Mikołaj Jazdon is Professor of the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. He made several independent award winning short documentaries (including videos about Krzysztof Kieślowski and Czesław Miłosz) in the 1990s. He is the author of books on Polish documentary film (in Polish): Kieślowski's Documentary Films, Polish Independent Cinema [the editor of the volume collection] and The Documentary Cinema of Kazimierz Karabasz) and articles published in Polish, English, German, Spanish, Danish, Czech, Slovak, f.e. he is the author of the ‘documentary’ chapter from The Struggle for Form. Perspectives on Polish Avant-Garde Film 1916-1989, ed. by K. Kuc and M. O’Pray (Wallflower Press, London and New York 2014). Jazdon co-edited monographic issues of IMAGES (International Journal of European Film, Performing Arts and Audiovisual Communication): 21st Century Documentary Film in East and Central Europe and  Kieślowski Revisited (and Re-watched). He wrote the book interview with screenwriter, Krzysztof Piesiewicz: Kieślowski. From No End to the End (published in Polish in 2021); He co-author of articles for A Map of the Decalogue (“an online guide to the Warsaw locations featured in Krzysztof Kieślowski’s classic television series” – mapadekalogu.pl). Jazdon was an expert of the Polish Film Institute in 2014-2017 for the documentary film projects. He is an author of booklets for DVD collections of classics from Polish School of the Documentary Film, and co-author of scripts for 12 episodes of the TV series The Art of the Documentary film (2008), for which he made interviews. He was the curator of the Short Cinema Club (1997-2016), the program of weekly theatrical screenings and meetings with authors. Jazdon is the artistic director of the International Documentary Film Festival OFF CINEMA, organized in Poznan for 25 years now.

Marek Kaźmierczak is Professor in cultural studies and literature in the Institute of Film, Media and Audiovisual Arts which is a part of the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. 2013 – post-doctoral qualification (habilitation) in Cultural Studies, Faculty of Polish Studies at University of Warsaw. Title of the book underlying the qualification exam: Auschwitz w Internecie. Przedstawienia Holokaustu w kulturze popularnej (English: Auschwitz on the Internet: The Presentations of the Holocaust in Popular Culture), Wydawnictwo Naukowe UAM, Poznań 2012. From 2014 – associate professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, from 2019 – university professor at Adam Mickiewicz University of in Poznań. Career path: from 2013 to 2019 – a Deputy Director for student and teaching affairs at the AMU Institute of European Culture in Gniezno (he was elected twice by the Institute community to perform this function; earlier, from 7.09.2009 until 31.08.2013 he was the Institute Director’s representative for student and teaching affairs, as well as the coordinator of the Erasmus Program). October 10, 2015 – completion of post-graduate studies “MBA: University Management”. From 2020 – Board Member of the Poznań branch of the Polish Society for Film and Media Studies. From 2020 till 2024 - after the election became the member of the School of Language and Literature Studies. From 2021 till 2024 - the director of the McLuhan Centre For Communication (which is a part of Adam Mickiewicz University).

Damian Parobczy - Warsaw based film editor working across drama, documentary and everything in between. Since graduating from the Polish National Film and Television School - The Film School in Lodz in 2018, I have acquired experience in documentary and fiction films, also done a great deal of reality TV across the years. Recently I'm amused by the short form possibilities, editing trailers & promos that have the 'right impact'. My emphasis as a film editor is to collaborate with producers and directors to tell stories in the most efficient way, with a 'human touch'. Most recently, Damian participated in the editing of the film 'Next to Nothing' (in Polish: "Tyle co nic"), a film that is reaping awards (world premiere 2023, Polish premiere 2024). 

Laura Morowitz is Professor of Art History at Wagner College, New York. She is the author of numerous academic books and articles appearing in The Art Bulletin, The Oxford Art Journal, Cultural Critique and the Journal of Popular Film and Television, among others. She is currently at work on two books examining Viennese art at the turn of the century and in the Nazi period,  for which she was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend. Laura is co-author, with Lori Lico Albanese, of a novel, The Miracles of Prato (William Morrow, 2009) and writes poetry. Her writings have been translated into Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, French, German and Turkish. In July-August 2021 she appeared as an on-air contributor to CNN’s ten-part History of the Sitcom. Laura is also Faculty Board Member of the Wagner College Holocaust Center, where she is co-organizing, with Dr. Lori Weintrob, the symposium “Heroines of the Holocaust” (June 2022), featuring the participation of scholars, artists and filmmakers from 10 different countries. The symposium has been granted by the USC Shoah Foundation, the Fondation pour le Mémoire de la Shoah (Paris), and the Consulate of the Federal Republic of Germany in New York.

Piotr Jaxa, SCS, is a cinematographer and photographer who was born in Poland and who has been living in Switzerland since 1982. He graduated from the Polish National Film School in Lodz and has worked as Director of Photography on a range of fictional and documentary films worldwide (his work has been shown at festivals such as Cannes, Mannheim, Krakow, Los Angeles and Berlin). For the last few years, Piotr Jaxa has been extensively exploring the creative possibilities of digital cinematography in independent European productions for the cinema ("Going Private" by Stina Werenfels, "Hello Goodbye" by Stefan Jaeger, "Rocksteady: The Roots of Reggae" by Stascha Bader, "The War Is Over" by Mitko Panov), combining his profound experience of the 35 mm film camera with a passion for the new aesthetic possibilities offered by digital technology. Acknowledging his contributions to this field, he was awarded the Lohn-Ammannsegg Prize in 2009 for exquisite camera work and was invited to join the Swiss Film Academy. Simultaneously he has been active as a freelance photographer, specializing in film-stills and editorial photography that have been published in various media in Europe, USA and Japan.Following his photographic collaboration with Krzysztof Kieslowski on the set of the film trilogy "Blue", "White" and "Red", he prepared an exhibition entitled "Remembering Krzysztof" which has been touring the world since 1994.