Lur Olaizola Lizarralde (Donostia, 1988) is a film curator and filmmaker. From 2015, she coordinates the audiovisual program at Tabakalera San Sebastian. As a filmmaker she has directed two short films, Xulia (2019) and Zerua Blu (Grand Award Best Spanish Short Film, Zinebi 2020). In 2021 she was selected to be a Berlinale Talent. Since …
Dennis Zhou is a writer whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, Artforum, and Art in America,among other publications. The Raw and the Cooked is his first film.
Lisa Marie Malloy is a filmmaker committed to engaged modes of filmmaking. Her first feature-length film, A Shape of Things to Come (2020), has shown around the world, including in the main competition of CPH:DOX, NYC Lincoln Center’s Art of the Real, RIDM, Documenta Madrid, FICUNAM, and the Centre Pompidou.
David Easteal (b. 1986) is a Melbourne based filmmaker. He studied law and literature at the University of Melbourne, and currently practises as a barrister at the Victorian Bar. His short films screened at various international festivals, including the New York, BFI London, Chicago, Kiev Molodist, Sofia and Singapore film festivals. He received the Award …
Born on november 17, 1997 in Uvira, Kivu (DRC), of Congolese parents, Fariala Alolea Albert (aka Rafiki Fariala) arrived early in the Central African Republic, where his parents took refuge because of the war. At the seminary, he directs the choir and develops his voice. Later, he falls in love with the music of Makoma, …
Ruth Beckermann is a filmmaker and author based in Vienna. Her films include The Paper Bridge, East of War and American Passages. In 2014 her film Those Who Go Those Who Stay received the big documentary film prize at the Diagonale in Graz. Two years later The Dreamed Ones was also honored there as best …
Sergei Loznitsa was born on 1964. He grew up in Kiev (Ukraine). In 1997 Loznitsa graduated from the Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied feature filmmaking.He has been making films since 1996, and by now he has directed 23 award-winning documentaries (among them the feature films Maidan, 2014; The Event …