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Marijke Rawie (ExpertDocs) is an independent documentary consultant. ExpertDocs specializes in international Documentary Training & Consultancy, and works for various documentary festivals and pitching forums like HotDocs, IDFA, EBU, EDN, Ex Oriente Film, Dragon Forum, CoPro, Sunny Side of the Doc. Marijke Rawie is involved in initiatives like the current European Discussion on the Freedom of Expression and Information in Documentaries and she is one of the founders of aFACE, the Association for Fair Audiovisual Copyright in Europe. She is currently the Consultant for the Ex Oriente Film pitching training and a tutor at Documentary Campus Masterschool. From 1990 till 2006 she was Head of Art & Documentary at AVRO TV, the first public broadcaster in the Netherlands. In 1991 she founded the documentary slot AVRO Close Up which became one of the leading international co-producers and co-financiers of documentaries in Europe. She studied Political Sciences at the University of Amsterdam. After her studies she worked as an economic journalist for various national newspapers in the Netherlands, before she went to become a commissioning editor at the national TV in the Netherlands.

A dedicated documentarist since making my first documentary – now hidden for the public in my cellar - in 1977. In 1979 I graduated with a degree in Film from the University of Copenhagen. Most of the 80’s I worked with distribution and theatrical release of documentaries. Attended script writing at the Danish Film School in 1988. Freelance Producer and Production manager up through the 90’s. Organized the film festival Films from the South from 1995-98. Made a desk cross-over from 1998-2002, where I worked as Production Adviser at the Danish Film Institute. Attended EAVE 1998/99. Since 2000 I have worked as tutor at a large number of workshops and forums around Europe and in the Middle East. From 2002-2008 co-owner and producer at Final Cut Productions in Copenhagen where I produced a number of international documentaries. Board member of EDN from 2005 to 2008, the last year as Chairman. In 2009 Film Strategic Adviser of the Middle East at International Media Support. Also from 2009 I serve as lead production tutor at Ex Oriente Film Workshop. From 2011 Head of Studies at EDN.

Sanna Salmenkallio (b. 1966 in Espoo) is an experienced film composer who has also written concert music and music for the stage. Salmenkallio studied the violin and music in general with private teachers until she entered the Music Education Department at the Sibelius Academy. During her time at the Sibelius Academy, she continued to study the violin alongside music education, and she also spent a few years at the Department of Media Studies (Time Based Art) at the Academy of Fine Arts. Before her first film projects, Salmenkallio wrote music for a number of modern dance works by Finnish performers. Today, Sanna Salmenkallio divides her time between composing, teaching and performing.Her films include The 3 Rooms of Melancholia, Fever, Mechanical Love, The Home Front and also feature film Sisters Apart. Salmenkallio’s best-known work is probably her score for the documentary Melancholian 3 huonetta (The Three Rooms of Melancholia, 2004) directed by Pirjo Honkasalo, for which Salmenkallio received a Jussi Award (the ‘Finnish Oscar’).

Born on 3.4. 1973, Košice, Slovakia 1998 Academy of music and dramatic arts, Faculty of film and Television, Bratislava – film directing2008 Academy of music and dramatic arts, Faculty of film and Television, Bratislava – nonfiction film atelier with MareK Šulík 2004 - 2008 Freelance director 2002 - 2004 Academy of music and dramatic arts, Faculty of film and Television, Bratislava - open atelier for fiction and nonfiction film with prof. Dušan Hanák 1999 - 2002 Academy of music and dramatic arts, Faculty of film and Television, Bratislava Born on 3.4. 1973, Košice, Slovakia His latest feature-lenght documentary Cooking History (2008) was awarded at many international festivals and nominated for the prestigious European Award Arte 2009.

His filmography is extensively covering a full range aspects dealing with European life culture and society. In 1987, A. Szalat founded KS VISIONS, an independent producers society and has produced over a hundred documentaries and TV series for Canal +, Arte, FR3, FR2, TF1, Planete, IBA, RTBF, Dutch Channel 1 amongst others. Since 2005 Alex Szalat was commissioning editor for the Geopolitical Europe and Society department of Arte France, and from 2008, he heads the Current affair, Social issues and geopolitical department. Since September 2011, he is Deputy Director of the Society and Culture department of Arte France.

Born in East-Berlin in 1966. A tool maker, graphic designer and model, in 1990 he took up studies in set design at Weißensee Art College and at the "Konrad Wolf" College of Film and Television in Potsdam-Babelsberg. A DAAD fellow in the USA and in Thailand, he also trained at the Actors Studio in New York. Graduating in directing from the "Konrad Wolf" College in 2001, he subsequently lectured in Russia, Thailand and Vietnam.

Born in 1970, Vít Janeček is a documentary filmmaker, scriptwriter, critic and lecturer. He has graduated from Charles University in Prague (film studies) and FAMU (documentary film). His creative interest consist in considering transversal aspects of reality - science, politics, society and thought, he contributes to various papers. For several years curated film programmes in Roxy and Archa Theatre in Prague and historical retrospectives on Karlovy Vary Film Festival. In 2003, co-founded the Centre for Audiovisual Studies, FAMU, since 2012 leads FAMU International programs. Since 2006 leads also FAMU's training programs in Burma. Selection of films he directed or co-directed: Rodina v poušti / Family in the Desert (1994), V centru filmu, v teple domova / In the Center of Cinema, safe at home (co-director P. Marek, 1997), Houba / Fungus (2000), Bitva o život /Battle for life (2000, co-directed by M. Janek and R. Vávra), Máme NATO? / NATO Inside Our Hearts (2002), Pravidla hry - vymezení prostoru / Rules of the Game - Defining the Space (2004), Dějiny Jaroslava Šabaty / History of Jaroslav Šabata (2008), Dobrodružství Anny Barbory - Mezihra / The Adventure of Anna Barbora - An Interplay, (2008), Ivetka a hora (Ivetka and the Mountain, 2008, Award for Best Czech Documentary Film, Jihlava IDFF), memOry (2010), Skvělá příležitost / Wonderfull Opportunity (2010), Závod ke dnu / Race to the Bottom (2011).

Filip Remunda (*1973) is a Czech director and producer. In 2005 he graduated from FAMU's Department of Documentary Film in the masterclass of Karel Vachek. During his studies he attended the Sam Spiegel Film and Television School in Jerusalem. He lectured at the Flaherty Documentary Seminar in the USA. Co-founder of the Institute of Documentary Film. He runs the independent production company Hypermarket Film. Selected Filmography: Village B. (2002, 35mm, 30’, FAMU, Czech TV, YLE, ARTE, awarded at the 2002 Karlovy Vary IFF, 2003 FamuFest, 2003 Art Film Festival); Czech Dream (dir. with Vít Klusák, 2004, 35mm, 87’, Hypermarket Film, Czech TV, Mirage, FAMU); The Tadpole, the Rabbit and the Holy Ghost (26 min, Digi Beta, Czech Television, Jihlava IDFF 2007 Audience Award, Pavel Koutecky Award 2007); Czech Peace (dir. with Vít Klusák, 2010, 35mm, 103’, Hypermarket Film, Czech TV, Taskovski Films).

Stephan Krumbiegel was born October 5, 1964 in Stuttgart. After finishing his studies in media technique engineering, he starts his professional career as a co-director and editor on a long feature documentary upon developing aid projects in West Africa. Then he works as a freelance production manager for several years and becomes a set coordinator on several fiction features. In addition to that he edits many student films in cooperation with film students around the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg and the Berlin film schools. Since 1996 he works as a freelance editor of feature and documentary films. Stephan Krumbiegel teaches editing at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg since 2001 and become professor of film editing at the Babelsberg Film School „Konrad Wolf“ in Potsdam in 2007.