Tiha K. Gudac is an award-winning filmmaker based in Croatia, where she works as a director, writer and producer. She has independently produced and worked on feature films, documentaries, animation, commercial and TV formats. As a director and scriptwriter, she works mainly on documentary projects. Her early work background was marked by years of working with the NGO sector - developing international dialogue and conflict resolution projects, working in public relations, film festivals and theatre projects. She teaches documentary film production and commercial television production and is a member of the Croatian FIlm Directors Guild, the Croatian Filmmakers Association and the Croatian Association of Independent Artists. She made her debut as a director with her film “Naked Island” (2014), which won numerous awards at international festivals and was distributed internationally in cinema, television and educational distribution. In recent years, she has directed, written and co-produced three television documentary series for the Croatian national broadcaster HRT. Close

Anna Savchenko is a Belarusian filmmaker currently based in Brussels. She has worked on various production, film, art and media projects around the world and has made several short films exploring the poetic dialogue between documentary and experimental genres. Her graduation film "I am not here" was awarded as DocNomads masters label film and was in official competition at the États généraux du film documentaire in Lussas, France. She was co-director and editor of the international award-winning film "God's Mistake", she did camera and sound work on the documentary "Kalès" (IDFA 2017 and Grand Prix winner at the Filmer à Tout Prix 2017) and was the editor of "We will remember them", the closing film of the Visions du Réel Festival, Nyon, Switzerland, 2019. Close

Annabel Verbeke is a documentary filmmaker from Belgium. In her work, she is always searching for beauty in the most modest and ordinary things around us. She likes to discover and unravel these fascinating stories, bringing both their poetry and their absurdity to the surface. Her graduation film "Les enfants de la mer/mère" - "Children of the Sea" - won 8 international awards and was selected for more than 20 international film festivals. Her next film "We Will Remember Them" was the closing film of Visions Du Réel 2018 and the most watched documentary on Flanders national TV that year. Annabel is currently developing a documentary series in collaboration with the two Belgian broadcasters VRT-Canvas and RTBF, with the support of the Flemish Audiovisual Fund, called "T(w)o Work", about newcomers to Belgium and their long struggle to find a proper job in the country they now want to call home. She will be the lead director, managing and tutoring a group of non-European directors, all graduates of DocNomads, a joint Master's programme in documentary filmmaking organised by three European universities. Close

Georg holds a degree in Film and Cultural Studies from the University of Stockholm and Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. He also did postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Georg currently works as a producer and director at Filmfront Media AB, a company he co-founded. He has been making documentaries & TV since 2001, and has worked on a number of international documentary projects, including “The Last Lacandones”, a film about Mayan Indians shot in Mexico, “Transit Tangier”, about the dream of many Moroccans to start a new life in Europe, and “Citizen Oketch”, a film about a family living in the Kibera slum near Nairobi. During this period, Georg also produced several TV series and reports in many different countries for Swedish television, as well as several educational films on various topics for universities, organisations and companies. In the last five years, Georg has been working on his first feature-length creative documentary, “UR. BELLUM - THE DAEMON OF WAR” (2021), about artificial intelligence, robotics and ethics. The film was supported by the Swedish and Danish Film Institutes and Scandinavian TV channels and had its world premiere at Visions du Réel 2021. Close

Vytautas Puidokas is a freelance documentary filmmaker based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Has a degree in Media and Film studies at the University of Surrey (UK). He started his career at Lithuanian National Television, where he worked as a scriptwriter and director. His debut feature-length documentary "El Padre Medico" was nominated for Best Documentary in Lithuania and screened at festivals in Europe and the USA. In addition to documentaries, Vytautas also creates music videos and video installations. His work covers themes related to migration, history and identity. Close

Isabella Rinaldi is an independent filmmaker from Rome, Italy and co-founder of NoCut Film Collective. She has directed and produced several short films screened at international festivals, and a video installation for the MAO Museum in Ljubljana. In 2016, together with fellow DocNomads students Arya Rothe and Cristina Hanes, she founded the NoCut Film Collective. The film “A Rifle and a Bag”, which had its world premiere at the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020, is the collective’s first feature-length documentary. Close

Frederik Nicolai was born in 1977, in a small town in the east of Belgium. After working on cultural and film projects in his hometown, he decided to move to Brussels in search of some fresh air and new experiences. Apparently, a lot of people think he’s the owner of several pubs in town, but that’s another guy with exactly the same name. Frederik started his career executive producing short fiction films for Michael R. Roskam (“Haun” and “Carlo”), and later spent several years producing feature films and fiction series in the Netherlands (VPRO “LolaMoviola”, “Little Girl Blue”, NPS “Motel Films”). Shortly after, he completely dedicated himself to author documentaries. Since then, Frederik has produced and co-produced more than 40 successful documentary films and series and has established a wide international network of broadcasters, sales agents, distributors, festivals, etc. Films in his editorial line should spring from the passion and creativity of the documentary author, providing a contemporary and wayward look on the world from inside out. His documentaries should tell stories that fight taboos and stigmas, create new insights, opinions, critical point-of-views, provide a broader and more critical world view, necessary in our often one-dimensionally evolving society. Creating and producing documentaries is more than just a profession for Frederik - it is a passion, a mission based on the constant urge to unravel latent dynamics and unknown aspects of our society. In addition to producing, he is also a scriptwriter, a director coach for young filmmakers, a lecturer and a board member at Doc Nomads (www.docnomads.eu). Close

Eric Goossens studied Communication Studies at the Catholic University of Leuven. After a career as a producer at Little Big One and Trix, in 1995, together with French partner Michel Guimbard, he founded Off World, a company specialising in high-end commercials for the international market. Since 2003, Off World has been producing documentaries and is today one of the most active documentary producers in Belgium. In 1999, together with Anton Roebben, he founded the animation production company Walking The Dog. Eric is also a founding member and vice-president of anim.be, the association of Belgian animation producers, and a lecturer at the KHLim Faculty of Media Arts Design. Close

Lukas Trimonis is an award-winning producer and managing director of Inscript, a film and television production company in Lithuania. He made his debut as a main producer with the feature film "MIRACLE" (dir. Egle Vertelyte), a co-production with Bulgaria and Poland, which premiered at TIFF 2017 and screened at more than 55 international festivals and sold to more than 22 countries, including China, France and the USA. His most recent work as a minority co-producer on the feature film "OLEG" (dir. Juris Kursietis), a co-production with Latvia, Belgium and France, which premiered as part of the 51st "Directors' Fortnight" at Cannes in 2019. In 2018, he was selected by European Film Promotion as one of the producers on the move, and in 2019 he was accepted as one of the ACE producers. Close

Ljubo Zdjelarević is a director, author and producer from Croatia. He studied film and theater production at the Academy of Dramatic Asrts in Zagreb, and holds a Master’s degree in History and Geography at the University of Zagreb on his thesis “Film in Nazi Propaganda from 1933 to 1939”. He is also a Sarajevo Talent Campus 2007 alumni as well as an EAVE (European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs) 2012 graduate. He continued his training at different schools and workshops, such as Insight-Out Potsdam, Motovun Film School, EAVE Marketing Workshop, FEST Portugal, Cartoon Finance, etc. Ljubo is owner and producer of the production company Kinoteka, focusing on the production of creative content: fiction, documentary and animation. He is also a member of the Croatian Film Workers Association, the Croatian Producers Association and the European Film Academy. Currently, he is also the financial advisor of the Artistic Council in Croatian audiovisual center - HAVC. Close