Martin Černý co-leads the NaFilM: National Film Museum. He is the museum’s manager, curator and coordinator of international projects implementing new technologies (augmented reality, gaming principles) in the museum’s exhibitions. He also coordinates the activities of the museum’s platform for innovation and education called museUM JINAK. He has been active in the film industry since 2014. He was a coordinator of short and documentary films in the Czech Film Center and a PR manager of the VOD platform DAFilms. Martin Černý studied film theory at Charles University in Prague.

Martin Černý co-leads the NaFilM: National Film Museum. He is the museum’s manager, curator and coordinator of international projects implementing new technologies (augmented reality, gaming principles) in the museum’s exhibitions. He also coordinates the activities of the museum’s platform for innovation and education called museUM JINAK. He has been active in the film industry since 2014. He was a coordinator of short and documentary films in the Czech Film Center and a PR manager of the VOD platform DAFilms. Martin Černý studied film theory at Charles University in Prague.

Melissa Freti holds a degree in Communication and Art Education and is constantly exploring new ways of observing and interpreting the world. She collaborates with the Italian organization AVISCO to design audiovisual workshops for children and young people, and works with Stripes Digitus Lab on training and educational projects involving robotics and learning technologies. Based between Milan and Brescia, she draws inspiration from her passion for illustrated books.

Pia Bechtle is a Developer for Education at the Eye Filmmuseum in Amsterdam, creating programs for schools, festivals, and museums worldwide. She holds an MA from the University of Amsterdam, complementing her BAs from Humboldt University of Berlin. Previously, she collaborated with the MACHmit! Museum for children, KUKI Festival, and the Jimmy Nelson Foundation. Pia leads film education initiatives, including the 'Lights, Camera, … Emotion!' workshop, designed to enhance social-emotional and communication skills for students with hearing and language development challenges through engaging with film.

Giulia Gandini graduated in Communication and Art Education from the SantaGiulia Academy of Fine Arts in Brescia. She collaborates with the AVISCO Association on the design and implementation of audiovisual workshops for children and young people. She is also involved in educational projects in unconventional settings, where she draws inspiration from the stories of places and their communities. She is fascinated by storytelling as a way of understanding the world and by the search for those first sparks from which compelling narratives begin to grow.

Lydia Greer is a widely exhibiting interdisciplinary visual artist, filmmaker, animator, and the artistic director of Facing West Shadows, a Lumia arts collective working with shadow casting/ hybridizing art forms to create magical acts of rebellion as experimental art in the gold rush climate of the San Francisco Bay Area. Expanding into film/animation, theater/opera, puppetry, and sculptural installation, Facing West Shadows creates surprising experiences for the audience by seamlessly combining old and new technologies and art forms. 

Táňa Zacharovská studied sculpture and industrial design at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava. She has worked in the game industry for over two decades—starting as a 2D/3D and character artist, later as an art director and game designer. Her credits include work with Cauldron, Tentacle Studios, Games Farm, and Pixelfederation. Today, she focuses on developing educational games at Impact Games and teaches game design and mechanics at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava. Impact Games brings education into games and games into schools. It runs the Gamifactory platform, which offers teachers a curated selection of games, teaching methodologies, and practical support for integrating educational games into their classrooms. Among its recent titles are Kto je Helena? and Chicken Intelligence Agency.

Stefanie Plappert is a Theatre, Film and Media scholar (Frankfurt University), and a curator at DFF - Deutsches Filminstitut & Filmmuseum. Since 2012, she has been responsible for several exhibitions, including „Film NOIR!“ (2012), „Conscious Hallucinations. Filmic Surrealism“ (2014), „RED in Film“ (2017) and “Catastrophe” (2021). Additionally, she has been involved in collaborations with art and media collecting institutions. Her exhibitions feature film installations and explore the possibilities of engaging new technologies in exhibitions, which leads into her current transformation project with the DFF’s permanent exhibition focusing on audience engagement topics including accessibility, diversity and sustainability.

Natálie Hadwigerová Natálie Hadwigerová works as a project coordinator in the One World in Schools educational programme within the People in Need organisation, where she has been working for five years on the creation of educational materials and educational events used in hundreds of Czech schools. She has been working in the field of education for more than eight years, with a long-term focus on modern Czechoslovak history. She holds a Master's degree in Humanities from the Anglo-American University in Prague. Among her most notable projects is the collaboration on the development of Velvet 89, an educational computer game that introduces students to the Velvet Revolution and has been run more than 45,000 times on various platforms.

Nicky Maas graduated as a filmmaker from the Utrecht School of the Arts in 2011. Since then, she has developed and directed several documentaries for Dutch public broadcasting and presented them at numerous international festivals. Additionally, she has nearly 10 years of experience teaching film education at all levels. For the past few years, Nicky has been engaged with the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam, where she curates an auditorium program exploring the boundary between fact and fiction.

Johana has been working for Fakescape since 2019 where she runs workshops on media literacy, cyber security and critical thinking for students of primary and secondary schools, seniors and the general public. She is also the production manager of this organization. Johana studied politology and law at Masaryk University. She has long been involved in media and information education and is co-author of the educational book, The Mystery of Lost Media, for children aged 6 and up.

Lucie Hlavicová graduated in Classic Animation at UTB Zlín and in Audiovisual Media and Theatre at the Faculty of Arts, JAMU, where she currently teaches Audiovisual Education and works on her dissertation thesis. Between 2012 and 2015, she taught Multimedia Production at SŠUP in Ústí nad Orlicí, and she has also been a lecturer of leisure activities and workshops focused on film, multimedia and animation production. She collaborates with the Scala Studio and Palacký University Olomouc, and she teaches at UTB Zlín and Prague’s FAMU. She is the programmer of the Small Visions festival for young filmmakers and an author of the methodology of film and audiovisual education. She coordinates the works on the film publication for pupils, parents and teachers called Filmouka, to which she also contributes as an author. She has been on the committee of the Association for Film and Audiovisual Education since 2021 and has been its chairperson since 2023.

Jakub Jiřiště co-founded NaFilM film museum in 2014 and has been working in this institution for more than 10 years as a curator and historian, developing the educational concept and participating in international research and creative projects. As such, he has experience in developing narrative content for VR technology, digital and outdoor game formats. He is also concerned with innovations and trends in experiential museum education within the MuseUM JINAK platform, which NaFilM initiated in 2022. In addition to his work at NaFilM, he is an editor of archive programmes at Czech Television, a lecturer at the Cabinet of Audiovisual Theory and History at FAMU and collaborates with the programme dramaturgy of the Karlovy Vary IFF.

Simone Moraldi is a Project Manager at Fondazione Cineteca Italiana. He has extensive experience in film education, having collaborated with various national and international institutions, including Università Roma Tre, British Film Institute and Cinémathèque Française. Moraldi has played a significant role in developing film education projects such as "The Film Corner" and participates actively in seminars and conferences focusing on the future of film education across Europe​. 

Jan Kroutil is an art teacher and lecturer at Aeroškola, where he works with children, adults, seniors and schools in the field of film and audiovisual education. He founded the courses Making Video Games and Animated Music Video. He works as a lecturer at the summer animation camp Aertěk.

Jan Kolegar studied animation at Prague’s FAMU. He is a freelance graphic designer, animator and editor and an integral part of Aeroschool, a film and audiovisual educational project, where he runs courses on film and computer game animation.

Jan Foukal vystudoval dokumentární tvorbu na FAMU. V roce 2015 režíroval svůj celovečerní debut road dokument Amerika (soutěž dokumentárních filmů na MFF Karlovy Vary v roce 2015). Jeho hraný celovečerní debut Marťanské lodě byl uveden ve světové premiéře v sekci Od východu na Západ v rámci 56. KVIFF v 2021. V roce 2022 měl premiéru jeho celovečerní dokument Sami doma v soutěžní sekci Česká radost na 26. Mezinárodním festivalu dokumentárních filmů Ji.hlava.

Dominika studied oral history and contemporary history at Charles University. She is the head of the department of education in Memory of Nations, where she and her colleagues develop educational projects based on authentic eyewitness stories. These projects are designed to enhance young people’s critical thinking and civic engagement through immersive, media-based learning. Her work focuses on connecting modern history with current social issues.

Jitka graduated from a secondary pedagogical school and the Department of Drama in Education at DAMU. She has been working with drama in education and experiential pedagogy for many years as a nursery school teacher in Prague, lecturer and organizer of immersive workshops and cipher games for Post Bellum, and as a trainer of teachers and students from secondary schools and universities. She is also the author of the book for school teachers, The Journey into the Fairytale, and the founder and member of the Na háčku puppet theatre, where she also applies these principles.

Based in Leipzig, Britta Senn is a media educator and consultant specializing in media and information literacy, transmedia storytelling, and interactive learning formats. Drawing on her background in media management and documentary film production, she designs and delivers workshops for schools, universities, NGOs, and companies. Her work addresses topics such as social media, digital safety, disinformation, and emerging technologies like AR/VR. Combining creative tools—including games, escape rooms, and immersive media—with participatory methods, she helps learners build critical thinking and digital confidence.

Leonieke Verhoog has long explored the intersections of technology, creativity, and play—always looking for new ways to spark curiosity in young audiences. Since 2022, she has led the MediaLab at the Cinekid Festival, curating a vibrant space full of games, digital installations, and hands-on creative tech workshops for kids aged 3 to 14. Previously, she worked at the Dutch public broadcaster VPRO, where she developed groundbreaking multimedia projects, from interactive magazines to mixed-reality storytelling. Her work blends design thinking with a playful, critical lens—opening up fresh perspectives and fostering digital literacy in children.

Vít is a project manager in Animania where he takes care of the year-round film and educational activities. He is the creator of the methodological project Animetod and an animation lecturer in Aminania as well as in other organizations.

Martina is the founder of Animania, lecturer, art teacher with many years of experience from primary schools and a co-creator of the online methodology Animetod, the FAV Filmouka textbook and other projects. With the Animania team, she works on an extensive online project Animetod, which serves as a methodology for film education for teachers, parents or young students.

Jiří Forejt is a pedagogue and dramaturg working in the field of film and media education. At FAMU and the National Institute for Culture, he develops educational programmes and teaching methodologies for schools and cultural institutions. He is a long-time collaborator with Free Cinema and the European project CinEd, a co-founder of the Czech Association for Film and Audiovisual Education, and one of the creators of the platform Filmvychova.cz. He also serves as programme director of the České vize film festival and is the author of the academic monograph Film and Audiovisual Education: An Introduction, presented at this year’s Summer Film School. He has co-authored publications such as Little Photographers and Filmouka, which introduce audiovisual storytelling to children and educators.

Sebastian Scholz is a musician, sound artist, and game creator based in Vienna, working at the intersection of music, art of sound, technology, and gaming principles. With a background in computer music and experimental game cultures, he explores the relationship between listening and playing, creating experiences that connect sound, visuals, and movement. His aim is to make music not only audible but also visible and tangible. He focuses on developing music video games and promoting the video game as a platform for musical expression. In addition to his artistic work, he leads workshops on sound and animation for children and young audiences.

Ben Wahl is a multimedia artist and 3D specialist at Causa Creations, an Austrian game studio focused on impactful stories and social engagement. The studio brings together a diverse team with a broad range of cultural backgrounds, experiences, and gender identities—a spirit reflected in the themes they explore. As art director and project lead, Ben has worked on Holy Fire, Songs of Travel, and Those from Below—games that combine stylized visual storytelling with themes such as working-class memory, migration, and climate crisis. Their work gives voice to stories and perspectives that are too often overlooked.

Jana Koutná is a project coordinator for media education at One World in Schools, an educational program by People in Need. She focuses on strengthening media literacy in Czech schools through audiovisual teaching materials and professional development workshops for educators. Her methodology builds on a background in film and literary studies, which she pursued at King’s College London and Charles University in Prague. In her work, she connects education, media, and critical thinking to help young people navigate today’s complex media landscape.

Lucie Formánková works as a narrative designer, PR manager, and quality assurance tester at Charles Games, a studio focused on socially engaged games and historical storytelling. She has created trailers and marketing materials for titles such as Svoboda 1945: Liberation, Beecarbonize, Playing Kafka, Playing Prague, and Velvet 89. Lucie studied Film Studies at Charles University and holds a Master’s degree in Game Design from FAMU.