Ali Vanderkruyk A filmmaker from Canada, currently based in Los Angeles. Her work engages with shifting notions of the self-and-other in documentary ethics as it relates to ecology, carceral geographies, the archive and the body. She received an MFA in Film and Video from California Institute of the Arts, where she currently teaches.e received an …
Noëlle Pujol Noëlle Pujol is a filmmaker and artist whose work experiments with new filmic devices and narrative forms. She places cinematographic writing in the broader context of contemporary creation, enriching her research with drawing, photography, writing and set design. Her investigative works take the form of documentary essays, capturing both a personal history and …
Camille Sisman Born in Paris, Camille studied french literature and drama, and started as a cinematographer on short movies. She entered la Fémis in 2020. Her first full-length movie as a cinematographer, La Colline (directed by Julien Chauzit), was prized at the FidMarseille Festival in 2021.
Pauline Rigal A filmmaker born in 1991, she founded in 2018 with Baptiste Jopeck the film magazine Les Saisons. She publishes writings by filmmakers and artists such as Tacita Dean, Robert Gardner, Lav Diaz, Sharon Lockhart, Deborah Stratman, Helga Fanderl and many more.
Daphne Xu An artist and filmmaker, her films unfurl from places in flux; they are concerned with the interior lives of women and diasporic subjects caught in moments of rapid development. Her films have premiered at festivals and institutions including Toronto International Film Festival, Museum of Modern Art, Visions du Réel, and Cinéma du réel …
Jessica Sarah Rinland An Argentine-British filmmaker, she directed Sol de Campinas (Cinéma du réel 2021), Those That, At a Distance, Resemble Another (Cinéma du réel 2019) Black Pond (2018), Adeline for Leaves (2014). She is a recipient of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Schnitzer prize for excellence in the arts in 2017. Her work has …
Maureen Fazendeiro French filmmaker and scriptwriter born in 1989 and based in Lisbon. She studied literature, art and cinema at Denis Diderot University in Paris. Her short films Motu Maeva and Black Sun were shown at international film festivals, film library and museums. In the past years she has been dividing her time between individual …
Malena Szlam She is a Chilean artist and filmmaker based in Montréal/Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Through her practice, Szlam reimagines connections between humans and the natural world. Recent projects focus on geology, earth sciences, and volcanology. Szlam’s work has been exhibited widely at festivals and museums. Szlam’s 2018 film Altiplano was in competition at Cinéma du réel in …
Luo Li An independent filmmaker. He was born and grew up in Wuhan, China. He studied film production and obtained his MFA at York University in Toronto, Canada. Since 2005, Li has made short experimental films and feature-length documentary and fiction films. His first feature is I went to the zoo the other day (2009), …
Elouan Le Bars Through video, installation and artistic research, Elouan Le Bars (1998) is interested in contemporary forms of staging, play and control. His work examines the influence of virtual environments, video game culture and changes in the workplace on the way we act and talk about ourselves.He graduated from the École nationale supérieure d’arts …
Marie Tavernier She makes documentary films, including Délaissé (2009) and À ma mesure (2018), developed during a writing workshop at the FEMIS. Screened at various festivals (Festival dei Popoli, Les rencontres du film documentaire, Films de femmes, Les états généraux du film documentaire, Interférences, Le Mois du Doc, etc.), her films explore the poetry of …
Hugo Mazzoccoli After working for a few years developing camera systems for satellites, Hugo turned to filmmaking in 2020. Dortoirs is his first short film.