Assistant to Philippe Garrel for ten years, Hadrien La Vapeur then directed and produced experimental films in Super 8. Fascinated by the Congolese lifestyle where people cohabitate with spirits, in 2015 he began the long journey of his documentary Kongo.
While studying Anthopology, Corto Vaclav discovered the work of Jean Rouch and immediately developed a passion for Africa and cinema. He then approached the Ethnographic Film Committee of Paris for which he worked for two years.
Dorothée-Myriam Kellou, a French and Algerian journalist, who is working for Le Monde and France 24. She published an investigation in three parts in Le Monde about the company Lafarge striking deals with the Islamic State group in Syria. She covers the Arab world as a regular contributor to the “Observers”, a collaborative site in …
Keti Machavariani is graduated from Tbilisi State University’s faculty of Art in 1995, and continued her studies at the State University of Film and Theatre’s faculty of Cinema – specializing in Film Direction – from which she graduated in 2002. Between 2005 and 2006 – with the help of a scholarship of the Italian Ministry …
After training in cinema, Matteo Tortone founded in 2004 the cultural association Officina Koine which is developing cultural projects with a social impact. In 2011, he directed the documentary White Men, followed by Swahili Tales (2012) and Su Campi Avversi (2015), the three of them shown at international festivals (Festival dei Popolo, Bafici, Planet+Doc, Dok …
Nicolas Peduzzi is a French actor and director, born in 1985 in Paris. After few appearances for the cinema as an actor, especially in Luc Bondy’s film False Confidences, Nicolas Peduzzi directs the documentary feature Southern Belle, released in France in 2018. The film won the FID Marseille’s 2017 Grand Price and is part of …
Erika Hnikova is a documentary filmmaker and journalist. She graduated from Department of Documentary Film at FAMU with the full-length documentary The Beauty Exchange that was released in Czech and Slovak theatres. Her documentary I guess We’ll Meet at the Eurocamp was screened at many festivals, including DOK Leipzig and Hot Docs. Her latest full-length …
Décorateur de théâtre puis affichiste, Georges Franju (1912-1987) accepte un emploi dans une imprimerie et fait la rencontre d’Henri Langlois. Ensemble, ils tournent leur premier court métrage en 1934, Métro. En 1936, il contribue ensuite à la création de la Cinémathèque française. Entre 1948 et 1958, Georges Franju réalise treize courts métrages et s’impose comme …