Alassane Diago was born in 1985 in Agnam Lidoubé, Senegal. After completing an audiovisual training course in Dakar in 2007, he took several courses in directing techniques and scriptwriting, notably with the documentary filmmaker Samba Félix Ndiaye. He worked on various film sets, including Lili-et-le baobab directed by Chantal Richard, before directing his first feature-length …
Volker Sattel was born in 1970 in Speyer/Rhine, Germany. He studied filmmaking and photography at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg between 1993 and 1999. Since then, he has directed and produced documentaries that have been shown at festivals and on television, as well as other artistic projects, including those with Olaf Nicaolai and Daniel …
Francesca Bertin (Italy, 1985) is a film director and visual artist. In her artistic practice, she focuses on the themes of identity, memory, and space. Through the documentary approach, she creates observations and audiovisual interpretations of architecture and landscape with which her protagonists connect. Francesca holds a M.A. in Film at the Academy of Fine …
Ernst Schmidt jr. (1938 in Lower Austria, 1988 in Vienna) studied film at the Vienna Academy of Music and Performing Arts and began making his first independent films in the early 1960s. He published for cinema magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland and wrote numerous theoretical works including an encyclopedia on avant-garde, experimental and underground …
Gianluca Matarrese was born and raised in Turin. In 2002, he finished his studies in cinema and then at the Jacques Lecoq Theatre School. In 2008, he started his career as a creator of a comedy series for OCS. In 2019, he directed his first feature documentary Tutto Fuori (best film at the Turin Film …
Gerald Calderon, French film director, (1926 -2014), worked for more than forty years in the cinema industry both as a company director and as a documentary film director. He was also a producer and actor. He has been member of the Cannes Film Festival jury in 1987. He was the elder half-brother of Michael Lonsdale. …
Isabelle Ingold is a freelance editor and director. She is a Femis almuni. Since then she has worked with directors as different as Amos GitaÏ, Vincent Dieutre, Bojena Horackova, Hélène Marini. Her most recent movie, Elsewhere, everywhere (Ailleurs, partout), co-directed with Vivianne Perelmuter, was released to great critical acclaim in France, after being widely screened …
Vivianne Perelmuter is a Belgium-Brazilian filmmaker. After studying philosophy at ULB (Brussels), she entered the Fémis (Paris). Her work ranges across both documentary and fiction films but also takes in installations. Her most recent movie, Elsewhere, everywhere (Ailleurs, partout), co-directed with Isabelle Ingold, was released to great critical acclaim in France, after being widely screened …
Vincent Kelner, a journalist and DOP, has worked for TV productions in France and around the world over the last 20 years. A Taste of Whale is the second documentary feature he has written and directed.
Doris Dörrie is one of Germany’s most popular directors. She studied directing at the University of Television and Film in Munich (HFF), where she made her first film Ob’s stürmt oder schneit in the winter of 1976. To date, she has made more than 30 feature films and documentaries for film and television, as well …