Jono Van Belle is an Assistant Professor in Media and Communications Studies at Örebro University in Sweden. She gained her doctorate in Communication and Cinema Studies jointly at Ghent University and Stockholm University in 2019. Focusing especially on Ingmar Bergman, cinema memory, audience reception, gender studies, and media policy, she has worked on the reception of Ingmar Bergman in Sweden and Belgium and, together with Åsa Jernudd, on cinemagoing in Sweden during the 1950s and 1960s.

Fernando Ramos Arenas is a tenured Associate Professor for European Cinema at Complutense University in Madrid. He earned his PhD from the University of Leipzig in 2010; since then, his research has focused on the history of European film cultures, national cinemas, and cinema heritage. To date, he has edited three anthologies and published three monographs, including Cinephilie unter der Diktatur (Springer, 2021) and Enfermos de cine (Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, 2024).

María Paz Peirano is an Assistant Professor in Film and Cultural Studies at the University of Chile, focusing on Chilean cinema and the development of local film cultures. Currently a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Antwerp, she was the lead researcher of “Film Festivals, Educative Experiences and the Expansion of the Chilean Field” and “Chilean Film Audiences: Film Culture, Cinephilia, and Education”. Her recent publications include the co-edited volume, La vieja escuela: El rol del Cine Arte Normandie en la formación de audiences (1982-2001) (Pehoe Editions, 2020) and Film Festivals and Anthropology (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017).