Having worked in several Strasbourg cinemas during her studies in the late 1990s, Laurence Algret began her career at the UGC Ciné Cité as head of communication in 2000. She went on to become deputy director and director at various UGC cinemas in Lille, Rouen and Lyon before working on the management team for two years at the headquarters in Paris. As a Strasbourg cinephile, she was delighted to return to take over the reins of the Strasbourg UGC in January 1915.

Kévin Béclié, a teacher at Strasbourg's Lycée Marcel Rudloff, coordinates cinema and audio-visual matters for the artistic and cultural education branch of the Strasbourg Academy. This entails setting up workshops and national programmes, such as Lycéens au cinema and Collège au cinema, among others. A fan of genre and cinéma bis, he writes for Cinétrange.

Joël Danet is a contributor and programmer at Vidéo Les Beaux Jours and is mainly responsible for the “Filming the City” programme, which organises meetings with researchers in the field of documentary films with an urban theme. He is also responsible for research projects based on film archives at the University of Strasbourg’s SAGE laboratory.

Mélina Napoli is regional delegate of the Grand Est section of the National Audiovisual Institute (Ina) in Strasbourg, where she is head of client service in the documentary department. She now brings together partners in the local audiovisual and digital ecosystem and organises "VR Challenge – time travel" with the Shadok, the Festival and the City of Strasbourg.

Mali Arun’s work with images fi ts somewhere between fi ction, documentary and video art.

Rock Brenner is a lover of shoestring-budget films and has himself directed several of them, full of black humour, which were selected at Fantasia and the Valencia International Film Festival.