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 …
Alain Kassanda, born in Kinshasa, left the DRC for France at the age of 11. After studying communication, he has been staging cycles of movie showings in various Parisian theaters. He then became the programmer of an art house cinema for five years, in the suburbs of Paris, before moving to Ibadan, in southwestern Nigeria, …
Agnès Perrais, born in Paris, began by directing documentaries (Tant que nous sommes à bord, 2014, Magari!, 2019), while at the same time completing a doctoral thesis on the links between lyricism and politics in cinema. Then she meets the practice of argentic cinema thanks to the shared laboratories l’Etna and l’Abominable (Navire Argo). Within …
Maxime Martinot is a French director, editor and writer. After his cinema studies in Paris 8, he works between Brittany, Nantes, Paris and Lisbon. His first feature film Trois contes de Borges won two prizes at FIDMarseille and was released in French theatres in 2018. His short essay film Histoire de la révolution won the …
Maya Abdul-Malak, born in Beirut in 1980, is a French-Lebanese director. She also works as a scriptwriter on fiction films and collaborated in the writing of several documentaries in Lebanon and in France. Her first documentary film, Au pays qui te ressemble (Kazak Productions, 52′), won the Persona documentary prize and the CNC quality prize …
Philippe De Jonckheere 1944, my dad, a child in Lille, sees some V1 flying over to the UK. 1951, Robert Frank takes a snap of a young girl in Paris: my future mother. Born in 1964. 1986, enter ENSAD. Boredom. 1988, scholarship in SAIC (Chicago), Barbara Crane, Joyce Neimanas, Ken Josephson… Boredom ends. 1990, Robert …
Harald Hutter is a filmmaker from Montreal, Canada. His films have screened in numerous festivals around the world, have won prizes and have been nominated by the British Council. Harald holds an MA in Film Theory from University College London and a BFA in Art History from Concordia University. Harald is based in Paris.
Luke Fowler (Glasgow, 1978) is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography …
Ulises de la Orden started his career in film in 1991, as an occasional actor in short films made by friends, and running cables for slightly larger productions, music videos and ads. His first big gig was shining 5 000 pairs of boots for Evita, by Alan Parker, with later led him to work in …
Travis Wilkerson‘s internationally recognized body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.” His films have screened at hundreds of venues and festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, Vienna, Yamagata, the FIDMarseille and the Musée du Louvre. His …
Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is a filmmaker and cinematographer working mainly in non-fiction. His films have played and earned awards at international film festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Camden IFF, Visions du Reel, and RIDM. Pablo is an affiliate member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and a Berlinale Talents, Banff Centre …
Marina Déak studied philosophy, some Chinese, and political sciences. She did some film management, still photography on set, has been reading scripts all along (and sometimes cowrote some too), and has written and directed three shorts and three features : one fiction, two documentay. Through different means and stories, it’s all about desire (how it …