Daniyal Ali Khan is an independent filmmaker. He graduated in 2001 from Columbia College Chicago in 'Film and Video' with concentration in 'Direction' and Minor in 'Cinematography. He has also done a documentary course at Columbia from Michael Rabiger, a veteran filmmaker, teacher and author of the treatise 'Directing the Documentary.' Daniyal currently teaches History of Cinema, Aesthetics of Film and Video and Video Production at Indus Valley School of Arts and Architecture. He also conducted ten-week and six months workshop in 'Filmmaking' and 'Post-Production' at Nucleus Entertainment and Digital Academy & New Media, Karachi . Additionally he has held seminars on Media Awareness at Arena Multimedia and worked as a Producer for a first News independent Channel in Pakistan 'Indus News Network'.

Mujahida Hasan began her advertising career in 1981 as a copywriter and became a Creative Director within a period of one year. She worked with three leading agencies over a period of 20 years, helping establish two of them from the ground up. She also writes poetry and short stori9es and her work has been published in various anthologies including the Anthology of Urdu Poets. One of her poems, on the Sabra Shatilla massacre in Palestine , was put on film by the eminent filmmaker, late Mushtaq Gazdar.

Sheherbano Hussain obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, Karachi , in 1995. After graduating she taught drawing at Indus for a semester, before proceeding to Texas A & M University in the US for short courses in philosophy, as well as to participate in an exhibition organized by the Brazos Valley Art League. After returning to Karachi in 1997, Sheherbano did a variety of freelance assignments - as illustrator for the Book Group, editorial assistant for Xtra magazine, script supervisor and narrator for documentaries. She is a regular contributor as art critic to Newsline magazine. In addition to several group shows at home and abroad, Sheherbano also has two solo exhibitions of paintings to her credit. She also teaches painting at Karachi University .

Ajmal Kamal has edited and published Aaj a quarterly Urdu journal of literature and ideas since 1989. He runs, in partnership with his wife, Zeenat Hisam, a small independent publishing house by the name of City Press in Karachi . City Press also screens films from art, independent and foreign cinema every fortnight.

Farjad Nabi is part of the independent creative production house Mateela in Lahore . Two of his documentaries, "Nusrat Has Left the Building . But When?" and "No One Believes the Professor" have won awards at the Himal South Asian Documentary Film Festival in Kathmandu, Nepal. He is also the recipient of the Best Documentary Ciepie at the 1st KaraFilm Festival for "Nusrat Has Left the Building . But When?"

The Chief Executive Officer and publisher of the Dawn Group of Publications, and the president of the All Pakistan Newspaper Society, Hameed Haroon is also a man of art, culture, theatre, music and film. He owns one of the most extensive collections of art in Pakistan and recently co-curated the widely acclaimed retrospective exhibition in Karachi of the Pakistani master Sadequain. He has been associated with the theatre in London and has also directed stage plays in Karachi . His passion for the documentation and promotion of Sufi shrine music at the Bhit Shah shrine of Shah Abdul Latif Bhittai earned him, in 1994, the Latif Award, the highest cultural award in Sindh province. He is also currently involved in documenting and issuing the collected works of the famed Pakistani singer Noorjehan. On the board of a number of art and culture institutions, Haroon has also served as the Chairman for the National Task Force on Culture in the Federal Ministry for Culture (1999). He has grown up watching and following Pakistani cinema and has a deep and abiding interest in international cinema.

Talat Aslam is the Editor of The News, Karachi . He moved to his current position after spending two years at Dawn, Pakistan 's leading English language newspaper, as its Features Editor. Until March 2001, he worked for Geo TV where he was part of the team that initiated the process of setting up a South Asian satellite television channel. From 1985 to 1997, Talat worked for the Herald, the country's leading monthly magazine. He was the editor of the Herald between 1992 and 1997. During his stint at the Herald, he wrote numerous articles on the cinema and remained one of its most widely read film critics. Talat has also written scripts for television and a documentary. His love for cinema, both local and foreign, has remained the one constant in his career.

Omar Khan received a BA from Emerson College in Boston in Film and Journalism. He then completed an MA in International Relations and Political Science. He taught history for six years at the Beaconhouse Boys School in Islamabad where he also coached cricket. He has been a regular critic for the Herald and also runs a website thehotspotonline.com where he writes reviews on obscure, horror, cult and B-grade movies as well as local Punjabi, Urdu and Pushto films. Regular box office reports are also featured on his website. He has also initiated and run the Hot Spot Café in Islamabad , Lahore and Karachi which also serves as a viewing room for a DVD Club. The annual Hot Spot Horror Film Festival has been one its regular events. In 2001, Omar curated an exhibition of Lollywood billboard paintings in London . His most recent venture has been the professional restoration and release on DVD of the Pakistani horror classic "Zinda Laash."

Regarded as one of the most versatile and talented young actresses of her generation, Nadia Jamil has appeared in a large number of stage dramas and serials and films on television. In particular, her work in the short "Beauty Parlour" and the feature "Raat Chali Hai Jhoom Ke" - for which she was awarded the Best Supporting Actress Ciepie at the 1st KaraFilm Festival - has been widely seen and acclaimed at national and international film festivals. Nadia studied acting and writing at Hampshire College in Amherst , USA , and resides in Lahore where she is currently working on a couple of theatre productions. She has also moved into production under the banner of her company, Saavan Productions.

Ali Faisal Zaidi is the BBC's Pakistan Producer and is responsible for the camerawork and editing of most of the exclusive Pakistan coverage seen on BBC World Service Television. Ali has a bachelor's degree from Harvard University where he read politics and trained in photography and film and also served as the head of photography at The Harvard Crimson. He has written film reviews and other feature reports for the Herald and has also written and edited for The Muslim in Islamabad . He was creative consultant for the digital feature film "Raat Chali Hai Jhoom Ke" and was the editor for the short "Virtual Lives" showcased at the 2nd KaraFilm Festival.