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Nuria Ibañez Castañeda

Nuria Ibáñez Casteñada ( born in Madrid, 1974) studied screenwriting in Mexico City. In 2009 her first documentary The Tightrope, won the Regards Neufs Award in Visions du Réel. In 2010 she founded, with filmmaker Mercedes Moncada, the production company Miss Paraguay Producciones. Her second film The Naked Room (2013) was the most awarded Mexican …

John Hulsey

John Hulsey is an artist and filmmaker. He received a Master’s of Fine Arts from the University of California Los Angeles and a maîtrise in Cinema from the University of Paris-III Sorbonne Nouvelle. He is currently completing a Ph.D. in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University. His work has been shown internationally in venues …

Dušan Grubin

Dušan Grubin was born in 1985, in Zemun (Belgrade), Yugoslavia. He graduated from the Faculty of Dramatic Arts, camera department. He worked on many short and feature projects. He has directed several music videos. Taurunum Boy is his debut film.

Jelena Maksimović

Jelena Maksimović was born in Zemun (Belgrade), Yugoslavia. She graduated from Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade, editing department. She has edited films that have screened at major festivals and directed several shorts, music videos, A/V installations. She teaches at the Faculty of Media and Communications in Belgrade

Micol Roubini

Micol Roubini (Milan, 1982) graduated in painting from the Brera Academy of Fine Arts and in audio technology from the music section of the Escuala Civica in Milan. She works as an artist and filmmaker, mainly with video, sound and multimedia installations that have been shown in solo and group exhibitions in Italy and internationally. …

Enrico Masi

After his studies in Modern Literature and Cinema, EnricoMasi obtained a Ph.D. in Pedagogical Sciences at the University of Bologna. In 2004, he founded the production company, Caucaso, with which he has produce many creative documentaries and research projects as author and producer. He works in film-editing, visual anthropology, phenomenology of art and architecture, collaborates …

Rodrigo Carneiro

Rodrigo Carneiro studied history at Ouro Preto University and editing at the EICTV (Cuba). He is the writer and director of the short films Marília, Microsieverts and Copyleft. He has edited several shorts and feature films.

Rosalind Nashashibi

Rosalind Nashashibi is a London based filmmaker and painter. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2017. Her films describe the qualities of experience between people and the contexts they inhabit. Nashashibi’s films fuse narrative techniques with observational footage, staged scenes flow seamlessly through real life, and the procession of images is interrupted with …

Eduardo Williams

Eduardo Williams, born in Argentina in 1987, studied at the Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires before joining Le Fresnoy – Studio national des arts contemporains in France. He has directed various short films and a feature, which have been presented at international film festivals.

Mariano Blatt

Mariano Blatt, born in Argentina in 1983, is a poet and literary editor. Mi juventud unida (Mansalva, 2015) collects his poems from 2005 to 2015. He co-manages Blatt & Ríos, an independent publishing house.

Elena López Riera

Elena López Riera was born in 1982 in Spain. She is based in Geneva. Her first short film Pueblo premiered at the Directors’ Fortnight in 2015. In 2016 her film Las vísceras was selected at Locarno. Los que desean won the Pardino d’Oro at Locarno Film Festival in 2018. Elena worked as a programmer for …

Rima Yamazaki

Rima Yamazaki ( born 1982, Tokyo, Japan) is an independent filmmaker who explores cinematic expression in documenting, studying and reflecting on art and architecture. She works as a one-person film crew; all her films are directed, photographed and edited by herself. Her films have been shown at various film festivals and venues internationally. She currently …