Zhao Qing is a graduate of the Communication University of China. She worked in the overseas programme centre at a Shanghai television channel after her graduation, and later directed a number of documentary films including ‘Xiao Zhen Zhou Zhuang’, ‘Nu Ren Xin Si’ and ‘Bi Ye Ge’.

Violet Feng graduated from the Graduate School of Journalism, University of California, Berkeley. She gained an Emmy Award as producer for ‘Nanking’ (2007), and has worked with numerous well-known Hollywood directors.

Fan Jian graduated from the Directing stream at the Beijing Film Academy. His film ‘Dancing in the City’ was selected by the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in 2006 and ‘The Next Life’, about the sorrow of parents who lost their children in the Wenchuan earthquake, was nominated for the festival in 2011. His latest film ‘My Land’ was screened in the Berlin International Film Festival.

Isabella Zang is a graduate of Chongqing Normal University and Southwest University of Political Science and Law. She was the assistant director and editor for the documentary ‘The Next Life’, and executive producer and assistant director for ‘My Land’.

Born in Osaka, Atsushi Funahashi graduated from the University of Tokyo and studied directing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. His debut feature, ‘Echoes’ (2001), won three jury and audience awards at the Annonay International Film Festival in France. ‘Nuclear Nation’ and ‘Nuclear Nation II’ were both officially selected by the Berlin International Film Festival.