Helsinki-based Aino Suni (born 1985) is one of the most promising Scandinavian directors of her generation. Her short films “Turnaround” and “Wolf Carver” have been selected in prestigious festivals like Clermont-Ferrand or Sarajevo, broadcast on Canal +, YLE or the Italian channel RTI. Her first feature film “Never Again”, about the rapper Mercedes Bentso, had its world premiere in 2018 at Love & Anarchy HIFF, before theatrical releases in Sweden and Finland. Aino is a graduate of the Master of Arts in Film Screenwriting (MA) from the University of Salford and Bachelor of Arts (BA) from Tampere University of Applied Sciences in Finland.

Director
Finland

Christopher Radcliff is an American filmmaker based in New York. His first short film “THE STRANGE ONES” (co-directed with Lauren Wolkstein) had its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in 2011. The film has was selected in more than 100 festivals around the world, including SXSW, Rotterdam and Clermont-Ferrand and received more than 20 awards, including several awards that have qualified the film for the Oscars. Christopher is a graduate of Columbia University, where he also received the “Ezra Litwak Award of Distinction” in the script category. In 2012 he was selected to participate in the Berlinale Talent Campus in screenwriting with his feature film project “DUMB” and the following year he was able to participate in the “IFP Emerging Storytellers Program 2013” with the script of his feature film version of “THE STRANGE ONES”.

Director
USA

Born in Mexico City in 1975, Raul graduated from the Image and Sound Department of the University of Guadalajara in 1998. In 2003, his short film “La Puerta” was awarded Best Short Film at the Independent International Film Festival of New York. In 2006, he received a scholarship to study scriptwriting and editing at the National School of Cinema (Scuola Nazionale di Cinema) in Rome. He has directed some acclaimed documentaries in Spanish-speaking countries and Latin-American festivals such as “El Ultimo Bolero” (selected at Guadalajara, Filmar, Cinesul…). In 2015, his fiction short film “Domingo” was selected in several international short film festivals, including Biarritz Latin-American Festival where the film is awarded a Special Mention and bought by France 3 TV channel.
Since 2013, he has been part of the selection committee of the Guadalajara Film Festival.
Raul also teaches filmmaking at the University of Guadalajara.

Director
Mexico

Vincent Diderot was born in Toulouse in 1980 and currently lives in Narbonne. After a double degree in Visual Arts and Performing Arts, he directed and self-produced his first short films including Jour 0, which was screened at the Forum des Images in the cycle “Man and Machine”, and broadcast at Utopiales in Nantes. His third short film, “La Révelation”, a parody of a science fiction B movie, broadcast on Canal + and screened in more than 40 international festivals, including Off- Court Trouville and the Méliès Fantasy Film Festival (Lund Fantastic Film Festival, FANTASIA Montreal, Utopiales, etc.). His short film “Maxiplace”, produced by Adastra Films, was supported by the CNC, the Poitou-Charentes Region, SACD-Beaumarchais and PROCIREP-ANGOA. Vincent also directed a transmedia project “Alpha Pill”, that was supported by the Orange / Innovative formats grant and premiered at Cannes Film Festival in NEXT section.

Director
France

Director
Russia

Marina Moshkova was born in Russia in St. Petersburg in 1987. In 2006, she graduated in drawing from the Academy of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. In 2009, she graduated from the University of Cinema and TV of St. Petersburg in Film Animation. Since 2011, she has been working as a director for the TV series “Smeshariki” at the Animation Studio “Peterburg”. In 2013 she was invited to be a jury member of the International Short Film Festival “Unprecedented Cinema” in Estonia. She directed two award-winning animated short films : “In Scale” and “M Seeking W”.