BEN PAGE is a multi-award winning filmmaker, adventurer and photographer based in the UK. He spends his time travelling to some of the worlds remotest corners under human power in search of wild and diverse adventures and experiences. His highly acclaimed films have appeared in more than 50 international film festivals winning numerous awards.

LI SHUANG jest znaną w Chinach reżyserką filmów outdoorowych, które gościły na wielu międzynarodowych festiwalach górskich. Od 2008 roku uprawia wspinanie i skialpinizm. Jej pierwsze przejścia w górach Tybetu, w Chinach nominowane były w 2011 do nagrody Złotego Czekana.

MICHELLE SMITH moved to the Rocky Mountains from the east coast in 2002 to pursue a lifestyle that revolved around a passion for challenging herself with mountain adventures. As she immersed herself into this lifestyle, she discovered that what engaged her the most was not her own quest, but the community and characters that she encountered in the mountains. She picked up a camera in 2009 and quickly developed a passion for documenting mountain lifestyles, characters, and adventures through film and photography. Her film-making career now focuses on commercial, non-profit, small business, editorial, and documentary story-telling.

MARCIN OLECHNOWSKI – absolwent Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego, pedagog i nauczyciel, autor audycji muzycznych i kulturalnych w Akademickim Radiu Index, współautor (razem z A. Mrówką Łobodzińską) książki „Historia Zielonogórskiego Zagłębia Kabaretowego”, scenarzysta i reżyser, założyciel grupy filmowej Firefly Film Studio.
MICHAŁ MALINOWSKI - absolwent edukacji medialnej Uniwersytetu Zielonogórskiego. Od 2004 roku powiązany z działaniami Zielonogórskiego Zagłębia Kabaretowego, współtwórca kabaretu „Bez Reszty”. Członek Stowarzyszenia Inicjatywa Sceniczna Fruuu, trener warsztatów improwizacji scenicznej. Zdobywca nagrody filmowej „Elvis” za debiut na Festiwalu Filmów A’YOY.

DAMIANO LEVATI, native of Ivrea and born in 1977, is the Artistic Director and co-founder together with Matteo Vettorel of Storyteller Labs. An engineer by formation, he loves to apply his scientific outlook to everything he does: analysing a problem, understanding how to solve it, converting theory into practice. His passion and his job are photography and cinema, intended as aesthetic and narrative tools.

MARCIN POLAR - reżyser, operator filmowy, fotograf. Absolwent Krakowskiej Szkoły Filmowej oraz Realizacji Obrazu Filmowego na Wydziale Radia i Telewizji Uniwersytetu Śląskiego w Katowicach. Twórca filmów dokumentalnych, krótkometrażowych filmów fabularnych, teledysków i reklam. Specjalizuje się w realizacji zdjęć w warunkach ekstremalnych, często przy użyciu technik alpinistycznych oraz podwodnych. Jego krótki dokument "Kolekcja" prezentowany był na wielu ważnych festiwalach filmowych na całym świecie.

ALEXIS BERG is a French photographer and director. He works particularly on extreme running races all over the world.
AURÉLIEN DELFOSSE is a French reporter for "L'Équipe". He specializes in mountain sports.

MICHAEL GINTHOER is a writer, known for Zen and Zero (2006).

DARIUSZ ZAŁUSKI urodził się 4 sierpnia 1959 roku w Warszawie. Jest polskim alpinistą, himalaistą, taternikiem, a także reżyserem, scenarzystą i fotografem. Zdobył pięć ośmiotysięczników, w tym K2 oraz (dwukrotnie) Mount Everest. Załuski tworzy głównie dokumenty o tematyce górskiej. Jego przygoda z filmem górskim rozpoczęła się w 1997 roku od kręcenia zdjęć na ostatniej wyprawie kierowanej przez Andrzeja Zawadę. Obecnie ma na swoim koncie kilkanaście filmów dokumentujących wyprawy górskie, których bohaterami jest wielu czołowych polskich i zagranicznych himalaistów. Filmografia: 2019 Ostatnia góra, 2015 Lago de los Polacos, 2013 Two on K2, 2010 Bieg Kukuczki, 2008 Moje Camino, 2006 Everest. Przesunąć horyzont, 2004 Ciao Martina.

Born in Palamós in 1965, JOSEP SERRA graduated in Information Sciences (UAB) and works as director and director of documentaries and television formats. He’s been working in the audiovisual field since 1990 with experience in media such as TV3 and Catalunya Ràdio. He has also collaborated with Gestmusic Endemol, the producer Arcadia Motion Pictures, Ottokar and Agence Capa, producing reports and directing documentaries. In addition, he also teaches at the Pompeu Fabra University and different schools. Some of the documentary films he has made for television are The Seeds of Anger, Alzheimers - living in oblivion, The Peacemaker or Any day after 9/11, among others. In the cinema he has released The Man Who Started Running (2015) and the recent film by Kilian Jornet, Path to Everest (2018).

GUILLAUME BROUST is an award-winning filmmaker, with twenty years of outdoor film-making experience in the most far off, extreme locations in the world. He has been working for Petzl for the past fifteen years, producing most of the climbing and mountaineering movies, besides the famous Petzl RocTrips. Guillaume is also paragliding pilot, climber, skier, kite-surfer and basically everything you can bring in the mountains.

IBAN GONZALEZ PAGALDAI is a Basque film director, passionate about nature, society, photography and author of more than 25 documentaries, TV shows, music videos and commercials.

JOSH LOWELL has been climbing and making movies about climbing almost as long as you’ve been watching them. Remember Rampage (1999), Dosage Volume 1 (2001), Pilgrimage (2003), Dosage Volume 2 (2004), Dosage Volume 3 (2005), King Lines (2007)? Superstar talents like Chris Sharma, Katie Brown, Tommy and Beth Caldwell, Jason Kehl and Obe Carrion have made all of their projects BIG when it comes to high flying sports action. A-team talent combined with high quality visuals and stunning footage make Big Up Productions one of the leading climbing movie producers out there. Over the last 20 years Josh has climbed in exotic places all over the world but will always call his local crags of the East Coast, like the Shawangunks, home.
ZACHARY BARR began his career at Sender Films with a trip to Mt. Everest that resulted in the multiple-award winning film High Tension. He brought a decade of experience in public media and storytelling - starting at the NPR oral-history project StoryCorps, and then producing and reporting for Colorado Public Radio. Zac earned a degree in history from Lewis and Clark College and a certificate in documentary radio from the Salt Institute in Maine. He now hopes to share his love of climbing with his two sons, who insist on bringing plenty of books and crackers to the crag.
PETER MORTIMER is the founder of Sender Films, which he started as a do-it-yourself rock climbing video production project in 1999. Peter was joined at Sender by his college friend Nick Rosen in 2004, and over the last decade the two have enlisted an amazing team to help grow Sender into a leading global adventure film company that produces acclaimed feature-length documentaries, cutting-edge television series and a variety of commercials.

CEDAR WRIGHT and TAYLOR KEATING are two Boulder adventure filmmakers who put humor and self deprecation first, keeping their stories a little bit humble, and a lot low budget. Cedar is a longtime professional climber for The North Face and has married his love for adventure with his love for storytelling. Taylor is also a climber, but makes a grand total of $0 for doing so. Together they make up Cedar Wright Productions, a production house dedicated to the 5 hour work week and passion projects.

PETER MORTIMER is the founder of Sender Films, which he started as a do-it-yourself rock climbing video production project in 1999. Peter was joined at Sender by his college friend Nick Rosen in 2004, and over the last decade the two have enlisted an amazing team to help grow Sender into a leading global adventure film company that produces acclaimed feature-length documentaries, cutting-edge television series and a variety of commercials.
ZACHARY BARR began his career at Sender Films with a trip to Mt. Everest that resulted in the multiple-award winning film High Tension. He brought a decade of experience in public media and storytelling - starting at the NPR oral-history project StoryCorps, and then producing and reporting for Colorado Public Radio. Zac earned a degree in history from Lewis and Clark College and a certificate in documentary radio from the Salt Institute in Maine. He now hopes to share his love of climbing with his two sons, who insist on bringing plenty of books and crackers to the crag.
NICK ROSEN is a partner, writer and producer at Sender Films. He is the director, with his partner Peter Mortimer, of the Emmy-winning documentary film Valley Uprising, and a co-creator of the globally acclaimed REEL ROCK films and tour. Nick began working as a writer/producer/director with Sender Films in 2005, and since then has created feature films and TV programs for NBC, The Weather Channel, National Geographic Channels International and The New York Times Online.

MATT PYCROFT is the Creative Director of Coldhouse. He has had an incredibly diverse career, having worked in sub-Saharan Africa on research based film projects for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the United Nations, right through to being the filmmaker and photographer attached to world class expeditions to remote parts of the world, including Arctic Greenland, Alaska, Patagonia and Pakistan. Matt co-founded Coldhouse with the idea of creating a company of like-minded individuals that produced authentic, narrative led content in the outdoors.

ALASTAIR LEE is British adventure film maker with more awards than he can hit in his office. Credits include the Asgard Project, The Last Great Climb and The Prophet all featuring Leo Houlding who is a world renowned climber, expedition leader and film maker.

JÉRÉMY FRAY is a documentary director. He gained his reputation thanks to the 3 programs: “Wild Trip” (for National Geographic and France 5), “7 days in Kigali, the Week when Rwanda Fell Down” and “Surf the Line”. In 2018, he achieved one season of “Champs de Bataille” as well as two documentaries in Madagascar: “La tentation politique” and “Bien plus qu’une école”. Jérémy is also a photography director, especially in “Human” and “Woman” feature films of Yann Arthus-Bertrand. With Yann, he did shorts programs about deforestation in Madagascar, biogas in India, agroecology in Africa. Jérémy is also developing many projects for tv and for the web. He cooperates with the following NGOs: IFAW (Fight Against Animals Traffic), GoodPlanet, Action Contre La Faim, etc. Jérémy always work with the same filming team and post production. His purpose: sensibilize by the image and the story, give evidence and transmit the truth.

GRANT BALDWIN is a documentary director and cinematographer, but he began his film career producing music for the screen. His documentary The Clean Bin Project won 9 festival awards and has screened around the world. Then Just Eat It premiered at Hot Docs in 2014 (winning Emerging Canadian Filmmaker), went on to broadcast on MSNBC, hit #3 on the US iTunes documentary list and appear on the NY Times Critics List for Best TV Programs of the year. He recently shot with the BBC Planet Earth team and is also in production on a series on search & rescue.

LAURA BELINKY – urodzona w São Paulo w Brazylii reżyserka filmowa i montażystka. Absolwentka studiów filmowych na Uniwersytecie w Londynie (2013). Pracuje głównie przy krótkich filmach fabularnych i edukacyjnych.

IGNASI LÓPEZ was born in Barcelona in 1972. He graduated at the Art and Design Centre Escola Massana of Barcelona in 1993. From 1998 to 2006 he had several painting exhibitions, at Sala Parés Arts Gallery, Cadaqués Gallery in Barcelona and at the Octogono Gallery in Asturias. One of Ignasi’s passions is the cinema and he changed the paint brush for the camera. In 2014 he did his first shortfilm, "Projecte inbestigadó", which won the best Script Prize at the Festival Enmut in Barcelona. Afterwards he was interested in doing animation, so he began experimenting and self-learning the animation techniques. One of his first stop-motion animation shorfilms, "Criaturitas", which he finished on 2016, was selected in more than 70 festivals around the world. His last shortfilm is "Viacruxis" (2018) – a story about two mountaneers which completion took him 1,5 year.

EMEKA previously directed “Like A Wolf” (“Best Mountain Sport Film” at Vancouver International Mountain Film Festival and finalist at Banff Mountain Film Festival). The film documents Kit DesLauriers’ journey to become the first person to ski from the summit of the highest peak on each of the seven continents. Emeka is the founder of MONTAGE, a New York-based production company. MONTAGE develops original digital productions, celebrating adventurers, artists and writers. We create trailers to promote new books or artistic events, and films to document great outdoor adventures or impactful human projects. At the root of MONTAGE is a passion for storytelling. Through our trailers and films, we aim to stir excitement about “explorers” of real or fictional worlds and “dreamers” with inspiring visions.

In his career, MICHAEL BROWN has excelled as both adventure athlete and as a filmmaker. He has been to the summit of Mount Everest five times, each time with cameras rolling. His work as a director and cinematographer spans all seven continents and won many festival & industry awards including three national Emmy Awards from five nominations. Michael is also a recipient of the International Alliance For Mountain Films Grand Prize, the Grand Prize at the Banff Mountain Film Festival, and the Giant Screen Cinema Association (IMAX) Outstanding Cinematography Award. Michael has made a habit of going to the worlds harshest, most dangerous environments and always comes back with incredible footage and compelling stories. Outside Magazine describes the cerebral filmmaker as a "swashbuckling librarian," and Mens Journal calls him "a master of gut-dropping action." Michael lives in Boulder, Colorado with his wife Julia and their three sons.

MICHAŁ BIELAWSKI – absolwent MISH na Uniwersytecie Warszawskim. Pracował jak dziennikarz w radiu i telewizji. W 2013 r. zadebiutował też jako reżyser dokumentem pełnometrażowym „Mundial. Gra o wszystko”. Otrzymał nagrodę PISF za program telewizyjny „Jedna scena”. W następnych latach zrealizował 3 dokumenty: „1989” o transformacji ustrojowej w Polsce, sportowy dokument „Drużyna” i „W mgnieniu oka” o historii festiwalu filmowego w Gdyni. W 2019 roku zakończył prace nad dokumentem „Wiatr. Thriller dokumentalny”. FILMOGRAFIA: „Wiatr. Thriller dokumentalny” - 2019, Polska-Słowacja, 74 min. „Kibice” - serial dokumentalny, 2016, Polska, 8 odcinków 50 min. „W mgnieniu oka” - dokument, 2015, Polska, 65 min. „Drużyna” – dokument, 2014, Polska, 70 min. „1989” – dokument, 2014, Polska, 60 min. „Mundial. Gra o wszystko” – dokument, 2013, Polska, 94 min.

NICK WAGGONER was born in a back-alley dumpster in New York City and quickly learned how to talk himself out of arrest and into opportunity. Today, Waggoner lends his urban-tempered initiative to Sweetgrass Production as a director and producer. Sweetgrass — a scrappy collection of filmmakers, adventurers, artists and dreamers — has built a reputation in the ski film world by taking creative risks and eschewing helicopter shots. Behind the lens, Waggoner uses his Colorado College bachelor’s degree in documentary film to tell stories through poetic rhythm and soulful narrative. He is the director of Valhalla, Jumbo Wild (Mountainfilm 2016), Darklight (Mountainfilm 2016), The Wolf Pack (Mountainfilm 2018) and many more.