Guenny Pires is a Capeverdian filmmaker born on Fogo Island. He holds a Master's degree in Cinema and Visual Arts by Lusofona University in Porto. He lives in the United States where he develops his cinematic work tending to show the Creole world through his documentaries. His films won prices in many film festivals. He is one of the co-founders of the production company Txan Film Productions & Visual Arts, Inc. which objective is to produce materials related to communities and cultures of African Diaspora, especially these from the Atlantic Islands: Cape Verde, São Tomé and Príncipe, the Caribbean. His work contains of the following documentaries:

Sol de Carvalho is a Mozambican director and journalist, born in 1953. He grew up in Inhambane province and studied journalism in Portugal in the early 70´s. After the 25th of April, he returned to Mozambique where he joined the liberation movement FRELIMO. At the time, he was the head of the National Service of Radio Mozambique and later on joined Mia Couto and Albino Magaia in the magazine Tempo. He was one of the founders of the project Kuxakanema and, in 1984, worked as a production assistant in the first Mozambican film in co-production between Mozambique and Yugoslavia. From 1986 onwards, he works exclusively with cinema. Was one of the founding members (along with Pedro Pimenta and Licínio de Azevedo) of the production company Ébano Multimedia and later on he ...

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.