studio, a laboratory of socio-cultural projects and think-tank. Matthew Cuzner is a media-arts professional working for the Future Film Programme of the British Film Institute (BFI) in London, the UK partner of the Doc Next Network. He is the coordinator of Doc Next Network’s programme Remapping Europe – A Remix Project Highlighting the Migrants Perspective in the UK and researcher of the UK chapter in this publication. Future Film is aimed at 15- 25 year olds, programming a festival, monthly screenings, workshops and events to help young people develop their skills, learn about their craft and hopefully go on to become the next generation of film industry workers. Krzystof Czyżewski is a practitioner of ideas, poet, essayist, culture animator and editor. He is the co-founder and president of the Borderland Foundation (1990) and director of the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” in Sejny. In 2011, together with the Borderland Foundation, he opened an International Center for Dialog in Krasnogruda at the Polish-Lithuanian border. In 2008 his new collection of essays was published under the title Line of Return. Notes from the Borderland, which won the Cogito Prize for the best book in 2008. He coordinates intercultural dialogue programs in Europe, Caucasus, Central Asia, Indonesia, Bhutan and USA. He is a President of the Board of Eastern Partnership Congress of Culture. Since 2012 he has been an Artistic Director of European Capital of Culture Wroclaw 2016. He has been awarded with Gabor Bethlen’s Prize (Budapest), the Medal of St. George (Cracow), the Order of Giediminas (Vilnius), the Cross “Polonia Restituta” (Warsaw), the Alexander Langer Prize (Rome), the Dialogue Award (Berlin), the Dan David Prize (2014) and the Alexander Gieysztor Prize (Warsaw 2007). Carlos Delclós is a sociologist and lecturer at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra as well as an active participant in the 15-M Movement in Barcelona. His work focuses on migration, health inequalities, urban dislocations, urban conflict, economic
organisation in the home and in the workplace, and fertility. He is an editor at ROARMAG (roarmag.org), a contributor to Open Democracy (opendemocracy.net), and his work has appeared in media outlets such as Democracy Now!, Adbus– ters, ElDiario.es, Periódico Diagonal, Cadena SER amongst others. The child of Spanish immigrants, he is a dual US.-Spanish citizen. Aside from his work as an activist, researcher and teacher, Carlos is deeply interested in music, and has guest-hosted specials for DJ Rupture’s Mudd Up! radio show on New York’s WFMU and Andy G’s Music Beyond Borders on Houston’s KPFT. Rubén Díaz has combined cultural production and research with his educational work since 2004. His work explores the intersections between media, cultural and social imaginaries. Since graduating in 2003 from the University of Seville in Media Studies, with a Postgraduate Degree in Digital Journalism and an MA in Communication and Culture, he has also studied Hispanic Literature (University of Birmingham, UK) and Anthropology (University of Seville). Rubén has edited and contributed to publications such as Creative and Collective Intelligence (2005), Television Is Not Filming This (2006), Digital Culture and Participatory Communication (2006), Control Panel (2008), Source Code: Remix (2009) and Expanded Education (2012). He was also co-founder of ZEMOS98. He has worked with the European Cultural Foundation on setting up the Doc Next Network since 2010. Fatima El-Tayeb is Associate Professor of Literature and Ethnic Studies and Associate Director of Critical Gender Studies at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of two books, European Others. Queering Ethnicity in Postnational Europe (University of Minnesota Press 2011) and Schwarze Deutsche. Rasse und nationale Identitaet, 1890-1933 (Black Germans. Race and National Identity, 1890-1933, Campus 2001), as well as of numerous articles on the interactions of race, gender, sexuality, and nation. Before moving to the US, she lived in Germany and the Netherlands, where she was active in black
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