GIULIA GIORGI
Polyhedric figure, she is a member of Wild Up b-girl Crew. Hip Hop Activist, she organized many international Hip Hop youth exchanges supported by the EU, and events as the b-boy event for 3 years, the funky afternoon and many hip hop events in clubs and social centers. She directed the hip hop documentaries «1 world under a groove» and «Break the siege» and the  experimental projects “The antisexist manifesto in the Italian rap» and «Sobreviviente». She co-founded the Baburka Production, the first Italian SFX makeup association “EffectUs” and the independent cinema productions network “Il Cartello degli Indipendenti”. Moreover she is the art director of the HipHopCineFest.org . 

YASSINE EL IDRISSI
Writer, producer, director, Yassine El Idrissi explored different professions before becoming a storyteller in film. But the power of images was always the common denominator. El Idrissi worked several years as a successful photojournalist in national newspapers and international news agencies until he found that to satisfy his urge to tell the stories, he needed the power of cinema. He took two years to produce his first documentary “Waiting for theSnow”. El idrissi graduated from the Netherlands Film Academy in Amsterdam in 2013 with a Master degree. Honey and oldcheese Yassine’s latest short film was screened at ClermontFerran 

DANIELA CONO 
Bgirl since 1998, and visual artist, she has developed a strong passion for anything related to video (post production, visual effects and motion graphics, videomapping, vjing), in connection with Hip Hop culture and body’s expressions. Graphic designer and motion grapher for TV and theatre productions, she is the vicepresident of TBB/TBG Global Family (Italy chapter), and member of Hip Hopera Foundation, with the aim of promoting cultural, artistic and social events and projects, and spreading their founding values and principles. In 2015 she won “Cultura Futura, Creativi Digitali”, creating the experimental project See-Goal, in 2017 she co-founded Point2b, a dance and visual arts company.

BERND SCHÖNEBERG
Actively breaking in the scene for more than twenty years, he has been working for the Battle Of The Year World Final for many years, organizing events like the BOTY Movie Night and the Bgirl Battle. He studied Media Studies at the Film University Babelsberg and was organizing the Sehsüchte – International Student Film Festival in Potsdam. He is the co-founder of the HollyHood Filmfestival – Hip Hop & Social Justice that has its home at the Film museum Potsdam, the oldest film museum in Germany. Currently he is working for a nonprofit organization in Berlin in the field of digitalization and civil society.

RAQUEL DELGADO
She is a philologist, poet, and performance artist. She is also a cultural producer, and Deputy Executive Director of the global organization Hip Hop Works.

APOLONIA
Born in Caracas Hip Hop chose her by the end of the 80’s in Germany. As an immigrant child she found in Rap a place that differentiated her from her relatives’ melomania. She studied audiovisual production. At 19 she joined one of Venezuela´s pioneering crews, La Corte, becoming the first female rapper woman in the country. In the last 25 years she become a cultural creative producer, weaving global connections under the flag of Hip Hop as a symbolic country. Her work spands from community work to corporate projects. Apolonia currently directs MELAH (Movement of Latin America Hip Hop Expressions), is a cultural consultant and co-curator / co executive producer of the Global Summit for Empowerment and Culture, among other things. 

MAXIMILIAN SPOHR
German Filmmaker who produces and directs documentaries. He moved to Vancouver, Canada, where he produced and directed 2 Hip Hop documentaries with the names “Hungry” and “Thirsty” and a documentary about the old east German Trabant Car, which was broadcast about 500 times in ten different countries all over the world. Between 1997-2008 he worked and lived in Vancouver as professional lighting technician of the movie industry. In 2008 he moved back to Germany to raise his kids and and start his own Hip Hop Film Festival in 2018. The Golden Sneakers International Hip Hop Film Festival in Hamburg Germany.

MASTAFIVE
31 years on the mixer, both as Dee jay and as producer, prefers the sounds Funkie Jazz, Rap, Rock in which his artistic versatility pours into the track. Growing up in the heart of Hip Hop culture, he is one of its most passionate witnesses. He Was Exponent member of Original Zulu Nation from N.Y, exponent and producer together with Deal (Mauro Bottoni) of the legendary Italian Crew Rap of the late 90s : Gate Keepaz. In 2003 he made the gold record as sole producer with the compilation “Dammi un Beat”. Founder and president of the label B.M.Records (www.bmrecords.eu) was chosen as consultant and judge of the cult program of mtv “SPIT.

FEDERICO PEIXOTO
Costa Rican Filmmaker, he Hip Hop culture since 00’s. He started filmmaking in the 90’s and soon he founded iGafeto TV documenting different underground cultural expressions from Costa Rica; he documented too international artists like Ephniko, Rxnde Akozta, Myka 9, Asheru , DJ Lord, Sean Paul. He co-organized events like Griot Collective, the 1st Graffiti National Convention, Buscando la Raíz and the tour Manifiesto Urbano, starting his DJ career. As DJ he  staged with artists as: DJ Muggs, Mad Professor, Pato Machete, Lil Suppa, Akapellah, Portavoz, Myka 9. He Co- funded, host and DJ the Hip Hop radio show: La Ofensiva (2013-19). He directed the documentary “Tlacuilos” that narrates the Graffiti scene in Central America.  

ROB SCHARTZ
Hip hop media and distribution pioneer. He starting out at PolyGram Records distributing artists like Jay-Z, Jeru the Damaja, and Beenie Man. Rob then created one of the first hip hop websites to feature original video content www. whomag.net. Rob currently owns 3 music TV networks including WHO?MAG Multimedia (www.whomagtv.com), iFame TV, and Video Vision. As a multi-award winning film director, he has directed a movie in London as well as many in the US. Rob has received awards from Master P & Jesse Jackson, Pocono Film Fest, 3 from the city of Philadelphia, 2 from the city of Baltimore, and many more.

OLA PANKRATOVA

Moscow-based award-winning filmmaker Ola Pankratova has been making commercial and documentary films since 2014. Have studied and worked on TV in the USA and in Germany as producer and correspondent.
Her independent non-fiction work concentrates on art and culture and manages to combine both: beauty and high-concept of the story. She writes, directs, produces and occasionally edits, effortlessly switching creative hats when needed for multiple outlets.
In 2017 she directed her first feature documentary “Yes, Chef!” that was distributed by IndieRights Distribution (USA) worldwide and was named as “first ever documentary about cuisine in the newest history of documentary storytelling in Russia”.

TOM CHERRIE

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

TAITO

Taito del Valle, creator of RAPEALO, since 2005 has traveled a path in which he seeks to understand the culture of Hip Hop in order to maintain and preserve the essence so that future generations can discover a legacy that has been transmitted since the eighties in the countries Hispanic. He has held events, conferences, talks, open-air and online radio programs, as well as produced 2 documentaries and content for all the platforms on which RAPEALO has a presence. He has begun to work as a music producer but the works that he considers as contributions to the Hip Hop community are his audiovisual feature films that attempt to educate a society that is unaware of the true power, value and impact of Hip Hop in modern times.

ADRIAN VEGA SANCHEZ

Known artistically as (Adrian Vega D’Mente), is a self-taught artist who began his career as a rapper at the end of 2000. After the need to express his creative work in different artistic manifestations such as literature, graphic design , audiovisual production and music, decided to launch the D’Mente project, with which he began a new multifaceted career in which he obtained several awards and recognitions

PHILIPPE RACHID

Iraqi Kurdish film maker was born in 1978, Sofia, Bulgaria and raised in Amsterdam.He is a selftaught Writer, Director, Producer & Consultant. His love for cinemastarted when his grandmother worked at an art house Cinema and took Philip along to watch films while babysitting. His independent films always have Humanitarian themes. His first recognition came when he shot a short film on a Flip cam in Kurdistan 2011 and the film was screened at the Duhok International Film Festival and nominated in San Diego Kurdish Youth Film festival. In 2014 he won the Samsung Short film competition at The Dubai International Film Festival. After that he won the Silver Act Responsible award in Cannes for a UN Female Rights awareness campaignin 2015. With his new shortfilms“The Moonlight Rider”, “SHE”and “Hoody Man”, he has been nominated and won 15 awards Internationally.

MARTHA DIAZ

Colombian-American futurist Martha Diaz (MD) is a seasonedcommunity organizer, media producer, archivist, curator,educator, and social entrepreneur. Has produced andconsulted on numerous Hip Hop media projects including,Where My Ladies At? by Leba Haber Rubinoff (2007), BlackAugust: A Hip-Hop Concert by Dream Hampton (2010), andNas: Time Is Illmatic by One9 (2014). In 2002, MD founded thehighly acclaimed Hip Hop Odyssey (H2O) International FilmFestival, the first festival of its kind. She curated the first HipHop movie series presented by the Academy of Motion PictureArts and Sciences and served as a guest curator at theMuseum of the Moving Image and Schomburg Center. In 2010,MD launched the Hip Hop Education Center for Research,Evaluation, and Training at New York University, now part ofthe Universal Hip Hop Museum.