Federico Peixoto

Costa Rican filmmaker, part of the Hip Hop community since the early 2000s. He began producing videos in the 90s and almost immediately founded Gafeto TV with the aim of documenting the different underground cultures of Costa Rica; he has also created documentaries on international artists such as Ephniko, Rxnde Akozta, Myka 9, Asheru, DJ Lord, Sean Paul. He co-organized events such as the Griot Collective, the 1st Graffiti National Convention, Buscando la Raíz and the Manifiesto Urbano tour, which launched his DJ career. As a DJ he has shared the stage with artists such as DJ Muggs, Mad Professor, Pato Machete, Lil Suppa, Akapellah, Portavoz, Myka 9. He co-founded the radio show: La Ofensiva (2013-19) where he works as a speaker and DJ . He directed the documentary “Tlacuilos” which chronicles the Graffiti scene in Central America.

Falinda Tengku Khuzim aka DJ Mixturess

Falinda is a DJ with over 20 years of experience, a central figure in the Dutch Hip Hop themed evenings panorama , she is known for always finding new ways to interpret the art of DJing. The secret of her success lies in her nickname, the ability to create heterogeneous mixes of music has allowed her to access the highest peaks of live Hip Hop music performances.

Jurriaan Bouterse aka Jurskee

Break-dancer, and judge of breakdance competitions, he graduated in Philosophy from the University of Amsterdam in 2013. He is a member of various trade associations, including the IBE where he is moderator and artistic producer; he has been teaching breakdancing for over a decade, including at the Creative College in Utrecht.

Anthony Kofi Y Nti

Anthony Nti is a Belgian director and writer born in Ghana. After attending the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound in Brussels (2014), he directed numerous commercials, music videos and short films. His first two short films, Kwaku (Clermont-Ferrand, 2013) and Only Us, won seven awards overall, including first prize at the Zanzibar Film Festival. His short film, BOI (Fight), won the Critics Award and the Best First Film Award at the Leuven Film Festival and the Jury and Audience Award at the 2016 Ghent Film Festival. More recently he won the Grand Prix at the 42nd Clermont Ferrand International Film Festival with his short Da Yie. He is currently developing his television program, selected for the Torino SeriesLab. “Postcard,” his feature film in development with Caviar, won second prize at the Sam Spiegel Film lab.

Martha Diaz

Colombian-American futurist Martha Diaz (MD) is an experienced community organizer, media producer, archivist, curator, educator, and social entrepreneur. She has produced and consulted on numerous Hip Hop multimedia projects including Where My Ladies At? by Leba Haber Rubinoff (2007), Black August: A Hip-Hop Concert by Dream Hampton (2010) and Nas: Time Is Illmatic by One9 (2014). In 2002, MD founded the acclaimed Hip Hop Odyssey (H2O) International Film Festival, the first festival of its kind. She curated the first Hip Hop Film Series presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and was a guest curator at the Museum of the Moving Image and the Schomburg Center. In 2010, MD launched the Hip Hop Education Center for Research, Evaluation, and Training at New York University, now part of the Universal Hip Hop Museum.

Elisa “Saiko” Ciprianetti

She is a professional street dance, break-dance and stand-up dancer choreographer, member of the Wild Up Bgirl Crew. She has taken part in numerous national and international shows and competitions and her experience ranges from live performance, to theater shows, to artistic education through break dancing. Socially involved, she organizes international exchanges and participates in various social shows for world peace. Among her works we remember the participation in the Lions’ Gate film “Crew to Crew”, the HipHopOpera theater show Dr J&H as the female protagonist.

Edoaerdo “Xedo” Bernardini

Edoardo “Xedo” Bernardini, B-Boy since 2002, has represented Italy with excellent results in competitive Breaking for the past 20 years, both in Italy and internationally. Xedo has organized some of the most important Italian breaking events, such as the legendary B-Boy Event in Bologna, and was president of the recent FIDS Absolute Breaking Championships and FIDS Category Breaking Championships. He is actively involved in teaching through his BreakDown project with ASD Odissea 2001, which since 2007 has been helping the new generations of Southern Tuscany grow. Additionally, he conducts workshops and conferences around the world.

Zanko

Born in Milan to Syrian parents, ZANKO is one of the pioneers in Italy of multilingual rap (Italian-French-Arabic) and Human Beatbox. The first in Italy to rap in Arabic, in 2004 he recorded a bilingual piece, subsequently unpublished, for Max Brigante’s album. In 2009 MetroCosmoPoliTown was released, the first album by an artist of foreign origin sung both in Italian and in his own language of origin and at the same time the most multi-ethnic album in the history of hip hop in Italy, with the participation of 9 artists from 4 different continents, 6 of which are of the so-called “Second Generation”, i.e. children of immigrants born or raised in Italy and all for one reason or another linked to Milan “MetroCosmoPoliTown”.

Alexandra Henry

Alexandra Henry is an award-winning director with over 15 years of international experience in commercial production and branded entertainment. Most recently her short film “Moving Together” won a Bronze Anthem Award for Campaigning on Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. Alexandra was recognized as a CurateNYC Emerging Artist for her photographic work exploring the human experience through architecture and graffiti in densely populated urban environments. Her photographs and films have been exhibited around the world and at prestigious institutions such as the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.

Ildslaine Silva a.k.a. Sharylaine

She is an MC, songwriter and performer. She joined Hip-hop Culture in 1985 through the Nação Zulu breaking gang from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, thus participating in the origins of this movement at the São Bento subway station. She became a rapper in 1986 and was the first woman to record a solo rap song in the country, “Nosso Dias” from the compilation Consciência Black (1989). She has national and international recognition for her artistic career. Since 1991, she has worked as a producer, researcher, and cultural, social and political activist. She integrates a series of art-educational, training and promotion projects, focusing on Black and periphery cultures, prioritizing women, young people and children, especially Black people. She is a member of the National Hip-hop Women’s Front and of the Federal Government’s Sustainable Economic and Social Development Council, she is also author of the book “Project Rappers: The first House of Brazilian Hip Hop – History and legacy”.

Kanvie Winter aka KanvieDance

Kavie is an educator, a free spirit, and a community builder. She is a performer, teacher, host and organizer of meetings and empowerment circles. Her roots are in Liberia, she lives in the Netherlands and also has a strong connection to Jamaica. Kanvie is also part of the Hip hop Huis team, where she supports various programs related to the exchange of skills and knowledge.

Stephan Cornelio Velema

Dutch-Colombian photographer and director, he specializes in directing experimental projects focused on street cultures. After years of professional underground dance and subsequently studying visual design and cinematographic language, its peculiarity can be found in the analysis of emotions and the flow of movement, while maintaining the focus on the story. His independent work tends to be conceptual and dark, while his documentary work is open and touches the core of people’s intrinsic motivations. Last year he already participated in the festival and was a finalist with one of his works; he was also among the speakers at the conference held in conjunction with the screenings we organized at IBE 2023.

Admir Mirena

Admir Mirena a.k.a. Admiracles, born in Albania, raised in the 90s. He moved to Belgium at the age of 8 and in 2002 became involved in Hip Hop culture. Mentored by Karim Kalonji and Mr Free, after starting to train on his own. He is a member of 9000 Styles & Belgium With Attitude, has won many battles and traveled all over the world. Graduated in Graphic Designer/Print Media, official judge of breakdance competitions, organizer of events with Red Bull and many other prestigious labels, he is today the coach of the Belgian national breakdance team.

Hamza AbuAyyash

Hamza AbuAyyash is a Palestinian activist artist born in Lebanon. He lived his first years of life between Tunisia and Jordan, and then settled in Palestine in 1997, a few years after the Oslo agreements, where he obtained a degree in Design in Nablus in 2004, then obtained a master’s degree in autonomous Design and social at KASK in Belgium in 2021.

Elyes Fatnassi

Giuseppe “Nexus” Gatti

Giuseppe “Nexus” Gatti is a research fellow at the Department of Humanities of the University of Turin where he teaches “History of American Cinema” and “Museology and Film Archive”. With more than twenty years of experience as a b-boy and performing artist, he has previously taught “Hip-hop history and philosophy” at Urban Dance Academy in Rome. Author of Hip-hop Roadmap (Stradario hip-hop, 2020), his current research focuses on the cultural exchange between Italian cinema, art, and fashion, and American hip-hop with a transnational and intersectional perspective.

Profeta Matto

He approached hip hop in 1994 through writing, but he turned towards MCing, emerging at the first “Da Bomb” (2001) as third in the freestyle competition, in 2002 he won the emerging groups competition and formed the historic group “Gli Inquilini”. Since 2005, he has collaborated in the organization of the “Da Bomb” event. After the experience with “Gli Inquilini”, which ended in 2011, in 2012 he made his solo debut with “Giorno Del Giudizio”. In 2016 he began his radio experience with “Radio Resistenza” first on Radiosonar and then on Deliradio. In 2022 he released an experimental EP together with the musician Stefano “Demented”, which he defines as “Post Rap” and “Post Trap” and gives life to a series of podcasts with the collective “Brigata Magnotta” as well as a mixtape in progress entitled ” The New Troll Monsters Compilation”.

Wissal Houbabi

Activist, poet performer, artist, writer and part of the board of the Razzismo Brutta Storia association. She moves across various fields, from hip hop research to the writing of short stories that explore the condition of those who live “in between”, from oral, performative poetry shows with Mediterranean music, to training on decoloniality. She is passionate about everything she has managed to discover and collects new knowledge to hybridize practices and perceptions. She currently studies languages ​​with which she has a love and hate relationship, she has collaborated with many political, artistic and cultural realities with the aim of raising awareness of the condition of racialized people through an intersectional perspective.

Jacopo “Snook” Scotti

Jacopo Scotti known as Snook Aquilano, bboy since 2001, part of the historic crew The Prisoners founded in 1997. Founder of Check the Style since 2003, one of the best events in the world, awarded last year at Outbreak as “The Illest Event”, with more than 4000 people from 37 different countries. Director of the Zero Gravity International Dance Academy.

Tom Cherrie

Tom is a writer, director and B-boy from Somerset, England. He spent 4 years studying theatre, including 1 year at the East 15 School Of Acting, before studying a further 3 years at the University Of The Arts London, gaining a degree in Film Practice. Tom has been following hip-hop culture since the age of 8 and started Breakin’ at the age of 10. This informed the artistic direction and theoretical interests he now explores in his work.

Leidys Rojas Martinez

Born in ’86, Colombian-Venezuelan, she arrived in Italy at the age of 6 and grew up in the city of Rome. Graduated from the Act Multimedia Academy of Cinema and Theater in Cinecittà. She performs in important national theaters including the Globe Theater in Rome and the Greek Theater of Tindari. She joined the Suonomar group in 2022 as the main voice, performing in some historic social centers of the Capitoline city, contributing to the spread of a broader knowledge of Afro-Colombian culture, its traditional rhythms and songs, including the ancestral cumbia. At the same time, she has always continued his commitment and social work in schools and youth meeting points.