Vladimir Léon was born in Moscow in 1969. He directed several documentary films, among which Nissim AKA Max (2004, co-directed with Pierre Léon), The Comintern Brahmin – The Untold Story of M. N. Roy (2007), Farewell Radiator Street (2008), The Polyhedron and the Elephant (2015), My Dear Spies (2020).
Vincent Kelner, a journalist and DOP, has worked for TV productions in France and around the world over the last 20 years. A Taste of Whale is the second documentary feature he has written and directed.
Jacquelyn Mills is a filmmaker based in Montréal. Her works are immersive and sensorial, often exploring an intimate and healing connection to the natural world. Her award-winning documentary In the Waves (60’, 2017) premiered at Visions du Réel. Geographies of Solitude (103’, 2022) premiered at the Berlinale Forum winning three awards, and has since garnered …
Volker Sattel was born in 1970 in Speyer/Rhine, Germany. He studied filmmaking and photography at the Baden-Württemberg Film Academy in Ludwigsburg between 1993 and 1999. Since then, he has directed and produced documentaries that have been shown at festivals and on television, as well as other artistic projects, including those with Olaf Nicaolai and Daniel …
Sylvain L’Espérance, born in Montreal, studied film and visual arts. For the past 25 years, he has travelled widely, from Quebec to West Africa and Europe. He has directed twelve films that combine direct cinema with experimental research to explore reality through a poetic lens. His films gives voice to migrants, workers, artisans, sailors, fishermen, …
Francesca Bertin (Italy, 1985) is a film director and visual artist. In her artistic practice, she focuses on the themes of identity, memory, and space. Through the documentary approach, she creates observations and audiovisual interpretations of architecture and landscape with which her protagonists connect. Francesca holds a M.A. in Film at the Academy of Fine …
Robert Kramer is an American independent filmmaker, born in New York in 1939. Very active politically in the 1960s, he participated in the radical left-wing movements against the Vietnam War and for the emancipation of minorities. During the Pentagon demonstration in 1967, he met other filmmakers with whom he founded the Newsreel collective. We owe him …