Mette Hjort
Born 1960. Ph.D.EHESS, Paris. Chair Professor and Head of Department of Visual Studies, Lingnan University. Areas of research and teaching: environmental aesthetics, film schools, transnational cinema, small national cinemas, cultural policy. Monographs: Lone Scherfig's Italian for Beginners (forthcoming, 2010), Stanley Kwan's Center Stage (2006), Small Nation, Global Cinema (2005), The Strategy of Letters (1993). Edited and co-edited volumes: Film and Risk (forthcoming, 2010), The Danish Directors 2 (forthcoming, 2010), Dekalog 01: On The Five Obstructions (2008), The Cinema of Small Nations (2007), Purity and Provocation (2003), The Postnational Self (2002), Cinema and Nation (2000), The Danish Directors (2000), Emotion and the Arts (1997) and Rules and Conventions (1992).Henrik Juel
Born 1951. Mag. art and cand. mag in Philosophy and Nordic Philology, Ph.D. in Communication Studies. Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, Business and Information Technologies (CBIT), Roskilde University, where he teaches video production and film theory, aesthetics, communication theory and rhetoric. Research in film phenomenology, rhetoric and didactics. Long standing interest in the aesthetics of nature and creative and philosophical video production. More information and articles in English can be accessed at: http://akira.ruc.dk/~hjuel/Mark Le Fanu
Born 1950, London. MA in literature from Cambridge University. Film scholar and historian currently based in Aarhus. Author of The Cinema of Andrei Tarkovsky (BFI, 1987) and Mizoguchi and Japan (BFI, 2005).Bevin Yeatman
Born 1949, Christchurch New Zealand. Doctor of Philosophy. Lecturer, Department of Screen and Media Studies, University of Waikato. Research focus on creative practice, new media developments and media philosophy. Teaching focus on television and digital film practice as well as screen theory and creative theory. Published in various international and national journals, including New Review of Film and Television Studies, Australasian Journal of American Studies and 3CMedia .