Léa Luiz de Oliveira (she/her) is an award-winning French-Brazilian filmmaker and BAFTA-nominated producer based in Scotland. She has produced and directed projects in Europe, Brazil, Turkey, UK & Korea. Her work explores mental health, healing, and social justice across documentary, fiction, and hybrid forms. She directed Spit It Out (BBC) and co-directed I Don’t Want to Call It Home (EIFF). Recent credits include What It Means to Be, À la Folie, and producing the BAFTA-nominated Friends on the Outside. She also produced Mother’s Influence by Meg Wriggles, premiering at EIFF 2025. Léa leads Unlabelled Films and is producing her first short drama, Bubbles, as part of the NFTS Sean Connery Talent Lab.

Lea.luizdeoliveira@gmail.com

Annabel Moodie (She/Her) is a mixed-media filmmaker working primarily with analogue formats across documentary and experimental moving-image. Her practice explores the interplay between the natural world and societal structures, embedding nature-based rituals into storytelling. Her latest short Friends on the Outside critiques the prison system through an incarcerated man’s love of chamomile. Shot on 16mm, the film uses experimental techniques such as plant-based development, mark-making, cyanotype animation, and collage. It was nominated for a Scottish BAFTA and has won awards at Slamdance, Glasgow Short Film Festival, and Galway Film Fleadh as well as being shortlisted for a Sony Future Filmmaker Awards. In 2024, she completed BAL Film School 4, an advanced programme in experimental analogue techniques in Riga and Rotterdam. 

She is currently developing her first feature, researching connections between nature, the otherworld, and military infrastructure in the Outer Hebrides. Archive, analogue film, and mixed media remain central to her work, creating layered, non-linear experiences.

Carlos (He/Him) is a Catalan documentary maker and photographer based in Edinburgh. After years of working as a support-worker and filmmaker Carlos realised he could combine his two sets of skills. He started collaborating with marginalised groups and small organisations to co-create inspiring and impactful documentaries.

carlos.hernan.photo@gmail.com

Nisan (she/her) is a self-taught artist based in Turkey. After completing her BA in history at the University of York, she returned to Istanbul as a freelance artist. With a passion for comic books, animated films, and graphic novels, she started researching alternative ways of tackling history, politics, and social issues through her work. She co-directed and animated the documentary “I don’t want to call it home”. She is the artist behind the animations in the documentary, “Spit It Out” and has since been working on various projects involving animation and illustration.

nisanyetkin@gmail.com