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 …
Luck Razanajaona is a Madagascan director, screenwriter and producer, a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels in Marrakech. In 2012, he was invited to the 10th Berlinale Talent Campus and the 5th Durban Talent Campus. He has made short fiction and documentary films, shooting in different countries including Morocco, Reunion Island, Madagascar, Germany …
Tovo Rasoanaivo s’est formé sur le tas, dans une chaîne de télévision locale malgache. En 2009 il a suivi pendant 2 mois l’université d’été de la FEMIS à Paris pour se perfectionner dans le cinéma documentaire et en 2010, il est entré à l’Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Marrakech.
Camila Freitas was born in 1983 in Brazil. She studied film at the University of Brasilia, then at the Federal University Fluminense (UFF) in the state of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and at the National Superior School Louis-Lumière in Saint-Denis (France). She lived and worked in Paris as an assistant and director of photography for …