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.

Leonie Buitenhuis works with independent photographers and media companies in the development and facilitation of storytelling. Starting within the field of advertising, Leonie has steadily moved into cross-platform projects with a focus on social and personal experience and narration. She holds a degree in Advertising & Graphic Design (CIBAP, Netherlands), subsequently expanding her theoretical knowledge with a BA Fine Art & History of Art (Goldsmiths University of London).
Her writing explores the possibilities of translation, the encryption of images through geopolitical and personal references and how online platforms affect artistic practice. Currently, Leonie works internationally as a freelance project developer and researcher, planning to move into curation of more personal projects and working with agencies that provide an experimental and interdisciplinary platform for visual storytelling.

With Pinch Media, Leonie has been involved as researcher on Uspomene and is currently developing documentaries provisionally titled Fixers, Life Extension, Calais – UK.