Ilinca Manolache studied Acting at the National University of Theatre and Film (Bucharest). She stood out in plays like "The Vanished Year. 1989" by Peca Ștefan (she won the UNITER Prize for Best Supporting Actress in 2016). In cinema she collaborated mostly with Radu Jude, in films such as "Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World" (Special Jury Prize – Locarno, and on the European Film Awards shortlist and Romania’s proposal for the Oscars). In the film, she’s both Angela and Bobitză, an avatar Ilinca created using a Snapchat filter of a bold, young toxic male, as a performative exercise of empowerment, through which she recycles the language men use to control, dominate, and objectify women. An outspoken feminist, she’s ready to experiment with cinema and theater.

Adam Ganz is Professor of Screenwriting at Royal Holloway University of London and a co-investigator on the CoSTAR National Lab - a major research project looking at the future of film, TV and live performance. He studied at Cambridge and Bristol Universities followed by a Directing course at the National Film and Television School. “Synthetic Sincerity” is the third of his collaborations with Marc Isaacs. “Felix’s Room”, which he wrote and co-directed (with creative studio ScanLAB Projects), reconstructed the room where his great-grandfather Felix Ganz and his wife Erna lived for a year in Mainz in Germany before their deportation in 1942. Adam has written several plays for BBC Radio 4, including “The Gestapo Minute” (nominated for Best Single Drama in the BBC Audio Drama Awards). He co-wrote (with Steven Price) “Robert de Niro at Work: From Screenplay to Screen Performance”, the first book-length study of how the actor prepares.

Marc Isaacs has directed over 10 creative documentaries for the BBC and Channel 4, having won Grierson, Royal Television Society and BAFTA awards. In 2008, he received an honorary doctorate from the University of East London. He is a visiting professor at the London Film School, the National Film and Television School and the Royal Holloway University, and Associate Professor UCL. In 2022, he had a retrospective at the Centre Pompidou (Beaubourg) Paris, as well as in 2025, at One World Romania. His work has been included in numerous documentary books and academic studies.