Vuk Perović is a journalist and film critic. He has worked as a selector at several film festivals and edited film programming for multiple TV stations. He is a long-standing editor of film and series programming at Radio and Television of Montenegro. He is the founder and artistic director of UnderhillFest, an international festival of feature-length documentary films. He is the author of the film programme “The Seventh Continent”. He has served on juries at numerous international film festivals. He is also a member of the film critics’ associations FEDEORA and FIPRESCI. He is a member of the Panel of European Film Critics at the Cinematik festival in Slovakia. He was the editor of the film programme at TV Atlas and the author of a culture programme. He has conducted interviews with renowned filmmakers at prestigious festivals (Cannes, Berlin, Venice). He has written about film and culture for numerous media outlets. He is also a lecturer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary films “The Labudović Dossier: Non-Aligned” and “The Labudović Dossier: Cineguerillas”. He is currently the Director of Radio Montenegro.

Vladimir Perović graduated in Film & TV Directing from Faculty of Drama Arts, Belgrade, Serbia. His creative documentaries won 119 awards and recognitions so far. Jury member (Yugoslavia, Serbia, Montenegro, Germany, Russia, Iran, Romania, Macedonia). Visiting professor of Documentary at Faculty of Drama Arts in Cetinje, Montenegro (2010-2021). Selector for Documentary section of Film Festival Herceg Novi (2011-2018; 2024…) and Festival of Ethnological film, Belgrade (2020-2023). He makes his films both in Montenegro and in Serbia …

Sara Stijovic is a film director from Montenegro. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Film and TV Directing from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje, and she completed her MA studies in Film Directing, as an Erasmus Mundus scholar, in the programme Kino Eyes – European Film Masters at four European universities: in the United Kingdom, Portugal, Estonia and Ireland. Sara is the first director from Montenegro selected to take part in a prestigious workshop La Fabrique Cinéma de L’Institut Français as part of the 73rd Cannes Film Festival – “representing” Europe with her project. She won the Young Artists Award from the Royal House of the Netherlands, and became the first Montenegrin to be awarded, and is also a Sarajevo Talent 2024 alumna. One of the projects she is working on is a mini-series Pray for Us, presented at the CineLink Drama 2024 – Award of Croatian audio-visual centre, and at the Series Rough Pitch – The Balkan Way – Grand Prix. She participated in many workshops and other platforms such as: Cannes Docs, Circle – Women Doc Accelerator, Balkan Film Market 2019 – Best Pitch award, Beldocs in Progress 2021, Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival Award, Fajr International FF Talent Kampus in Tehran, Swiss filmmakers residency, MONET residency in Italy, Looking China Film Youth Project, etc.