Cynthia Zaven is a composer, pianist and artist based in Beirut. Since 1993, she has composed music for theater, dance, and award winning short and feature films that have screened at festivals worldwide, including Cannes, Locarno and Toronto.

Her artistic projects combine a variety of media to explore the relationship between sound and memory through interwoven narratives. Her 12 channel sound installation Perpetuum Mobile was exhibited in the Bacchus temple, at the World Heritage site of Baalbeck, and nominated for the Prix Ars Electronica Award 2017.

Her music is published by the Berlin based label, Staalplaat. She is currently a professor of piano at the Higher National Conservatory of Music in Beirut.

Darine Hotait is a fiction writer and film director based in New York City. Her narrative films were broadcasted on Sundance TV, AMC Networks, BBC Channel & Shorts TV. Her work has screened at over 100 international film festivals, received numerous Best Fiction Awards, a nomination for the prestigious Goethe Award and an EMMY Blue- Ribbon nomination. She is the founder of the incubator project Cinephilia Productions. Darine is currently in development on her feature film Like Salt.

Hady Zaccak is a Lebanese award-winning documentary maker and a professor at IESAV film school (Saint-Joseph University/Beirut).

He is the author of more than 20 documentaries. His selective filmography includes: “Ya Omri” (“104 wrinkles”) (2017), “Kamal Joumblatt, Witness and Martyr” (2015), "Marcedes" (2011), "A History Lesson" (2009), “The war of peace” (2007), "Refugees for life" (2006)…

In 2011, he founded ZAC Films with his crew that has already produced several films.

Nadia Turincev was born in Moscow (USSR) in 1970 and grew up in Paris where she studied cultural anthropology at Paris X-Nanterre University. At the age of 12, she felt madly in love with film director Andrei Konchalovsky and began binge watching films. At 16, she worked as a trainee on Nikita Mikhalkov’s Dark Eyes, making sandwiches for Marcello Mastroianni. Then from set interpreter (Russian, French, English, Italian) to European bodies such as Europa Cinemas or EU Media Development program, via Cannes’ Directors Fortnight selection committee and Moscow IFF, as artistic director… When I grow up, I want to be a film producer…  In July 2007, together with Julie Gayet, she founded the production house Rouge International. And in 2017, its sister company Rouge Distribution. They work very hard and have lots of fun.