Gwen.n is a former dancer, graduated from SNDO Amsterdam. She specialized in dance/ performance art, combining it with video, location work and installations. The work was shown at (inter) national dance festivals and museums, like Dancas Na Cidade and Museum Boymans van Beuningen. She trained dancers of the Royal Ballet of Flanders and worked for Jan Fabre. Gwen.n has always been working with photography and during the Master’s programme shifted her working field to cinema. She developed herself as a filmmaker because film is the ultimate medium with which she can show her internal world and can precisely stage her perceived reality; to light and capture the world and transform her dreamscapes and surrealistic realities into work that the viewer can relate to. The main theme of her work is alienation, addiction and translation of autobiography into fiction.

Eyal Sivan, is a documentary filmmaker and theoretician. Sivan directed more than 10 worldwide awarded political documentaries and produced many others. His cinematographic body of work was shown and awarded various prizes in prestigious festivals. Beside worldwide theatrical releases and TV broadcasts, Sivan's films are regularly exhibited in major art shows around the world. He publishes and lectures on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, documentary filmmaking and ethics, political crimes and representation, political use of memory, genocide and representation. He is the founder and artistic director of the Paris based documentary films production company momento! and the film distribution agency Scalpel. Presently Sivan in an Honorary Fellow at Univerty of Exeter UK, he is teaching at the Master in Film at the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam and he is member of the editorial board of the Paris based publishing house La Fabrique Editions.

Mieke Bernink studied philosophy and psychology. From 1991 to 1999, she served as chief editor of the Dutch film & visual culture magazine Skrien. From 2001 till September 2008, she played a significant role in the development of the Dutch government’s film policy, as Secretary of Film and Media Education at the Netherlands Council for Culture. In 2008 she became head of research (lector) at the Netherlands Film Academy and set up a Master’s Degree Programme in Film. Apart from her work at the Film Academy she's member of advisory committees at the Netherlands Film Fund (until January 2013), the Dutch Media Fund and the Go Short Film Festival. In addition to countless articles, her list of publications comprises a number of books, which she compiled and edited, including the second edition of 'The Cinema Book', a standard textbook used in British film and media courses (BFI 1999).

Prof. Wiers is full professor of developmental psychopathology at the University of Amsterdam. He is internationally known for his work on implicit cognitive processes in addiction. He published over 150 international papers and many books and book-chapters. He received the prestigious VIDI (2002) and VICI (2008) research grants from the Dutch National Science Foundation (N.W.O.) for research on implicit cognition and addiction. With Alan Stacy, he edited the Handbook of Implicit Cognition and Addiction (SAGE, 2006). He is senior editor of the no 1 ranked journal in the field of substance abuse (Addiction) and on the editorial board of several other Addiction journals.