Hanne Robenhagen, borne in 1958, is the Section Head of Leadership and Organisational Development in Copenhagen Municipality Administration of Culture and Leisure. Her main occupation includes being a Process and HR consultant, worked in the Systemic and Narrative Community Development, she had contributed in modernizing the public sector through value leadership and process-consultation. In 1983, she graduated MSC. Cultural Sociology in Copenhagen University with a Masterthesis on ”Analysis of Photo and slides as means of Communication Coss cultures”, which was based on the experience of showing the ”Ifugao – a world apart” in schools in Denmark. She has also made a documentary during 1983 on the Philippines on change and culture, from the Ifugao, and the writings on Dam Project in Sarawak. In 1984, she developed a general interest and information work on the Philippines in Denmark. Since the 1990s, she has attended various film festivals in London, Motovun and Edinburg.

Jobin Ballesteros is a critically-acclaimed filmmaker who had won awards such as the 2006 Ishmael Bernal Award for Young Cinema and the Crystal Playa Award for Best Short Film for his film The Ballad of Mimion’s Minion, an award for Best Sound and Best Editing with Lawrence Fajardo for the film Raket ni Nanay as one of the Cinemaone Originals. He had participated in the Nordisk Ungdoms Film Festival 07, Norway (for “The Last Boy Riding”), the 8th Cinemanila International Film Festival (for “The Ballad of Mimiong’s Minion”), the 2006 Golden Lion Film Festival, Swaziland (for “The Ballad of Mimiong’s Minion”), and the 1st ASEAN Film Festival (for “The Ballad of Mimiong’s Minion”). He had attended workshops in the Philippines and in abroad, a few of which are the Nuff Filmmaking Workshop in Tromso, Norway; the Mowelfund Cinematography Workshop; the Mowelfund Summer Photography Workshop; the NCCA  Theatre Arts Management Workshop; the Philippine Centennial  Theater  Festival and Conference; and the Philippine International Theater Festival and Conference. He is currently part of The Wild Coyote S.G. Production Company.

Laura Gerber was born in Berlin in 1980 and completed postgraduate studies in Cultural and Social Anthropology with an emphasis on documentary filmmaking, Visual Anthropology and arts. Parallel to her studies, she held several jobs for both film festivals and film productions. Since 2007 she is the director  and head of the South East Asia section of „asian hot shots berlin“, the first festival for independent film and video art in Berlin. In October 2007 she starts teaching a course on filmmaking in South East Asia.