Rebecca Lenkiewicz was the first female playwright to have an original play about the suffragette movement – the celebrated Her Naked Skin – performed on the National Theatre’s Olivier stage. Other plays include: Soho – A Tale of Table Dancers, The Night Season, Shoreditch Madonna, etc. Rebecca co-wrote Ida with director Pawel Pawlikowski which has won numerous awards including the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film in 2015, the BAFTA 2016, the Spirit Award, the Best Film Award at the London Film Festival and many more. She has recently written a screenplay for Kristin Scott Thomas to direct. She collaborated on a screenplay The Sweet Life, Disobedience and is now working with Steve McQueen and Rainmark films on a 7-hour drama for the BBC. She also writes for radio.

Kate Leys is a feature film script editor who works on film screenplays at all stages of development from first outline to pre-production. She has been head of development at several companies including Film4 where she was part of the small commissioning team responsible for films including Trainspotting, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Orphans, East Is East, and Girl With a Pearl Earring. She speaks regularly at film festivals and film schools and works with film development projects all over the UK. She has worked in all sectors of the film industry including production, distribution, exhibition, festival programming, a sales agency and a literary agency. She has run talent labs and mentoring projects for filmmakers since 2009 and has organised masterclasses from filmmakers including Jane Campion, Mike Leigh, Sir Ronald Harwood, John Madden, Kenneth Lonergan and editor Pietro Scalia.

Jelena Paljan holds a degree in Editing and Dramaturgy from the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb. She has edited two television feature films and she has worked as screenwriter and co-screenwriter on films by Zvonimir Jurić, Marina Andree, Dana Budisavljević and others. She worked as co-screenwriter on Predrag Ličina’s TV series and on a number of series by Rober Knjaz. She is currently working with Dana Budisavljević on a documentary feature project and with Dubravka Turić on a short film which is part of an omnibus.

Palunko is a screenwriting platform of the Croatian Film Association launched in 2003 with the aim of strengthening the domestic screenwriting scene. Up until today it has been the only project of the type not only in Croatia but also in the region. During its first twelve years, Palunko has established itself as a nursery of short length screenplays in Croatia and there is almost no one among Croatia's leading filmmakers who has not attended one of Palunko's workshops, pitching seminars or other activities. Palunko has always focused on workshop programmes, industry events, promoting screenwriting as an occupation and screenplay production by new, younger authors. Since 2015, Palunko has been committed to developing extra-institutional and lifelong learning systems based on film, television, transmedia and videogames, with its two umbrella projects. The first one is the Screenwriting School, a two-semester educational programme, and the second one is a multimedia publishing project Write a Screenplay within the framework of which the screenwriting manual of the same name was created, the first one in Croatia after more than fifty years.