The editor of the Contemporary Culture magazine StyleFeelFree (SFF magazine) Rosana G. Alonso is a journalist, film programmer and advisor living between Madrid and Asturias, in Spain. She is a member of the International Federation of Film Critics (FIPRESCI) as a film critic who regularly covers the world’s most prestigious cinema festivals such as Berlinale, Cannes or Venice, among others. For her work in cinema, in recent years she has been invited as jury member at several festivals, in Europe (Munich, Seminci or Gijón) and in Asia (Kerala, Bengaluru or Sri Lanka). Also, her multidisciplinary background, that includes a degree in Journalism from the University of the Basque Country-EHU, as well as courses and graduate studies in Fashion, Music, Photography and Cinema at schools and colleges like IED and UC3M, provides her a contemporary perspective as well as a cross-cutting approach that understands cinema can’t be considered separately from the other arts. Currently, she is a member of the selection committee of the Gijon International Film Festival (FICX) and German Film Fest Madrid. In addition, she collaborates with colleges teaching students in Cinema and Art writing.

Sara Simić is a Zagreb-based journalist, film critic, and curator whose work focuses on East and Southeast Asian documentary and experimental cinema. She currently writes for View of the Arts and easternKicks, where she contributes essays and reviews exploring essayistic and archival practices in contemporary Asian filmmaking. Since 2019, she has contributed to Dokumentarni.net, where she founded the section Eastern Horizons—the first regional platform dedicated to East and Southeast Asian cinema. Her texts have also appeared in Kurziv, Dok.revue (Ji.hlava IDFF), and other international publications.
As a member of the Croatian Association of Film Critics (HDFK), she writes internationally published essays and conducts in-depth interviews with directors and curators. In 2024, she curated and led the international panel Film Criticism and Curatorial Practices in Asia, featuring leading curators and filmmakers such as Fang Yen Hsiang, Kong Rithdee, Maja Korbecka, and Thai director Kong Rithdee, focusing on the evolving landscape of Asian essay cinema. She also co-organized several film programs addressing the use of archives, amateurism, and abstraction in contemporary documentary film.

Tommaso Tocci is a screenwriter, programmer and educator based at Rome, Berlin and Paris. In his native Italy he works as a critic for Mymovies.it and regularly tours the festival circuit. Internationally he has written for publications such as Indiewire, Ioncinema, RogerEbert.com, CinemaScope, Filmmaker Magazine, Montages and Filmkrant. A member of FIPRESCI and a translator/copywriter in his spare time, he has worked in a variety of roles within festivals such as the Edinburgh International Film Festival, Berlinale Talents, Giornate degli Autori in Venice and the Warsaw Film Festival, where every year he leads the FIPRESCI Warsaw Critics Project.

Cécilia Bovet holds a Master's degree in Literature and a CAS in Cultural Mediation. She was responsible for mediation at the Festival Images (Vevey) and the Fribourg International Film Festival (FIFF). At the same time, in 2015 she co-founded the Festival Cinéma Jeune Public in Lausanne, where she has been co-director ever since. Currently, she is also a cultural mediator at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne.

Lea Favre, born in 1997 in Sion, obtained a Bachelor's degree in Film History and Aesthetics and Art History from the University of Lausanne in 2020. She then continued her training at the École cantonale d’art de Lausanne (ECAL), where she specialised in filmmaking. She took a year's break from her studies to do an internship on Claude Barras' second feature film, Sauvages. This experience confirmed her desire to turn to animation and encouraged her to make her graduation film, Qui part à la chasse, using stop-motion. The film has enjoyed considerable international success, with selections in some thirty countries and numerous awards around the world.

Maurane Mazars, born in 1991 in Toulon, grew up in Paris and now lives between France and Geneva. After studying art in Geneva and Strasbourg, she made a name for herself with Acouphènes (2017), which won the Rodolphe Töpffer Prize. Her final year project, Tanz! (2020), artistic introspections set against the backdrop of musicals, won the Raymond Leblanc Prize and the Fauve Révélation at the Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2021. In 2025, she released her third personal book, a political and poetic tale entitled Là où dorment les Géants (Where Giants Sleep), published by Le Lombard, as well as Madones et Médées (Madonnas and Medeas), published by Futuropolis, based on a script by Mathilde Ramadier and Laure Woestelandt.