Daria Kopiec – a director of animated films. Born in 1983. In 2003, graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Gdynia - Orłowo. A graduate of the State Higher School of Film, Television and Theatre in Łódź, the Cinematography Department, specializing in Film Animation and Special Effects. Co-founder of the 1st Animated Film Review ANIMACJA. From November 2006 to March 2007, scholar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Visuels - La Cambre in Brussels. Since February of 2008 to this day the director of the student theatre "Theatre unpredictable" at the Technical University of Łódź. Since 2010 working as a colourist of footage ( DaVinci Resolve system) at Packshot company. In 2011, conducted workshops on pixelation called the Se-ma-for European / Asian Express 2011 (Beijing, Madrid, Tokyo, Paris), under the Polish Presidency projects. She directed music videos for the Łódź based Samokhin Band ("Habibi"), and the bands: PIN ("Film about yourself"), Lady Pank ("Girls today are dancing not just for anybody"), Manchester ("I do not want to sleep" ), and T.Love ("Lucy phere”)
Filmography: Anunnaki (2004), Wella - Viva One Night Mouse (2005), Femme Fatale (2005), Eight (2006), Agata Nowicka talks about the creative inspirations of everyday life - PROJECT ENDO and Karolina Gruszka about film adaptations of Iwaszkiewicz's prose (2008), Nescafé 3 in 1 (2008), Zuzanna (2010).
Joanna Polak – a director of animated films. Born on 12 March 1978, in Lublin. She graduated from the National School of Fine Arts in Lublin and Academy of Fine Arts at the Faculty of Multimedia Communications. In 2003, she was awarded MA in filmmaking, television and photography, majoring in animation. She works as an assistant at the Department of Digital Media Art at ISP WA University in Lublin. She conducts experiments in the field of digital animation graphics. Apart from her purely artistic interest, she is involved in a pioneering study in the field of film therapy that already brought interesting results, achieved in collaboration with scientists working on drug treatment and prevention of homelessness programmes. In 2011 she was awarded a doctorate from University of Lublin. Her films, videoinstallations, photographs, sculptures, macramé, and paintings have been presented in 23 exhibitions, 61 festival (on 5 continents), 13 TV channels (Europe, Asia, USA) and more than 300 presentations. She has authored 83, mostly animated, films. Her current explorations focus on creative experiments with a simultaneous video installations. She cooperates with the Polish public television.
Bożena Szroeder - cultural animator and teacher. The author of The Borderland Tales Film Collection. She works at the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” which she co-founded. For many years now, she has been running a theatre workshop for children and is the leader of The Sejny Chronicles project. With the children's theatre, she directed The Rose and The Sejny Chronicles performances. She is the author of an innovative intercultural education program for children, which is implemented in the schools of Sejny and that has become a model for schools in other Polish regions. She also co-host the programme of The Glass Bead Game – dedicated to the memory and cultural identity of the birthplace of the participating in it children, currently being implemented in many centres in Poland and Europe. Bożena Szroeder also deals with the history and culture of the Roma-Gypsies, managing the collection of Gypsy culture at the Documentation Centre. She realized such programmes as: Gypsy Art Village or Gypsy Wagons which took place in the villages inhabited by the Roma community. She co-founded the Museum of Cultural Tradition in Sejny and is a deputy editor of the Polish-Lithuanian magazine Sejny Almanac. In 2012, she was awarded the of the Irena Sendler Prize of Honour "For Repairing the World".
Aleksandra Kotarska – a student of painting (Fine Arts Academy in Gdańsk), graduate of the Fine Arts Secondary School in Łomża, winner of secondary students’ art contest, holder of the scholarship of Podlaskie Province, participant in the Borderland run projects: Sejny Chronicles, Connected with the Place, Qultural Cafe and the Fairy Tale Film Collection “Borderland Tales”.
Dominika Turowicz – a student of history of art (Fine Arts Academy in Warsaw), graduate of the Fine Arts Secondary School in Łomża, winner of secondary students’ art contest, participant in the Borderland run projects: Sejny Chronicles, Connected with the Place, Home Space, and the Qultural Cafe.
Raphael Rogiński - is a guitarist, composer and performer, improviser, culture organizer and explorer of musical folklore. He started playing the electric guitar at the age of 13. Educated in jazz and classical music he supplemented it with musicology and ethnomusicology. From the very beginnings of his artistic work he concentrated, first of all, on improvisation rooted in jazz, blues, ethnic and folk music. The mix of these of two traditions has determined his style both as a composer and performer. Deeply connected with the Jewish culture he finds space for it in his own work. His explorations brought about the led by him projects: Shofar and Cukunft and Alte Zachen. He is simultaneously engaged in projects connected with the world stage of the new jazz and has composed music for film and theatre.
Urszula Wasilewska - in 1983, graduated from the School of Arts in Minsk Mazowiecki. In the same year she started her first job as a decorator at the SCH Sejny Cooperative. In 1987-1993 she worked as an artist at the local community centre. Since 1994, she has been working for the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations” where for many years she has taught weaving with children and young people and currently coordinates the exhibition workroom and the publishing program.
Marcin Pawlukiewicz - documentary filmmaker, animator culture. He has directed several youth projects recreating the history of the town using modern media. He chronicles the current life of Sejny life and teaches media for youth. He works at the Centre “Borderland of Arts, Cultures and Nations”.
Martin Lenarczyk - turntablist, producer and sound editor. As DJ Lenar he promoted a new technique of playing the turntables, smoothly moving between different genres of music - from klezmer Meritum through reinterpretations of Lutosławski played with such musicians as Andrzej Bauer or Paris Tetris band with Marcin Masecki. For several years, he has dealt with the realization and sound edition of feature films and documentaries (Samosiuk. The Independent Film Republic, Suicide Room, Surviving Afghanistan). He has worked with the Borderland on the project Music of the Place, conducting sound workshops and preparing a concert at the White Synagogue. He is also composed the soundtrack for the Fairy Tale Film Collection “Borderland Tales”.