Game Designer & Producer, Dreamer & Thinker of all things fun, my passion is to share emotional experiences by creating games.
Programmer from the age of 4, Certified Personal Trainer and graduate of multimedia and games design studies. Director of a gaming studio in Tel Aviv and owner of an escape room.
VP Design at Localize, Senior Faculty at Shenkar College.
Boaz Lavie is a New York Times bestselling author. His graphic novel “The Divine” (with Asaf and Tomer Hanuka) won the International Manga Award and was a Hugo Awardx` nominee.
The founding general Partner of Tech.bio – founding and funding at the intersection of tech and bio.
Composer & Sound Designer for Games, Film and Media. Alon have composed more than 40 films and more than 70 video games. Will speak before the screening of E.T about writing music for films.
Lecturer and researcher of Internet behavior. Founder and Artistic Director of the Print Screen Festival. His articles published in Wired and MIT Slaon Review.
Founder and director of Intimake – a community of Makers, programmers, therapists and educators who wish to connect people through technology. Digital performance artist and educator. MA student for technology in education at the University of Haifa.
A doctoral candidate in philosophy, writes his thesis on subjective morality and moral epistemology. Works as a programmer and teacher.
Yaelle Kayam is a Screenwriter and Director. Mountain, her debut feature film, has premiered at Venice film festival. The film was screened in film festivals worldwide and received numerous awards, and she was chosen for Best Director of the year 2016 by the Israeli Critic Forum.
Voice TV actor (Myrien from Pokemon, Suzy from “Zoe and Raven” by Netflix). Will speak about her work before the screening of Planet 51.
Studies Digital Media at Tel Aviv University and specializes in 3D for virtual reality.
A freelance interactive developer. He has some basic design skills, amateurish photography knowledge, and truly enjoys making music and audio related stuff.
Created an interactive game that combines the physical world with the virtual world using the VR
“Pictures of Jap Girls in Synthesis” was created in a 30-hour hackathon, at Geekcon-Art Hamidrasha 2018.
A poet, programmer and media artist. Half Reading is his eighth book. Guest artist at Caltech in 2017, Digital Media lecturer at Tel Aviv University.
VR creators since 2016. Created “Virtual date”, “Distress Signal” and “Night of the Lapers”, that won first place in the Jerusalem 360 contest.
Aya Korem is an Israeli artist, composer and singer, winner of the ACUM prize, the leader of the artists’ struggle against draconian contracts in the music industry, which ended with a law in her name.
Ángel Sala is a writer, film critic and director of the Sitges Film Festival for Horror and Fantasy Films, the largest and most important genre festival in the world. Sala is a member of this year’s Israeli competition judging team and will also participate in the “State of the Horror” panel.
Jorge Guerricaechevarría is a Spanish screenwriter. He is a Frequent collaborator of director Alex de la Iglesia, who is also visiting the festival this year. Among the films in which the two collaborated were “Common wealth” and “Witching & Bitching” which will be screened at this year’s festival, and “Words with Gods,” “My Great Night”, “The…
Jonathan (Yoni) Geva is a Film director, screenwriter and VFX artist. ABULELE is Jonathan’s debut feature film and is a groundbreaking project for the Israeli film industry both in the genre and in the scale of the animation and VFX work.
Pedro Souto is founder and director of MOTELX – Lisbon International Horror Film Festival. Currently is the General Secretary of the European Fantastic Film Festivals Federation.
Graduate of the Tel Aviv Film University’s Film Department, Eitan wrote and directed Israel’s first zombie film, “Cannon Fodder” (AKA Battle of the Undead), distributed in 15 countries and toured the world in over 40 film festivals. “Children of the Fall”, his second film, premiered at 2017’s Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival.
Katharina is a trained futurologist, social entrepreneur and strong beliver in empowering people to design desirable futures. Katharina founded and built up start-ups (Kiron and Migration Hub), advised founders, worked in Daimler’s and in medium-sized Biotronic’s research and innovation departments and is a freelance consultant for digitization and innovation processes. She combines her experience with…
Peter Watts is a Canadian former marine biologist and an award winning Science Fiction Writer. His books includes “Blindsight”, “The Island” and “The Things”.
Caitlin Sweet is the author of five fantasy novels and teaches science-fiction and fantasy writing at the University of Toronto.
He will be a member of the Festival’s jury and one of the speakers in “The Ideas Bazaar”, including a special event at the Steinhardt Natural History Museum.
Biggest genre director of spain is coming to utopia feastival.
The festival will screen his films “The incedent” and “The similers”, independent sci-fi / fantasy films, and his first English speaking film “Parallel”.
Elefant is the director of the “Lethal Lesbian” film festival, head of the IWFTF, co-CEO of ‘Women in the Picture’ . She is dedicated to promote women in the Israeli film industry.
Writer and pop culture Junkie – Film and TV being her drugs of choice. Works for Time Out Tel Aviv, has a weekly film review column on Mako, and is a film critic on the cinema blog Fish Eye.
Kupermintz holds a BA in History and English. He’s always been passionate about science fiction, music and culture and has given talks on the Future of the State, urbanism and science fiction, and more.
Her debut feature film JOE + BELLE was nominated for best picture at the Israeli Academy Awards. Kedar’s new film FAMILY premiered at the Jerusalem film festival (there it won Best Score).
