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 ...

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.