Vanessa Schlesier is a journalist and award-winning documentary filmmaker. She works as a director, author and camerawoman for international media including ARTE, ARD, ZDF and PBS Frontline. Previously she was an investigative reporter for Die WELT and Spiegel TV. Her work takes her to conflict regions such as Afghanistan, Syria and the DRC. She focuses on human rights, migration and the perspectives of women in authoritarian contexts.

Milan Vukelić, is a Belgrade-based journalist, born in 1982. He spent the last 19 years working at different newsrooms, most of which were daily newspapers of news portals. His first job was at Blic, a newspaper led by the legendary Serbian editor Veselin Vesa Simonovic. Today, he is an executive editor at Nova.rs, a major Serbian news portal. He is an obsessive consumer of all kinds of media content, and an even more obsessive consumer of music.