​ Ulrike Kubatta is an award-winning documentary producer/director and an  Associate  Professor  in  Research,  Innovation  &  Professional Practice  at  De Montfort  University,  Leicester.
 
Her feature documentary films have been screened at national and international film festivals and independent cinemas. She is founder and creative director of The DocHub@DMU, a centre that connects audiences and filmmakers with the contemporary practice of documentary and hosts public screening events that engage with the creative growth and socio-political impact of the genre.

​Ed Gibbs is an award-winning producer and writer. He is known for White Riot (2019), White Riot: London (2017), Let's Dance: Bowie Down Under (2015) and Spike Lee: Do the Right Thing, 25 Years On (2014). His films have screened at festivals worldwide including Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca and Hot Docs, and nationally through Curzon and Picturehouse.

Prior to becoming a producer, Ed worked for many years as an editor and journalist for the likes of Empire, GQ and Rolling Stone. He went on to become a film and music commentator for ABC TV and radio, as well as the Sunday film critic for The Sydney Morning Herald. Ed has covered major international festivals and live events, like Sundance, Cannes, Venice and Glastonbury. A respected critic and journalist, his reviews and articles have also appeared in Little White Lies, Time Out, The Hollywood Reporter, BBC News, The Independent and The Guardian, among others. He has also advised and/or programmed for a number of festivals in the US, the UK, the Middle East and Australia.

​Rubika Shah is a writer-director, 2020 BAFTA Breakthrough awardee and Screen International Star of Tomorrow. Her films have screened at Sundance, Berlin, Tribeca, and Hot Docs. Her mini-doc about David Bowie, LET'S DANCE: BOWIE DOWN UNDER (2015), screened in U.K. cinemas through Picturehouse, and her Debut Feature, the critically acclaimed documentary WHITE RIOT (2019), marked her breakthrough moment. Marrying her music knowledge with her passion for film, Rubika shines a light on the ‘Rock Against Racism’ movement using archive footage, a fresh score and punk-style animation, inspired in part by the racism that her parents faced while they were growing up in the UK. 

​Nick Hamer   is a Leicester based documentary filmmaker, director, cameraman and editor. His work has been screened by major broadcasters, international film festivals and independent cinemas. Nick established his production company Intrepid Media in 2004 to produce high quality factual films and has directed successful shoots for high profile organisations all over the world. His feature documentary OUTSIDE THE CITY about the monks of Mount St Bernard Abbey follows a community of 25 men, more than half of them over 80 years old, who are opening the first Trappist brewery in the UK. OUTSIDE THE CITY was broadcast by BBC FOUR as ​Brotherhood: The inner life of monks.