Isabel Noronha is one of the first female cinema directors in Mozambique. She was born in Maputo in 1964. In 1984, she joined the National Institute of Cinema. She is a founding member of the Video Independent Company (Coopimagem) and of Mozambican Association of Filmmakers. She has a degree in Clinical Psychology (ISPU, Mozambique) and a Master's Degree in Mental Health and Social Clinic (University of Leon, Spain). As a film director, she worked on the following documentaries: Assim na cidade (As in Town, 1992), Sonhos guardados (Kept Dreams, 2004) and Ngwenya, o crocodilo (Ngwenya the Alligator, 2007), which won the best documentary of Africa, Asia and Latin America prize in the Film Festival of Milan, Italy. These documentaries are about the construction of a social identity of the Mozambican society ...

João Ribeiro is a Mozambican director and producer. His parents were from Cape Verde and he was born in the province of Zambézia (Mozambique). In Quelimane (Zambézia, Mozambique), he was the delegate of National Institute of Cinema, managing 5 cinemas and, as a hobby, he started working with photography and video. In 1987, he moved to Maputo where he started working as the Head of Archives of the National Institute of Cinema and later on as the Production Coordinator. He graduated in Movie and Television production at the Superior School of Cinema and Television (San António de los Baños, Cuba). At the end of his course, he produced his first short film called Fogota. In Mozambique he joined the production company Ebano Multimedia and directed his second short film: O Olhar ...

Licínio Azevedo, born in Porto Alegre (Brazil), in 1951, is a cinema producer and director based in Mozambique since 1975. He is a notable filmmaker in the Mozambican cinema scene and one of the founding members of the production company Ebano Multimedia. He is the producer and director of several worldwide award winning fiction and documentary films. He is the author of the following films: A Colheita Do Diabo (The Devil´s Harvest, 1988), Marracuene (1990), Adeus RDA (Farewell DDR 1992), A Árvore dos Antepassados (The Tree of the Ancestors, 1994), A Guerra da Água (The War of the Water, 1996), Tchuma Tchato (1997), Massassane (1998), A Última Prostituta (The Last Prostitute, 1999), Histórias Comunitárias (Community Stories, 2000) A Ponte (The Bridge, 2001), Eclipse (Eclipse, 2002), Desobediência (Disobedience, 2002), Mãos de Barro (Hands of Clay, 2003), Acampamento de Desminagem (Demining Camp, 2005), O Grande Bazar (The Great ...