Carol Mansour is an independent documentary film maker. She founded Forward Film Production in 2000. With over 30 years in documentary production, Mansour has covered the world from Sri Lanka to Lebanon to Uzbekistan, receiving international recognition and honour for her films, which reflect her concern for human rights and social justice. Her films tackle issues of forced displacement and refugee rights, migrant workers, mental health, war and memory, child labor, and women’s rights.

Carol’s films have won numerous prestigious awards, with over one hundred film festival screenings and official selections worldwide.

Carol is Lebanese/Canadian, of Palestinian origin.

Rachel Dedman (b. 1989, London) is a curator, writer, and art historian. 

Since 2019, Rachel has been the Jameel Curator of Contemporary Art from the Middle East at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Recent projects for the V&A include the exhibition Jameel Prize: Poetry to Politics; the commissioning platform Beirut Mapped; and the establishment of a research residency programme for artists and designers.

Beyond the V&A, Rachel is the curator of Material Power: Palestinian Embroidery for Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge, and The Whitworth, Manchester, in 2023-2024. She is curating the next edition of the State of Fashion Biennale in Arnhem, the Netherlands, with Louise Bennetts in 2024.

Rachel is also co-founder and editor of polycephaly.net, and one third of Radio Earth Hold, a research and broadcast collective supported by the Serpentine Galleries and Nottingham Contemporary.

From 2013-2019 Rachel was based in Beirut, Lebanon.