MILISUTHANDO BONGELA (Director) is an award winning writer, blogger and editor whose work pivots around the subject of the post-apartheid condition from the perspective of black middle class South Africans and women. She has written extensively about the intersections of race, class and gender in South Africa for publications like the Mail and Guardian, City Press, W Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Aperture Magazine, Elle and Colours, as well as having worked across the arts in the fields of fashion, music, art, publishing and cultural activism. For three years she edited the Arts and Culture section of the weekly Mail & Guardian and is the co-creator of Umoya: On African Spirituality, a podcast that seeks to demystify African Spirituality in the 21st Century.  She is currently exploring the post-apartheid condition in South African society, focusing on the psychological effects of racism on Model C educated black South Africans through her first film, a feature documentary currently titled MILISUTHANDO.

MARION ISAACS (Producer) is a producer, curator, editor, writer and researcher with a love of storytelling, which she has explored through her work in documentary film and museum curation – and increasingly in VR, radio and podcasting, and fiction work. Her varied career has afforded her a sustained focus on questions of identity, race and gender, and the cultural, historical, political and often eccentric dimensions of South African life in a radically global context. Her film repertoire includes the documentary series MANDELA AND ME (2012), and THEY SACRIFICED FOR OUR FREEDOM (2014), a series which retraced the journeys of ex-freedom fighters into exile during apartheid. Her first feature-length documentary, THE PRESIDENT NEEDS MORE TIME (due for release in 2020), directed by Oliver Hermanus, is a meditation on the fatal era of Aids denialism in South Africa. She is currently hard at work on her second documentary feature, MILISUTHANDO, in collaboration with director Milisuthando Bongela. Marion holds a Masters degree in African Studies from the University of Oxford (UK) and she is a 2019 Sundance Institute Producers Summit alumna. 

Sonia Barrera (Co-Producer) is a founding partner of Viso Producciones, a Colombian audiovisual production company which produces innovative content with a social, ecological and artistic vision. She has experience as an Executive Producer, Production Manager and Line/ Field Producer in film and TV. Her producing credits include the documentaries THROUGH THE SCREEN and BEING, the narrative film RED TREE (which is in post-production and was selected for "Cine en Construcción" at the 2019 edition of San Sebastian) and the documentary BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER. She has worked as a field producer on features like THE WIND JOURNEYS, KEYLA and KAIROS. She also served as executive producer at Señal Colombia TV Channel, where she was in charge of a co­-production with Chile for the documentary LEMEBEL, which won the Teddy Award for Biography/ Best Documentary ­Essay Film, Berlin 2019 and was part of the official selection at the 2019 Sheffield Doc Fest.

Viviana Gómez Echeverry (Co-Producer) is a Colombian director and producer, as well as a founding partner of Viso Producciones, a Colombian audiovisual production company which produces innovative content with a social, ecological and artistic vision. She studied Social Communication at Javeriana University in Bogota, where she is a professor. She followed this with a specialization in Cinematography at Séptima Ars, Spain and a master’s degree in Scriptwriting at the University of La Rioja, Spain. She wrote and directed two short films EXOTIC TROPICAL and 16th BIRTHDAY and co­-directed the documentary LIFE IS SACRED, which was produced by production company Final Cut for Real and premiered at Copenhagen Docs. Her first feature film, KEYLA (2017), which she produced, directed and scripted, was selected for competition at the Warsaw Film Festival, the Curacao International Film Festival Rotterdam, Ficci and more. Viviana is currently working as director and producer on the feature documentary BETWEEN FIRE AND WATER, which is in post-production.

Hankyeol Lee (Cinematographer & Editor) is a filmmaker and photographer who is fascinated by topics of language and fractured identity. She has worked as a director, cinematographer and editor (to name a few) and believes very strongly in collaboration and skillshare. Her filmography includes BROR, a short documentary she directed about two 80-year-old brothers living together in the idyllic town of Porkkala, Finland. She was the cinematographer and editor of I WANT TO SEE FOR MYSELF, a short documentary about the legacy of tennis hero, Arthur Ashe, and the tennis centre he erected in Soweto, South Africa. She is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand, and has also lectured cinematography at the Wits School of Film and TV.