Seasoned multi-lingual and multi-platform journalist from the Global South, with 19 years of reporting, editing, and managing experiences across a wide range of environment, including covering conflict zones, developing world, and western democracies; 13 years in English-language global newswire agencies preceded by six in local newspapers, magazines, online media, and radio.

Duncan Jepson is the award-winning director, producer and writer of five feature films. He also produced documentaries for Discovery Channel Asia and National Geographic Channel. He was the editor of the Asia-based fashion magazine West East and a founder and managing editor of Asia Literary Review. He is a social commentator on Asia and regularly writes for The New York Times, Publishing Perspectives and South China Morning Post. A lawyer by profession, he lives in Hong Kong.

Welcome to the future festival invited Most Interesting Person to document the festival in a unique way. An interview chain that took us to the people that give this event its incredible charming character.

Chris Wild is the founder of Retronaut, an online repository of historical photographs. As noted by Fast Company in an article about Retronaut, the pictures on the site are chosen in a way that makes the viewer feel as though they are looking at an alternate present, rather than the past. Wild was a speaker at the TED Global conference in July 2010 and in November 2013, Retronaut was named by The Times as one of "The 50 people to follow on Twitter". Below is one of his noteworthy statements.

Andrew Logan was born at Witney, Oxfordshire, in England. He was educated as an architect at the Oxford School of Architecture, graduating in 1970. He founded the Alternative Miss World in 1972, which he continued to run as of 2018. He influenced film-maker Derek Jarman, whose early film-making work documented the social scene around Logan and his studios at Butler's Wharf, London. Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood staged the "Valentine's Ball", at which the Sex Pistols first came to media attention, at his studios in 1976.

Dudley, Scotts Green Island Millennium (Pegasus)

In 1991 a major retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford. The Andrew Logan Museum of Sculpture, at Berriew in the Welsh Marches, opened in 1991 and houses much of his sculpture and painting in converted squash courts.

Since the early Nineties, Logan has continued to exhibit his sculptures and jewellery at Saint Petersburg in Russia, Lithuania, India, Beverly Hills in Los Angeles and Mexico. His work has been shown in and commissioned by international galleries, including the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, the Flower East Gallery in London, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Hayward Gallery, Bonhams, the National Portrait Gallery, Sotheby's in London, the Royal Academy of Arts, the National Trust’s Buckland Abbey and Somerset House.[citation needed]

In London, he has exhibited in venues including Trafalgar Square, the foyer of Sadler's Wells Theatre, and West End cinemas. His lifesize horse sculptures, Pegasus 1 and 11 were displayed at Heathrow Airport, and his 'Icarus' sculpture hangs in Guy's Hospital. The P & O Superliner Arcadia commissioned him to sculpt his Cosmic Eggs (8 ft. tall), and his Mermaid Chandelier was exhibited at the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore, USA.

In the new millennium, Logan created jewelled sculptures for The Magic Flute opera in San Diego. In 2004, Logan's eleventh Alternative Miss World contest was held at the Hippodrome in London. In May 2007 Logan was invited to be part of the jury for a children's beauty contest in Sochi. In July, his jewellery was auctioned at Halls Fine Art in Shrewsbury. He was asked to decorate a guitar for a high-profile charity auction held in London. In August, he was invited to participate in three events in The Big Draw: he collaborated with Zandra Rhodes on The Big Picture Frame at the V&A Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green, he gave a presentation of his watercolours in The Newsroom at The Guardian and in Covent Garden.

In 2017 an exhibition of many pieces of sculpture by Logan titled The Art of Reflection was held at the National Trust's Buckland Abbey in Devon with works from 1976 to 2017.

Gina Birch is the most interesting person in Caroline Coon

“I was completely besotted with conceptual art, land art, and fine art, and Punk was interwoven for me. It was a new way of looking at the world, a way of finding my voice that didn’t subscribe to the status quo.”

I never went to college or studied fashion. And although I’ve done ok and have miles of experience – it’s something I wish I’d done. Learning something fully, thoroughly. I have holes in my knowledge that you cant plug while running a business

Duggie Fields was born in Salisbury, Wiltshire. His parents were Henry Field and his wife Edna (née Rosenthal). He grew up in the garrison town of Tidworth where his father owned a pharmacy, and later in Borehamwood, Hertfordshire. He first came to notice in 1958, when he was 14, in the Summer Exhibition at the Bladon Gallery, Hurstbourne Tarrant, while he was attending the nearby Andover Grammar School.

Fields briefly studied architecture at Regent Street Polytechnic before studying at the Chelsea School of Art for four years from 1964. He left with a scholarship that took him on his first visit to the United States, in 1968.

John Mitchinson is the most interesting person of Roger Burton. He took us to a defunct London railway to demonstrate the battle between Man and Nature.

I brought you somewhere I think is more than quite interesting. It’s a disused railway line in the north of London. It’s called the Northern Hight’s Railway and it runs from Finsbury Park to Alexandre Palace and then beyond to Edgware. I say it runs, actually, it doesn’t run anymore, it has been completely disused for nearly 60 years.

Zé Celso leads us to multi media producer who tells her heroic story, Elaine Cesar.

Graduated with a degree in Radio and Television from the University of São Paulo’s School of Communication and Arts (ECA/USP) and, won a scholarship from the Brazilian Ministry of Education, to study at the San Francisco State University in the U.S.

At the end of the 1970’s, began the movement of poetic graffiti on the streets of the city of São Paulo and published poems on small stickers. Worked on mail art for several years. Created various video sculptures and video installations at various galleries and museums. Exhibited videos at the XXIV International Biennial of Sao Paulo. Since 1982 has been making experimental videos, all of which have won prizes in Brazilian festivals and many of which have been shown in exhibitions in the U.S., Europe, and Latin America. Wrote the first column specialized in video to appear in the daily Brazilian press, at the newspaper Folha de São Paulo. In 1986 founded Brazil’s first school for video, the Academia Brasileira de Video. Has various videos included in the anthology “Made in Brazil” – 30 Years of Video Art in Brazil, organized by Arlindo Machado. Since 2003 has been creating the project MONDAY PHOTO on the Internet: a work in progress http://bit.ly/fotodesegunda His first feature film TOMORROW NEVER AGAIN, was released by Fox Films in 2011. http://bit.ly/amanhafox . EVOÉ, Portrait of an Anthropophage, is a full-length documentary about the dramatist Zé Celso Martinez Correa, released also in 2011. Watch the complete film with English subtitles here. Directs the first Brazilian documentary in Virtual Reality titled RIVER OF MUD, about the worst environmental disater in Brazil, and the first film in Virtual Reality made with the Indians of the Xingu: FIRE IN THE FOREST. Find more about him here

Some say he is the world's most prolific theater director, he is certainly the most irreverent.

Tom Zé takes leads us to his most interesting person, Zé Celso.

Tom Zé, the Brazilian music icon who was the pioneer of the Tropicalismo movement founded under military dictatorship, fusing poetry, music and theatre. Here Tom hosts Most Interesting Person, Sâo Paulo and talks us through his beautiful career as an artist, activist and cultural lifeblood of Brazil's great city.

Zé shares some of his many iconic moments as a musician before introducing us to his most interesting person, the great theater poet, Zé Celso (José Celso Martinez Corrêa).