Lucas Azémar was born in Paris in 1991. Graduated from the Bachelor in Cinema at the Geneva University of Arts and Design (HEAD), Lucas won the Excellence Award of the Hans Wildorf Foundation in 2018 which allowed him to start developing the project Sandbox, his first professional film.
Burak Çevik (1993, Istanbul) founded Fol Cinema Society and curated experimental and arthouse film screenings. He was lecturer on Non-Fiction between 2018-2020 at Istanbul Bilgi University. His films The Pillar of Salt and Belonging premiered at Berlinale Forum in 2018 and 2019, respectively. His video works/films were screened at various festivals such as Locarno, FIDMarseille, …
Heinz Emigholz, born in 1948 near Bremen in Germany, trained first as a draftsman before studying philosophy and literature in Hamburg. He began filmmaking in 1968 and has worked since 1973 as a filmmaker, artist, writer and producer in Germany and the USA. In 1974 he started his encyclopaedic drawing series “The Basis of Make-Up”. …
Sharon Lockhart (Born 1964) is an American artist living and working in Los Angeles. In a diverse practice that includes installation, photography, film, painting and sculpture, Lockhart creates compelling and complex interactions between the various media and forms she employs, histories she encounters, and the communities and people she collaborates with.
Emmanuel Roy, born in 1976 and living in Marseille, is a documentary filmmaker. His works include How to Make a Ken Loach Film (2016), La Part du feu (2013) and Histoires d’œufs (2006). He is also an editor, and intervenes in creative workshops and film training.
Sebastián Pinzón-Silva is Colombian nonfiction filmmaker and photographer. His work has screened at festivals including Locarno, True/False, FICCI, SFFILM, Camden, RIDM, and New Directors/New Films. He has been recognized with awards from the Directors Guild of America, FICValdivia, Cinélatino, and Rencontres de Toulouse, among others. Sebastián is a Sundance Documentary Fellow and was named one …
Margaux Dauby is a Belgian filmmaker and visual artist. She graduated in Political Science from the Université Libre de Bruxelles and holds a Master in Audiovisual Arts from the Sint-Lukas Hogeschool in Brussels. Her practice starts from the questioning of notions of language, play, attachment and belonging. She lives and works between Lisbon and Brussels.
Canela Reyes has worked as a director, screenwriter, co-producer, and researcher on films and community development projects throughout Colombia. She is the co-writer, researcher, and co-producer on the feature film Lapü (Sundance, 2019) which won six awards during its festival run. She holds a degree from the Universidad de los Andes in Bogotá.
Antoine Boutet is a French filmmaker. For the past 15 years, his documentary films have extended his work as a visual artist on the transformation of the landscape : the feature film Sud Eau Nord Déplacer follows the world’s largest water diversion project over a period of four years ; Zone of Initial Dilution shows …
Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker and film programmer. Her films experiment with various forms of fiction writing in cinema. She is currently deputy director at Metropolis Cinema Association in Beirut where she also manages the Cinematheque Beirut project. She is the co-editor of the Montreal-based online film journal Hors Champ and a member of The …
Catalina Villar, born in Bogota, came to France at the age of 20 to study Social Sciences at the EHESS, then trained in cinema at the Ateliers Varan and at the FEMIS in directing. She joined the Ateliers Varan team in 2000 and organized three workshops in Colombia (Bogotá and Cali), one in Venezuela (Mérida) …
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento was born in Bogota on April 5, 1987. Nothing predestined him for the cinema and yet, at the age of 19, he left his country for Europe and enrolled at the Fine Arts School in Poitiers with a student visa. It was during his studies that he got closer to cinema and …