srour2_lheuredelaliberation   BIO

Born in Lebanon in 1945, she is the first Arab woman filmmaker to have one of her films, HOURS OF LIBERATION, selected for the Cannes Festival. In her films, she focused on examining the role of Arab women in revolutions.

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

vanwichelen_lostandfound   BIO

Filmmaker and textile artist, Antje Van Wichelen seeks metaphorical forms to express ideas. She has worked in radio and television programs and as a scriptwriter.

 

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

abelgordonromy_mercicupidonlarge   BIO

Dominique Abel, born in Belgium and Canadian, Fiona Gordon, form an inseparable comic duo. Since 2006, they have collaborated on different films with Bruno Romy.

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHY
  • 2005: L’Iceberg
  • 2007: Rumba
  • 2011: La Fée

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

dogan_pedalsandheels   BIO

Born in 1985, in Tolbuhin, Bulgaria, Sevda Doğan studied photography and video at Yıldız Technical University. Today, she works as a free-lance photographer and keeps on making documentaries

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

hilcisin_personalsemiotics   BIO

Masa Hilcisin Dervisevic is a documentary filmmaker from Bosnia currently living in Prague. She has been involved in a number of cultural and film projects in the region of former Yugoslavia. Her interests include documentary film with emphasis on social issues and different aspects of violation of human rights. Her documentary films have been screened at various film festivals around the world including International LGBTI Film Festival in Mumbai, Frameline in San Francisco, Berlinale in Berlin, MIX in NYC, International Women’s Film Festival Dortmund|Cologne, Anemic in Prague, Filmmor in Istanbul, Viscult in Joensuu, Festival of Visual Culture in Tartu, Beijing Queer Film Festival, Rdece Zore in Ljubljana, Femfest in Zagreb, EcoVision in Palermo, and others.

Masa holds a PhD in Film Studies and Audiovisual Culture from the Masaryk University.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

rousselot_pionnières   BIO

Cineast member of the Académie de France in Madrid in 2012-13, Vanessa Rousselot directed the documentary ‘Blague à part’, which is about a quest for Palestinian humour through Cisjordan, and won several awards. She also directed the web-documentary ‘Drawing the Revolution’ about some of the greatest arab cartoonists, for The Guardian, and ‘Pionnières’ for France 24. She studied History of the contemporary arab world at La Sorbonne and classical arab the university of Oriental Languages (INALCO), before studying documentary-directing at the Ateliers Varan in Paris.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

 

papathanassiou_playingwithfire   BIO

Anneta Papathanassiou has a bachelor’s Degree in Economics, University of Athens and a diploma from E.Hatzikou, Drama & Cinema School. She studied theatre in HB Studio and New York University. She has been acting on Stage and Television for over 20 years.

She is teaching drama courses at the American College of Greece – Deree and “Theatro ton Allagon” and she has published two books about theatre. In 2010, she established an independent theater in the heart of Athens.

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

obolo_calypsorose   BIO

Born in 1967 in Cameroon, Pascale Obolo arrived in France when she was 6. After studying directing at the ‘Conservatoire Libre du Cinéma Français (CLCF), she obtained a master in Experimental Cinéma from the University Paris 8.

 

 

FILMOGRAPHY
  • 2005: La naissance du cinéma africain

  • 2005: Calypso @ Dirty Jim’s

  • 2003: Roots de Guyane

  •  2002: La rue plutôt qu’un taudis

  • 2002: Expo graffitti

  • 2002: 3 Canal

  • 2001: Manu Chao

  • 2001: Mungal

  • 2000: Les Nubiennes

  • 1999: Yaoundé à l’heure des cybercafés

  • 1998: Xuly Bët le créateur

  • 1997: Défilés du salon du prêt à porter

  • 1995: Graff’ Mouve

 

 

 

nikolopoulou_runningdry   BIO

Dimitra Nikilopoulou was born in 1968 in Argos, Greece and she studied Geology at Athens University and Film at Paris III University. She works as a first assistant director on films, advertisements and televisions series. Running Dry is her fourth short film.”

 

 

 

 

FILMOGRAPHIE
  • 2014: Taipei Factory II
  • 2011: The Next Magic
  • 2010: Lie yan

 

 

 

 

bertin_blancgris   BIO

May-Lis Bertin, was born and lives in Brussels when she is not traveling. After graduating in translation and computer science and a master’s degree in communication, she has worked for several years in industry, in charities organisations and in education before doing freelance reporting for Belgian television (Matière Grise and Cheval Magazine).

In parallel, she did volunteer work with Médecins du Monde. In this context she got to know and followed the life of many undocumented North Africans. She was able to collect evidence, discovering the reality of the white and grey marriages. Neither white nor black, this reality led her gradually to write a screenplay. She chose to direct and produce the film with very little means. No way could she spend a year writing applications with uncertain outcome, and opted for low cost and produced her film with a small crew.