Category: Directors-2017

He is a Belgian film-maker. His films are documentaries (Real Cinema) and were shot in several regions of the world: in Mauritania, Western Sahara, the Sudan, in France on Mount Lozére. His last movie, “The Eternals” was realized in Armenia and in the Nagorno-Karabakh.

Pieter-Jan de Pue (1982, Ghent) is a photographer and film director from Belgium. He graduaded from the visual arts school RITS with his short film “O”, a creative documentary about a research for water in a society built on lines and line structures. The film was partlyshot in the Amazone area of Brasil during a period of extreme drought. Selected at numerous international festivals, “O” received the 3rd price at the United Nations Environmental Award in Alméria and special mentions at the ‘Grote Ongeduld’ (Brussels) and Sleepwalkers (Tallinn) festivals.

Meanwhile he has been directing commercials, while concentrating on his first full documentary, “The Land of the Enlighted” which won a World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Best Cinematography at the Sundance Film Festival in 2016. In view of this film he has been travelling for long periodes of time to Afghanistan, photographing the country and its people for organizations such as the International Red Cross, Caritas International and Demining. His photo work on Afghanistan has been published in important publications such as Weekend Knack, Le Monde or De Standaard, and has been exhibited in several galeries and museums such as De Buren in Brussels and the ‘Institut des Cultures d’Islam’ in Paris.

 

• Girls and Honey (Documentary) 2017
• The Land of the Enlightened (Documentary) 2016
• (Short) 2006

She is an emerging documentary filmmaker with a background in science journalism. She worked as researcher and journalist for local newspapers and radio stations, before she went on to study an MA in Film Directing of Education and Science Film at the Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg. Anja is currently working as a freelancer specialized in social and science journalism for German TV broadcasters like arte, ZDF, SWR, 3Sat, Phoenix and MDR. Additionally she develops and realizes documentary cinema projects and interactive transmedia concepts.

He is an English independent documentary filmmaker, based in London.

He is a documentary filmmaker and director of photography in documentaries and TV series. In 2006 he premieres his first documentary feature, “The city of photographers”. He has also directed the documentaries “Mauchos” (2011), “Profes” (2012), “Habeas Corpus” (2015) and “Guerrero” (2017). Currently, he works as director of assorted audiovisual pieces produced by Películas del Pez, among them the documentary feature “Sergio Larraín, el instante eterno” about the renowned photographer, in editing stage.

Born in 1985, Karimi is an Iranian filmmaker of Kurdish origin. Studied at Bachelor of communication science from Tehran University, social science faculty between 2003 until 2007 His short films, such as Broken Border (2012) and The Adventures of a Married Couple (2013), were presented in numerous international film festivals. Because of his documentary Writing on the City (2015), focusing on the graffiti of Tehran walls from the 1979 Islamic Revolution to the 2009 re-election of Mohamoud  Ahmadinejad, Karimi was arrested and held in isolation for two weeks in December 2013. In October 2015, he was condemned to six years in prison and 223 lashes for “offending Islamic sacredness.” In February 2016, the appeal judgment confirmed all convictions but reduced the prison sentence to one year imprisonment but kept the 223 lashes. His freedom is currently in a state of limbo: he has not yet been imprisoned, but he has not been acquitted and he can no longer appeal his final sentence. His status can be considered house arrest as he is unable to travel anywhere, for example: the Venice Film Festival for the premiere of DRUM. Karimi considers Yılmaz Guney (the Cannes Palme d’Or winner for 1982’s YOL and a Turkish director of Kurdish origin) as an inspirational example of a filmmaker who stood up for freedom of expression.

FILMOGRAPHY

2016 DRUM (TABL)

2015 WRITING ON THE CITY (documentary)

2014 RASHID (documentary)

2013 THE ADVENTURES OF A MARRIED COUPLE (short fiction)

2012 BROKEN BORDER ( short documentary)

2011 ACT (short documentary)

2011 THE COLOR OF OLIVE (short documentary)

2009 THE CHILDREN OF DEPTH (short documentary)

2008 MAN AND PUCKETT (short documentary)

2007 ANTI EARTHQUAKE CONEX (short documentary)

Phone number: +989329020625

mail: Keywankarimi1385@gmail.com

He is educated in history at the former Norges Lærerhøgskole (now part of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology) in Trondheim, and film production at Volda University College. He has worked as a documentary filmmaker and investigative reporter since 1984, primarily for the Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation NRK’s television news magazine Brennpunkt. He has directed in excess of 30 films, and has worked extensively in Southern and East-Africa, USA, the Balkans and Russia.

SOU ABADI, director of Recherche la femme Born in Iran of a communist father and right-winger mother, Sou Abadi, arrived in France at the age of 15 and put an end to the exquisite advantage of growing up under two dictatorships. After a few years of scientific studies, she is attracted to Jean Rouch’s visual anthropology and ethnographic cinema. Passionate about cinema, she decided to approach film art through editing, she had the chance to assist the greatest French editors such as Denise de Casabianca, Marie-Josèphe Yoyotte and Yann Dedet. In 2000, she returned to Iran to shoot for six months SOS in Tehran, a great documentary where she applied the method of cinéma-vérité, a style of filmmaking characterized by realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment, with Raymond Depardon and Frederick Wiseman to film from the inside of the Iranian institutions and where Iranian come to confide. Sou Abadi then continues to edit documentary films and fiction, obtaining several awards for editing and the Lutin for best editing in 2006 for a musical called BHAI-BHAI. After spending five years of his life trying to find funding for a documentary on a former Israeli spy, Sou Abadi recovers from his disappointment by writing the screenplay for Search the Woman, hoping to make tragedies of his life, a comedy that never veils his face.