Kate Nash is Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Newcastle, Australia. She has published widely in the areas of documentary ethics, interactive documentary and on the relationship between documentary and politics. Her books include New Documentary Ecologies (2014 with Craig Hight and Catherine Summerhayes) and Interactive Documentary: Theory and Debate (2020). She is Co-Editor (with Craig Hight) of Studies in Documentary Film.

Deane Williams is Associate Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University, Melbourne. From 2007-2017 he was editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film, and his books include Australian Post-War Documentary Film: An Arc of Mirrors (2008), Michael Winterbottom (with Brian McFarlane, 2009), the three-volume Australian Film Theory and Criticism (co-edited with Noel King and Constantine Verevis, 2013-2017), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place (2016) and (with Julia Vassilieva) editor of Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (2021).