Eduardo Galeano
Latin American writer

 Pete Seeger
American folk-singer

 Thomas Gutierrez Alea
Cuban film-maker and director of Fresa y Chocolate.

 Peter Katadotis
Production Director of Telefilm, Canada.

 Gary Crowdus
Founder of Cineaste Magazine, New York.

 Keith Ellis
Jamaican Literary critic, University of Toronto.

 Mario Benedetti
Uruguayan writer

 Nicolas Guillen
Cuban National Poet

 Sydney Pollack
US Film-maker.

 Alice Walker
US Author.

 National Film Theatre
(NFT), London

 Louise Lore
Executive Producer, CBC.