Guillaume Maupin, a musician born in 1979 in Royan, is a great lover of traditional music from around the world, as well as American folk and jazz. He has been passionate about Sun Ra for more than 20 years.
Since 2002, he has also been an active member of Cinéma Nova in Brussels, a landmark of alternative cinema in Europe. He helped create and has programmed the Offscreen Festival since 2007. He has also been very active in the creation of the Kino Climates network at the Rotterdam International Film Festival, whose 10th anniversary will be celebrated at the festival in January 2020.
In 2014, he directed Water Music, a collective feature-length film, a musical road movie across Europe. The film was shown—often followed by concerts—around thirty times in festivals and cinemas around the world (London, Newcastle, Hamburg, Berlin, Nairobi, Los Angeles, Brussels, etc.).

Pablo Guarise, born near Paris in 1994, studied filmmaking at INSAS in Brussels. He directed several documentary short films: Une Chambre en Pologne, a docu-fantasy exploring imaginary spaces; La Disparition de Tom R. (Visions du Réel, IndieLisboa, Lussas…), an investigation into the disappearance of a man in the Charleroi region in 1997; and Les Rengaines (Visions du Réel, IDFA, En Ville, BAFF…), a musical documentary about a bar in the north of Brussels.
The Magic City – Birmingham according to Sun Ra is his first feature film. He is currently working on a feature-length film portraying the island of Arranmore, in the northwest of Ireland.