After studying English, German Literature, and Theatre at FU Berlin, Neumann worked as a freelance film journalist. In 1994, he co-founded the Oldenburg International Film Festival, celebrated by Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, and Screen International as "The European Sundance." In 2001, he produced "99euro-films," premiering at Berlinale 2002. His collaboration with filmmaker RP Kahl yielded "Bedways" (2010), rated by Der Spiegel among the top 10 films internationally. In 2017, he received Best Script and Best Film nominations at Munich and Tallinn Black Nights for "A Thought of Ecstasy." Recent credits include "When Susan Sontag sat in the Audience" (2021), "One-Way Ticket to the Other Side" (2024), and co-producer on Jan Cvitkovic's "Hotel Alcohol," due 2026.

Leonie Chima Emeka is an art historian, curator and author with a focus on postcolonial theory and histories.

In 2025 she curated exhibitions and performances at Parfümerie, Frankfurt and at Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren. She is currently working for the Art Collection at the Crespo Foundation where she assisted Mario Kramer for the curation of the show "Die Zeit hat Keine Zentrum" (2024-2026). She has undertaken provenance research on the Chokwe-Collection of Hermann Baumann at the Anthropological Museum Berlin. Her texts and essays have appeared in magazines, catalogues and magazines such as African Arts and Positionen. Texte zur zeitgenössischen Musik.

Sita Scherer is a cultural scholar and filmmaker with a focus on documentary film, essay film, and contemporary moving image, and works in curatorial selection processes in the context of film. She studied cultural studies in Hildesheim, Caldas da Rainha (Portugal) and Leipzig, as well as visual communication in the film and moving image class of Prof. Jan Peters at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, where she graduated with honours. She has been working as a freelance filmmaker since 2018. Her works have been shown internationally and have received multiple awards, including the 2015 Open Frame Award at the goEast Festival for the video installation Essen vom Boden der Geschichte. Since 2022, she has been a member of the selection committee for feature-length documentaries at the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, and since 2024 she has held a coordinating role. She is currently developing the documentary film Ruf das Schweigen, bis es antwortet.

Saul Judd is an independent curator based in Frankfurt, Germany. Since 2010 he has been responsible for the video art section of the LICHTER Filmfest Frankfurt International. He conceived exhibitions with artists such as Keren Cytter and Mike Bouchet in the context of the festival until he created the LICHTER Art Award in 2011.

He started to curate the LICHTER Short Films International program in 2015. Among his projects is dont-miss.net, a multidisciplinary exhibition series in Frankfurt, 2000-2001; BLANK SLATE a publication about art, architecture and design and in 2016, SCHAUT! - a series of exhibitions of contemporary art film and video art at the MAL SEH’N movie theater in Frankfurt. In 2017 he presented the artist John Skoog and 2024 Florencia Levy as a guest curator for the Double Feature at Schirn Kunsthalle. In 2024, took part in the jury for the international RhineMain short film at the 24th goEast Film Festival.