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Writer, documentary filmmaker and film editor. Studied at the Polish Film School in Łódź. Author of three novels: A Mark Left by Mom, The Clam and a hypertext Matrioszka. Director of photography of the documentary Underground Women’s State and co-director of Downtown, a documentary that has won the Hollywood Eagle Documentary Award in 2011.Her documentary Solidarity according to Women" won The Krzysztof Kieslowski Beyond Borders Award in 2015. A holder of the grant of the Book Institute and of the Homines Urbani grant of the Villa Decius Association (2007), Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (2007), Young Poland (2012) and Visegrad Literary Residency Program (2012).

Petra Dzurovčinováwas born and bred as an entrepreneur, whose passion lies in finding smart solutions to existing problems. Ms. Dzurovčinováhas lead and grown the Slovak Alliance for the Internet Economy (SAPIE) since its inception in 2014. SAPIE acts as an industry body for innovative companies throughout Slovakia, creates regional and EU-wide partnerships, promotes entrepreneurship and connects the private and public sphere. As part of her role she works with government representatives as well as the office representing the President of Slovakia. She further works with the innovation ecosystem in Slovakia and prepares papers and recommendations for policies that help improve the digital economy in Slovakia.

For more than two decades worked as an independent documentary photographer.  He became a member of the Amsterdam based picture agency Hollandse Hoogte back in 1990. Eraker has had a number of solo exhibitions in artmuseums (a selection: The Stenersenmuseum (Oslo 2001), Trondheim Artmuseum (2006),  Nobels Peacecenter (Oslo 2009), Sørlandet  Artmuseum (Kristiansand 2010), Bryggen Museum (Bergen 2005) and Guayasamin Artmuseum (Quito, Equador 1993))  and has published widely in magazines and newspapers, both in Norway and internationally. He has also published a number of photobooks:  (“Øyeblikk av Lys” (Aschehoug 2001), “The Smell of Longing” (Wigestrand 2005) and “The Dream of Europe” (Press Books 2009)). In 2009 he was the picture-editor of “Norwegian Documentary photography today”, (Press Books 2009) based on his previous participation as the leader of the jury of Fritt Ord’s 2007 grand support of Norwegian Documentary Photography projects. In 2002 he won a photodocumentary award in Society for News and Design (USA) for a story on DR Kongo.  In 2009 he received the award “Freelancer of the year in Norway”.  Currently Rune Eraker is heading the editorial team at Norwegian Journal of Photography, and he is one of four curators at EPEA (The European Photo Exhibition Award). Since 2009 Rune Eraker has been working on his new solo exhibition “The Blind Eye”, focusing on the connection between globalization and climate change.

Obtained a Master degree in Culture and Society from University of Stanford and a Master degree in African General History from UCLA. He is researching the Nilotic and Abyssynian prescence in the Tuareg civilization for his PhD. He currently works as a technical adviser to the Peace Building High Authority (Niger Republic Presidency) During the armed civil conflict in Niger, he formed part of the forces that demanded an independent state in the Western Sahara. Later, he became one of founding members of the Indigenous Peoples of Africa Coordinating Committee and since February 2017 he serves as  the Vice President of the organization. Since 2006, he has worked on research project on the history of of Indigenous peoples, notably the keltamachakh (Touareg), in the Sahelo-Saharan region of Africa and the Arabian Peninsula.