Marta Andreu (Spain) is the academic coordinator of DocMontevideo. She is the academic coordinator of the master’s in creation documentary course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She teaches port-graduate documentary film courses at the Universidad Rovira y Virgili in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated a Spanish documentary cinema retrospective for Cinéma du Réel. She analyses documentary scripts for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual. In 2004 she founded Estudi Playtime in order to devote her time to producing creation documentaries. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a master’s in creation documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Marta Andreu (Spain) is the academic coordinator of DocMontevideo. She is the academic coordinator of the master’s in creation documentary course at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra. She teaches port-graduate documentary film courses at the Universidad Rovira y Virgili in Tarragona. In 2004-2005 she coordinated a Spanish documentary cinema retrospective for Cinéma du Réel. She analyses documentary scripts for the Centre de Desenvolupament Audiovisual. In 2004 she founded Estudi Playtime in order to devote her time to producing creation documentaries. She has a degree in audiovisual communication and a master’s in creation documentary from the Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

Michelle van Beusekom is the Assistant Director General of English Program at the NFB since 2006. She supervises the work of 7 studios that produce around 40 works annually: documentaries, animation and experimental films. She was part of the direction team that built the interactive productions studios at Vancouver. Since 2009, this studio has developed groundbreaking interactive productions such as Bear 71, Waterlife and Pine Point. Prior to joining the NFB, she worked as a Program Development Manager at CBC and as a Production Executive at WTN. She was a co-programmer at Planet in Focus: The Toronto International Environmental Film Festival.

Monique Simard (Canada) has been general director of the French NFB program since 2008. She set up and developed the interactive production unit. From 1998 to 2008 she was on the team at Producciones Virage, a producer specialized in documentaries about social and international subjects, and she was responsible for the development and production of nearly 60 documentaries. Since 1998 she has represented the Quebec documentary industry. She is recognized for her work supporting production on socially important material, and for her vision in developing documentaries and producing interactive and animation content.

Lech Kowalski (England). Film director. Born in London to Polish parents who were displaced from their country during the Second World War, Kowalski’s family moved to the USA. He has directed 12 feature documentaries and developed web projects including D.O.A. (1980), Story of a Junkie (1987), Hey! Is Dee Dee Home? (2002), On Hitler’s Higway (2002) and The End of the World Begins with One Lie (2011). He won several prizes in film festivals such as IDFA, San Francisco International Film Festival and Venice Film Festival. Kowalski has taught at the French film academy La FEMIS and at HEAD school of art in Geneva.

Luis Ospina (Colombia). Director, producer, scriptwriter, film editor, writer, university teacher, and movie critic. He made 9 feature films, 4 series and over 18 short films, including Agarrando pueblo (1977), Ojo y vista: peligra la vida del artista (1988), Cali: ayer, hoy y mañana (1995) and Un tigre de papel (2007). His films were awarded at film festivals such as Oberhausen, Cadiz, Toulouse, Bilbao, Sitges, Havana, Biarritz, Lima, Caracas, Bogotá and Cartagena. In 2010 the Ministry of Culture awarded him with the “A lifetime dedicated to film” Prize and the InVitro Visual Festival gives him the Santa Lucía Prize.