Inka Achté is a filmmaker and a former sales agent (Taskovski Films and Autlook Filmsales) with nearly 20 years of experience working in the film and TV industries. As well as directing award-winning non-fiction in short, long and series formats, she has tutored and consulted filmmakers at various industry contexts including IDFA consultancies, The Asian Documentary Clinic at Busan FF, Qumra, Medimed and Baltic Sea Docs.
Inka has an in-depth understanding of creative documentary from various perspectives: in addition to directing, distribution and tutoring, she currently works as Head of Programming for DocPoint Helsinki Documentary Film Festival and as Head of Acquisitions at Raina Film Festival Distribution, a festival service agency she co-founded in 2019.
She is currently in development of her third feature documentary with Finnish production company napafilms.
Isabel Arrate Fernandez finished her MA in Film Studies from the University of Amsterdam in 1996, and worked in festival production, programming and film financing before joining IDFA to head the IDFA Bertha Fund.
Since 2020 she is the deputy director of IDFA in charge of the Filmmaker Support department. As such she is responsible for the IDFA Bertha Fund (IBF) and oversees the Talent Development programs.
In 25 years the IDFA Bertha Fund has developed into an internationally renowned institution with a broad network supporting over 700 documentaries projects and film organizations in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Paweł Ziemilski is a film director and producer. He is a co-owner of a Warsaw based studio - MX35.
His films (″In Touch″, ″Urban Cowboys″, ″Rogalik″) received wide publicity at numerous film festivals around the world and won prestigious prizes (IDFA, Thessaloniki IFF, ZagrebDox, Oberhausen ISFF).
Paweł is a lecturer at The Polish National Film School in Łódź where he runs an experimental documentary lab. Since 2021 he is also a tutor for Kids Kino Docs, a development workshop for documentaries made for youth and kids.
Keti Machavariani is an author of award winning films – her debut feature film “Salt White” - premiered at Karlovy Vary Film Festival in 2011 and her creative documentary film “Sunny” was selected for Hot Docs in 2021 where it received the Special Jury Mention.
Keti’s films participated in numerous international film festivals. Keti Machavariani is actively involved in pedagogical activity.
Zdeněk Blaha is the Programme Director of Institute of Documentary Film, where he also runs the East Doc Platform, a key networking event focused on upcoming documentary films from the CEE region.
He has been working for the Institute of Documentary Film since 2009, specializing in festival strategies and distribution of documentaries from Central and Eastern Europe. He maintains continuous cooperation with festivals within the Czech Republic, such as Karlovy Vary IFF (as an expert on documentary film).
As a freelance consultant Zdenek is working as script editor and UX consultant on various documentaries and interactive/XR works (most recently Darkening; premiered at Venice Film Festival 2022).
Victor Ede has been a publisher (In Libris Editions), chief editor, and then producer since 2014 within Cinephage productions, a company he co-founded with the awarded director Jean-Robert Viallet.
Trained at workshops like Eurodoc or Emerging Producers, he has produced twelve films, including six international co-productions, feature and commissioned films plus a short animated, and is developing a line of documentaries resolutely turned towards the international.
His films are often coproduced with ARTE or France Televisions in France, and by internationnal broadcasters and platforms such as RTBF, RTS, HBO Max… Victor Ede is currently deputy member of the Cinemas du Monde commission (CNC). Member of the Eurodoc network, DAE, vice-president of the Producers union of the SUD-PACA region (LPA)
