Eliseo Altunaga is a scriptwriter, storyteller and consultant. He studied Language and Spanish Literature at the University of Havana. He is Dean of the Screenwriting School at the EICTV Film School, Havana. He has written a number of screenplays, including Machuca (2004) Violeta went to heaven (2010); and has also worked as a script consultant for films such as Tony Manero (2007), NO (2011), Post Mortem (2010), and A Fantastic Woman (2017), awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, 2018.

Enriqueta (Ketty) Zafra is Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ryerson University. Her research interest includes Spanish Culture and Literature of the 16th and 17th  in which she has published extensively. Zafra’s love for film and language has brought her to the area of audiovisual translation. In this area, she has taught the courses, “Translating the Screen: Audiovisual Translation of Contemporary Spanish Film” and “Advance Spanish and Translation.” Since 2012, professor Zafra has also organized annual talks with internationally-renown Hispanic directors at her home university.

Daniel Domínguez is a journalist, writer, literary/film critic and university professor. His career as a journalist spans over 28 years. He works for the Panamanian newspaper La Prensa as editor of the column “Vivir Mas”, and blogger at “Cine y más”. He has written articles on Panamanian theatre productions for Revista Diógenes of the University of California; the Latin American Theatre Review, center of Latin American studies at Kansas University, and the Cuban Magazine Casa de las Américas. He is a board member of the Panamanian Academy of Arts and Film, and has also taken part as member of the jury in the International Film Festival of Huelva, Spain - José María Forqué award; the International Short Film Festival of Hayah, Panama; and the Fénix Awards of Ibero American Film. He has given media coverage to film festivals in Berlin, Tribeca, Huelva, among others.

José Teodoro is a writer. He writes about film and literature for publications such as Film Comment, Brick, Cinema Scope and Globe & Mail. He is the author of several plays, including The Tourist, Steps, Mote and Slowly. He has participated as member of the jury in film festivals in Europe and the Americas, and is a member of the jury for the Scotiabank Giller Prize 2019. He is currently working on several plays, and a conversation book together with swiss canadian filmmaker Peter Mettler.

Katayoon Shahabi, born in Tehran and doctor of French literature, began her work in 1982 as a film promoter at "Farabi Cinema Foundation" (FCF), presenting Iranian cinema to the world. In 1994, she helped launch Cima Media International (CMI) before establishing her own company, Sheherazad Media International (SMI), the most important private company active in worldwide distribution of features, documentation and co-production with foreign companies in 2001. She has produced numerous documentaries, has presented films of acclaimed directors, and has several awards for his country.
In 2012, she also launched his French-based company, NOORI PICTURES, with which "Tales" by Rakhshan Banietemad and "Wednesday, May 9" by Vahid Jalilvand were awarded in Venice and "Nahid" by Ida Panahandeh in Un Certain Regard in 2014 and 2015, respectively; "Inversion" by Behnam Behzadi in Un Certain Regard 2016 and "No Date, No Signature" that received 2 awards in Venice 2017.
Katayoon was a member of the jury for the most part, fourteen times member of international film festivals such as Mannheim-Heidelberg, International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam (IDFA), Milan Film Festival, FIPA, Geneva Film Festival, Film Festival of San Sebastián (as President). Competition section of the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Enriqueta (Ketty) Zafra is Associate Professor at the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at Ryerson University. Her research interest includes Spanish Culture and Literature of the 16th and 17th  in which she has published extensively. Zafra’s love for film and language has brought her to the area of audiovisual translation. In this area, she has taught the courses, “Translating the Screen: Audiovisual Translation of Contemporary Spanish Film” and “Advance Spanish and Translation.” Since 2012, professor Zafra has also organized annual talks with internationally-renown Hispanic directors at her home university.

Lila Avilés studied Direction and Performing Arts with some of the leading theatrical figures in Mexico such as Martin Acosta, Sandra Felix and Juliana Faesler. She studied screenwriting with Beatriz Novaro and Paula Marcovich. She began acting in theater before moving into directing. Her work as a director includes the plays Microdermoabrasión, Gardenia Club, Antígona; the operas Cossi fan tutte by Mozart, and Alcina by Handel. The play The Chambermaid – would become the inspiration for her first feature film, The Chambermaid (2018).