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.

Martina Voráčková is an art teacher. She runs courses for students of primary and secondary schools. She is the founder of Animánie - a project dedicated to film and audiovisual education based in Pilsen. She organizes courses and workshops for children and adults, runs initiatives for schools, teachers and public as well as the same-name film festival. Martina has been developing an online methodology for teachers, Animetod, where she focuses on animated films. She will introduce the concept of this methodology and demonstrate a couple of initial lessons.

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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 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.