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Sebastián Pinzón-Silva

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 …

Philippe Rouy

Philippe Rouy is a director. His trilogy dedicated to the Fukushima nuclear disaster, 4 buildings, facing the sea, Machine to Machine and Fovea centralis, has been presented, among others, at the FIDMarseille, Cinéma du Réel, Mumbai Film Festival, Torino Film Festival.

Ulises de la Orden

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 …

Emmanuel Roy

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.

Pablo Alvarez-Mesa

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 …

Kevin Jerome Everson

Kevin Jerome Everson (b.1965, Mansfield, Ohio). Professor of Art at University of Virginia, Charlottesville. Everson’s art practice encompasses printmaking, sculpture, photography and film. Recipient of the Guggenheim; Berlin Prize; Heinz Award; Alpert Award; Rome Prize. Mid-career retrospectives at Cinema du Reel; Tate Modern/Film; Halle fur Kunst Steiermark, Graz; Harvard Film Archive; Whitney Museum of American …

Antoine Boutet

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 …

Pierre Bal-Blanc

Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator and essayist based in Athens and Paris. Born in a working-class environment in Ugine, Savoie France, his destiny changed at the age of 17 following his meeting with Johan van der Keuken with whom he co-directed Le Résistant (1983), a collective short film in Annecy coordinated by Thierry Nouel. …

Travis Wilkerson

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 …

Burak Çevik

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, …

Maxime Martinot

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 …

Alain Kassanda

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, …