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 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 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 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 …
Malak Maatoug Malak Maatoug was born in Solingen in Germany in 1987. With a German mother and Tunisian father, he grew up between these two countries and cultures. He has combined studying philosophy, art and social science in Berlin, Paris and Düsseldorf with different jobs and voyages around the world. In 2015, he worked with …