Born in 1979 in Paris, France, Elsa has worked as an assistant for renowned directors Raoul Ruiz, Mathieu Amalric, Noémie Lvovsky, Emmanuel Finkiel, and Bertrand Bonello among others, and as an actress and director. Pearl, her first feature film, releases in France on January 30th.

Cornelia Travnicek lives in Lower Austria. She studied sinology and computer science at the University of Vienna and works part-time as a researcher in a center for virtual reality and visualization. She has received many awards for her literary work, including her debut novel "Chucks" (DVA 2012) with the Recognition Award of the Province of Lower Austria and the Kranichstein Youth Literature Scholarship of the German Literature Fund.