Cory McAbee started out as bandleader of the electric American rock outfit The Billy Nayer Show. The band soon turned their weird music into an even weirder image, where McAbee took the helm and directed, wrote, composed, sang, and acted in their successful feature debut...

Karin Ryding is a game designer and co-owner of the Malmö based company Ozma. She has a background in programming but left the IT industry and studied game development on Gotland in 2003.

Mathias Gullbrandson field of expertise is storytelling, experience design, and innovation processes. Mathias has an extensive experience working with major entertainment events.

Jakob Abrahamsson is head of distribution at NonStop Entertainment and has introduced great films such as This is England, Gomorra och The Wrestler to the Swedish film market.

Sture Johansson is Senior Vice President of SF Bio AB, where he is in charge of the programming department. Sture is ultimately responsible for the overall film offerings, the film negotiations, strategies and the long-term premiere planning at SF Bio AB.

Jonas Birgersson is a Swedish IT-entrepreneur, known for, among other things, being the creator of modern broadband, founder of multiple companies including Framtidsfabriken (Framfab) and Bredbandsbolaget.

Olof Hedling teaches Film Studies at Växjö University and at Lund University, in Sweden. Currently he is involved in a research project that concerns European regional film production. He also co-ordinates Lund University's Master's Program in Film and Media Production which is located in Ystad.