Briana Pegado is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA) and an award-winning social entrepreneur, activist, and author with nearly a decade of senior experience in Scotland’s creative industries. In 2010, she helped set up the University of Edinburgh’s first Black History Month and is an anti-racism and anti-oppression consultant.

She is a long-time contributor to BBC Radio Scotland’s Tuesday Review and Sunday Morning Show with Cathy MacDonald, Janice Forsyth, and Tony Kearney (2017–2025). She was Creative Director of Fringe of Colour Films in 2021 and Co-Director of We Are Here Scotland CIC from 2021–22.

Balenji is a development producer and coordinator across script and talent development, with festival curation experience. She has worked with We Are Parable, the European Cultural Institute, and previously with Short Circuit, Screen Scotland, and the Fringe on the 2023 Screen Fringe programme.

Currently, she is the Funny Features Project Officer in Glasgow Film Festival’s Industry Team, supporting filmmakers who move beyond tokenism and dominant perspectives, with an ambitious scope.

Liz Chege is a curator, critic and researcher based in Glasgow and Nairobi. In 2022, she was invited as a Salzburg Global Seminar Fellow, is an Acumen Fellow and BAFTA Connect member. She is a Berlinale Talents alumna and a founding member of Come the Revolution, a collective exploring Black life and cultural expression through cinema.

She was programme producer of the British Council’s “No Direct Flight” at the BFI, a cross-media exploration of global African diaspora moving-image makers, and is currently Lead Programmer for Leeds International Film Festival’s Louis le Prince International Competition.