After obtaining her Master’s degree in Media and Marketing Sciences from the University of Geneva, Anna worked for several years in the banking sector, mainly as a project leader. In 2013 she undertook a career shift willing to invest her skills and knowledge into documentary producing. She graduated successfully from École Documentaire de Lussas in France and attended several European workshops for producers and filmmakers. Since 2015 documentary sales and distribution snapped her for the better and she now oversees all activities at Lightdox, with special care for Theatrical, TV and Festivals sales, and Impact Distribution.

Heejung Oh is the founder/producer at Seesaw Pictures, a boutique production and sales company in Seoul with a slate of award-winning films. She has produced documentary and fiction films that have strong records both in theatrical release and international festivals such as Berlinale, IDFA, CPH:DOX, and many more. She is working with young and established filmmakers with artistic visions and powerful questions. She is specialised in international co-production and an alumna of Eurodoc, Rotterdam Lab, and Berlinale Talents.

Derren Lawford is the founder and CEO of DARE Pictures, a transnational studio launched in January 2022, dedicated to creating premium, inclusive and impactful content. During a career spanning over 25 years Derren has helped to launch two UK TV channels, two production divisions and the first Black national radio station in the UK and was part of the team behind the BAFTA award-winning film, The Black Cop. Prior to DARE Pictures, he was Creative Director at Woodcut Media, where he played a pivotal role in the creation of over 300 hours of TV and executive produced a trio of documentaries that sold to Netflix – the BFI funded feature documentary Generation Revolution, as well as Mandela, My Dad and Me, and Cut From A Different Cloth, both co-produced with Idris Elba. Over the past 5 years he has also independently helped develop and mentor 20 plus feature documentaries worldwide, including most recently Reporter/Refugee winner of the 10th ARD Documentary film competition in 2021.

Derren entered the industry as a trained journalist before helping to launch youth TV channel, whereits.at and then joining the BBC where he worked for over 10 years. There he helped to launch radio station 1Xtra, SVOD service BBC Global iPlayer, secured a number of BBC Three documentary commissions. He subsequently became the first Multiplatform Editor for BBC One’s Panorama and the Multiplatform Executive Producer for the award-winning BBC Three series Our War. In addition to his role at DARE Pictures, Derren is a Trustee for Sheffield Doc/Fest, the Black Cultural Archives, and a mentor for international feature documentary filmmakers as part of the Documentary Campus Masterschool programme.