Michael Hack, festival organizer and programmer. Managing Director (until 2018) as well as programmer and strategic consultant of Berlin Critics' Week.
Before that he was artistic director of the Lichter Filmfest, Frankfurt.
He writes on film, literature and politics, and has contributed to publications like Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and Der Tagesspiegel.
Besides his work in the film industry he is a political advisor on the relations between Europe and the Middle East and Africa and a translator. He studied Film and Comparative Literature in Frankfurt and Paris.

Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha graduated from the Paris HEC in 1998. He worked for various companies before becoming producer at Screen Runner, Jade Productions and (since 2014) Tanit Films. He has produced several films and documentaries including Benda Bilili! (opening film in the 2010 Quinzaine des Realisateurs), Disintegration (Venice Mostra, official selection out of competition 2011), Fatima (prizes in 2015, 2016), Hedi (2016 Berlin Festival, best first film, best actor), Tomorrow at Dawn (2016), Beauty and the Dogs (Un Certain Regard 2017), Weldi and Amin (both Cannes 2018 Quinzaine des Realisateurs) and the Cheikh's Watermelons (Kaouther ben Hania, 2018).

Rasha Salti is an independent filmmaker, visual arts critic and scriptwriter. She lives in Beirut and works between New York, Paris and Toronto. She co-organized several film programs such as The Road To Damascus, a retrospective of Syrian cinema (with Richard Pena in 2006) that circulated around the world, as well as Mapping Subjectivity: experimentation in Arab Cinema from the 1960's until now (with Jytte Jansen, 2010 - 2012) presented at Moma in New York. She has collaborated with several organizations and festivals including Jeu de Paume, Paris, SANFIC, Santiago, and Vate Modern, London. She was a member of the 2015 Celeste Prize jury. Since 2017, she is Head of La Lucarne-ARTE, France.

Selina Ukwuoma is a freelance script consultant who has advised on projects ranging from the 2008 BAFTA winner Boy A and 2014 Teddy Award Winner The Way He Looks to the 2017 Berlinale GWFF Best First Feature Award Winning Summer 1993. As well as consulting for production companies and running development initiatives with various organisations, she teaches scriptwriting at the UK National Film and Television School and runs workshops on Pitching at various festivals worldwide.