Balázs Turai is a freelance animation writer, designer, director, educator, and political activist based in Budapest, Hungary. His creative focus lies in 2D animation, combining fast-paced action with dark humor, often addressing themes of trauma, chaos, and personal transformation. He earned a BA in Animation and Performance from École Supérieure des Arts Saint-Luc in Brussels (2009) and an MA in Animation Design from Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (MOME) in Budapest (2012). Turai has worked across a range of roles, from animation and presentation design to co-directing and teaching. He was a writer and co-director at Popfilm, taught animation at Corvin Art School, and since 2018 has been developing animated content for the Hungarian political platform Partizán. His body of work includes the series Candide (2018), the short film The Fall of Rome (2018), the commissioned piece Kaleidoo (2021), the political satire series Oligarchia (2022), and Amok (2022), which won the Annecy Cristal and the Heart of Sarajevo for Best Short Film. His upcoming project, Space Missionary, is currently in production for Adult Swim.

Jakub Spevák is a writer, screenwriter, and programme director at the International Animation Festival Fest Anča in Žilina, Slovakia, where he has also been a curator since 2021. He has curated programs of short animated films for festivals such as Animest, Animateka, or Annecy, the largest and most prestigious animation festival in the world. As a writer he wrote his debut novel Po funuse, which was nominated for the Slovak literary award Anasoft Litera. He has collaborated as a screenwriter and dramaturge on several short films screened at various international festivals. Currently, he is working on a screenplay for a feature film and an upcoming new book.

Anastasiia Falileieva was born in 2000 in Kremenchuk, Ukraine. She studied stop-motion animation and directing at the Kiyv National cinema and television University. Her recent animated documentary "I Died in Irpin" became a festival hit worldwide. Anastasiia is one of a very few stop-motion professionals left in the Ukrainian industry. In her works she explores themes of time passage and memory collecting.