Peter Leuprecht is an international law expert. He earned Deputy Secretary-General of the venerable Council of Europe in 1993. He resigned 4 years later on a matter of principle. He was visiting professor at McGill University and UQÀM, advisor to the Department of Justice Canada and dean to the McGill University Faculty of Law. From 2004 to 2008, he was Director to the Institut d’Études Internationales de Montréal (IEIM) and taught public international law at UQAM’s legal sciences department. He is also a member of four “Wise persons” on human rights to the European Union. From 2000-2005, he was Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the UN for human rights in Cambodia. He was awarded the “Prix du Civisme Européen” in 1991 and, in 2001 he received the Human Rights Award of the Lord Reading Law Society.

Diego is a Colombian-born writer, director, editor and producer based in Montreal. Since 1996 he has been a very active film and video maker with a strong focus on social cinema and issues of exploitation, marginalization and North-South relations. Along Yanick Létourneau, he co-founded, Périphéria, an established production company and more recently he initiated Makila, a Multimedia coop specialized in interactive video production. He is currently pursuing his career as an independent director and producer, working on new fiction and non-fiction ventures and starting to explore alternative collaborative production models for new media. His works: A Saddletree (2000, 49 min); Things Never Said in Playa Perdida (2001, 25 min); Souvenir Kids (2005, 80 min); Midnight Ballads, (2007, 52 min) presented at the MHRFF 2008.

Producer, director, originally from Sweden, Annika Gustafson moved to Canada in 1995 to pursue a degree in cinema. She also holds an international MBA specialized in film producing from l’ESCP in Paris, France and Lund University, Sweden. She has worked as a producer, director and camerawoman in both Sweden and Canada. She’s currently in pre-production of SH*T! – a documentary about the global sanitation crises, and Are There Chillies in St Jérôme? – the second part of the saga of the Bhutanese refugees she followed in her award winning film Killing Time.