Vilnius International Film Festival (VIFF) celebrated 21 years anniversary in 2016 with over 113 000 admissions. Mindaugas is responsible for sponsorship and development of festival organisation. After joining VIFF in 2011, he increased festival sponsorship revenues over four times. For over 14 years he worked with various festivals and outdoor events in Lithuania including fashion festival Fashion infection which is leading fashion event in the Baltics. In 2010 Mindaugas was the winner of the British Council International Young Fashion Entrepreneur competition and visited a management training course at London Fashion Week 2010. In 2012 he launched sponsorship conference in Lithuania Smart-Sponsorship.lt which aims to develop sponsorship market in Lithuania and across Baltics.

Jennifer Frees has diverse fundraising, marketing, and strategic partnership experience in both for-profit agency and non-profit sectors. Her innovative projects have won marketing and design awards for highly regarded international brands, as well as directly generating tens of millions of dollars for her non-profit clients. As Senior Director, Partnerships at TIFF, Jennifer provides senior sales, negotiation, property development, and account stewardship direction for the organization’s 150 corporate and hospitality partnerships. In addition, Jennifer oversees the event partnerships and bookings strategy for TIFF Bell Lightbox, TIFF's cultural institution and cinema in downtown Toronto. TIFF's Partnerships team generates ~40% of the organization’s total revenues. Jennifer resides in Toronto, Canada with her film-loving husband and screen savvy toddler.

Since 2016 he is an Artistic Director of New Horizons International Film Festival in Wroclaw, Poland. Lecturer, film historian, editor and co-author of several books about films (Billy Wilder; African American Cinema; Documentary Methods in Film). Between 2011-2015 he was a spokesman and director of PR & marketing of New Horizons IFF, American Film Festival and New Horizons Cinema in Wroclaw – the biggest arthouse cinema in Europe. He worked as a communication strategist for many Polish film productions, including high-profile artistic films as well as successful blockbusters.

A festival strategist/publicist (press agent) with more than 25 years experience, KATHLEEN McINNIS believes in employing long-range strategic planning and targeted publicity to help emerging world-cinema filmmakers cultivate new audiences and launch careers from the global film festival circuit platform. Under her company banner See-Through Films, Kathleen has curated and directs a team of international publicists dedicated to those filmmakers premiering their work at such festivals as Sundance, Toronto and Berlin: The team uses strategic festival consulting to design premiere film publicity to ensure the films, and filmmakers, reach their goals.

Launched in 2010, Festival Scope Pro has become a leading industry hub for film professionals worldwide. In partnership with prestigious film festivals, accredited members of the platform have access to programmes from over 100 festivals and organisations in order to help independent films acquire new programming opportunities and distribution deals. In 2015, a sister platform called Festival Scope was launched to help cinephiles catch-up with the line ups of international festivals including Directors' Fortnight, Locarno Festival, Venice International Film Festival and International Film Festival Rotterdam. As project manager, Margo is involved in developing media partnerships and overseeing the communication campaigns of the various public initiatives. She is also actively involved in the technical developments of both platforms in order to ensure users and partners’s needs are met.

In the year 2000 Juul started as an intern at IFFR. She worked on various departments in the festival and other festivals in the Netherlands. In 2009 she became Head of Event / Production at IFFR. The department focuses on all the festival locations, technique, events, volunteers, logistics, etc. Besides production she is also involved with ticketing, database implementation and the technical development of the website. Starting from June 2017 she became Head of IT. This position was created by the IFFR because they felt the need to pay more attention to IT and innovation.

In 2017, Ruth Mackenzie became the first woman to be Artistic Director of the Theatre du Chatelet in Paris, for which she is now planning her first season which will be 2019/20. She was appointed Artistic Director of Holland Festival in 2013, on a five year contract delivering four festivals 2015-2018 in Amsterdam. She was Director of the London 2012 Festival (the official cultural programme for the London 2012 Games), widely regarded as the most successful cultural programme of any modern Olympics & Paralympic Games. She has also been General Director of Scottish Opera and the Manchester International Festival, Artistic Director of Chichester Festival Theatre, consultant dramaturg of the Vienna Festwochen, special adviser to 5 Secretaries of State for Culture, Media & Sport and consultant to the Barbican Centre, the LSO, Google, the BBC and the Tate, amongst others.

After graduating (Media, Communication & Sociology) focusing on film and new media, he joined the Professional Media Master Class (PMMC) and participated in the Audience Design program of Torino Film Lab (TFL) in 2017. Today he works as a freelance Crowdfunding & Marketing consultant and Audience strategist based in Berlin, Germany. He consults and supervises campaigns for his clients and develops individual marketing & outreach strategies. He regularly lectures and gives workshops for festivals, organizations and film schools within Germany and around the globe. In 2015 he published his first book DOK&CROWD about financing and distributing documentary films in Germany.