John Canciani (Scotland/Italy/Switzerland) joined Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur in 2009 and became Artistic Director in 2012. He also curates at Kino Cameo Winterthur, holds an MA in Curating (ZHdK), and has published various texts on short films. He is a member of the Swiss and European Film Academies, co-founded Pro Short, serves on the Short Film Conference board, and since 2019, sits on the visions sud est board, selecting feature and documentary projects as expert. He advises festivals, film schools and filmmakers.

Daniela Persico (Treviso, 1981) is film critic and programmer, based in Milan. She is the Head of special events and she is part of the selection committee of Locarno Film Festival. She’s founder and editor in chief of the online quarterly Filmidee ( www.filmidee.it ) and she manages the Filmidee Summer School. She’s in the selection’s committee of International Film Festival Mannheim Heidelberg (Germany), she is consultant for Nara Film Festival (Japon), Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy) and ISreal – Festival di cinema del reale (Nuoro, Italy). She wrote essays for various collective books and edited books on the work of Claire Simon (2008), Wang Bing (2010), Ross McElwee (2013) and Emmanuel Carrère (2014). In 2022, she was appointed artistic director of the 40th edition of the Bellaria Film Festival.

Stefanie Rusterholz is Co-head of the Swiss film distributor trigon-film. The film foundation trigon-film has been releasing carefully selected films from Latin America, Asia, Africa and Eastern Europe since 1988 and runs its own DVD edition and the streaming platform filmingo.