Ana Isabel Soares is an Assistant Professor at Universidade do Algarve and a member of the executive council of CIAC – Centre for Research in Arts and Communication at the same university. Soares took the role of PhD supervisor to Portuguese filmmaker Edgar Pêra’s thesis O Espectador Espantado (The Amazed Spectator). She has also lectured in foreign universities and was one the founders and the first President (2010-2014) of the Portuguese Association of Moving Image Researchers (AIM). Soares’ research is focused on film and mixed-media and the essays she has written have been published in both Portuguese and Brazilian journals.

Eric Kurland is an award-winning filmmaker, Director of the LA 3-D Movie Festival, and founder and CEO of 3-D SPACE, The Center For Stereoscopic Photography, Art, Cinema, and Education, a Los Angeles based nonprofit dedicated to the art, science, and history of stereoscopic images. 3-D SPACE operates a stereoscopic museum and educational center in Los Angeles.

François Serre is the director of Courant3D Film Festival. He also works as “new technologies / New storytelling” curator for differents festivals (the Clermont Ferrand international short film festival, the Berlin Interfilm festival, …). Specialized teacher in new media and also short films and documentary film director, he owns a master’s degree in signal processing and a master’s degree in documentary directing. Sound teacher in « BTS Audiovisuel » at Lycée de L’image et du Son d’Angoulême (LISA). On a regular basis, François Serre carries out training missions in cinema schools in the United States, Africa and Asia.