Lucie ¿esálková is Associate Professor at the Department of Film Studies, Charles University, Czech Republic. In her research, she focuses on the history of nonfiction cinema and the history of non-commercial film exhibition and moviegoing. She co-edited, with Johannes Praetorius-Rhein, Perrine Val and Paolo Villa, a volume Non-Fiction Cinema in Postwar Europe. Visual Culture and the Reconstruction of Public Space (2024).

Christian Ferencz-Flatz is a philosopher and media scholar, working as lecturer at the National University of Theatre and Film, Romania. His research concerns phenomenology, critical theory, state socialist history of ideas, film and media philosophy. He published the monograph Critical Theory and Phenomenology. Polemics, Appropriations, Perspectives (2023).

Ana Szel is an archivist, curator, and PhD candidate at the National University of Theatre and Film, Romania. Her research focuses on useful cinema and marginal film practices, with a particular interest in early cinema and film as an
interdisciplinary field. She published Atheist Education and Popular Science Film in Socialist Romania (2025).