Juan Camilo Cruz is a Colombian/German documentary filmmaker. He started as a distributor of music documentary films with his company Monoduo Films in Berlin. In 2014, he founded and directed the Ambulante Documentary Film Festival in Colombia which seeks to promote documentary film as a tool for social and cultural transformation. As a producer, his recent works include City of Ghosts (2017) and The Boy from Medellin (2020) by Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman, and In Her Hands (2021) by Oscar-nominated director Marcel Mettelsiefen. Venezuela: Country of Lost Children‘ is his first feature documentary as a director.

Marc Wiese is the winner of the 2020 CPH:DOX Award for We Hold the Line about 2021 Nobel Prize winner Maria Ressa. He also directed CAMP 14, rated by the BFI as one of the most important documentaries of our times. CAMP 14 received 15 international film festival awards and has been shown in more than 20 countries worldwide. Wiese has been making documentaries for 25 years and has worked in many conflict areas worldwide. He has won numerous international awards for his films. He is a member of the German Film Academy.