Amanda Graham is a British screenwriter, script editor and lecturer with extensive experience in film and television development.

She has written 23 television episodes for the BBC and Apple, and has worked on scripts, pitch materials and development projects for clients including the BBC, Channel 4 and Zero Gravity Group.

Her own projects currently in development include two comedies with Olivia Colman and Ed Sinclair’s production company, South of the River.

In her work and lectures, Amanda focuses on creativity, storytelling, and helping filmmakers develop their ideas and find their own voice.

Anita Ardell is a director and writer currently based in France. Her credits include co-writing the surreal comedy feature Garry, Barry, Larry and Countess of Noral (2025) and creating the experimental comedy performance The Primate Show, which premiered in London in 2022.

She has also published two collections of fairy tales and poetry. At Lund Fantastic Film Festival, she presents her 2D animated short Tastes Bad, set in the crack between pre-internet and post-internet worlds.

Carolina Sandvik works with stop motion animated puppet films, mixing horror, humour and nightmarish everyday life. The Lovers received the jury’s special mention at Locarno Film Festival 2023 and was nominated for a Guldbagge in 2023. It won several awards, including the Finn Fantastic Award at Lund FFF 2024. Carolina is educated at Malmö Art Academy.

Emily Bennett is an award-winning filmmaker, actor and screenwriter whose work blends psychological horror, intimate character drama and striking visual storytelling. Her debut feature, Alone With You, co-directed with Justin Brooks, premiered at Fantastic Fest and went on to screen internationally, earning Bennett a FANGORIA Chainsaw Award in 2023.

Her films have screened at major genre festivals including Sitges, Fantastic Fest, Fantasia, FrightFest, BIFAN and Brooklyn Horror Film Festival. Her second feature, Blood Shine, co-directed with Brooks, continues her exploration of obsession, isolation and the darker edges of human belief through a blend of folk, psychological and body horror.

From the naval town of Karlskrona in the southeasternmost part of Sweden—and therefore accustomed to winds from every direction—Frans Sjöberg is an animator focusing on hand-drawn and mixed-media work. In his spare time, you might hear him making confident “tootenings” on his bass clarinet, much to his neighbours’ dismay.

Gustav Bondesson picked up his parents’ DV camera at the age of eight and has been creating and exploring the medium of film ever since.

His short film Far From Now, starring Felice Jankell and Charlie Gustafsson, received a Vimeo Staff Pick and screened internationally at festivals. Along with his previous short films Wasteland and The Artist, The Old Man and The Waiter, Gustav has showcased his work at festivals including the Chicago International Film Festival, 1.4 Awards and the National Film Festival for Talented Youth.

He also directed the album short film for Swedish artist Anna Ternheim’s Psalms from the Seventh Heaven. In addition to short films and music videos, Gustav has directed commercials for companies including IKEA, H&M, IBM and Spotify.

Henry Han Ming Kho is a German filmmaker, director and producer based in Berlin, whose work explores identity, belonging, adolescence and alienation through the lens of genre cinema.

Born in Hamburg in 1996 and raised near Frankfurt, he studied Media Design and Film at Mainz University of Applied Sciences before continuing his studies at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin. Alongside his own filmmaking, he has worked across the German film industry as a production assistant, assistant director, gaffer and cinematographer, including at Komplizen Film.

Following several short films, Himmelskörper marks his feature film debut and his most ambitious project to date.

Johanna Wagner is an animator, director and script supervisor based in Malmö, where she has lived since 2014 after several years studying film abroad. She has worked as a freelance filmmaker and editor and is a member of the film association RåFILM.

Her practice crosses genres and forms, including hybrid documentaries combining documentary footage with fiction, art and animation, as well as music videos, fiction, stop-motion animation, video art and performance incorporating moving images.

Alongside her work on Korsdrag, she is developing a hybrid documentary exploring the personal cost of compromise within marriage.

Justin Brooks is an award-winning filmmaker and cinematographer whose work blends psychological horror, intimate character drama and striking visual storytelling. Together with Emily Bennett, he co-directed Alone With You, which premiered at Fantastic Fest and went on to screen internationally.

Their second feature, Blood Shine, continues their exploration of obsession, isolation and the darker edges of human belief through a blend of folk, psychological and body horror.

Karl Bergholtz is a director with a background rooted primarily in comedy but who now delves into the depths of drama, exploring complex themes such as grief, guilt, and jealousy.

His work often skillfully blends humor within the fabric of dramatic storytelling, navigating a delicate balance between the two genres.

Karl is particularly captivated by dialogue-driven scripts that reflect and dissect contemporary societal issues. In addition to his directorial pursuits, he works as a journalist in Sweden.

Kristofer “Kiggs” Carlsson is a Swedish-Indian film director. He made his first music video at the age of eight and began his professional career at 19. He has directed music videos, commercials and TV productions.

He has written and directed the critically acclaimed short films Spiritus Lepus, Wash and, most recently, the Swedish folklore horror short Väsen. His upcoming projects include his feature directorial debut, the American-Indian horror film Come Tomorrow.

LéaCati Vallier is a French filmmaker and producer based in Lund, Sweden. Much of her artistic work focuses on still images in film, exploring the interplay between stillness and movement. Regardless of genre, her work is permeated by an atmospheric sense of unease.

Marc Dalmau is a Spanish director and screenwriter. Together with Dani Giménez, he co-directed Super Z, a playful mix of live action, animation, comics and pulp culture that has screened at Sitges and TerrorMolins.

Marta Giec is a Polish writer, director and editor whose work combines psychological intensity with an experimental approach to form. A self-taught filmmaker from her teenage years, she later studied filmmaking and editing and co-founded the collectives Alternative Krystyna and sVHS.

Her work spans avant-garde shorts, international music videos and independent features, including Varia (2017) and the docu-fiction Halegazimba (2022). Ópi marks her feature debut as director.

Michael Guest is based in Glasgow, Scotland. He is an actor, director and lecturer at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

The Echo Experience is his debut short film.

Mika Kamiyasu is a 23 year old filmmaker based in Malmö, Sweden. Her work often explores close relationships, longing, and people's attempts to understand themselves and one another. Mika is drawn to characters who don't say what they actually mean, and to letting silence say more than words, often through worlds that mirror what is happening beneath the surface.

After two years of studying filmmaking at Skurups Folkhögskola, Mika's student film Ropa så jag hör dig won Best Film (Tungvikt) at the Pixel Short Film Festival and is currently competing for Best Swedish Short Film (Tungvikt) at Novemberfestivalen. Since then, she has continued working on music videos, advertising and low-budget short films as a director, editor, set designer, sound technician and videographer — all while trying to figure out how to be an adult.

With a background in music, Mika brings her musical thinking into filmmaking. In the editing room, she thinks like a composer, with rhythm and timing as her most important tools.

Mohamed Chabane is a French director whose work spans music videos, television and genre filmmaking. Before collaborating with Théo Jourdain Rhodes, he directed music videos and worked with artists associated with L’Ordre Collectif.

Together, they directed the urban musical comedy series ReuSS for France.tv Slash and the final three episodes of Netflix’s Young Millionaires (2025). Their work on ReuSS earned them a new-director award in 2023.

No Way Down (Kraken) is their first feature film as a directing duo, combining gangster cinema, horror, action and comedy.

Niklas Teng is Head of Partnerships at LevelK, a Copenhagen-based international film sales and aggregation company. With several years of experience in film festival relations, international sales and non-theatrical distribution, he has previously held positions including Head of Festivals & Non-theatrical Sales and Head of Traffic & Festivals at LevelK.

His work spans the international circulation of independent films, connecting titles with festivals, distributors and audiences worldwide.

Rosa Vercher is a Spanish cinematographer and producer working with La Bestia Produce. She served as both director of photography and executive producer on Zoe Berriatúa’s Buffet Libre, bringing together her creative and production roles on the darkly comic genre feature.

Simon Drew is a Cornish filmmaker writing darkly comic dramas set on the fringes of society. His feature screenplay The Garden of England, about refugees walking from Dover to London, won the 27th Euroscript Screenwriting Competition and reached the quarterfinals of the Final Draft Big Break and Shore Scripts competitions.

Drew’s short film Tea for Two won the Audience Award at the Bornshorts International Film Festival. His production company, Kaspar Films, has produced commercial work for BBC, Time Warner, Cartoon Network, Philips, UBS and more.

Théo Jourdain Rhodes is a French director and screenwriter who moved from production management into directing. His short films include Finistère and Fils de l’écume.

With Mohamed Chabane, he directed the urban musical comedy series ReuSS for France.tv Slash and the final three episodes of Netflix’s Young Millionaires (2025). The duo received a new-director award for their work on ReuSS in 2023.

No Way Down (Kraken) marks their feature debut as a directing duo, blending gangster cinema, horror, action and comedy.

Uta Arning is a director, screenwriter, and producer working across documentary and fiction. She runs UMA Pictures AB and holds an MFA in Film Directing from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MSc in Business Administration from Germany and Japan. Her films have screened internationally, including at the Max Ophüls Prize and Cannes, and her documentary Mischmasch was acquired by SVT. She also teaches film and serves on cultural funding juries.

Vilhelmina Trost is a Malmö-based director from Uppsala. She studied animation and experimental film at Animationsakademien in Stockholm and works as a freelance animator and graphic designer.

In 2025, she won the Pixel Talent Award with the short film Humane and her pitch for Kvarlåtenskap.

Zoe Berriatúa is a Spanish filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, illustrator, animator and former actor. He began his career on screen, appearing in films such as África, Volaverunt and School Killer, as well as the television series Al salir de clase and Cuéntame cómo pasó.

In 2008, he founded the production company La Bestia Produce, developing short films with in-house digital effects and animation. He later moved into feature filmmaking with The Heroes of Evil (2015), co-produced with Pokeepsie Films, followed by Up Among the Stars (2018). Berriatúa also runs his own VFX studio, LA BESTIA VFX.