Lucian Mircu was born in 1980. In his everyday life, he works as a freelancer in advertising, crafting texts and concepts. In his other, freer and truer life, he writes about cinema. He has published reviews for LiterNet and 24FUN. Since 2008, he is co-author of Marele Ecran, a blog promoting film diversity and independent films. The online effort has been taken further by the founding of an NGO in 2011. The main objective of the Big Screen Association is to establish a cinematheque in Timişoara.
Vladan Petkovic (born 1978) is a Belgrade-based freelance journalist, film critic, translator, and festival programmer. He is the Balkan correspondent for Screen International and Cineuropa.org and a member of the International Press Academy. He regularly writes film reviews, industry news and festival reports for several international websites and magazines. He is the programme director of International Film Festival Kratkofil Plus in Banja Luka, Bosnia and Herzegovina and programme advisor to various film festivals and distribution companies.
Irina Trocan was born in 1990 and people tend to think she is precocious. A third year student in the department of Screenwriting and Film Studies at the National University of Film and Drama IL Caragiale in Bucharest, she spends a large amount of time writing for Film Menu, a film journal edited by students of the film department. Since 2011, she is co-programmer of NexT International Short and Medium Length Film Festival. During the 2010 edition of the Namur International Francophone Film Festival, Irina was a member of the Émile Cantillon Young Jury, established in order to designate the best first feature award.
