Brandon Jourdan

Brandon Jourdan is an award-winning independent filmmaker, journalist, and writer. His film, the July War, is based on the 2006 war in Lebanon and the consequences of the war. Jourdan has contributed to the NY Times, CNN, Babelgum, Reuters, Deep Dish TV, Democracy Now!, the Independent Media Center, Now with Bill Moyers, Foreign Exchange, and Free Speech Television. He is currently based in the Netherlands, where he is working on a film about reactions to the financial crisis.

• activism,
• video activism

Florian Schneider

Florian Schneider is a filmmaker, writer, and developer in the fields of new media, networking and open source technologies. In his work he focuses on bordercrossings between mainstream and independent media, art and activism, theory and technology.

• migration,
• no border,
• dictionary of war,
• borders

 Big Noise Films

Big Noise Films is a collective of media-makers around the world, dedicated to circulating beautiful, passionate, revolutionary images.

• tactical media,
• independent media,
• media criticism,
• cinema

Micz Flor

Micz Flor is a flexecutive cultural producer and media developer with a special interest in video and streaming media.

• culture,
• radio,
• community media,
• grassroot journalism,
• streaming media

Drazen Pantic

Mathematician and open-source developer Drazen Pantic was deeply involved with Serbian Radio B92 in Pozarevac, Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's home town.

Nina Czegledy

Moderator of Enduring Post Communism: Networks of Patronage- An independent media artist, curator and writer, Nina Czegledy has been involved in collaborative international projects and cultural exchange focusing on Eastern European initiatives since the mid eighties.

Menno Grootveld

Menno Grootveld ran a pirate tv-station (Rabotnik TV) in the early eighties, which later became one of the first legal local broadcasters in Amsterdam.

• tactical media,
• grassroot journalism,
• activism,
• independent media