2021

Nathan Grossman is educated at The Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts. He started his career as a stills photographer for Rolling Stone India and later moved into documentary filmmaking, mainly focusing on environmental issues. In 2015 Nathan got the world’s attention for his short film The Toaster Challenge where an athlete tries to generate energy to toast a slice of bread. The video became a global phenomenon with over 15 million views. In 2017, Nathan completed his first full-length tv-series for public broadcaster SVT, about the growing meat consumption in Sweden.

Camilla Nielsson was a Fulbright Scholar at Tisch School of the Arts, New York University (NYU), and in the Dept. of Anthropology (NYU), where she studied documentary filmmaking and visual anthropology from 1997-2000. She has directed the documentary short trilogy Good Morning Afghanistan (2003), Durga (2004), and The Children of Darfur (2005), and Mumbai Disconnected (2009), in the Cities on Speed-series. Camilla Nielsson’s first feature documentary Democrats (2014), has screened at more than 90 film festivals, and won 25 awards and nominations. 

Rami Farah is a Syrian dancer, actor and filmmaker born in Damascus,1980. He studied dance in Damascus at the High Institute for Dramatic Arts and graduated from The Arab Film Institute in 2007. A son of exiled parents, he now finds himself in exile as well.

Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress, born and based in Paris. After studying History and Political Science at La Sorbonne University, she started working in journalism and as a programmer in film festivals, looking to combine her interests for cinema and the study of contemporary Arab societies. Lina worked as a programmer for the International Human Rights Film Festival in Buenos Aires and the Palest’In & Out Festival in Paris, among others.

Alex Camilleri is a Maltese-American filmmaker. He is an alum of both the Sundance and Film Independent labs. His feature-length directorial debut, Luzzu, is a neorealist drama offering a rare look at Malta’s fishing industry and starring non-actors in the lead roles. As a film editor, his work has screened at major festivals; credits include Keep the Change (Best Film & Best Director, Tribeca 2017) and Blood Kin (Venice 2018, Sconfini), and as an Associate Editor on HBO’s Fahrenheit 451. He is currently preparing his sophomore feature, also to be set in Malta.