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Suki Chan is a London based artist, film director and founder of Conscious Productions. Her films take audiences on an immersive journey, and shine a light on subjects that are under-represented across the human condition: from dementia, sight-loss, identity to belonging. Chan's passion is to change perception and build empathy for other people’s realities. Chan uses installation, moving image, photography and sound to explore our subjective perception of reality. Her mesmerising film works draws the viewer into a cinematic 'elsewhere' to investigate memory, belief and knowledge systems. Chan has filmed in diverse locations internationally including contested sacred sites in the Middle East; Senate House Library in London; Hagia Sofia in Istanbul; and rammed earth roundhouses in Yunnan province (associated with her Hakka heritage) in China.

Her debut feature documentary, CONSCIOUS, made its world premiere at the prestigious CPH:DOX. The film offers a profound exploration of the human mind’s resilience and fragility, weaving together the intimate experiences of three women living with dementia alongside the perspective of a neuroscientist. The project was supported by Screen Scotland, BFI Doc Society and the Sundance Institute | Sandbox Fund.

Chan's practice sits at the intersection of art and science and features dialogues with diverse communities from people living with dementia, blind and partially sighted people, meditators, to psychologists and neuroscientists. Chan seeks out narratives that explore alternative ways of looking at the world and stories that challenge and destabilise our understanding of perception and reality.

Aimara Reques is Founder and CEO of Aconite Productions, a Scottish company making award-winning, internationally focused documentaries. With 30+ years in the UK film industry, she is celebrated for ambitious, visually striking films and international co-productions.

Her credits include AQUARELA (Venice 2018, Oscar-shortlisted, Sony Pictures Classics), ELECTRIC MALADY (BAFTA-nominated 2023), and THE BOY AND THE SUIT OF LIGHTS (Sheffield Doc/Fest Grand First Feature Jury Winner 2024 supported by Netflix).

Aimara has received two BAFTA Scotland Awards, a Fox Searchlight Award, an Amnesty International Media Award, the El Gouna Golden Star, and a Saltire Society Grierson Award nomination.

Gannesh Rajah is a BAFTA-longlisted and multiple BIFA-award-winning producer, whose work spans a variety of formats and genres. His first feature documentary as lead producer, the BFI Doc Society supported IF THE STREETS WERE ON FIRE, had its World Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival, was released theatrically in the UK, acquired by BBC Storyville, and screened at The Houses of Parliament. The film was longlisted for the BAFTA for ‘Outstanding Debut’ and won two BIFAs - including ‘Best Feature Documentary’ - with Gannesh also receiving a nomination for ‘Breakthrough Producer.’

Gannesh was awarded the prestigious DOC SOCIETY FELLOWSHIP, is a BFI INSIGHT PRODUCER and SHEFFIELD DOC FEST FUTURE PRODUCER alumnus, is part of BAFTA CONNECT, was named a FILM LONDON LODESTAR, and is part of FILM LONDON’S BREAKING THE GLASS CEILING cohort (where he was mentored by 007 Producer, Barbara Broccoli).

Teresa Grimes bridges contemporary art and film/television. In the 1980s–90s, she worked as an editor, researcher, director, and producer, notably creating the Channel 4 series Five Women Painters and co-writing the accompanying book. She directed the award-winning short drama Ebb Tide and won the first Media Exchange New Producers Award.

In 2010, she founded London’s Tintype Gallery, curating exhibitions and events, and launched Essex Road, an annual moving image public art project for which she commissioned and executive produced 48 short films.

While running Tintype, she collaborated with Suki Chan on two major exhibitions and several of her short films.