John Appel An international award winning filmmaker who serves as a guest reader at the Dutch Film Fund and acts as lecturer at a number of film schools in the Netherlands. Click for more
Hans Robert Eisenhauer Head of Thema at the Second German Television – ZDF, ARTE, is formally Head of the Berlin Film Fund at the Berlin Government, where he was also responsible for the foundation of the European Film Academy. Click for more
Marc Isaacs a visiting tutor at the NFTS (UK National film and television school), is an established and award wining filmmaker. His most recent films are "Philip and His Seven Wives" for the BBC’s prestigious Storyville strand, "Someday my Prince Will Come", made for Channel 4 and "All White in Barking" premiered & participated at the " Joris Ivens" competition at IDFA 2007. Click for more
Steven Seidenberg a prominent producer, creator & head of development & script editor in the field of documentary filmmaking. As a producer he has worked in history programming, the sciences, as well as examinations of ethical and moral issues. Steven is a Board Member of the EDN (European Documentary Network) and with has participated in workshops on international co-production in eleven countries as a tutor and expert. Click for more
First Round Mentors
John Appel An international award winning filmmaker who serves as a guest reader at the Dutch Film Fund and acts as lecturer at a number of film schools in the Netherlands. Click for more
Nenad Puhovski a documentary filmmaker and director of ZagrebDox Documentary IFF in Croatia. He has also produced over 45 documentaries for FACTUM – Croatia's biggest independent documentary production company. Click for more
Serge Gordey an independent executive producer with French and International production companies, who worked for many years with Point du Jour. Click for more
Erez Laufer a filmmaker from Israel, editor of My Country My Country, recently nominated for an Academy Award. Click for more