Born in Beirut, Joyce A. Nashawati grew up in Athens, Accra and Kuwait City. After studying cinema in the UK, she settled in Paris. She directed three short films that received a mention at festivals before shooting her first feature Blind Sun, a dystopian thriller selected among others at Toronto (best photography), Sitges, Thessaloniki (Fipresci), Neuchâtel and Fantasporto (best actor).

Billy O’Brien is an award winning Irish film director and screenwriter. His latest film is the supernatural thriller I Am Not a Serial Killer, adapted from the best-selling novel of the same name by Dan Wells. Billy's other features include the science fiction thriller Scintilla and the dark Irish horror film Isolation.

The internationally renowned Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap has 16 films to his directorial credit, of which Gangs of Wasseypur, Ugly and Psycho Raman were official Cannes selections. Awarded the French Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters in 2013, Kashyap is a leading critic of India's film censorship laws. His new film, Husband Material, will premier at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival.

Dutch director Martin Koolhoven is a graduate of the Amsterdam Film Academy. His film Winter in Wartime outgrossed Twilight at the Dutch box office and was shortlisted for the Oscars' Best Foreign Language Film. Despite “Hollywood calling”, Koolhoven formed N279 Entertainment in Amsterdam with producer Els Vandevorst.

Réalisateur néerlandais, Martin Koolhoven est diplômé de la Amsterdam Film Academy. Son Winter in Wartime a dépassé Twilight au box-office néerlandais et a été sélectionné aux Oscars dans la catégorie Meilleur film en langue étrangère. Malgré les sirènes d’Hollywood, Koolhoven a créé N279 Entertainment à Amsterdam avec le producteur Els Vandevorst.

Mélanie Boissonneau is a university cinema teacher and researcher, author and columnist for the Filmo VOD platform.

From 2007 onwards, Julien Maury formed together with Alexandre Bustillo the iconic directorial duo of French horror cinema with the film Inside.

Luis Miguel Rosales, a publicist and journalist specialised in fantastic films, is the director of Scifiworld, Spain’s oldest fantastic-film magazine.

Réalisateur néerlandais, Martin Koolhoven est diplômé de la Amsterdam Film Academy. Son Winter in Wartime a dépassé Twilight au box-office néerlandais et a été sélectionné aux Oscars dans la catégorie Meilleur film en langue étrangère. Malgré les sirènes d’Hollywood, Koolhoven a créé N279 Entertainment à Amsterdam avec le producteur Els Vandevorst.

Réalisateur néerlandais, Martin Koolhoven est diplômé de la Amsterdam Film Academy. Son Winter in Wartime a dépassé Twilight au box-office néerlandais et a été sélectionné aux Oscars dans la catégorie Meilleur film en langue étrangère. Malgré les sirènes d’Hollywood, Koolhoven a créé N279 Entertainment à Amsterdam avec le producteur Els Vandevorst.

Harry Kümel is a Belgian director known for the 1972 film The Legend of Doom House. In 1971, he made Daughters of Darkness, with Delphine Seyrig as a lesbian vampire. Besides teaching at the Brussels Free University and the American Film Institute, among others, he's also Director of Demonology and Occultism at the College of ‘Pataphysics.