Η Veselka Kiryakova αποφοίτησε από την Εθνική Ακαδημία Θεάτρου και Κινηματογράφου της Σόφιας (Βουλγαρία), όπου σπούδασε μοντάζ ταινιών. Υπήρξε μέλος της ομάδας παραγωγών της ταινίας Alienation (2013), σε σύλληψη και σκηνοθεσία του Milko Lazarov, που έκανε πρεμιέρα στο επίσημο πρόγραμμα του 70ου Φεστιβάλ Βενετίας - Venice Days, κερδίζοντας δύο βραβεία. Η δεύτερη ταινία του σκηνοθέτη Milko Lazarov, Ága (2018), σε παραγωγή Veselka Kiryakova, έκανε πρεμιέρα στο διαγωνιστικό της Berlinale και κέρδισε πολλά βραβεία σε όλο τον κόσμο, όπως: Grand prix στην Τεχεράνη, Cabourg, Chukotka, Heart of Sarajevo κ.α. Η Veselka είναι αυτή τη στιγμή η παραγωγός της ταινίας Windless -δεύτερη μεγάλου μήκους του νεαρού Βούλγαρου σκηνοθέτη Pavel G. Vesnakov - και επίσης της ταινίας The Herd, της τρίτης μεγάλου μήκους του Milko Lazarov. Συνεργάζεται με τους Έλληνες σκηνοθέτες Ελίνα Ψύκου, Γιώργο Ζώη και Χριστίνα Ιωακειμίδη ως μειοψηφικός συμπαραγωγός. Η Veselka ήταν μέλος του «Producers on the Move», που παρουσιάστηκε στις Κάννες το 2018. Το 2020 συμμετείχε στο εργαστήριο παραγωγών EAVE. Είναι μέλος της EFA.

Dries Phlypo (1977) is a producer and managing director of A Private View, Lemming Film Belgium and Mockingbird Productions. He started his career as a youth programmer for the Cultural Capital of Europe Brugge 2002 and launched the school programme ‘Lessons in the Dark’. He has produced a dozen films including My Dad is a Sausage (2021) by Anouk Fortunier, Zagros by Sahim Omar Kalifa (2017, Grand Prix Filmfest Ghent), and Oxygen by Hans Van Nuffel (2011, Best Discovery - EFA). Dries co-produced more than 30 international films, including Dirty God (2019) by Sacha Polak and Cobain (2017) by Nanouk Leopold. His current films include Zeevonk by Domien Huyghe, Crossing by Jacqueline Van Vugt, and Inside by Vasilis Katsoupis starring Willem Dafoe. Dries also produces television series such as Amigos (10 episodes, 2015) and A Good Year (8 episodes, 2019). He is currently in production for the fiction series Storm Lara and the animated series Mister Paper and Rusty 2 in close collaboration with Lemming Film. He is a board member of ACE PRODUCERS and of the Flemish Producers Association (VOFTP). He is a graduate of ACE PRODUCERS & Inside Pictures.

Amanda Livanou studied History and Political Science at London School of Economics (BSc, MA History) before returning to Athens where she started working in film, commercials and TV production. During her 20-year career she has produced, co-produced, and line-produced more than 30 feature films and documentaries. In 2014 she established Neda Film www.nedafilm.gr where she is regularly collaborating with directors such as Babis Makridis, Evi Kalogiropoulou, Dennis Iliadis, as well as co-producing with European partners. In 2018 she co-founded the Athens International Children’s Film Festival www.athicff.com. Amanda Livanou is a Sundance Creative Producing Summit Alumna and a member of the European & Hellenic Film Academies, having served on the Board of the latter. She was elected to the Board of Directors of the Hellenic Producers Association (SAPOE) in December 2020. Since 2020, she has also been a Film and Audiovisual Consultant for Onassis Foundation in Greece.