Ileana is a film critic and educator. She graduated the Faculty of Philology, University of Bucharest, and studied film at the University of Zürich. Since 2007, she has been writing articles on cinema for various publications and has participated as a lecturer in various programmes of cinematic education. She is co-founder of DokStation Music Documentary Film Festival. In 2017, she co-directed with Claudiu Mitcu the documentary The Trial. Currently she is completing a PhD at the Centre of Excellence in Image Study. She is also a film production coordinator at Wearebasca production company. In January 2024 she founded, along with other members of SIGNIS Romania, FILMIKON, an international festival showcasing films awarded by ecumenical juries at festivals around the world.

Giuseppe is a film critic for Italian national newspaper “Il manifesto”. He works as a programmer for Trieste Film Festival. He is also in the staff of Job Film Days Festival in Torino and Med Film Festival in Roma. He worked, among others, for Torino Film Festival and Critics' Week, the renowned sidebar of the Venice film festival. He published books on African cinema and essays in Italian and foreign volumes, including the "History of the World Cinema" and the “Encyclopedia of the History of Cinema”.