimenting in cinema language and uncompromising exploration of human psychology. In 2007, her medium length Don’t Get Me Wrong -produced by AWA, with support of ARTE France and TVR, was world premiered in Locarno - Filmmakers of the Present Competition, included in IDFA 2007-Best of Fests selection, awarded Golden Dove Best Documentary Award at DOK LEIPZIG 2007 and selected/awarded in 50 international film festivals like: Thessaloniki, Montpellier, Trieste, Namur, Munchen, Moscow, Sarajevo, Indielisboa, Warszaw, Krakow etc. Her last medium length, Oxygen, was screened in Tiger Awards Short Film Competition of Rotterdam Film Festival 2010, Buenos Aires BAFICI, Montpellier, Thessaloniki, Warszaw, Bilbao and is presently traveling around the world in film festivals and museums. Her last short, SANDPIT#186, co-directed together with George Chiper, was selected in Locarno 2008, Author’s Shorts section and won the Runner Up Award in Miami IFF and Special Mention in Trieste IFF.