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Agnès Perrais

After studying literature and earning a doctorate in cinema, Agnès Perrais directed two documentaries, Tant que nous sommes à bord and Magari!, about political and social issues that she seeks to address through the prism of the imaginary. In recent years, her cinematographic practice has focused on cinema on film: she became co-president of L’Etna …

Gu Xue

Gu Xue a Manchurian descendant, Master of Arts from the Communication University of China. She has been using cameras to record her family’s life since was a student. Beside filmmaking, she is also involved in film-related activities like Inner Mongolia Youth Film Week as co-founder, Fitzcarraldo Film Festival as a curator, Xining First International Film …

Elvis Sabin Ngaibino

Elvis Sabin Ngaïbino, a geology graduate, had always dreamt of working in cinema. In 2012, he founded with friends the Académie du Cinéma Centrafricain, an association bringing together cinema-lovers. With limited means, he produced and made small films for Central African television, until the day his path crossed that of the Ateliers Varan, which trained …

Marie Dault

Marie Dault After literature and film studies, Marie Dault collaborated in the 2000s on various theatre productions in which she integrated video into the set design. In 2005, she trained at the Ateliers Varan, then in 2007 made a documentary in the streets of Caracas, with street peddlers specialised in selling Laws and the Constitution. …

Simon Ripoll-Hurier

Simon Ripoll-Hurier Coming from visual arts and developing a practice on the edge of music, radio and cinema, Simon Ripoll-Hurier (born 1985) tracks down situations of listening. Between 2014 and 2017, he developed Diana, a research project that includes film, video, performance and radio. He is now working on a film connecting today’s Silicon Valley …