Eduardo Santos Mendes is a sound for audiovisual media professor and researcher at São Paulo University (USP) and a sound supervisor for films and series. As a sound supervisor, he collaborated on more than 70 films and series and had his work recognized by Brazilian and international film festivals, such as Brasília, Recife, Rio de Janeiro, and Havana.

Klara Björk is serving as head of department of HDK-Valand in Gothenburg since 2021. She is interested in (critical) thinking through (artistic) practice involving visual literacy, decolonial practices, Sami identities, history, and politics. Over the last four years, Björk been responsible for a Linnaeus-Palme funded teacher-student exchange between Sweden and South Africa.

Deb Kamal Ganguly, an independent Indian filmmaker, video artist, editor, researcher, and film teacher. His video work has been published under special curatorship from Lowave, Paris. His video art has been featured in the exhibition 'Indian Highway' and showcased in galleries of various cities of Europe and Asia.

Yu Ran is a filmmaker and professor. He is the Vice Chair of the University Convergence Media Center at the Communication University of China in Beijing. He is also a CILECT Teaching Award winner and, as director, winner of the National Best Works Award of China.

Nduka Mntambo is an image-maker working in the interstices of urban spatial practices, experimental filmmaking, and pedagogy. He holds a PhD in Film and is currently the Head of Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema at the Netherlands Film Academy. Before that he was the head of the Film and Television Program at the Wits School of Arts in Johannesburg.

Jyoti Misrty is Professor in Film at HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Mistry works in film both as a research form and as a mode of artistic practice. Her films are presented at film festivals as well as museum exhibitions. Recent film works include: Cause of death (2020) and When I grow up I want to be a black man (2017). Mistry has published extensively on topics pertaining to research, practice and pedagogy. Her research and practice include topics on archives, site specificities and the relationship between film aesthetics and its politics.

Erik Gandini is filmmaker and Professor of Documentary Film at the Stockholm University of the Arts. His filmography includes among others Gitmo (2005), in collaboration with Tarik Saleh, and The Swedish Theory of Love (2015). His ongoing research project, The future through the present is interdisciplinary and conducted in collaboration with Jyoti Mistry and Roland Paulsen, Associate Professor of Sociology at Lund University.

Tumi Mogorosi is an artist, activist, and theorist with a focus on Black liberation through the prism of the Black Radical tradition. The Black Radical tradition serves as a framework, but also as way to engage the Black sonic in its diasporic articulation. Mogorosi has three jazz and improvised music albums: Project Elo, 2014. Santum Santorium, 2017, The Wretched, 2020, and Group Theory: Black Music, 2022. He also features as a sideman on some leading groups in South Africa and globally. He holds an MAFA from the University of Witwatersrand and he is currently enrolled in its political studies PhD programme with a focus on Afro pessimism and cultural work.