Walter Salles (Director) - Walter Salles' work, both as a documentary and fiction filmmaker centers around the theme of exile and the search for identity. His first feature film "Foreign Land," shot in 1995 and co-directed by Daniela Thomas, holds a crucial place in the renaissance of Brazilian cinema. The film won seven international prizes and has been selected by over thirty film festivals. It was named Best Film of the Year in Brazil in 1996, where it played theatrically for over six months. It was shown to great acclaim in the U.S. in 1997.

His documentaries, including "Life Somewhere Else" ("Socorro Nobre") and "Krajcberg, the Poet of the Remains," among others, have won awards in many international festivals, including the Fipa D'Or at the Festival International des Programmes Audio-Visuels, and the Best Documentary and the Public's Prize at the Festival dei Popoli in Italy.

Since completing "Central Station," which will have its world premiere at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival prior to its showing in competition at Berlin, Salles also directed "Minuit" (together with Daniela Thomas), a short film for the series "2000 Seen By. . ." for the French television station Arte.

Arthur Cohn (Producer) - Born in Basel, Switzerland, Arthur Cohn is the only film producer to win five Academy Awards. He received this unique honor for "The Sky Above, the Mud Below" (Best Documentary Feature, 1963), Vittorio De Sica's "The Garden of the Finzi-Continis" (Best Foreign Language Film, 1973), Jean-Jacques Annaud's "Black and White in Color" (Best Foreign Language Film, 1978) "Dangerous Moves" (Best Foreign Language Film, 1985) and Barbara Kopple's "American Dream" (Best Documentary Feature, 1991).

Arthur Cohn enjoyed a fruitful collaboration with Vittorio De Sica on such films as: '"Woman Times Seven," with Shirley MacLaine; "Sunflower" with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni; and "A Brief Vacation," which was hailed as "Best European Picture of the Year." His other films include "Two Bits" with Al Pacino and the internationally hailed documentary drama "The Final Solution."

Arthur Cohn has been honored all over the world for his work. The American Film Institute has held retrospectives of his films in Washington, D.C. and Los Angeles and similar retrospectives were held in Hong Kong, Manila, Cairo, Jerusalem, Munich and many other festivals.

Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre (Producer) - Martine de Clermont-Tonnerre worked for French television from 1976 through 1992. With her husband, Antoine de Clermont-Tonnerre (producer of "The Return of Martin Guerre" and co-producer of "Cinema Paradiso"), she formed MACT Productions, which produced the films "Chacun Pour Toi," "Ma Soeur Chinoise," Goran Paskaljevic's "Someone Else's America" (with Tom Conti), "Un Heros Ordinaire," Julien Temple's "Catching Fire," "Metroland" (with Emily Watson) and "Santitos."

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