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Harald Hutter

Harald Hutter is a filmmaker from Montreal, Canada. His films have screened in numerous festivals around the world, have won prizes and have been nominated by the British Council. Harald holds an MA in Film Theory from University College London and a BFA in Art History from Concordia University. Harald is based in Paris.

Luke Fowler

Luke Fowler (Glasgow, 1978) is an artist, filmmaker and musician based in Glasgow. He studied printmaking at Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. His work explores the limits and conventions of biographical and documentary filmmaking, and has often been compared to the British Free Cinema of the 1950s. Working with archival footage, photography …

Ulises de la Orden

Ulises de la Orden started his career in film in 1991, as an occasional actor in short films made by friends, and running cables for slightly larger productions, music videos and ads. His first big gig was shining 5 000 pairs of boots for Evita, by Alan Parker, with later led him to work in …

Travis Wilkerson

Travis Wilkerson‘s internationally recognized body of filmmaking crosses boundaries with documentary and fiction, performance, and activism. In 2015, Sight & Sound called Wilkerson “the political conscience of American cinema.” His films have screened at hundreds of venues and festivals worldwide, including Sundance, Toronto, Locarno, Rotterdam, Vienna, Yamagata, the FIDMarseille and the Musée du Louvre. His …

Pablo Alvarez-Mesa

Pablo Alvarez-Mesa is a filmmaker and cinematographer working mainly in non-fiction. His films have played and earned awards at international film festivals including Berlinale, Rotterdam, Camden IFF, Visions du Reel, and RIDM. Pablo is an affiliate member of the Centre for Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University and a Berlinale Talents, Banff Centre …

Marina Déak

Marina Déak studied philosophy, some Chinese, and political sciences. She did some film management, still photography on set, has been reading scripts all along (and sometimes cowrote some too), and has written and directed three shorts and three features : one fiction, two documentay. Through different means and stories, it’s all about desire (how it …

Pablo Mazzolo

Pablo Mazzolo (Argentina) is a filmmaker, educator and mountaineer born in Buenos Aires in 1976. He works exclusively in analogue film formats exploring the optical and chemical properties of the medium, with a particular focus on human and natural landscapes. His work has tackled themes such as indigenous sovereignty, the spectre of military dictatorship in …

Jean-Claude Rousseau

Jean-Claude Rousseau, born in Paris, lived in New York in the 1970s. There he discovered avant-garde cinema at the same time as the films of Ozu. In 1980 he finished writing a screenplay, Le Concert champêtre, and directed his first films. After Les Antiquités de Rome, La Vallée close is his second feature film. Selected …

Pierre Bal-Blanc

Pierre Bal-Blanc is an independent curator and essayist based in Athens and Paris. Born in a working-class environment in Ugine, Savoie France, his destiny changed at the age of 17 following his meeting with Johan van der Keuken with whom he co-directed Le Résistant (1983), a collective short film in Annecy coordinated by Thierry Nouel. …

Arnaud Dezoteux

Arnaud Dezoteux, a 2011 graduate of the Beaux-Arts de Paris, makes films and installations focused on reality TV, seduction coaching or body-building and often use the green screen studio as the place for an atypical confrontation with the actors, bringing together backstage, improvisation and spectacular effect. After a solo exhibition at the Edouard Manet gallery …

Yamina Zoutat

Yamina Zoutat, Algerian-Italian, born in Yverdon, Switzerland, first worked for more than ten years as a court reporter in Paris. The criminal court was her “film school”. Awarded by the Prix de la Création for her first film Les Lessiveuses (2010), then the Silver Sesterce for her first feature film Retour au Palais (2017) at …

Anastasia Shubina

Anastasia Shubina is a visual artist from Saint Petersburg, currently based in San Francisco. She studied philosophy at Saint Petersburg State University, photography at Docdocdoc School of Modern Photography and film directing at St. Petersburg School of New Cinema. In her personal projects, Anastasia explores the themes of mythology, anthropology and historical trauma.