Director
Sylvestre Meinzer
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. …
Julia Menna Barreto
Rithy Panh
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 …
Camila Freitas
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 …
Louis Barthélémy Rousseau
Régis Sauder
Régis Sauder was born in 1970 in the East of France. After studying neurosciences and initiating a career in scientific publications, he turned to documentary filmmaking and directed his first feature film, Children of the Princess of Cleves in 2011. Régis Sauder also works with theaters and museums for the creation of art installations.
Thibault Férié
During his studies in philosophy, Thibault Férié discovered and learned documentary film from Jean Rouch between France and Niger, then from Thierry Garrel at the documentary unit of Arte. After working for the Franco-German channel, he made his first films for UNESCO on the “endangered peoples” of southern Africa while working at the French Embassy …
Baptiste Verrey
François Caillat
François Caillat, born in 1951, spent his childhood in Lorraine.In Paris, during his school years, he was introduced to the theater (studying dramatic art with François Florent; creating a high school troupe after May 68; participating in the collective experiments of Ariane Mnouchkine and the Théâtre du Soleil in the early 1970s).He taught philosophy for …
Isabelle Solas
Isabelle Solas is a director and cameraman living in Bordeaux.Her first three medium-length documentaries explore the themes of disappearance and belonging to a real or fantasized territory. She also ventures into dance videos and music videos, and in parallel to the work of image and documentary cinema, she works in the field of live performance, …
Elisa Sanchez