Anton Corbijn is an influential portrait photographer and music video director. His feature films include Control and the upcoming The American. 

Ned Vizzini is the author of It's Kind of a Funny Story, a young adult novel that is being adapted for Focus Features by Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden. 

Stephen Abbot is a 2009 winner of the Africa First Short Film Program. He is currently working on his film Dirty Laundry. 

Gordon Ampel has been the Vice President of Global Operations at Focus Features since its inception in 2002. 

Walter Donohue is an Editorial Director at Faber and Faber where he set up the Faber Film list and has been running it for the past 25 years. 

Africa First was created to foster and develop long-term relationships with up-and-coming filmmakers from continental Africa. 

David Parkinson is a film critic and historian. He is a contributing editor at Empire and broadcasts regularly on BBC national and local radio. 

Mike Jones is a screenwriter and journalist. He's held staff positions at Variety, indieWIRE, Filmmaker Magazine, and currently blogs on the film festival beat at The Circuit. 

Wanuri Kahiu from Kenya won an Africa First award with Pumzi [Breath], a futuristic sci-fi tale. 

Jenna Bass from South Africa was an Africa First winner with The Tunnel, a 1980s-set story centering around a 10-year-old girl's quest. 

Jan-Hendrik Beetge from South Africa directed the Africa First winner The Abyss Boys, a thriller about an illegal trade in a small fishing town. 

Eric Eisner, co-founder of L+E Pictures and producer of Hamlet 2, sends us his daily "vlogs" from ComiCon 2008. 

Bestselling author Neil Gaiman sends us updates from the set of Coraline, a stop-motion animation based on his book of the same name. 

Keith Griffiths has produced many of the films of the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, Patrick Keiller and Chris Petit. 

San Francisco-based Jenni Olson is one of the world's leading experts on LGBT cinema. 

Cary Fukunaga's feature film debut Sin Nombre for Focus Features premiered to critical acclaim in 2009. 

Liz Ogilvie, is the Head of Programming for Docurama Films®, an independent digital distribution company dedicated exclusively to releasing cutting-edge, critically acclaimed documentary films into the home entertainment market place. She is responsible for a release slate of over 40 documentary films a year. 

Sandi is a mother and activist, and shares her thoughts on HAMLET 2. 

The director of Leaving Las Vegas and Timecode keeps us in focus with his guest blog. 

Frances Harvey is acquisitions coordinator at UK independent film distributor Soda Pictures. 

Shannon Rednour is the Creative Director for FilmInFocus.