Tuuli Hongisto is a 2008 graduate in politics and international relations from the University of Westminster and a former stagiaire in the European Comission London Press Office. In 2008-9 Tuuli is studying MSc Comparative Politics (Conflict Studies) in the London School of Economics Department of Government Her general interests include the United Nations and the national implementation of international law, environmental and human rights issues. She is currently the Campaigns Officer for UK United Nations Youth and Students Association, and the UK representative of Making Commitments Matter initiative www.makingcommitmentsmatter.org

I study humans and machines and find both of them quite beautiful. I am into "new things" but love old-fashioned words. I tend to believe that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that life is easier if you can have coffee, chocolate and gossip.

Lucy May Constantini spent the best part of a decade working in a freelance capacity in contemporary dance and theatre as a creator, performer and teacher.  She then trained as a broadcast journalist and worked for the BBC.  She now works part-time as a less charming version of Ugly Betty and is focusing on writing and dance while practising yoga and studying mathematics and physics.  She is British and French and grew up over three continents with a special and wistful fondness for equatorial Africa.

Cecil: Just because I'm named after a cinema in Hull which closed about 20 years ago does not mean I cannot have my own blog. Most of the films I will be reviewing on this blog would probably never have been shown at the Cecil Cinema in Hull, but it's the memory that counts... Bea: Bea-ing from Down Under, I will be taking an interest in films from a more southern clime, although this could mean Italy, Turkey, Brighton or Australia...

Sarah Dudney has worked in the City for the past six years as a headhunter, travelling to Tokyo, New York, Zurich and Geneva. She was brought up and educated on the West coast of Scotland and is still recovering from that experience. She read modern languages at Edinburgh University.

Starting life by the seaside in Morecambe, Caroline has moved via too many jobs and interests through Spain via Texas and Virginia and London to Scotland. A published translator and director of a small Scottish film company she worked most recently for the European Parliament UK Office and is currently taking a sabbatical in Edinburgh and Rome.