Fernando Vendrell is a Portuguese film director and producer born in Lisbon in 1962. He got his degree in cinema from Superior Institute of Theater and Cinema in Lisbon (1985) and during many years worked as an assistant with many great Portuguese directors, among which Manoel de Oliveira and César Monteiro. In 1992, he founded cinema company David & Golias. He produced Fernando Trueba's Belle Epoque which won Oscar for The Best Foreign Film in 1994 and Zézé Gamboa's films O Herói (2004) e O Grande Kilapy (2012). He directed Fintar o Destino (1998, Cheat On the Destiny), O Jogo da Glória (2001, Game Of Glory), O Gotejar da Luz (2002, Dripping Of the Light), Pele (2005, Skin), Pedro Canhestros (2013) and short films 14 de Fevereiro (2002, 14th of February), Almirante Reis (2002), As Minhas Férias (2004, My Holidays).

Jorge António is a Portuguese director and producer with a long work experience in Angola. He was born in Lisbon on 8th of June 1966 and graduated in cinema producing from Superior Insitute of Theater and Cinema in 1988. He works as a director and producer in Portugal and Angola and collaborates with film companies and magazines in both countries. In 1991, he started his work as a director with short documentary O Funeral (The Funeral) and in 1993 directed his first full-length film and the first Luso-Angolan co-production O Miradouro da Lua (The Viewpoint Of the Moon). Between 2007 and 2009, he was consultant for the foreign affairs in the Angolan Institute of Cinema, Audiovisual and Multimedia and member of the executive commission of the First International Film Festival ...

Margarida Cardoso, a Portuguese film director, was born in Tomar in 1963 and grew up in Mozambique. She studied Photography, Image and Audiovisual Communication at the António Arroio School of Arts, Lisbon. Between 1985 and 1995, she worked as an assistant director for more than 50 films in Portugal and abroad. Since 2004, she is professor of Cinema, Video and Multimedia Communication at Lusofona University in Lisbon. In 1995, she started directing her own films that explore subjects which cross her personal history experiences and prominent issues in recent Portuguese history, such as, the colonial war in Africa, the revolution, and the post-colonialism years. In her filmography films as Natal 71/Christmas 71, Kuxa Kanema -The Birth of Cinema, The Murmuring Coast and Yvone Kane are to be mentioned. Her curriculum and ...