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Loretta van der Horst is Dutch-Puerto Rican producer-director. Her most recent films took place on the US-Mexico border, in Honduras and in the Netherlands after Black Lives Matter. Her debut Behind the Blood (IDFA, 2019) won Best International Documentary at the HUMAN Film Festival in Oslo. The Border Crossed Us (IDFA, 2023) earned three Golden Calf nominations (Dutch Academy Award). Before that, she worked across Latin America as a journalist and producer, building a practice rooted in finding stories when and where nobody else was looking, resulting in multiple Emmy nominations for productions set in New York (PBS POV) and across Mexico (Discovery Channel). She is currently directing The Documenters (VPRO), following online researchers who archive evidence of war crimes as they navigate the collision between evidence and geopolitical interest. At her production house The Waves, she produces author-driven fiction and documentary by other filmmakers. She founded NPA after connecting with Claudio in 2020 through the Brown Girls Doc Mafia network. At NPA she oversees strategy and programmes. Loretta is a member of Global Impact Producers Alliance, Brown Girls Doc Mafia, an alumna of IDFAcademy, IFFR Rotterdamlab, and Docsociety Impact Lab.

Claudio is an Italian-Mexican film producer and founder of New Producers Academy. As Creative Director, he shapes the creative direction of the programmes and oversees the participants’ productions. As co-founder of The Waves, he serves as Head of Production; among the company's recent work is the TV special Black Lives Matter: Echoes of the Dam (Omroep Zwart). With more than fifteen years of international experience in the audiovisual industry, he is dedicated to bringing unique and untold stories to the screen, especially those inspired by true events. His work is shaped by a strong commitment to meaningful storytelling and creative collaboration across borders. Claudio has also taken part in several respected industry programs that support emerging producers and innovative filmmaking practices, including ACE Producers Training Days NL, IFFR Rotterdam Lab, ApostLab, Berlinale EFM Toolbox, and IDFA Emerging Producers. Through his work, he continues to champion distinctive voices and stories with both artistic depth and social relevance.

Born and raised in Brabant with Moroccan roots, Yassin Karmoudi is a creative producer, writer and talent developer working across film and television. He began his career as an intern at Submarine and returned as Storyteller and Impact Producer, working on Bellingcat: Truth in a Post-Truth World, Undone and several interactive projects at the crossroads of animation, live-action and immersive storytelling. In between, he worked at Savage Film as Marketing Manager and Storyteller on film projects and audience strategies for The Land of the Enlightened (2016), Coffee (2016), and Racer and the Jailbird (2017) and Coffee (2016) among many others. Yassin is co-founder and Head of Partnerships at New Producers Academy. He also serves as Talent Coordinator for Fiction and Documentary at the Dutch Public Broadcaster (NPO), where he oversees talent schemes across both genres. At NPO, he developed new talent trajectories including Fictiefilm Campus, NPO Start Next for debuting fiction series makers, and Talentserie, through which series such as ALPHA00 (2026) and Geheime Liefde (2026) were realized.

Elisa is a Dutch-Surinamese-Italian Communication and Media graduate with a passion for film and production. She worked at The Waves as an intern in 2025 and was hired by NPA after graduating. As Communication Coordinator, she's the central point of contact for all programme participants and manages NPA's internal and external communications. She worked closely on NPA's rebrand, and now leads the art and style direction for publicity, keeping everything looking sharp and on-brand.