Sidney Sokhona is a Mauritanian filmmaker born in 1952. He arrived in Paris at the age of 14. Having come to France to study, he found himself obliged to work, and took evening classes. At the Université de Vincennes, he became interested in cinema, and began working as a volunteer assistant with Jean Rouch on …
Ricardo Matos is a freelance film curator with an interest in non-fiction cinema and the histories of film circulation and exhibition. Among other projects, he has organised retrospectives of the work of post-war Japanese documentary filmmakers Tsuchimoto Noriaki, Haneda Sumiko and Ogawa Productions. Together with Lucía Salas, he has edited the book Peter Nestler – …
Aikawa Yoichi is a professor at the University of Nagano. He was born in Shibayama, where Ogawa Productions produced their Sanrizuka series of films. His main areas of research are contemporary Japanese history and historical sociology. Together with researchers and archivists in various fields, he is organising, preserving and researching the many materials left behind …
Yannick Bellon, director, editor and producer, tackled societal issues in her films.In all her films and documentaries, Yannick Bellon has cast a lucid eye on those who set out to regain their dignity. She pursued her career by producing her own films, often rejected by the profession, independently and with great difficulty, and by being …
Erika Runge discovered her interest in social issues through her involvement in student movements. After graduating from university, she continued her political involvement. She conducted interviews which she compiled in her book Bottroper Protokolle. In it we discover frank opinions on working conditions, the image of women, but also on sex and politics. She developed …
Robert Kramer (New York City, 1930 – 1999) was heavily involved in political activism as a college student, having worked first as a community organizer in Newark, and then as a reporter in Latin America. He helped to found Newsreel, an underground media collective which produced several films about radical political subjects and the anti-war movement. It was …
Philip Spinelli was an american filmmaker and actor. He is best known for his work in Scenes from the Class Struggle in Portugal (1977), Hovering Over the Water (1986) and Eyes of Fire (1983).
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house, Idioms Film. Yaqubi is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films that focuses on militant film practices, also, a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute, that focus on supporting, promoting, and preserving Palestinian …