Bojina Panayotova was born in Bulgaria. After the Berlin wall fell, she emigrated with her family to France. After studying philosophy at the Ecole Normale Supérieure and cinema at La Fémis, she returned to Bulgaria and began to make “wild” films. She also works with director Boris Lojkine as screenwriter and script consultant. Her first …
Cécile Dumas is a documentary film author for France 5 and Arte, and a journalist at « Look at Sciences ». Here, I’m not gonna die is her first film as a director
Laure Portier was born in 1983 in the Deux-Sèvres region. After studying modern literature at Toulouse University and a year at ESAV, she entered the Image department at INSAS in Brussels. Since graduating, she has worked mainly as camera assistant on feature-length fiction films. Dans l’œil du chien is her first short film.
Léo Bizeul, independent artist and filmmaker. Born in 1994 in Paris. Lives and works in Strasbourg. His self-produced short films have been screened at the Casino Luxembourg, Côté court festival in Pantin, Les Laboratoires d’Aubervilliers, Kaskadenkondensator Basel, CRAC Alsace, Le Syndicat Potentiel, Vidéo Les Beaux Jours or the Beaux-Arts de Paris.
Hélène Robert is a documentary maker and photographer trained in Fine Arts, collaborating also with journals and publishing. Her visual work explores various real-life scopes : prison guards, consecrated virgins, and Corsican hunters.
After a BA in philosophy, Manuela Frésil worked as an editing intern with Jean Rouch at the Comité du Film Ethnographique, then entered La Fémis. With her “classmates” Françoise Bernard, Juliette Cahen, Ariane Doublet and Pascal Goblot, she co-directed Terre-neuvas (Audience Award at Visions du reel, Nyon, in 1993). Between 2007 and 2011, she made …
Basile Doganis is a Greek-French director-screenwriter. During his studies in philosophy, he spent three years in Tokyo where he made a documentary on a Japanese rap band and was 1st assistant director on Limosin’s documentary about the Japanese mafia, Young Yakuza. He then directed two fiction short films, Le Gardien de son frère (2012), et …