Born in Luanda (Angola) in 1985, Paula Agostinho graduated in Performing Arts in 2007, in Lisbon (Portugal), while taking piano and singing lessons. Back in Luanda in 2013, she became a producer at Geração 80, producing commercials, music videos and institutional videos.
Palestinian filmmaker and screenwriter Samaher Alqadi is one of nine children and grew up in the Jalazone refugee camp near Ramallah in the West Bank. She first worked for the Palestinian Ministry of Culture before being accepted at the Egyptian Institute of Cinema in Cairo. An emerging voice in Arab documentary, she focuses on the …
Matthieu Chatellier is a filmmaker. After completing his studies at CinéSup in Nantes and the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière in Paris, he directs a few short films, notably Slow (2004), and eventually finds his creative autonomy in documentary filmmaking, blending reality with intimacy. 2021: Nos forêts ; Alter Ego Production, Nottetempo Films 2016: La mécanique des …
Inadelso Cossa is a Mozambican film director, cinematographer, producer, and the founder of 16mmFILMES, an independent film and television company based in Mozambique. His work explores different phases of Africa’s, particularly Mozambique’s, history from a personal perspective. Investigating the Colonial, Post Colonial, Independence, and Post Civil War periods, Cossa finds it his duty to document …
Francesca Comencini studied philosophy. She collaborated with her father Luigi on the screenplay of A Child of Calabria (1987) and directed her first feature film, Pianoforte, in 1984, which was followed by The Light of the Lake (1989) and Annabelle Shared (1991). She directed a portrait of Elsa Morante (1995) for the series “Un siècle …
Jean-Marie Teno is a director, editor and producer of Cameroonian cinema, born on May 14, 1954. In 1983, he made his first documentary short entitled Schubbah. In 1996, he shot Clando, a feature film that won the Audience Award at the 6th African Film Festival in Milan, Italy. He has since directed Chef (1999), Le …
Shlomi Elkabetz is a director, screenwriter, teacher, actor and producer. In 2011, he wrote, directed and produced the film Testimony, presented at the Venice Film Festival. With his sister, Ronit Elkabetz, he directed the trilogy To Take A Wife, The Seven Days and Gett which were selected respectively at the Venice Critics’ Week/Mostra in 2004, …
Kiswendsida Parfait Kaboré known as “Galadio” was born in 1984 in Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso. After his baccalaureate, he studied law, while regularly visiting film sets. Spotted by director Guy Désiré Yaméogo, he joined the team of his feature film Danse Sacrée à Yaka in 2007. After a master’s degree in international public law, Kiswendsida …