Annis Joslin is a British filmmaker, visual artist and co-founder of Corridor. Her practice combines animation, drawing, photography, collage, performance and participatory work with audiences. She is particularly interested in projects that emerge from dialogue, collaboration and shared experience. In recent years, she has been involved in Days of Wonder, a project that revives the legacy of Brighton and Hove’s early film pioneers and explores new ways of introducing early cinema to contemporary audiences through workshops, exhibitions and experimental filmmaking.

Claire Wearn is a British curator, creative producer and co-founder of Corridor. Her work brings together contemporary art, photography, moving image and community practice. She has collaborated extensively with artists, festivals and cultural organisations, and served as Director of Brighton’s Photo Fringe festival from 2020 to 2025. Through Corridor, she develops projects that connect new audiences with visual art and film heritage, including Days of Wonder, a programme exploring early cinema and its contemporary creative reinterpretations.

Elfi De Vos works at the Belgian organisation JEF, where she combines film education, new media practices and short film programming for the Youth Film Festival Antwerp. Through film distribution, festival activities and educational work, JEF encourages young audiences to engage with film, games and new media. Elfi develops workshops, learning programmes and training courses that help children and young people discover audiovisual culture through hands-on experience. She enjoys experimenting with new technologies and exploring ways to turn children and teenagers from viewers into active creators and explorers of film language.

Maria Trzeciak is a cultural producer and co-founder of the Czas Letni Festival in Poznań. From 2019 to 2023, she worked with the Short Waves Festival, coordinating the production of one of Poland’s major short film events. Since 2024, she has been part of Cinema Without Barriers, where she works on programming, film screenings and accompanying events focused on making film culture accessible to audiences with different needs. She also coordinates Cinema Without Barriers on the Road, which brings the model of accessible cinema to other cities and cultural venues.

Michel Ocelot is a French film director, screenwriter and artist whose animated films have captivated several generations of audiences around the world. He is best known for Kirikou and the Sorceress, followed by acclaimed works such as Princes and Princesses, Azur & Asmar and Dilili in Paris. His distinctive visual style has also reached beyond feature films, most notably in Earth Intruders, the music video he directed for Björk. Drawing on fairy tales, myths and artistic traditions from different cultures, Ocelot creates unique cinematic worlds filled with imagination, colour and powerful storytelling. His films treat young audiences as equal partners and explore themes of cultural diversity, courage, justice and personal freedom.

Núria Aidelman is co-founder and co-director of the Spanish organisation A Bao A Qu, dedicated to connecting artistic practice, education, and young audiences. Together with Laia Colell, she co-founded Cinema en curs, one of Europe's most influential film education programmes, which since 2005 has enabled children and young people to discover cinema through filmmaking, film viewing, and collaboration with film professionals. She also contributed to the European project Moving Cinema and teaches film and photography studies at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.

Michaela Režová is a filmmaker, animation director, lecturer and founder of f-a-t.cz, a platform dedicated to sharing content from the world of animated film and supporting the Czech animation community. Her creative practice and research focus on animated documentary, memory and the possibilities of personal storytelling through animation. She teaches animation theory, history and techniques at the Animation and Film Studio at UMPRUM in Prague. She studied under Jiří Barta, graduated from UMPRUM and completed a residency at the renowned French animation school La Poudrière.

Nikola Páleníčková specialises in accessibility and inclusive communication in the cultural sector, with a particular focus on film festivals. She has worked extensively with the One World International Human Rights Film Festival, where she coordinates accessibility initiatives and leads Access Pass, an international network connecting festivals committed to making cinema more accessible. She has several years of experience in communications and PR for cultural and non-profit organisations. In 2025, she was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to research accessibility practices at film festivals in the United States.

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.

Veronika Kyselá is part of the management team at Bio Central cinema in Hradec Králové, where she works on school screenings, festival programmes and film education initiatives. She has long been involved in organising the regional editions of the One World and Malé oči festivals. In recent years, her work has focused on making cinema more accessible to audiences with different needs and exploring how cinemas can become more inclusive spaces. Bio Central is also a partner in the European IncluCINE initiative, which promotes accessibility in cinema exhibition.

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.

Merel Gilsing specialises in children's cinema, audiovisual education and building partnerships between schools, cultural organisations and the film industry. She spent ten years in the education department of the Dutch Film Museum EYE, where she coordinated nationwide education programmes and collaborations with cinemas, festivals, producers and distributors. Today she works as an independent project manager specialising in cultural networks and film education. She currently leads Filmhub Midden, one of the regional Filmhubs in the Netherlands, is a member of the film selection team at Cinekid Festival and serves as an advisor to the Duemila30 student film festival in Milan.

Michael Jahn has been working with VISION KINO since 2006, where he coordinates SchulKinoWochen (School Cinema Weeks), Germany’s largest film education programme. Every year, the initiative brings more than one million students and their teachers to over 850 cinemas across the country, making it one of Europe's most extensive school cinema programmes. Before joining VISION KINO, he worked at film festivals and in cultural communications. He studied Communication and Media Studies as well as Cultural Studies in Leipzig.

Elisa Giovannelli has been working at Cineteca di Bologna since 2005, where she leads the development of Schermi e Lavagne, the Cineteca’s educational department and one of Italy’s leading film education programmes. She coordinates national projects supported by the Italian Ministries of Education and Culture, connecting schools, cinemas and cultural institutions through film. Elisa has also managed a number of international film education and audience development projects co-funded by the MEDIA Programme.

Mikołaj Góralik is a Polish film scholar currently working at the National Film Museum NaFilM, where he is responsible for project management, including the outdoor escape game Afterimage and the international educational project Film Corner. In the past, he developed the children's VOD platform DAFilms Junior and served as Program Director of the 16th International Film Festival Juniorfest. He has collaborated with numerous film festivals and film journals in the Czech Republic and Poland. He obtained his PhD in Film Studies from the University of Lodz, where his doctoral research focused on Czech post-war film comedy.

Juliana Moska is the manager of KineDok, an international platform connecting creative documentary films with audiences through community screenings across Europe. Alongside film distribution, she works on audience development, film education and accompanying programmes that encourage dialogue through documentary film. She graduated from FAMU and the Metropolitan University Prague and is also active as a filmmaker.

Walter Nagy is the coordinator of KineDok, an international platform promoting the alternative distribution of creative documentary films across Central and Eastern Europe. He has worked in documentary film distribution and cultural projects for many years. Since 2008, he has collaborated with the Institute of Documentary Film, contributed to the East Silver project and worked with the Czech NGO Post Bellum, where he co-organised the Theatre of Memory project.