Bianca Oana is a writer, producer and the founder of Monogram Film. As head of development at Strada Film, her credits included Florin Servan’s IF I WANT TO WHISTLE, I WHISTLE (Silver Bear and Alfred Bauer Prize, Berlinale 2010) and Alexander Nanau’s TOTO AND HIS SISTERS (nominated for the European Film Awards 2015). She also co-wrote Catalin Mitulescu’s LOVERBOY (Cannes 2012) and produced Adina Pintilie’s TOUCH ME NOT, which won the Golden Bear and GWFF Best First Feature Award at the Berlinale in 2018.

Adina Pintilie is a Romanian filmmaker, visual artist and curator. Her first feature film TOUCH ME NOT won the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 2018 Berlinale and has been widely distributed. Pintilie’s short- and medium-length works such as DON’T GET ME WRONG and OXYGEN have also had impressive festival runs in Locarno, Leipzig and Rotterdam. Additionally, she served as a jury member at festivals and industry events and holds master classes.

Jana Gebhard organises events and distribution at Wolf Kino. She previously worked as a producer and project manager for documentaries and on creative concepts for TV stations and social projects like Triaphon. She loves exploring new modes of distribution – especially films in the field of human rights.

Born and raised in Sweden, Maia Santos studied philosophy at the University of Gothenburg and Södertörn University, where she focused on critical theory, gender studies and decolonising phenomenologies. In 2014, she moved to Berlin and eventually shifted her attention to film and marketing and co-founded Wolf Kino, where she currently works in marketing and developing new marketing ideas based on an exchange between the neighbourhood, filmmakers and film audiences.

Verena von Stackelberg is the founder and managing director of the independent Wolf Kino cinema in Berlin. She has worked in film exhibition, distribution and festivals in UK and Berlin. She is also part of Berlinale's selection committee for Competition and Encounters.

Prof. Dr. Skadi Loist is Assistant Professor for Production Cultures in Audiovisual Media Industries at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF in Potsdam, Germany. Skadi’s research and publications focus on film festivals, global cinema & film circulation, queer film culture, sustainability and equity, diversity and inclusion in screen industries. Skadi is Principle Investigator of the research project “Film Circulation on the International Film Festival Network and the Impact on Global Film Culture” (BMBF 2017–2022) as well as Lead PI of international research project “GEP Analysis: Assessing, Understanding, and Modeling the Impact of Gender Equity Policies (GEP) in the Film Industry” (DFG/ESRC/SSHRC 2021–2024), and has co-founded the Film Festival Research Network (FFRN) in 2008, has worked with queer film festivals and is Editorial Board member of NECSUS: European Journal of Media Studies.