2019

Producer, Scriptwriter, Director, and Founder of Massa d’Or Productions. (Spain)

Lead Producer and President of Little Big Story.

Producer at VraiVrai Films. (France)

Filmmaker, consultant, producer, and film funding specialist. (USA)

Producer at Intuitive Picture. (USA)

Film and Television Producer at Filmoption International (Canada)

Alia Yunis, born in Chicago, is a Palestinian American writer and filmmaker who has worked across all media on projects around the globe. She has produced several short films, and co-directed MAN HUNT in 2004, which became a Valentine's Day Special in the Oxygen Channel in the USA. THE GOLDEN HARVEST is her first film as a solo director. It won Best of the Fest at the 2019 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival and got Official Selection at the 2019 Thessaloniki International Film Festival.

Naziha Arebi is a Libyan-British artist and filmmaker whose projects aim at amplifying the voices and stories of post-conflict Libya. Besides her artwork, Naziha is also an accomplished producer, and has worked as cinematographer and documentary director for both film and TV. She has made content for various NGOs and outlets including BBC Media Action, Hivos, Oxfam and UN Women. A Hot Docs Blue Ice and Sundance Lab fellow, Naziha co-founded HuNA Productions in 2012, a Tripoli-based collective aiming to develop Libyan cinema as a tool for change.

Michael Rowley is an emerging documentary filmmaker from Dallas, Texas who aims to document underrepresented stories in an effort to bring awareness, equity and justice to an interconnected and global society. Michael’s documentary feature directorial debut, HURDLE (2019) was the recipient of the Austin Film Society’s North Texas Pioneer Film Grant and a winner of the American Documentary Film Festival Pitch Competition.

Kamal Aljafari is an established director whose filmography includes RECOLLECTION (2015), PORT OF MEMORY (2009), and THE ROOF (2006). His films won prizes and art grants and screened at numerous festivals including Locarno, Toronto, Rotterdam, Fidmarseille. His work was also showcased at museums such as Tate Modern and MoMa, and at the Lussas Film Festival and the Cinémathèque Québécoise. Kamal taught film at The New School (NYC) and the German Film and TV Academy in Berlin, where he also headed the directing program.