Director

Renato Borrayo Serrano

Berlin-based documentary filmmaker telling intimate human stories while exploring how individual lives are shaped by wider struggles over power, justice, and dignity. His films have screened and won awards at major international festivals, including CPH:DOX, Hot Docs, Sundance, DOC NYC, Krakow IFF, Shanghai IFF, DOK Leipzig, Docudays UA, and others. His feature documentary Life of Ivanna (2021) won the Zurich Film Festival’s Grand Prix for Best Documentary, alongside numerous additional awards. As a cinematographer, he worked on the Netflix acquisition Skywalkers: A Love Story, which premiered at Sundance (U.S. Documentary Competition) and screened at Tribeca before receiving an IMAX theatrical release in the United States. His work has also been broadcast by BBC The Why, SVT (Sweden), RÚV (Iceland), PTS (Taiwan), and Current Time TV (Czech Republic), among others. His projects have been supported by leading European public and private funders, including Spain’s ICAA, the Norwegian Film Fund, the Estonian Film Institute, the Kone Foundation, and Fritt Ord.

Director

Yulia Vishnevets

Berlin-based journalist and documentary filmmaker, director of over 20 non-fiction films. She has worked as a reporter and photographer in various media. From 2013 to 2014, she reported for Deutsche Welle in Germany. Since 2015, she has been a staff documentary maker for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and Current Time TV in Russia. Her feature: Hey! Teachers! was screened at IDFA, Krakow, and received several international accolades. In September 2022, she was detained while filming an anti-war demonstration in Dagestan, spent 5 days in prison, and had to leave Russia at risk of further criminal prosecution.

Producer

Milana Christich

Producer at ANA Films in Strasbourg, Milana has produced dozens of films and co-produced with channels such as Arte/ZDF, France 3 Alsace, Alsace 20, Mosaïk, Vosges Télévision, KTO, France Ô. She also worked with Ciclic and the Bip TV channel in 2021 on Robin Hunzinger's film ‘Ultraviolette et le Gang des cracheuses de sang’ (Ultraviolette and the Blood Spitters Gang), which was nominated for the IDFA.

Co-Producer

Albin Bourgeois

Albin is a French producer and founder of Contretemps, actively involved in international co-productions. He develops documentaries for both cinema and television. He is also a member of Eurodoc and an alumnus of three leading European film schools: La Fémis (Paris), Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg (Germany) and the National Film and Television School (London).

Co-Producer

Vlad Ketkovich

A producer originally from Russia, Vlad is a graduate of several European producer workshops, including EuroDoc, Ex-Oriente, Documentary Campus Masterschool and EAVE (2017). He has produced and co-produced more than 30 films with various European countries. The films have been screened and awarded at numerous major festivals, including IDFA, CPH:DOX, HotDocs, Zurich, EL Gouna, Krakow, DokLeipzig, DocAviv, Shanghai, and have been broadcast on ARTE, ZDF, WDR, BBC, MDR, ORF, YLE, SVT, VPRO, Czech TV, and The Guardian. He left Russia shortly after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine in 2022 and settled in Paris, where he was granted political asylum and now works as a production manager.