Timofey Glinin is a multidisciplinary artist form Saint Petersburg, currently based in San Francisco. He studied biology at Saint Petersburg State University and film directing at Saint Petersburg School of New Cinema. He is an independent filmmaker, photographer and lecturer. In his personal projects, Timofey explores the themes of cultural practices, ethnography and modern science.
Blake Williams is an artist and filmmaker based in Toronto, where he also writes film criticism publications such as Cinema Scope and Filmmaker magazines. His 3D films have screened internationally, including venues such as the Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, New York Film Festival, Locarno Festival, and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. …
Francisco Rodríguez Teare is an artist and filmmaker living between Chile and France with a moving image practice working predominantly with video and installation. Since 2015 he has been creating film and video works and exhibiting them internationally both in film festival circuits and contemporary art contexts. His work explores the flow of power within …
Coco Tassel graduated from the ENSAD in Paris (École nationale supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) and has a Master’s degree in Art History. She began her journey in the world of images as illustrator, art director, and editor of some fifteen books. She also collaborated with the Japanese publisher Sazady and participated in several exhibitions. She …
Pedro de Filippis is a filmmaker from Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Rejeito is his debut feature and underlines his research on post-colonialism. He graduated from the European MFA program DocNomads, for which he directed short documentaries in Portugal, Hungary, and Belgium. Pedro is an alumnus of the Points North Fellowship (2019), where Rejeito won the Special …
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, …