Coordinator of the Documentation and Information Centre at Cinemateca Portuguesa-Museu do Cinema since June 1998. She has a degree in Social Communication (scientific branch) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences / Universidade Nova de Lisboa (1989-1994); a postgraduate degree in Documentation Sciences from the Faculty of Letters / Universidade de Lisboa (2003-2005). Author of several articles on non-film collections, curator of temporary exhibitions and editorial coordinator of the collection of writings on cinema by João Bénard da Costa (published by the Cinemateca, 2018-2024). She coordinated Cinemateca’s participation in the European Film Gateway project (2008-2011) and the Cinem@TIC Project, which consisted of bringing together all the Cinemateca’s databases and developing its first web portal, Félix, launched in February 2024.

Stephen Boyd lectures at IADT in the study of Film and Screen Media, with a focus on Global Cinemas, Irish Cinema, and film history and theory. He previously taught at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin and he has published on numerous topics relating to Irish cinema and popular culture. Stephen has directed a film on 35mm with full cast and crew, and has taught and organized educational courses for the Irish Film Institute. He has also been a regular film critic on Irish radio. He received his MA in Film Studies from University College Dublin, and is currently engaged in his PhD at Trinity College Dublin on the economics of Irish surf films. His most recent publication is titled Beyond the Noise: The Subcultural Politics of Irish Surf Films (https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17430437.2024.2334599).

Dr. Michael Connerty is a lecturer in film and animation history at IADT. He has also taught on film and media studies programmes at Griffith College and Trinity College, Dublin. He completed his PhD at Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2018 and his subsequent monograph, The Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats, was published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2021. He has published articles on early British comics and Hollywood animation.

Robbrecht Desmet is an audiovisual artist, researcher, and educator based in Brussels. He holds a PhD in the arts from the University of Leuven and LUCA School of Arts, with his doctoral project ‘The World is Really There’ focusing on documentary film, urban space, and the intersections of film, dance, and performance. His work includes the essayistic documentaries ‘Internal Clock’ (2021) and ‘The Open Eye’ (2023), both set in Brussels. The works explore the social construct of co-creation and the interior of artistic rehearsal spaces, embedded in the city landscape. He is co-editor of ‘Dirk Lauwaert. Selected Writings, 1983-2008’ (Leuven University Press, 2023) and recently published ‘Character, an artist book’ (with Femke Gyselinck and Joris Kritis, 2023), published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König. His films have been shown at major international festivals including the BFI London Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, and Brussels Art Film Festival, among others. He teaches Film Studies and supervises graduate projects at LUCA School of Arts and at the Erasmus Mundus Master FilmMemory program, where he teaches ‘European Screen Studies (I)’.

Leen Engelen is a film and media historian based in Belgium. She is connected to LUCA School of Arts where she teaches in the Erasmus Mundus Masters FilmMemory and the DocNomads, and supervises PhD researchers. In the FilmMemory program she is responsible for the course unit ‘Research Methodologies in Film Heritage, History and Cultures (I)’ in the Brussels’ semester. She has a long track record as a researcher in the field of film and media history. Among other topics, she has published on cinema cultures in the first half of the 20th century, cinema and the First World War, film posters and ephemera, the magic lantern, the panorama and other immersive media, decolonial approaches to media and (virtual) media heritage. As a researcher she is involved in the research unit Inter-Actions (LUCA) and in FILM EU RIT. Leen is a member of the advisory editorial board of the Panorama and Immersive Media Studies Yearbook (PIMS) and the artistic research journal Forum+. She is currently the president of the International Association for Media and History (www.iamhist.net).

Inês Gil completed her PhD in Esthétiques, sciences et technologies des arts in 2002 by Université Paris 8. She obtained Master’s Degree in Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage (Cinematographic and Photographic) in 1994 by the Centre National du Patrimoine (IFROA). She completed a Post-Doctorate in 2010 on cinematographic patina and the use of Portuguese archival films in documentaries. She is an Associate Professor at Universidade Lusófona where she teaches cinema and photography since 2000. In addition to regularly publishing academic articles and participations in congresses to present her researches, she is a director of documentaries and installations in video art and regularly integrates juries of international film festivals.

Davy Hanegreefs has been working on digital projects for cultural institutions since 2005. After his work as Innovation Manager for the federation of the Belgian Booktrade, where he guided publishers, writers and bookstores through their digital innovation processes, he became Head of Innovation and Digital Strategy at Cinematek Brussels. Aside from this, he served as the project manager for I-Media-Cities and was involved in several European projects working on developing Linked Open Data and Artificial Intelligence tools for archives and museums. Since September 2024 he is the Coordinator for the Film related Collections at the Belgian Film Archive.

Indrek Ibrus is a Professor of Media Innovation at Tallinn University’s (TLU) Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM), Estonia. He also curates BFM’s doctoral programme. His research interests include media innovation, the evolution of the internet and Public Service Media, media datafication and the public value of media services and data. He has published on mobile media, media innovation/evolution, metadata evolution, transmedia and cross-media production. He is currently a principal investigator in the Estonian government-funded research project “Public Value of Open Cultural Data”. He has been a co-editor (together with Carlos A. Scolari) of Crossmedia Innovations (Peter Lang, 2012), editor of Emergence of Cross-Innovation Systems (Emerald, 2019) and co-author (with John Hartley and Maarja Ojamaa) of On the Digital Semiosphere (Bloomsbury, 2020). He is also the editor of Baltic Screen Media Review.

Raul Lobanov has a background in sociology, media analytics and development of digital media platforms. He has been working for all of the major media houses in Estonia analyzing digital media data and turning the knowledge into developments and innovations of digital media platforms. During the recent years, he has held various positions at Estonian Public Broadcasting (ERR), focusing on development of VOD services and media analytics. His research interests include television, streaming services, video-on-demand platforms, multidimensional audience studies and media analytics.

Lecturer at the Department of Film and Media Arts of Lusófona University in Lisbon. Currently completing his PhD in Media Arts at Lusófona University. Holds a licentiate degree (BA) in Music Sciences from NOVA University of Lisbon and a masters degree in Multimedia Communication (sound production specialization) from Aberta University. Researcher at CICANT (Univ. Lusófona). AVID Certified Instructor UK (ACI - Pro tools) training at Pinewood Studios (London) and Edinburgh Napier University (Scotland). Music producer, composer and sound designer with extensive experience in film, television and TV commercials (advertising). 

Ksenia Mukhina is a Researcher at Baltic Film, Media and Arts School at Tallinn University. She completed her PhD in Computer Science at ITMO University, where she developed a framework for automatic generation of touristic routes based on social media data. She is currently part of the project 'Cinematic minds behind-the-scenes: A neurophenomenological window to filmmaker's enactive cuing of expectations' where she uses computer vision, deep machine learning and methods of data analysis to explore creator experience and its impact on narrative film content.

Dr. Díóg O'Connell is a film and media lecturer at IADT and a writer and researcher in the field of Irish Cinema, Women in Irish Film, and Archives and Film Heritage. She is the author of 'New Irish Storytellers: Narrative Strategies in Contemporary Irish Film' (2010) and editor of the book 'Documentary in a Changeing State' (2012) and many peer-reviewed papers, articles, and critical reviews as well as a children’s book on Irish Urban Street Games. As a member of the Film EU Research Project in Science / Industry Archive Films, she is involved in ongoing research into historical public discourse, emerging technologies and archive films. She is also researching in the field of Women and Craft in Irish Cinema.

Sarah Vanagt makes documentaries, video installations and photos, in which she combines her interest in history with her interest in (the origins of) cinema. Her work includes films such as ‘After Years of Walking’ (2003), ‘Little Figures’ (2003), ‘The Corridor’ (2010), ‘Dust Breeding’ (2013), ‘Every Tear’ (2018) and ‘Divinations’ (2019) ; and video installations such as ‘Les Mouchoirs de Kabila’ (2005), ‘Power Cut’ (2007), ‘Ash Tree’ (2007), ‘The Wave’ (2012) and ‘Showfish’ (2016). Her work is shown at film festivals (FidMarseille, Viennale, Doclisboa, IDFA, Rencontres Internationales Paris/Madrid/Berlin, Hors Pistes Centre Pompidou), and in museums (Frankfurter Kunstverein, Fact Liverpool, NGBK Berlin, Shedhalle Zürich). The silent short film Girl with a fly (2013) was first shown at the 5th Biennale of Moscow. The films ‘In Waking Hours’ (2015) and ‘Still Holding Still’ (2015) premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam. The installation ‘Showfish’ was presented in M HKA, the Museum for Contemporary Art of Antwerp in October 2016. Vanagt's latest film ‘The Porters’ (2022) premiered at IDFA, Amsterdam (Special Mention / international short film competition). She is currently working on an artwork for a metro station in Brussels and on a new film based on footage she filmed in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the early years of 2000.

Roel Vande Winkel (PhD) is a film and media historian who teaches at LUCA School of Arts and KU Leuven. He worked at the Belgian Royal Film Archive before transitioning to an academic career and is Co-Editor of the 'Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television'. He has published numerous peer-reviewed articles and co-authored several monographs, as well as co-edited volumes, including 'Cinema and the Swastika: The International Expansion of Third Reich Cinema' (with David Welch, 2007, rev. 2011), 'Perspectives on European Film and History' (with Leen Engelen, 2007), 'Silencing Cinema: Film Censorship around the World' (with Daniel Biltereyst, 2013), 'Researching Newsreels: Local, National and Transnational Case Studies' (with Ciara Chambers and Mats Jönsson, 2018), and 'Film Professionals in Nazi-Occupied Europe' (with Pavel Skopal, 2021). Within the FilmMemory project, he serves as Course Director for the Belgian semester and teaches the course 'Film Archive and Heritage (I)' during that term.

Martha is the consortium administrator for the EMJM FilmMemory. She functions as intermediary between the Partners and EACEA, and performs tasks related to the administrative, legal and financial matters of the program.

Paulo Viveiros holds a PhD in Film Studies and a MA in Video Art both from Universidade Nova de Lisboa. He is an Associate Professor and the Head of Animation in Universidade Lusófona: Re:Anima Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree, Animation Arts national MA and the Bachelors in Digital Animation both at Universidade Lusófona. He is a member of the R&D research unit CICANT – Centre for Research in Applied Communication, Culture and New Technologies. He is also a jury member of the Portuguese Film Institute (ICA) for animation and cinema public competitions for financial support.

Vejune Zemaityte is a Senior Research Fellow in Film Data Analytics at the Baltic Film, Media and Arts School (BFM), Tallinn University, Estonia. She uses data analysis and visualisation techniques, including network analysis, to study global screen industries. Vejune researches film production, theatrical film distribution, film festival circuit, public service television, and historical newsreels. She is particularly interested in diversity, including cultural and thematic content diversity, as well as gender diversity in media production and distribution. Her work is interdisciplinary, data-driven, and industry-facing, often performed with large research teams and in collaboration with industry partners. Vejune engages across multiple international projects: Increasing the International Competitiveness of the Film Industry in Small European Markets (CRESCINE), Public Value of Open Cultural Data, ERA Chair for Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN), and European Universities Alliance for Film and Media Arts (FILMEU).