Born in São Paulo, Aurora Franco Vögeli has a Brazilian mother and a Swiss father. When she turned 18, she moved to Switzerland and studied Film at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK), graduating in 2013. Moving on to London, she attained her master degree in Film Editing at the National Film and Television School in 2017.

As an editor, she has worked in numerous genres and languages. Her most recent work includes the horror film Stopmotion (2023, UK), the drama Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry (2023, CH/GE) for which she won the Swiss Film Award for Best Editing, and the series Die Zweiflers (2024, DE), for which she was nominated for best Drama Editing at the German Television Awards. She is a member of the Swiss film association SSFV, the Swiss Film Academy, and the European Film Academy.

Born and raised in Dublin, Sarah McTeigue moved to Italy after completing her film studies. She has been working in Rome since 2001, initially as an assistant editor for 14 years, which included projects with directors Luca Guadagnino, Gabriele Salvatores and Paolo Sorrentino, and editors Sidney Wolinsky and Barry Brown. Other editing mentors are Walter Fasano and Cristiano Travaglioli.

Since becoming an editor herself, she has mainly worked on fiction films, most of which have premiered at festivals like Venice and Rome. She has also edited some documentaries. As an assistant editor Sarah worked on many English language films, but as an editor a lot of her work has been in Italian dialects like Sardinian, Neopolitan and Sicilian.

Sarah is a board member of the Italian AMC (Associazione di montaggio cinematografica e televisa), the Irish Screen Editors (ISE), and of TEMPO – Federation of Film Editors Associations. She is also a member of the European Film Academy.

Born in 1984 in Gorgan, Iran, to a Kurdish family, Hamed Mohammadi studied architecture, and worked as an actor and director in theatre and performance, including in the field of political theatre. Hamed emigrated to Germany in 2007 and studied at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne from 2010 to 2016. His graduation film Warless Day, which he directed and edited, was screened at the „International de Cinéma Marseille“ festival.

Hamed works as a freelance film editor and director, mainly in the documentary field. He has been a board member of the German Editors Association BFS since 2024 and is also a member of the German Documentary Association AG Dok. Political and queer-feminist themes form the core of his work to date.

Born in the UK to Australian parents who returned to Sydney when she was a child, Fiona Strain completed a Communications degree and began her editing career working on „making-of“ documentaries, including for Mad Max 3. Since then, her main focus has been Independent Documentary, subjects ranging through indigenous stories, sport, true crime, children’s content, politics, and the arts. Fiona has also worked on drama productions, including shorts and television series.

Fiona won the Australian Screen Editing Award ‘Ellie’ for The Science of Teens, and was nominated a further four times. She was also nominated for Best Editing at the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Award in 2022, and her works have won several other awards, including for Best Documentary Series (AACTA) and Best Children’s Series (AFI).

Fiona served as President of the Australian Screen Editor’s Guild ASE for five years and remains active in the editing community. She spent six years as Editing Lecturer at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School (AFTRS), currently teaches Editing at Sydney Technical and Further Education (TAFE), and has taught Editing and Postproduction skills at the Sydney Film School, the Sydney Actor’s School, and abroad.