Leonard Cortana (Guadeloupe/France) is a Ph.D Candidate at the Cinema Studies Department at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and a fellow at the Berkman Klein Center, Harvard Law School. His research interests include the circulation of transnational narratives about racial justice, collaborative activist movements and the legacy of assassinated activists between Brazil, France, South Africa and the US. He researches primarily the legacy of Marielle Franco and anti-apartheid activist Dulcie September.

Prior to his doctoral studies, he conducted several artistic and educational projects with non-profits and UN agencies that engage with youths in multiple countries including Chile, Brazil, France, and Bulgaria. He became a Trainer for the European Commission’s Youth Program projects and the Children International Summer Village Organization (CISV) and designed methodologies in theater and storytelling for social inclusion

Éthel Oliveira (Brazil) is a documentarist, cineclubista and editor. Through her experiences as a black woman, lesbian and the Baixada Fluminense, she seeks in her work to enclose the universes of issues of genres, popular culture and the black diaspora. She collaborates with the film Sementes.

Pilar Rodríguez Mondragón is a self-taught photographer born in Madrid (Spain) Passionate about photography & film, feminist as a way of life. "As a photographer my most challenging job is to become invisible - to get out of the way -capture a moment and let the image speak for itself. The greatest expression of art requires no explanation". She is currently working with the feminist movement and minorities.

Deborah Shaw is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at the University of Portsmouth. Her research interests include transnational film, Latin American cinema, and film and migration, and she has published widely in these areas. She is the founding co-editor of the Routledge journal Transnational Screens, and her books include Contemporary Latin American Cinema: Ten Key Films (2003), The Three Amigos: The Transnational Filmmaking of Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, and Alfonso Cuarón, Manchester University Press (2013), The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo del Toro. Palgrave Macmillan, co-edited with Ann Davies and Dolores Tierney (2014), and Latin American Women Filmmakers: Production, Politics, Poetics, co-edited with Deborah Martin for the World Cinema Series with I.B.Tauris (2017). Her latest book is Sense8: Transcending Television, co-edited with Rob Stone with Bloomsbury Publishers (2021).