Eleanor is a poet and editor, and former director of StAnza, Scotland’s International Poetry Festival (2010-2021). Her first full collection, Even the Sea was shortlisted for the 2010 inaugural London New Poetry award and is now in a second edition. Other publications include The Last King of Fife A Sampler and as editor Skein of Geese Migraasje: Versions in Scots and Shetlandic Bridging the Continental Divide Necessarily Looking Backward and The Arch. 

Jack Cochran and Pamela Falkenberg (USA) Jack is a poet with an MFA from the Iowa Creative Writing Workshop. He pursued a successful career as a professional cinematographer in both LA and London for many years. Pam obtained a PhD and became a film professor and experimental filmmaker, before moving on to work in visual display. Having worked together many years ago graduate school, they created Outlier Moving Pictures Outlier Moving Picture, dedicated to making technically innovative and poetic films about landscapes, social justice, and the environment. s here

Todd is an independent American producer, writer, installation artist, and innovator who has contributed to Emmy-winning and Grammy-nominated projects. He has created AR/VR installations and building projections, published four books of poetry with W. W. Norton and a children's book with Simon & Schuster's Beach Lane imprint, written lyrics that have premiered at Kennedy Center and Carnegie Hall, produced more than 150 short films that have screened around the world, patented consumer product innovations and brought them to market, conceived and executed nationwide activations, and launched an award-winning podcast. ription goes here

Paul is a widely published poet, now working on his third collection. Virtual Tides was published by Salmon in 2016, which followed home more or less (Salmon, 2012) and a chapbook, It’s Not All Bad (Heaventree, 2009). His poetry film The Lammas Hireling has been screened worldwide. He edits The Unfinished Book of Poetry and promotes poetry & poetry film in his role as director of Ó Bhéal. 

Christian is the Founding Director of the Fotogenia Film Festival, the first International Festival of Cinepoetry and Divergent Narratives in Mexico. In 2024, the sixth edition partnered with Le Festival International du Film sur l’Art (LeFIFA), the Mexican Institute of Filmmaking (IMCINE)and the Mexico City Office for Promoting Mexican Cinema (PROCINE). He has won several prizes nationally and internationally with his animated and live-action short films including an official selection on the Short Film Corner at Cannes. 

Matt makes videopoems and writes poetry, fiction, screenplays, and music. His videopoems have been shown throughout the world and include screenings at Visible Verse (Canada), Zebra (Germany), VideoBardo (Argentina), Liberated Words (England), Ó Bhéal (Ireland), The Body Electric (USA), CYCLOP (Ukraine), Co-Kisser (USA), The Filmpoem Festival (Scotland), The International Film Poetry Festival (Greece), REELPoetry (USA), Cadence (USA), Festival Fotogenia (Mexico) and more. He is the Mixed Media editor of the online journal Atticus Review and currently teaches at Ball State University where he is an Associate Professor of Creative Writing. 

Janet is a poet and lens-based artist. Her poetry films have been selected for many international screenings, and she has won the Filmetry Festival, the Ó Bhéal International Poetry Film Competition, and Best International Poetry Short at the Bloomsday Film Festival. In 2022 her work featured in the landmark exhibition Poets With a Video Camera: Videopoetry 1980-2020. Janet’s poetry is widely published, and her art photography has been exhibited in shows around the world. 

Mersolis is a German multidisciplinary film artist, visual artist and researcher based in Vienna, Austria. In his cinematic work he deals with methods of filmic philosophizing as well as the communication of art, philosophy and science. His process-oriented approach combines these methods with experimental and poetic forms. In 2017, he founded Moving Thought – Film+Philosophy (www.movingthought.org) to implement projects that focus on these purposes. He is co-curating festivals and participating in artists’ associations. Contact and links: https://linktr.ee/mersolis. 

Colm has made over thirty Poetryfilms shown/shortlisted at festivals all over the world including Fastnet Film Festival, IndyCork Film Festival, Slippery Elm Poetry Film Prize, Lyra Bristol Poetry Festival, Ó Bhėal Poetry Film Competition, REELpoetry Houston, Carmarthen Bay Film Festival, Newlyn Film Festival and many more. His poetry collection, 'What News, Centurions?' is published by New Binary Press.