As Head of Film Fund and Funding Executive at the FFF Bayern since 2019, Judith Erber is responsible for feature film productions, international co-productions, distribution and sales. She graduated from Munich Filmschool HFF with a degree in Production and Media Management after several years in the film industry. She subsequently worked as producer and production consultant. From 2012 to 2019, she was part of the LfA team as a specialist in film funding and film financing before joining the FFF. Judith Erber has served on the IDM committee and as a jury member at the Vienna Business Agency, is a guest lecturer at the HFF and a board member of the Friends of the HFF Munich.

Florian Weghorn is the Chief of Staff of the Berlinale and works closely with Tricia Tuttle and the team on the strategic development of the festival. He joined the Berlinale in 2002, initially starting at the Generation section. From 2008 to 2014, he was the section’s Co-Director and a curator of its around 60 short and feature films screened each year. Between 2012 and 2019, he was also a member of the Berlinale Competition selection committee. From 2014 to 2024, Florian served as the Programme Manager of Berlinale Talents and further expanded the talent development initiative into a year-round community with nowadays more than 10,000 alumni.

Arash T. Riahi is an Austrian director, producer and dramatic advisor of Iranian origin. He co-founded Golden Girls Filmproduktion in 2007. Co-president of the Austrian Academy of Film. His body of work as a director and producer won more than 200 awards. His first fiction film 'For a Moment Freedom' was Austria's candidate for the Academy Awards in 2010. The last films as a producer were “How to be Normal” (Berlinale Perspectives 2025), “Perla” (Rotterdam Film Festival Tiger Competition 2025),“The Witness” (Winner of Venice Filmfestival, Orizzonti Extra 2024), “Eismayer" (2022, winner of Venice Critics week), "Born in Evin" (2020, Winner of Berlinale Documentary award), "Once upon a time in Venezuela" (2020 Sundance) and “Solo" (2019, Cannes Acid).