Birgit Beumers is Professor Emerita of Film Studies at Aberystwyth University (UK) and working on a project on Central Asian cinema at Passau University in Germany.

Catherine Géry is Professor of Russian Literature and Cinema at INALCO (Paris) and Director of the Pedagogical and Scientific Council of the Cité du Genre in France.

Eugénie Zvonkine is Professor of Cinema Studies at the University Paris 8 and a junior member of the French University Institute.