Zézé Gamboa is an Angolan filmmaker, born in Luanda in 1955. For many years, he worked as a producer and director for the Angolan television. In 1984, he got a degree in Sound Engeneering by Nécipone, in Paris, and in 1991 he directed his first documentary Mopiopio, Sopro de Angola (Mopiopio, Breath of Angola), which won several prizes at the festival FESPACO and at the Milan African Film Festival. Till the date, he directed documentaries Dissidência (Dissidence, 1998), Desassossego de Pessoa (Pessoa's Disquiet, 1999), Burned by Blue (1999) and three fiction films: the short film Bom Dia, África (Good Morning, Africa, 2009) and two feature films: O Herói (The Hero, 2004) e O Grande Kilapy (The Great Kilapy, 2012). O Herói won the World Cinema Juri Prize at the 2005 Sundance Festival, in the USA.

Orlando Fortunato de Oliveira was born on March 20th, 1946 in Benguel. He is considered to be one one of the pioneers of Angolan cinema. He got a degree in science and geophysics by Catholic University of America and in cinema by London International Film School. His films portray the era of colonialism. He is author of several documentaries, such as Um Caso Nosso (1978, Our Case), Memória de um Dia (1982, Memory Of One Day), which tells the story of the Icolo and Bengo massacre, or Agostino Neto (2000). It took more than fifteen years for his first feature film, Comboio da Cañhoca (The Train of Cañhoca, 1989) to be shown due to political reasons. In 2010, he completed Batepá, about the massacre in São Tomé. 

Kiluanje Liberdade is an Angolan documentary director born in Benguela. In 1996, he finished professional course in Cinevideo at the Academy of Arts & Technologies and started to work in cinematographic production. He is co-director of many short and long documentaries about urban and artistic/musical life in Angola and São Tomé (with Inês Gonçalves). With the Angolan writer Ondjaki, he co-directed Histórias de Luanda – Oxalá, Cresçam as Pitangas. Kiluanje is co-director of the following documentaries: Outros Bairros (Other Quarters, 1998, with Inês Gonçalves and Vasco Pimentel), Histórias de Luanda – Oxalá Cresçam Pitangas (Stories from Luanda – Let the Pitangas Grow, 2007, with Ondjaki), Tchiloli – Máscaras e Mitos (Tchiloli – Masks and Myths, 2009, with Inês Gonçalves), Luanda, a Fábrica da Música (Luanda, the Fabric of Music, 2009 ...