Veronika Janatková is a film producer, director and dramaturgist. She has been active mainly in the field of documentary films, focusing on social-political driven narratives. Her directing debut is a documentary film Ticket to the Moon dealing with utopias in the context of space explorations in the time of cosmic spring. The film is a German co-production with Kloos&Co. Medien, ARTE/ZDF and the Czech television and has been supported by Creative Europe.
Veronika is running the production company Pandistan based in Prague. She has co-founded the DokuBaku Film Festival in Azerbaijan in 2017 and Veronika has been programming its first 4 years. Since 2021 the company is also co-organising the training workshop for documentary filmmakers KinoLab in Baku.
From 2019 till 2022 Veronika was the executive director of the tranzit.cz initiative running the international biennale of contemporary art in Prague Matter of Art.
Pavel Borecký (Prague, 1986) is a social anthropologist, audiovisual ethnographer and film curator. Pavel’s latest films Solaris (2015) and In the Devil's Garden (2018) focused on the consumption culture in Estonia and the question of decolonisation in the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic. Living Water is his first feature documentary film.
Jón Bjarki Magnússon is a filmmaker with background in anthropology, journalism and poetry. He studied creative writing at the University of Iceland and received his MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität, Berlin, in 2018. His works include award-winning journalism on the conditions of refugees and asylum-seekers in Iceland, a book of poetry, and a short film on friendship in cyberspace, Even Asteroids Are Not Alone (2018), which was awarded Royal Anthropological Institute´s (RAI) & Marsh Short Film Prize for ‘the most outstanding short film on social, cultural and biological anthropology or archaeology’ in 2019. Jón Bjarki´s journalistic work has appeared on various international media platforms such as Slate Magazine and the German investigative centre of Correctiv. He is a regular contributor to the Icelandic bi-weekly newspaper Stundin, and does project work for Filmmaking For Fieldwork (F4F™), an educational project offering training in audio-visual research methods, ethnographic and documentary filmmaking. He is the founder of SKAK BÍÓFILM, a small Icelandic production company dedicated to making anthropological and artistic films. Jón Bjarki shares his time between Berlin and Reykjavík.