Campbell X

Campbell X is a film/TV/theatre writer/director whose works explores queer memory, desires complicated by colonisation across the African diaspora. He directed the award-winning queer urban romantic comedy feature film Stud Life (Oslo/Fusion 2016), which was voted by the Guardian as one of the top 10 Black British feature films ever made. Campbell's soon to be released second feature film Low Rider is a queer road trip filmed in the Western Cape region of South Africa, starring Emma Mcdonald and Thishiwe Ziqubu. He has also directed the experimental short (Untitled)2025, an incantation to trans and non-binary ancestors who experienced enforced binary genders under colonialism, which screens in the program WE ARE STILL HERE, curated by Campbell himself.

Virgin X

Virgin X is a multi disciplinary recording, drag, and performance artist based in London, UK. 

Virgin has released two EP’s: The 4 Corners of X (2021) and BOOGIETHEM (2024), along with multiple singles, including the viral Billionaires. Virgin has performed all over the world from the USA to Hong Kong, and all over Europe. Most recently they have been known for their support for the Free Palestine movement by fundraising for individuals and families caught in the genocide by making “get ready with me” style makeup videos, many of which have gone viral. Virgin continues to write and release music, and her latest singles, Glass and Everything Sucks were both released this past summer, in 2025. 

Ingrid Jungermann

Ingrid Jungermann is a queer, non-binary film & television writer-director with an MFA in Directing from NYU, whose credits include Orphan Black: Echoes, The Serpent Queen, Queer as Folk, and In the Dark.
Their debut feature film, Women Who Kill (Oslo/Fusion 2016), premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, receiving the Jury Award for Best Screenplay, and nominations at the Independent Spirit Awards.

They created, directed, and starred in the WGA-Nominated web series F to 7th, featuring Amy Sedaris, Michael Showalter, Gaby Hoffmann, Olympia Dukakis, and Janeane Garofalo, and co-created, directed, and co-starred in the acclaimed web series The Slope. Both series have screened at the festival.
Currently they are developing several television projects and original feature films, including a queer rom com with the producers of Get Out, and a coming-of-age monster movie with the producers of It Follows.

Their latest short film, the queer horror story Her Kind, is screening in the program QUEER NIGHTMARES..

Marianne Gulli

Marianne Gulli (hen) is a queer, organizational activist and anti-fascist, currently the head of FRI Oslo and Viken. Hen is a political scientist from FLACSO Guatemala and has worked with research, capacity building and dissemination on gender and sexual diversity, and racism. Hen also spent 9 years in Central America working on issues related to queer and indigenous rights, sexual and reproductive rights, the right to truth, justice and redress (transitional justice), as well as resource theft and land rights.

Kari Nøst Hegseth

Kari Nøst Hegseth is the program director for HUMAN international documentary film festival, and has previously worked for festivals such as Mirage, The Norwegian Short Film Festival, Oslo/Fusion, and more. She has a background as a social scientist, and has studied documentary directing at OsloMet. She is a part-owner of the production company Morild Film.

Eli El Sultan

Eli El Sultan is a Lebanese artist, performer and art therapist based in Paris. He interprets the woman in her struggles and the man in his life experience, and his performances evolve in sensuality and trance of the senses with the body. Through his art therapy, he heals through dance and movement, adding to his body expression an organic, sensual, twisted note, transcendent towards an absolute and imagined freedom.

Guri Glans

Guri Glans is a Norwegian actor and theatre person, with extensive experience in the independent performing arts field, with which she has toured internationally and nationally. In film, she was last seen in Night, Sick of Myself and Back to the Forest. She is passionate about telling stories that make you feel seen, stories told on stage and in front of the camera, and also being a teacher at Forstudium Teater.

Dan Helgi í Gong

Dan Helgi Helgason í Gong (he/him) is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and DJ from Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. With a BA (Hons) in Commercial Music from the University of Westminster and an MA in Sound Art from the University of the Arts London, he works across music, sound, and visual art – performing solo as Helgi and as part of the DJ duo Back2bareback. His practice addresses queerness, shame, and political issues.
In 2018, he joined the Faroe Islands International Minority Film Festival (FIMFF) – after contributing to its inaugural edition in 2017 – serving as coordinator, programmer, and art curator.
He is currently a member of With the River – The Collective, a Nordic multidisciplinary art collective funded by a two-year grant from the Kone Foundation (Koneen Säätiö).

François Monarcha

François Monarcha is happily tucked into the art department as a set dresser or on-set props wrangler, when the film industry is not in recession. During dry spells, he moonlights as a bartender at a Japanese restaurant, swims in any body of water, or drifts off into daydreams of films he hasn't shot (yet). He’s been on sets between Beirut and Oslo, absorbing experiences, and life and death. He is perpetually envious of Jim Jarmusch, Derek Jarman, Alice Rohrwacher, and Pier Paolo Pasolini.

Lotte W. Bech

Lotte W. Bech (she/her) is a Danish filmmaker and third year student.

Albert Reith

Albert Reith (he/him/they/them) is a Danish artist and second year student.

Henrik Østreng Eriksen

Henrik Østreng Eriksen (he/him) is a Norwegian music video director, photographer and student.