• Minou Norouzi is a founding member of Sheffield Fringe. She makes films, writes, and curates. Her video works have been shown at South London Gallery; Calvert 22; CCA Glasgow; QUAD, Derby; Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles; Oberhausen; Kassel Dokfest; Videoex; Hot Docs. She is an AHRC-funded PhD researcher at Goldsmiths University. minounorouzi.com

  • Annexinema organise social cinema events around the UK and have created screenings for art organisations and festivals including Nottingham Contemporary, Eastside Projects and The Falmouth Convention. Recently moving into film production alongside curating, they won the inaugural Broadway Film and Video Prize 2012. annexinema.org

  • November Paynter is Associate Director of Research & Programs at SALT, Istanbul. Paynter previously worked as Curator for Platform Garanti Contemporary Art Center, as Assistant Curator of the 9th International Istanbul Biennial. and in 2003 was the first curator under the age of 30 to be recognized with the Premio Lorenza Bonaldi per l’Arte – EnterPrize award. In 2007 she took the temporary position of Consultant Curator at Tate Modern for the exhibition Global Cities. Recent curatorial projects include 0 – Now: Traversing West Asia for the Asia Pacific Triennial 7, Brisbane (2011).

  • Amanda McDowell is a practice-based PhD candidate and Visiting Tutor at Goldsmiths, University of London. In her PhD she is using film and archive to create a collective story of women’s psychiatric care in the UK. She gained an MA Screen Documentary in 2009 and her final film was nominated for a Royal Television Society factual film award. With an academic background in Social Anthropology she has worked for over ten years in the NGO sector, mainly with refugees, migrant workers and prisoners, which she continues part-time.

  • Jen Fearnley is a filmmaker based in London.

  • Esther Harris is a media conservator and archivist based in London. She occasionally makes films, which have been shown at venues such as the Centre Pompidou, Walker Art Center, and festivals such as the International Film Festival Rotterdam. Esther has been involved with Sheffield Fringe since 2012; she selects programmes from the open call submissions and maintains the online archive.