Tea Lukač, director, lecturer at the Film school Focus, and a member of the board of directors of the Documentary Association of DokSerbia 

Working in diverse fields from film to video art, Tea Lukač has directed short fiction films, documentaries, music videos and showcased at art exhibitions. Tea’s work thus far has traveled to film festivals worldwide, including Jihlava, Ulju and Dok.fest Munchen. She is a professor at film school Fokus, a member of DokSerbia and an alumna of Ex Oriente and IDFAcademy programs. Her debut film, conceptual documentary ROOTS premiered at the East of the West selection of Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. She is currently a PhD candidate at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, focusing on documentary filmmaking.

Ana Filipović, film critic of the Filmoskopija portal 
Ana Filipović (Belgrade, 1998) is a graduate art historian and a master’s student at the Department of Art History of the Faculty of Philosophy and at the Theory and History Department of the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. She is a critic for the film criticism portal “Filmoskopija” and a member of the Communication Committee of ICOM Serbia. Over the past few years, she has participated in the work of some of the most significant cultural institutions in the country and collaborated with various film festivals, such as the Belgrade Auteur Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival, and Beldocs Film Festival. Moreover, she has authored several professional texts for contemporary art exhibition catalogs. Her primary focus is the complex relationship between film media and modern art, and contemporary art practices.

Nebojša Slijepčević, director and screenwriter, lecturer at the Zagreb Academy of Dramatic Art (Croatia)  

Nebojsa Slijepcevic is a screenwriter and film director from Zagreb, Croatia. He has directed numerous creative documentaries (Srbenka, Gangster of Love, Something about Life, Real Man’s Film, In 4 Years, Of Cows and People).

His films have been shown at many international festivals, including IDFA, Hot Docs, and Karlovy Vary Film Festival. His most successful film “Srbenka” has won over 20 festival awards and has been shortlisted for European Film Awards.

Nebojsa is an artistic director for documentary film at the production company “Zagreb film” and a lecturer at the Academy of Dramatic Arts, in Zagreb.

Sead Šabotić, director, selector of the Herceg Novi Film Festival and lecturer at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje (Montenegro)

Born in Nikšić, Montenegro. He completed studies at the Department of Film and TV Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Montenegro, where he also completed specialist post-graduate studies specializing in Documentary film. Then  he enrolled and completed his masters academic studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, University of Arts in Belgrade. He is a doctoral student at the Academy of Arts, University of Arts in Novi Sad. He is an alumnus of EX-Oriente film workshop, Talents Sarajevo program, Talents Tehran program within Fajr IFF, and Beldocs Academy program. He directed several short documentaries and feature films and the feature-length documentary “Twins Woven from dreams”. He is currently working at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts as a teaching associate and is finishing his second feature film “Once upon a family”. He is programmer of Documentary Competition Program at the Filmski festival Herceg Novi – Montenegro Film Festival.

Dragan Nikolić, screenwriter, director, mentor and lecturer at the documentary film workshops of Atelje Varana (Serbia)

Dragan Nikolić (1974) is the director, screenwriter and cinematographer of the documentaries “Undertaker” (2013), “Caviar Connection” (2008) and “National Park” (2006), all three premiered at IDFA, as well as screened at over 100 other international festivals, and 18 awards won. Screenwriter of the feature film “Love Cuts” (FEST, 2019), directed by Kosta Đorđević, and co-screenwriter of the films “Made in Serbia”, directed by Mladen Đorđević (FEST, 2005), and “Run, Bunny, Run” directed by Pavle Vučković (Festival de Cannes, 2003, 1st prize, Cinefondation Competition).

In June 2022, he was elected as the first regular member, from Serbia, of the Atelier Varan Paris association. He was previously engaged as one of the lecturers at the workshop jointly organized by Atelier Varan Paris, the Film Center of Serbia, the Belgrade Youth Center and the French Cultural Institute in Belgrade in 2021.

He is a film programme selector of the Belgrade Youth Center. He works as programmer or jury member of several domestic and international festivals.