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    • Tehilla Shwartz – Altshuler

    Dr. Tehilla Shwartz Altshuler is a senior fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute and head of the institute’s Media Reform Program and Democracy in the Information Age Program.

    Tomer Appelbaum

    Born in 1978, graduated from "Hadassah" college ,working as a photojournalist for "Haareztz" since 2004.

    Boaz Armoni

    Film maker, military horror “Freak Out” (2015), musical comedy “The Electrifiers” (2019)

    Nadav Aronowicz

    Israeli film director, writer & producer. His directing credits include March '19, The Altman Method and The Glory of Defeat.

    Asaf Ashery

    Lecturer at Bezalel Academy, writing instructor.

    Tamir Ashman

    Asaf Asulin

    An Israeli screenwriter and director, born in 1984. His debut feature film, "Horse with No Name", released in April 2025.

    Uri Aviv

    Director of the Utopia Festival for Science Fiction and Future Story-telling. As the Promethean Consultancy, program curator, PMO, artistic consultant and producer, writer and speaker on topics of technology and society, science fiction and the future.

    Yoav Avni

    Writer & translator

    Tzlil Avraham

    Journalist, Kan - The Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation

    Rina Jean Baroukh

    Literature researcher, writer, translator, editor, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, and in the Be'er Sheva Writer's House, Editor of the literary magazine "Speculation".

    Yariv Bash

    Space and flight tech entrepreneur, founder and CEO of the drone delivery startup Flytrex, Previously, founder of the Google X-Prize contestant association SpaceIL (crashed a space probe on the Moon!)

    Dr. Sarit Ben Simhon Peleg

    Specializes in research and development of governmental and policy projects.

    Shuki Benaim

    Sarah Blau

    Israeli author and playwright, She won the Levi Eshkol's Prize for Hebrew Literature in 2015.

    Daniel Bloom

    Filmmaker, writer and critic. His stories and essays have been published in various publications.

    Regev Contes

    Director, screenwriter and social activist, Head of the video program in the department of visual communication at Shenkar College.

    Eli Cook

    Senior Lecturer in the General History Department at the University of Haifa in Israel and head of the American Studies Program.

    Hadas Daniel

    Cinephile, MA student in Cinema Studies. Former manager and curator of “Documentary at Shapira” project.

    Ori Druckman

    Cultural events and exhibition's producer, reporter at Portfolio magazine and a Visual Culture B.A student

    Keren Elazari

    Friendly hacker, cyber security researcher and speaker. Founder of BSidesTLV and the Leading Cyber Ladies movement, avid sci fi reader.

    Liat Elkayam

    Liat Elkayam is an Israeli writer, screen writer, and culture critic for "Haaretz". Elkayam teaches at the culture studies department of "Sapir" college.

    Hadas Erel

    Prof. Hadas Erel, Head of the Human-Robot Interaction research in the media innovation lab at Reichman University.

    Adam Etzion

    Writer, sailor, climate activist

    Isaac Ezban

    Sci-fi film-maker from Mexico (THE INCIDENT, THE SIMILAR, PARALLEL), co-founder of Red Elephant Films and Autocinema Coyote (Coyote Drive-In)

    Eyal Feder-Levy

    Urban Planner and Software Engineer. I love Cities, People, Technology and areas in which they converge.

    Jeremy Fogel

    Speaker, moderator, podcaster, researcher, philosopher, teacher. Fogel teaches at the Tel Aviv University's department of Jewish philosophy and numerous other institutes, alongside being academic director of Alma, cultural and intellectual center for Hebrew culture.

    Doron Friedman

    Friedman is an Associate Prof. in the Sammy Ofer School of Communications and the head of the Advanced Reality Lab.

    Eitan Gafny

    Film director who pioneered Hebrew Horror. He's also a published author and a nice person in general, with a terrible fear of cockroaches.

    Asaf Gavron

    Asaf Gavron is an Israeli writer, translator and musician.

    Olga Gershenson

    Professor of Jewish Studies and Near Eastern Studies and Film Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

    Gali Golan

    Amateur lecturer with academic pretensions on all things SF and Fantasy, for over 20 years.

    Prof. Elana Gomel

    Prof. Gomel teaches in the Department of English Literature and American Studies at the Tel Aviv University with research specializations in science fiction and fantasy, narrative science, Dickens, Victorian culture and Post-humanism. Alongside her research and teaching, Prof. Gomel is also a published author of science fiction and fantasy texts and novels.

    Yonatan Gotlib

    Writer/director, social media influencer with over 20K followers, news anchor at Ynet, founder of Cinema Limbo, television actor.

    Eran Hadas

    Poet, programmer and media artist. Co-founder of the Digital Media track at Tel Aviv University and lecturer there, at the School of Visual Theatre Jerusalem, and in other frameworks.

    Evyatar Halimi

    Comedian, Screenplay Writer, Actor, Video Editor, Standup Comic.

    Amir Harash

    Amir Harash is a novelist, scribe, and literary scholar. Author of the books "Bronze – Canaanite Fantasy" (2019) and "Horror in West Rishon" (2023).

    Ido Hartogsohn

    Blogger, artist, faculty member at Bar Ilan University, journalist at Haaretz newspaper.

    Tsila Hassine

    Hassine is an artist, lecturer and researcher. Her creative work was exhibited at the Jerusalem Science Museum, the Tel-Aviv Center for Contemporary Art, the Berlin Transmediale, Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), Gasworks (London), Maxxi, the Venice Biennale, and more. As of 2019 She is the founder and CEO of the early stage ArtUp “Shmoogle: Search Different, Think Different."

    Bar Hayun

    Content Expert at the Israel Space Agency, lecturer, and creator and host of the podcasts “Kol Hayekum” (for ISA) and “Space Agent” (for KAN).

    Itamar Heifetz

    Artist, graphic designer, typographer, with expertise in typographic and calligraphic design, alongside design for the arts & culture worlds.

    Ofek Kehila

    Scholar of Spanish and Latin American literature. His fields of expertise are Spanish Golden Age literature and contemporary Latin American literature.

    Eli Keller

    Architect, architectural historian and researcher. In his work, Eli explores the historical and conceptual relationships between technological advancements and speculative, utopian and dystopian architectural imaginations.

    Shani Kiniso

    Film critic, researcher and curator. Kiniso is from Kibbutz Be'eri, after surviving the October 7th massacre he published the article "For Unimaginable Cinema – A Call to Israeli Filmmakers" in which he detailed the ways in which Israeli cinema should respond to the events of that day. Kiniso co-founded the Israeli "Unimaginable Cinema Project", and is co-founder of the "Trashtalk" podcast, alongside Gili Porat.

    Ziv Kitaro

    Game Creator, Writer, Devoted Sci-Fi lover, Creative Director at Funfacters.

    Adam Klin – Oron

    Adam is an anthropologist of religion, Head of Public Discourse at the Van Leer institute and the head of the institute's digital team.

    Jonathan Kopievker

    Cultural researcher, content editor, and film critic at Portfolio Magazine. Has lived and breathed cinema from a young age and lives as someone who writes to find meaning.

    Eden Kupermintz

    Program curator, speaker and music & culture journalist, programmer for Utopia, the Tel-Aviv International Festival for Science Fiction and Fantastic Film, editor-in-chief of Heavy Blog is Heavy, web developer and scifi enthusiast.

    Boaz Lavie

    Lavie is an Israeli author and playwright, game designer and entrepreneur. His play “Nephilim” (created with Yonatan Levi) premiered at The Israel Arts Festival in Jerusalem. “The Divine”, a graphic novel (created with illustrators Asaf and Tomer Hanuka) became a New York Times bestseller, was a Hugo Award Nominee and won the International Manga Award and.

    Danny Lerner

    Director, Screenwriter and film-lecturer. Wrote and directed FROZEN DAYS (winner of Best Film award at Haifa Film Festival), THE ASSASSIN NEXT DOOR, THE MINISTER WHO BECAME A SPY and HOMESICK (currently in post-production).

    Emanuel Yitzchak Levi

    Poet and musician ("Emmanuel and the Yearnings"). His debut poetry book (“The Sun Sings to Melchior”, Hava La’or Publishing, 2020) has awarded him the Minister of Culture's Prize for Poets in their Early Career.

    Yonatan Levy

    Didi Lubetzky

    Noa Manheim

    Editor of prose and screenplay, essayist and cultural critic, recipient of the 2021 Israel Minister of Culture's Award for Editing. Head of the Hebrew Literature Department, Kinneret-Zmora-Dvir publishing.

    Natalie Marcus

    Award-winning director and screenwriter. Creator of "The Jews Are Coming" (Hayehudim Ba'im), an Israeli satirical television series. Writer on numerous successful TV shows, such as "Fauda" and "Tehran".

    Eran May-Raz

    Filmmaker, content creator and VFX artist.

    Tal Sara Meiri

    Artistic director and film curator., Music, film and culture researcher, DJ and actress.

    Assi Meshullam

    Assi Meshullam is an artist and associate professor in the art department at the University of Haifa. He has a BA in archaeology and art and MA in biblical studies.

    Romi Mikulinsky

    Researcher of Digital Culture and Design-led Innovation

    Nir Miretzky

    Producer of Films, Games and other Media & Technological Projects. Miretzky accumulated years and years of experience in all aspects of the games industry. He was a founding member of GameIS – the Israeli Digital Games Industry Association and served as its first CEO.

    Nadav Neuman

    A writer focused on the surprising connections between strange things - technology, psychedelia, science fiction, mysticism and esoterica, cute animals and strange peoples.

    Amos Noy

    Poet and cultural researcher. Research fellow at the Center for Folklore Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics, a master’s in computer science, and a PhD in folklore and folk culture from the Hebrew University.

    Yuval Ofer

    Producer, content writer and curator, DJ and activist. Former journalist and news-editor. Ofer is a member of the Utopia magazine editorial board and an artistic consultant for the film festival.

    Keren Omry

    Science Fiction scholar in the English Department, University of Haifa.

    Marat Parkhomovsky

    Created a range of cultural initiatives, theatre productions and a feature film that have received awards and critical acclaim. In the past, taught a popular year-long course on genre films at Minshar.

    Yoav & Doron Paz

    The Paz Brothers are writer-directors.

    Gili Porat

    Film producer, curator and researcher. Porat is the Holon Cinematheques producer and co-founder of the "Trashtalk" podcast, alongside Shani Kiniso.

    May Pundak

    May Pundak is the Israeli executive director of the "A Land for All" movement, a feminist lawyer and activist. May deals with the seam between policy, education and community activism and has a bachelor's and master's degree in law. She is also a Mandel School for Educational Leadership graduate and lives with her family in Jerusalem.

    Mayan Rogel

    Mayan Rogel is an Author, screenwriter and story-hacker, podcaster and narrative expert. Rogel is a mom and a martial arts expert.

    Alon Rothem

    Screenwriter, Author, Middle School teacher

    Michael (Mysh) Rozanov

    Visual artist, politically queer, optimist for real

    Dr. Miri Rozmarin

    Dr. Miri Rozmarin is a senior professor for gender studies at Bar-Ilan univesity, a research fellow at the Van-Leer institute and had her doctorate at Tel Aviv University.

    Yoni Salmon

    Yoni Salmon, owner of the veteran animation blog "Shulyat Hakosem", lecturer, illustrator, animation director and project manager at TMC Animation Studio.

    Yanai Sened

    Yanai Sened is an (ex) Programmer, (ex) Teacher, and philosophy PhD candidate, Fordham University, New York City.

    Orr Sigoli

    Film writer and critic, artistic consultant and director. Artistic director at JIFF, the Jerusalem International Film Festival. Editor, co-founder of the Srita.net film website. Program manager at the Holon Cinematheque.

    Amital Stern

    Amital Stern writes film, theater and other texts. She teaches experimental writing workshops.

    David Tauber

    Jerusalem-based filmmaker and screenwriter, married and a father of four. He has written and directed several short films.

    Omer Tobi

    Tobi’s works have been presented and awarded at many festivals, including Sundance, Karlovy Vary, Locarno, AFI, Jerusalem and Haifa. Tropicana is his first feature film.

    Eran Tzidkiyahu

    Geopolitics Consultant, Guide, PhD at Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Historical-political sociologist, specializing in the interface between religious and national movements.

    Pablo Utin

    Film Scholar and critic, Author of 3 books on Israeli Cinema and has a passion for teleporting which he can't currently pursue for lack of proper technology.

    Hilla Vidor

    Film actress, working in Israeli and international cinema, exploring complex female characters and questions of identity and transition.

    Achinoam Virt

    Virt is a creative, writer and artistic producer, she addresses identity, urbanism and digital spaces in her creative work.

    Jehudit Weinberger Basha

    International Emmy-nominated senior producer and journalist, creating impactful investigations and documentaries for “UVDA” with Ilana Dayan and leading global media projects.

    Oded Wolkstein

    Translator, lecturer, editor, and here and there also a writer. I served as an editor at Keter Publishing, and currently I am also chief editor at the Institute for Translation.

    Liam Young

    Young is an architect who operates in the spaces between design, fiction and futures. He is founder of the urban futures think tank Tomorrows Thoughts' Today (TTT), exploring the possibilities of fantastic, perverse and imaginary urbanisms.

    Mushon Zer-Aviv

    Designer and educator in Shenkar College, GA member of A Land For All

    Oren Zuckerman

    HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) researcher and designer, Reichman University’s Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Head of HCI MA program, Director of miLAB.

    Yair Lipshitz

    Researcher of the interface between theatre, performance, and Jewish religious tradition. Recently, he has also been exploring the connections between theatre, role-playing games, and fantasy.