Chris King is an filmmaker based in Nairobi, Kenya. Born in Australia, Chris studied at The School of Creative Arts at the University of Melbourne before relocating to Kenya in 2007, where he has worked as a cinematographer, editor, animator, director, and producer of shorts, features, and music videos. In 2009, Chris co-founded Circle and …
Maia Lekow is a Kenyan filmmaker and musician. She has worked as director, producer, and sound recordist for several film and music projects since founding Circle and Square Productions in 2009. She has performed on stages across the world and continues to compose music for films. She received an African Movie Academy Award for her …
Born in 1946 in Sidi Bel Abbès, Brahim Tsaki studied at the drama school in Algiers before continuing his studies in directing in Belgium. In 1980 he signed his first short film, La Boîte dans le désert, one of the future three episodes of Les Enfants du vent, which he directed in 1981, followed by …
Né au Burkina-Faso en 1987, Moumouni Sanou, après des études de cinéma, a travaillé notamment comme monteur et cadreur dans plus d’une dizaine de productions africaines. Passionné de documentaire, il réalise en 2010 son premier film Dji-Ko au Burkina-Faso, puis entre 2012 et 2014, trois autres documentaires : Youplex, Sini, l’avenir et N’gooni Fo Sékouba …
Sylvestre Meinzer is an ethnologist, film director and photographer. After working in costume and scenography, she collaborated with the Mission du Patrimoine Ethnographique and joined the Laboratoire d’Ethnologie Urbaine of the CNRS in Ivry. Since her training at the Ateliers Varan and at the Gobelins school, she has been practicing documentary cinema and experimental photography. …
Moses is a producer based out of Isiolo, Kenya. Born & raised in a community in northern Kenya that was often caught in the crossfire of tribal conflict, Moses channels his own personal experience into the way we approach the production, as well as how we craft our story in a genuine & thoughtful manner. …
Born in Phnom Penh, Cambodia in 1964. He fled the Khmer Rouge dictatorship and came to Paris in 1980 where he studied at the IDHEC, now La Fémis. His documentary S21:The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine addressed the Khmer Rouge’s systematic policy of extermination between 1975 and 1979. He is co-founder of the Centre Bophana which …
Mostafa Derkaoui was born in 1944 in Oujda (Morocco). A philosophy student in Casablanca in the early 1960s, passionate about theatre, he was banned for political reasons from one of his first plays in the midst of a period of repression against the far left and the opposition under Hassan II. He then left for …