Mick Hannigan has been Director of Cork Film Festival since 1986; with a 2 year break in 1991 when he became the first Cinemas Director of the Irish Film Institute. Cork Film Festival is the oldest and largest film festival in Ireland, with a deep and eclectic programme that specialises in short films and promoting new Irish talent. Mick has been a member of the Irish Film Board, and a member of the Irish Governmes cinema policy think-tank group, brought together to inform film policy in Ireland. He has participated on many international film juries, festivals and frequently curates programmes of Irish work abroad. In 1996, Mick founded the first independent arthouse cinema in Ireland (it remains so); the Kino Arthouse cinema.

Après des études d'histoire de l'art, de langues et de littérature allemande ainsi que plusieurs contrats à la radio et à la télévision, elle travaille actuellement au Goethe-Institut de Paris en tant que responsable de la programmation cinéma et médias.

Teona Mitevska was born in 1974 in an artistic family in Skopje, Macedonia. She started her engagement with the camera as a child actor. Later she trained as a painter, continuing and finishing her BA in graphic design. After a successful designer career she decided to turn to filmmaking. In 1998, she embarked on an M.F.A programme in film at the Tisch School of Arts, New York University.Her favorite from this period is the documentary AMER IN AMERIKA.She made her debut as short film director in 2001 with VETA (14"), which received numerous awards at the Berlin Film Festival and the Kiev Film Festival and which has since been shown at more than thirty festivals around the world. HOW I KILLED A SAINT is her first feature film, which was made under the auspices of the company she established together with her brother and sister. The film premiered at the 2004 Rotterdam Film festival and has won numerous prices around the world since then. I AM FROM TITOV VELES, was awarded the Jury Prize at 2007 Sarajevo film festival and has screened at the 2007 Toronto Film festival and the 2008 edition of the Berlin Film Festival.

János Sugár studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest from 1979 to 1984. Parallel with his studies, from 1980 and 1986, he was actively involved in the exhibitions and actions of Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group. His work includes installations and performances and as well as film and video. Sugár has participated in national and international exhibitions since the mid 1980-ies, in 1992 he exhibited at the documenta IX, Kassel 1992 and in Manifesta I, Rotterdam 1996. He completed an Artslink residency at the Cleveland Institute of Art in 1994, and fellowships at Experimental Intermedia, New York 1988 and 1999. His films were screened at the Anthology Film Archive in New York in 1998. He is professor of the Intermedia Institut of the University of Fine Arts in Budapest.

Né en 1972 en Estonie il vit actuellement à Paris et est l'auteur de plusieurs recueils de poèmes tels que Œuvre inadmissible, préface de Jude Stéfan, 2004 ; Another Secret, 2005 ; Liberté gagnante ? (graffiti de squat), 2006 ; Le familier des labyrinthes, 2007 (le prochain, Pages vénitiennes va paraître en 2008). Il est aussi traducteur du grand poète estonien Karl Ristikivi (1912-1977) et de son livre Chemin terrestre, éditions de La Guillotine, 2002. Des dessins du cycle « Les Passants » ont fait parti de l'exposition "Regards d'artistes, les Retrouvailles", en 2006, au salon du Vieux Colombier, à Paris. Dans son parcours, il signe nombreux courts métrages comme Square Récamier (impressions), (30', 2007); Cathédrale désaffectée et une inconnue, (8'05, 2007) et Do You Play ? (quatre variations – un hommage à E. J. Muybridge), (18', 2006), qui a été sélectionné au 2éme Festival Pocket Films du Forum des Halles.