Born in 1981, Szilárd Miklós lives and works in Oradea and Cluj. He studied art at the University of Art and Design, Cluj, 2000-2004. Recent exhibitions (selected) - 2007: GPS - Unknown Territory, Ernst Museum, Budapest; After the War Is Before the War, Studio Protokoll, Cluj.

Ms. Mocanu is actor, director, currently PhD student in experimental theatre, film and art at the Stanford University, Drama Department.

Artistic Councilor at Odeon Theatre since 2000, and the Romanian Coordinator for the ARTE project, Ms Moldovan has been an Artistic Councilor at Bulandra Theatre and is President of Contemporania Cultural Foundation.

Mr. Morar (b. 1956) is a founding member of Academia Catavencu. He graduated from the Romanian-French section of the Philology Faculty of the University of Timisoara.

Claudia Moscovici is the author of Velvet Totalitarianism, a novel about a Romanian family's survival in an oppressive communist regime due to the strength of their love. She also published several scholarly books on political philosophy and the Romantic movement.

Born in 1953 in a German-speaking village in Banat, Romania, Müller fled the country for Germany in 1987, after being prohibited from publishing in Romania. Her work has been translated into more than 20 languages and with books such as The Land of Green Plums, The Appointment, The Passport and Nadirs, Herta Müller numbers among the major authors of international literature.

Born in 1971 in Bucharest, Radu Muntean graduated in 1994 the Theatre and Film Academy in the same city. Since 1996, he has directed over 300 commercials and has won over 40 national and international awards in various advertising festivals. Between 1999-2000 he joined the faculty of the Film Direction Department of Media University in Bucharest. His feature debut, Rage (Furia), was screened in numerous international film festivals and was awarded the Best First Film by The Romanian Filmmakers Union, and Best Photography (Vivi Drăgan Vasile) at the 2003 Transilvania International Film Festival. His second feature, The Paper Will Be Blue, opened at the Locarno Film Festival, to be subsequently presented in more than 50 film festivals throughout the world. It won the Special Mention and the CICAE Award in Sarajevo, as well as the top prize in the Eurasia Film Festival in Antalya, among other awards. In 2008 Radu Muntean has completed his third film, Boogie.

Born 1980, a teaching associate at the Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, TU Cluj, Design Studio, Mr. Munteanu has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships.