Nino Jacusso is an Italian-born, Swiss filmmaker. He studied at the University of Television and Film in Munich, Germany. Since 1995, he has been a member of the Association for Film for Children in Switzerland. Since 2005, he has also been a member of the film commission for Solothurn, Switzerland. For his complete work up to now he was awarded the Fachpreis für Film of the Canton of Solothurn.

Vahan Zanoyan is a writer, traveler, retired executive, global energy expert, and anti-trafficking advocate.

He has published two volumes of poetry in Armenian, «Վերադարձ» 2010, and «Եզրէն Դուրս» 2011, and three novels in English, A Place Far Away (2013) and The Doves of Ohanavank (2014), both of which were inspired by a chance meeting with a very young victim of sex trafficking, and The Sacred Sands (2016).

Zanoyan was educated at The American University in Beirut and at the University of Pennsylvania. Every year, he spends 5-6 months in Armenia. He loves to travel, read, write, drink good wine, and supports several humanitarian causes, primarily aimed at stopping human trafficking and supporting victims of sex trafficking and domestic violence.

Lucineh Kassarjian is the Chief Experience Officer of the newly established Sensyan, which is exposing the resurgence of the Armenian wine industry and culture to the rest of the world. Prior to this, since 2014, Lucineh has served as the Country Director of the Armenia Tree Project, a US-based charitable foundation which has planted more than 5,5 million trees all around the Republic of Armenia and Artsakh, as well as provide environmental education to thousands of students annually since 2005. In 2009, Lucineh co-founded ReAnimania, an acclaimed international animation film festival in Yerevan, and served as the Artistic Director for the first four years. Lucineh is also the founder of MolorakArts, a company specializing in digital and traditional media products for children of all ages. Lucineh is the author of “Someone Else’s Cloud”, a children’s book about a fun, engaging way to address childhood anxiety, which is enhanced with augmented reality elements; she has also created other award-winning multilingual multimedia products. Lucineh has served on the boards of many educational, philanthropic and developmental non-profit organizations, including the Yerevan Chapter of the Awesome Foundation, Armenian Virtual College, Paros Foundation, Armenian Education Foundation, Bay Area Friends of Armenia, KZV Armenian School of San Francisco, and others. Lucineh holds a degree in linguistics and pedagogy from Yerevan State Linguistics University and has studied in the Computer Arts and New Media department of the San Francisco Academy of Art.

Roffi Petrossian is an American-Armenian adventurer, writer, and television personality living and working in Yerevan, Armenia.  He is widely known for his television series Janaparh / Ճանապարհ / Road (2017).  Roffi is also involved in numerous commercials, startups, films, cartoons, and radio as a voice actor and narrator.  Along with being a media personality, he also dabbles in modeling, hosting, and gardening. As an avid hiker, mountaineer, and all around curious traveller, when he isn’t in the recording studio, he can be found enjoying the countryside of Armenia.

Alberto Gutiérrez is the co-founder of the Rural Film Fest El Edén de La Mancha. Born in Valladolid (Spain) in 1973, studied Audiovisuals in Salamanca where made her first short films. Selection in a 44 Seminci Edition in 1999 with shortfilm co-direction “La Curva”.That same year he founded the production company 411 Producción Audiovisual SL in Valladolid. He moved to Elche in 2001 where created Cactus Producción Creativa SL until 2003, finally ends up creating A Cámara Lenta. Member of the jury of the Mostra de Cinema Jove d’Elx and the Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente of Elche, EcoCup Festival, Ecozine Film Festival.

Amy Miller is an award winning media maker and social justice organizer based in Montréal.

Her documentaries have been screened in over 100 festivals throughout the world, and have been broadcast in over a dozen countries. She remains dedicated to developing critical documentaries for transformative social change and helping out grassroots campaigns for justice.

Byron A. Martin is an award-winning producer that develops independent film, television and documentary projects. To date he has produced almost 100 hours of television, filming projects in fifteen countries. He has produced projects for Disney, Sony, Universal, Turner, Bell Media and DHX and managed productions for some of Hollywood’s leading producers (Jerry Bruckheimer, Sam Raimi, Lauren Shuler Donner, Raffaella De Laurentiis, Mark Canton, Dick Wolf, Laurence Mark, John Singleton, Ralph Winter and Don Carmody). Byron was recently honoured with a Gaming & Entertainment Award naming him the Best Independent Producer, Canada.

Jaume Quiles is founder and director, along with Alberto Gutiérrez, the International Film Festival Rural FilmFest – El Edén de La Mancha and in 2017 the Maderia Fantastic FilmFest (Portugal). He is jury member at the Mostra de Cinema Jove d’Elx, Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente de Elche, ECOCUP Green Documentary Film Festival (Russia) and the Festival Cortometrando from Castellón.

With only 14 years old Quiles starts in the media, shooting more than twenty short films screened in national and international film festivals. His first animation, Chiripajas, co-directed with the Russian animator, Olga Poliektova, has achieved more than 120 selections in international festivals where it highlights the selection at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and a dozen awards received.

Kami Lebaredian is American-Armenian actor, writer, and director who graduated from Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Kami has worked on various films and projects in many different roles including script adaptation, creative consulting, written comic books and also co-wrote and directed short series. Currently he works at the Tumo Center for Creative Technologies as an instructor and content developer.

Sebastian Falck is a tourism and development expert with broad experience worldwide. He guided sled dog tours in Sweden, co-run a Berlin-based tour operator and spent some years in Central Asia advising a National Tourism Agency on sustainable tourism development. Currently Sebastian is based in Yerevan working as an expert in the tourism sector. When travelling his interest lies in long-distance hiking, river paddling and Nordic back country ski-touring.