Carmen Firan, Romanian born, is a poet, a fiction and a play writer. She has published in her native country twenty books of poetry, novels, essays and short stories. She is also the author of several plays and film scripts. Since 2000 she has been living in New York. Her writings appear in translation in many literary magazines and in various anthologies in France, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Ireland, Poland, Canada, U K, and the USA.

Ziyah Gafic is an award winning photographer based in Sarajevo. His most recent exhibition, recently presented Beacon, NY, is "Troubled Islam: Short stories from Troubled Societies". It is a series of photo essays on the aftermath of war and violence in the daily life of people living from Bosnia to Kosovo, Chechnya, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran or Iraq.

Filip Florian (b.1968). He spent five years in the mountain town of Sinaia writing his first novel Little Fingers, which was published to great critical acclaim by Polirom in 2005. Greeted as the work of a distinctive and original new voice, the novel was awarded the Romania literara (Literary Romania) magazine Prize for Debut, the Romanian Writers’ Union Prize for Best Prose Debut, and the National Union of Employers Prize for Excellence.

Bogdan Georgescu graduated from the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest as a director. He is the coordinator of tangaProject, a theatre project with the main goal of developing community arts in Romania.

The artist, born in 1977, draws his inspiration from personal memories of growing up in communist Romania under the dictatorship of Ceausescu. He witnessed history being written and rewritten, first hand, and that period of transition left a deep impact on him. The artist takes the viewer on a journey through some of the darkest states of human existence - oppression, abjection, tragedy, persecution, poverty, loneliness and misery, hoping to find himself in the grey area between a movie script and real life. In a society thrown in fast forward, Ghenie feels like he is passing through a series of rooms loaded with history and subconscious dark private fears.

Born in 1972, he studied film directing in Bucharest, graduating in 1995. After a two-month scholarship in Seattle in 1997, he returned to Romania where he led a music TV channel. Since 1991 he has made numerous commercials and music videos for Romanian bands; he has also worked as assistant director to Lucian Pintilie and Radu Mihăileanu.

Born in 1975 in Ieud, Romania, Gorzo's methods of working have ranged from street prankster to performance artist to studio painter and sculptor—effectively evading any strict categorization.

Ion Grigorescu (Romania, born 1945) has worked with topics ranging from political commentary to spirituality and religion. He has worked in many formats and techniques, but has lately gained particular recognition for his films from the 1970s, shot on Super8 and often documenting his own performances, and for his various photographic projects from the 1970s and 1980s.

Mr. Grigoriu (b. 1926) studied at the Academy of Music in Bucharest with Mihail Jora and at the Moscow Conservatory with Aram Hatchatourian.