Cécile Embleton is a British-French director, born in the UK in 1984. Her first feature documentary, Mother Vera, is supported by The Sundance Institute, won first prize at Locarno First Look 2023 and the first look prize at the Hot Docs Forum 2021. Her debut short, The Watchmaker, premiered at Dok Leipzig 2016 and screened at Sarasota Film Festival, South By South West, Hot Docs and was awarded the Grand Jury prize at Boston International Film Festival and nominated for UK Best Short at Open City Documentary Festival.

Alys Tomlinson studied English Literature and Communications at the University of Leeds and photography at Central Saint Martins. She later completed an MA (Distinction) in Anthropology at SOAS, University of London. Alys’s photographic work explores ritual, belonging and identity. She was named Sony Photographer of the Year for her black and white pilgrimage series Ex-Voto and the work was published by GOST Books in 2019. She was winner of the Taylor Wessing Photographic Portrait Prize 2020 for her series Lost Summer. Her latest book Gli Isolani (The Islanders) was published in 2022.