Margje de Koning began her career as a director of broadcast documentaries while teaching documentary at the University of Amsterdam. In 2004 she was appointed to a Commissioning Editor role with a public broadcaster, producing and co-producing 52’ creative documentaries on contemporary social, social-cultural and moral issues with a strong human interest angle. Over the next 15 years she held various roles at IKON including as Head of Documentaries for EOdocs from 2016 to 2019. In September 2019 she became Artistic Director of Movies That Matter. Margje is a voting member of DAFF, EFA and The Academy (Oscars). She takes part in juries, panels and moderates pitching and sessions at film industry events.

Chloe Walters-Wallace [she/her] is a Jamaican creative with a passion for curation, travel, nonfiction media, dancehall, and installation art. As the Director of Regional Initiatives at Firelight Media, her work focuses on amplifying the stories of emerging filmmakers outside of major media hubs. Committed to championing place-based storytelling, she is the creator and executive producer of the award-winning anthology series HOMEGROWN, now in its fourth season, which brings important regional stories to the forefront of the national conversation.

Previously, Chloe led the New Orleans Film Society’s Emerging Voices program and launched its Southern Producers Lab. As a curator, she shaped the Southern Circuit Tour of Independent Filmmakers ’21–’22 season and has programmed BlackStar Film Festival’s Oscar-qualifying documentary shorts program for the past seven years. She is also the co-creator of Third Horizon’s Caribbean Film Academy 2.0 and the Caribbean Think Tank, convening artists, organizations, and leaders across the region to be in conversation despite borders, colonial legacies, and language.

Josie is a creative non-scripted specialist with extensive experience across entertainment, factual and documentary in both production and commissioning roles.  She is a passionate story teller with a drive to create surprising, captivating & innovative content that focuses on social cohesion and purpose while connecting  to audiences.

Josie has previously held the roles of Head of Unscripted at FREMANTLE Australia, Head of Unscripted at the ABC and Head of Production and Development for FOXTEL.  Josie is currently consulting for various independent companies while developing a bespoke slate of shows.

As producer or commissioner, Josie has worked across many award winning productions including SBS’s The Secret DNA of Us, ABC’s The Piano, Love on the Spectrum, Old People’s Home for Four Year Olds, Miriam Margoyles Almost Australian and Tony Armstrongs Extraordinary Things as well as documentaries; Revelation, Ningaloo, Australia’s Ocean Odyssey,  War on Waste and The Pacific.

Gunny’s international career started with Radio Netherlands and ABU (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union) in Malaysia for many years. Gunny also worked for various juries including Shanghai, Chicago and Rio de Janeiro film festivals and as a decision maker for TokyoDocs, IDFA and Canada’s Hot Docs. He also directed several primetime documentary series like Architecture Happiness, Our Urban City and Memories of Sten Bergman. He is currently working as the Artistic Director of EIDF (EBS International DOC Film Festival) and as a Commissioning Editor for EBS. Gunny studied architecture first but went to school again and majored in Mass Communication (Post-BA) and TV & Film Production (MA) in America. He started with the documentary program in EBS and then became one of the founding members of the EIDF (EBS International DOC Film Festival).

Mandy Chang is an award-winning executive producer and a leading figure in international documentary filmmaker. In 2026, she was appointed CEO of the UK’s Documentary Film Council (DFC) where she works to advocate for the documentary sector. Previously, she served as Global Head of Documentaries at Fremantle and as Commissioning Editor of the BBC’s flagship strand Storyville. In a career spanning nearly 3 decades, Chang has directed, produced, executive produced and commissioned over 100 films and series.

Based in Tokyo and New York, Eric is a two-time Oscar, BAFTA, and Emmy-nominated, and Peabody-winning film producer.

He has produced numerous films in Japan and around the world, including Amir Naderi’s Cut, Stephen Nomura Schible’s Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda, Yoichiro Okutani’s Odoriko; Takeshi Fukunaga’s Ainu Mosir, Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s Koshien: Japan’s Field Of Dreams and The Making Of A Japanese, Neo Sora’s Ryuichi Sakamoto | Opus, and Tetsuichiro Tsuta’s Black Ox.  He has also served as an Executive Producer and Consulting Producer on films such as Danial Raim’s The Ozu Diaries, Akio Fujimoto’s Lost Land, and Poh Si Teng’s American Doctor.

In 2024, Sora’s narrative feature debut, Happyend, premiered at Venice and won awards around the world. In 2025, Shiori Ito’s Black Box Diaries and Yamazaki’s Instruments Of A Beating Heart were nominated for Oscars, a historic first for Japanese films in both the Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short categories.