Mirko Pincelli is a director, cinematographer and photojournalist. He has developed a deeply personal style, exploring reportage photography and character-led documentaries. Mirko graduated with a BA Honours in Photography from the University of East London and worked four years in advertising and short documentaries before setting up his own company Pinch Media.

In the last few years, Mirko has been able to focus on feature length character-driven documentaries as well as several assignments as a photojournalist in former war zones, including Bosnia and others. In 2010 he filmed a series of short documentaries for Holocaust Memorial Day called ‘Untold Stories’ that documented different genocides from around the world including those in Rwanda, Cambodia, the Holocaust, and Armenia. ‘Uspomene 677′ (2011), based on an early photojournalism assignment, his first feature documentary, was selected for Raindance film festival, where it was nominated for an award.

He’s just completed his second feature documentary ‘My Words and I’ and three very successful web-series for beActive Media. He is in development with his first feature film as a director on ‘The Habit of Beauty’, and two more feature documentaries.

Enrico Tessarin is a graduate of the London Film School with ten years experience working on documentaries, music videos, commercials and short films. In 2006, Enrico was selected for training by European Audiovisual Entrepreneurs (EAVE) and in 2007 he worked as one of six producers from Film London, on ‘Passport’. In 2007/2008 he has worked on ‘Sofia’s Diary’, the first interactive web-series for Sony Television Europe, which successfully transferred to television on Channel 5.

Enrico produced two feature documentaries with Mirko and his first feature film as producer ‘The Knot’, starring Noel Clarke and Mena Suvari, is in cinemas from October 2012 via Universal. In 2010, Enrico was one of only five producers selected for the ‘Guiding Lights’ mentoring scheme run by UKFC and Skillset, spending a year under the expert tutelage of Allan Niblo, co-founder of Vertigo Films (‘Streetdance 3D’, ‘Monsters’, and Oscar-winning documentary ‘The Cove’). ‘The Habit of Beauty’ is Enrico’s first feature film as a scriptwriter.

With experience as a journalist and advertising copywriter, Andreas Koumi established and still oversees the multi-award-winning Exposure Youth Media, supporting thousands of young people to improve their communication skills and employment prospects. In collaboration with Pinch Media, he is executive producer on a series of film projects, including ‘Music Factory’ (music videos for young up-and-coming artists), ‘Mind Pictures’ (shorts recounting the experiences of young people with mental health problems) and ‘Teen London’ (a comedy drama about urban teenagers).

He is English language script editor on Pinch Media’s feature documentaries ‘Uspomene 677′, ‘My Words and I’ and feature film ‘The Habit of Beauty’. His UK novel ‘The Cypriot’, a story of love across a divide of religion and identity, was published to wide acclaim, subsequently reissued as a mass-market paperback and was promoted as a key summer read by WHSmith and Waterstone’s in 2010. Translated into Greek, the novel become an instant bestseller in both Greece and Cyprus. A full-length feature film of ‘The Cypriot’ is now in pre-production from his adapted screenplay.