Dr Flip Schrameijer, sociologist, journalist

Flip studied at Amsterdam University where he had the privilege of studying under the legendary German sociologist Norbert Elias. Flip has worked as a medical sociologist, training GPs. He also played a prominent role in the Seventies' protest movement against the then dominant psychiatry school. He worked in that sector as a researcher at the Trimbos institute for over seventeen years. In 1990 he was awarded PhD for his thesis: Social support. Analysis of a paradigm.

Over the past ten years he has published books on young delinquents, autism and recently The Adolescents' Clinic, Research and treatment of schizophrenia, Augustus Publishers, 2005. See forum (in Dutch).

Peter Vlam, MSc, journalist

Peter is freelance journalist and copywriter. He studied Social Science at Amsterdam Free University. He travelled through eleven African countries and wrote about that trip for various Dutch periodicals such as Internationale Samenwerking, Vice Versa, Onze Wereld, DIF and the website krachtvancultuur/powerofcultures.

He also contributes to internal periodicals of non-profit organisations such as NCDO, PUM, NRP journals and the Evert Vermeer Foundation. He is one of the founders and publishers of AfrikaNieuws and Africa Interactive.

Frank Zichem, director (documentary, drama)

Frank attended the Dutch Film and Television Academy (1969-1973). He has directed many documentaries for TV and cinema as well as feature films, including a three-part series on slavery for Teleac in 2002 and Katibo Ye Ye, a documentary on the history of slavery in Ghana and Surinam for RVU in 2003. He is currently working on a major feature film on Anton de Kom, a Surinam freedom fighter.

He has a very easy way with young people and has a talent for motivating them to pick up the camera themselves. Proof of his skills is a film about a project, made by seven pupils of the Haarlem First Christian Lyceum under his supervision. Frank offers to teach classes on the making of a movie, and can supervise the process either on his own or together with his regular camera and sound crews.

Ineke Aquarius, MSc, educational designer and founder of Butterfly Works.

She specialises in educational projects for young people in underdeveloped regions all over the world, combining media with general knowledge, e.g. sex education in Africa). Ineke was trained as a town and country planner at Amsterdam University, specialising in planning processes in Africa and Asia. Butterfly Works aims at strengthening young peoples' autonomy and applying creative technologies to social problems, e.g. Nairobits en Against Violence. In addition to working for Butterfly Works, Ineke creates digital learning environments for European planners.

Elmer Leupen, filmeditor | website

Elmer Leupen works as a freelance editor for documentaries and feature films. He has worked together with Kees Hin on a documentary about the painter Jaap Hillenius, which runs on three screens. For several years he has been working with English director Peter Greenaway. Their latest project is Nightwatching made for the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum on the occasion of the Rembrandt year. The film runs on 41 screens simultaneously.

Elmer approaches young people in a light-hearted and amicable manner allowing them to make up their own minds about editing a film (transitions, parallel editing, sound effects etc.). They usually try out several possibilities together and find out what works best.

For the ECL film he managed to keep seven 15-year-old girls working very intently and enthusiastically for ten hours at a stretch, in itself proof of his didactic qualities.