Jan was born in Langnau am Albis, close to Zurich. He began filmmaking at 15 and joined the young filmmaker’s society VideoGang. It was with them that in 2001 he made the show Jan in Ecuador for Tele24 from South America.
After a few years in the world of television, he switched to Documentary filmmaking. Trips to India, Senegal and South America resulted in films. Jan Gassmann now lives in Munich and Zurich. He works as an editor and studies Documentary Film at the Hochschule für Fernsehen und Film (HFF) in Munich.

Christian Ziörjen

Christian Ziörjen, born on October 7th 1982, worked for two years as a part of VideoGang, during which he created his first documentary ‘Mit anderen Augen’. For ‘Imaginate’, a film about Switzerland and Ecuador, he won the Young Digital Freestyle Award. He produced and directed music videos for the band Mundartisten. In his film Mit Kanonen auf Krebse, he follows the process of his own chemo therapy treatment.

Thomas Jörg

Thomas is born on March 18th 1982. He is from Zurich, which is where for 6 Years he produced the television show VideoGang. In his later work, he is concerned with electronic democracy. In 2003, he took part in the Cannes Lions Academy. As a producer he has also produced films for: Esprit, Apple Computer or the Alliance for Global Sustainability (MIT Boston, ETH Zürich, University of Tokyo, Chalmers University of Technology). In 2004, he founded the diagonalfilm gmbh production company. Thomas now lives and works in Berlin. He studies film production at the Deutsche Film- und Fernsehakademie Berlin (dffb).

Eric Andreae

Born in 1981 in Zurich, Switzerland. Grew up in Zurich and Winterthur. In 1997/98, he lived in California, USA. In 1999, back in Zurich, Eric joined the VideoGang, which was a tv-show made by a group of young tv-makers and shown weekly on the Swiss national tv stations Tele 24 / Tele Züri. In 2000, Eric finished school and started working as a freelancer in filmproductions in Munich and Zurich. During this time, he started producing his first short movies. From August '03 until January '04, he worked for the well-known Swiss film production company "Dschoint Ventschr". In March '04 Eric, was the director of the pilot of the tv sitcom "FerienFreunde" for Swiss national  tv (SF). In Summer '04, he travelled trough France, Mexico, Senegal and India together with Jan Gassmann for a documentary project called "Vivre autrement le present".
Since autumn '04, Eric studies at the University of Applied Science and Arts of Zurich in the Department Film. Eric has won several awards for his short movies between 2002 and 2006: the Munich Young Moviemaker Award three times in a row, as well as the Bavarian Young Moviemaker Award in 2004. Also in 2004, his short "Würkli!?" won the the 2nd Audience Award of Zurich and in 2006, the same movie won the 1st price at the Swiss Youth Filmfestival

Jonas Leuenberger

Born in 1979 in Langenthal, schools in Lotzwil, Kleindiewil and Bern. Between 1996 and 2000, Jonas worked as a furniture carpenter in Langenthal, and between 1993 and 1997, he played the guitar in two bands. Since 2001, he has been the drummer of the band Mundartisten, for which he has also produced DVDs and music videos. In 2005, Jonas completed his Bachelor in Visual Communication at the University of Applied Science and Arts of Basel. Since 2004, he has produced his own beats and music compositions under the name of KWEST. Jonas was in charge of the soundtrack for several movies done by arson, and in 2005, he produced a major part of the solo album of the rapper Knackeboul. With Knackeboul, he won the "M for Music Award" in 2006 for Best Newcomer in the catagory Urban. From January to September 2006, Jonas worked as a Junior Art Director for the Oswald Siegfried advertising agency in Basel. Currently, he works as a freelance graphic designer and is a member of the graphic design team of the Zurich Film Festival.

Samuel Merkli

Adrian Aeschbacher

Born 1981 in Zurich, raised in the Zurich Oberland. After High School, Adrian started  an internship at the film production company Dschoint Ventschr AG (cut and postproduction) 2002. As a result, he got employed with this company for several years. During this time, Adrian assisted numerous cinema and tv movies as a cutter (e.g. Forget Baghdad (2002), Little Girl Blue (2003), Strähl (2004)), created computer effects and worked as a cutter for the tv movie "ZwischenSprach" (2004; director: Samir). Apart from that, Adrian filmed his own short movies and studied German language and Movie Sciences at the University of Zurich from 2002 to 2004. In 2004, he got accepted at the film department of the HGK Zurich. Since then he has  worked as a freelance cutter. With his short movies, he won several prizes in Switzerland and abroad.