Thierry Garrel was head of Arte France's Documentary Department and Animation and Video Art Programming, for 21 years. He launched highly successful series such as: Palettes, Contacts, Cinema de Notre Temps, Histoire Parallele, La Lucarne and the series of feature length documentaries called Grand Format. He was also Head of Documentaries and Archives at the Institut National de l'Audiovisuel (INA). He notably produced the series: Cinecourt, Le Choc des Cultures, Rue des Archives, Juste une Image (winner of the Grand Prize for Television) and L'inapercu.
Nino Kirtadze has worked as a consultant to the president of the Republic of Georgia and a war journalist in Chechnya, Armenia, Azerbaijan, and Georgia. Her first documentary, The Three Lives of Eduard Shevardnadze, screened at the Toronto and Cannes International Film Festivals. Her 2005 film The Pipeline Next Door received the award for best documentary from the European Film Academy. Her cinematic debut firmly established her intense visual sense, powerful storytelling and metaphorical approach. Her camera turns the natural into the supernatural and back again. Many of her full-length documentaries have received awards at prestigious festivals, bringing her international recognition. Her credits include Germany's top documentary award winner Chechen Lullaby (the Adolf Grimme Golden Prize, 2002) and Tell my friends that I'm dead (2004), Golden Fipa recipient and winner of Cinema du Réel prize in France. Her latest documentary, Durakovo - Village Of Fools, won Best Director at Sundance in 2008 and Best documentary of the year in France.
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Rafi Pitts is one of the latest Iranian directors to join the new wave of prize-winners on the international festival circuit. His first documentary feature, Season Five, was the first Franco-Iranian coproduction since the Islamic Revolution. His second feature documentary Sanam won the Grand Prize at the Paris Film Festival in 2001, and in 2006 his film It's Winter was nominated for the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival. Rafi received yet another Golden Bear nomination for his 2010 film The Hunter.
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Simon Brook produced, directed and production managed educational, fiction, documentary, industrial and TV films. His work includes 20 short films about children in the Caucasus, a documentary on the Amazon, a docudrama about the Karo tribe of Ethiopia and the documentary feature Brook by Brook, produced by the Dardenne brothers. His recent films are Cleopatra’s Lost City, Jungle Magic, and the prime-time docudrama The True Legend Of The Eiffel Tower. His latest film Generation 68 is a humorous and off-beat look at the 1968 uprisings, with interviews of Dennis Hopper, Milos Forman etc. His films have been selected at numerous festivals worldwide: Venice, Telluride, Brussels, Sao Paolo. He is a member of the British Academy Of Film And Television Arts and the Director’s Guild of Great Britain.
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Marijke Rawie is an independent documentary consultant who specialises in international Documentary Training & Consultancy, and works for various international and national production companies and documentary initiatives. From 1990 till 2006 Marijke Rawie was Head of Art & Documentary at AVRO TV, the first public broadcaster in the Netherlands. In 1991 she founded the documentary slot AVRO Close Up which became one of the leading international co-producers and co-financiers of documentaries in Europe.
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Jeroen Berkvens, a director, producer and film professor, made his debut as a filmmaker with Let Me Have It All, a roadmovie-like documentary search for the legendary soul music Sly Slone. His documentary work includes award winning films such as: A Skin Too Few - The Days Of Nick Drake, described by New York Times as "a cinematic tone poem as much as a biography"; Jimmy Rosenberg - The Father, The Son & The Talent, a glimpse into the burden of being gifted, and A Lawyer's Story, about a criminal lawyer that reshapes his life after a bomb attack. Jeroen is a Golden Calf recipient and member of the Dutch Film & Television Academy.
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Steve Ascher is a director, producer, writer and educator. The Boston Globe has called his work Filmmaking at its finest. He is the author of The Filmmaker's Handbook: a Comprehensive Guide for the Digital Age, a bestselling text and a staple of universities and film schools internationally. The Independent calls it The Bible.
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Jeanne Jordan is a director, producer, and educator. Troublesome Creek: a Midwestern (co-directed with Steven Ascher) was nominated for an Academy Award and won the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance. She has taught filmmaking at Harvard and the Art Institute of Boston and held master classes around the world. Jordan and Ascher's most recent feature documentary, So Much So Fast, premiered at Sundance, was released theatrically to critical acclaim, and has been broadcast on PBS Frontline, BBC Storyville, ZDF Germany, and many other networks around the world.
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Dominique Gros is a french writer, director and producer of over 60 documentary films. Her portraits series Working At Home won the Silver Toucan in Rio and the Special Prize in Tokyo.
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Niels Pagh Andersen has cut more than 250 films of widely different categories. He lectures and teaches filmmaking at film schools and Universities around the world and also works as dramaturgist and supervising-editor on Scandinavian films. Niels recently won the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award, ROOS-PRISEN 2005, given by The Danish Film Institute for outstanding efforts in documentary filmmaking.
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John Appel is an independent filmmaker who has directed more than 30 documentaries for cinema and television and served as director of photography for more than 50 documentaries. In 2000, he established a production company with filmmaker Heddy Honigmann (VOF Appel&Honigmann). Appel is a Guest lecturer at the Dutch Film and Television Academy (since 2000) and many (inter)national workshops; Commissioning editor for HUMAN, the Humanistic TV Broadcaster (since 2006) and a coach for young professional filmmakers. In 1999, he won the Joris Ivens Award at IDFA for the film Andre Hazes/ She Believes in Me, the most successful documentary film in Dutch cinema released in 40 years. His film The Last Victory (2004) won many international awards and was nominated for Best European Documentary 2004. In 2009 he won the IDFA Award for Best Dutch Documentary for The Player, also nominated for Best Feature Length Documentary 2009.
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Jennifer Fox is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning director, producer, camerawoman, and educator who has been involved in countless documentaries over the last 25 years. Her first film, Beirut: The Last Home Movie was broadcast in 20 countries and won 7 international awards, including Best Documentary Film and Best Cinematography at Cinema Du Reel in 1988. The ten hour TV series An American Love Story received a Gracie Award for Best Television Series and was named one of the Top Ten Television Series of 1999 by The New York Times. Her most recent work, a six-part film Flying: Confessions of A Free Woman premiered at the IDFA in 2006 and at Sundance in 2007. She is currently editing a new feature documentary, filmed over twenty years, Learning To Swim. Jennifer has lectured and taught master classes on filmmaking at universities, TV stations & government training programs around the world.
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Martichka Bozhilova has worked as producer at Agitprop in Bulgaria since 1999. During the last four years, seven of the company's projects have been in co-production with leading TV broadcasters such as: Channel 4, Sundance Channel, IRAI, CBC and TV2/ Denmark. Bozhilova earned a degree in law and art management and graduated in European documentary production from EURODOC in 2005. In 2006, she received the International Trailblazer Award at MIPDOC in Cannes for creativity, innovation, originality and breakthrough in the field of documentary. Credits: See You At The Eiffel Tower (2008), Omlet (2008), Corridor No. 8 (2008), The Mosquito Problem and Other Stories (2007), Georgi and the Butterflies (2004).
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Marten Rabarts is a producer, screenwriter, script editor, and Artistic Director of the Binger Filmlab.
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André Labarthe is one of France's most iconoclastic and unusual filmmakers, he has (roughly) 600 films credited. Cinéma de notre temps and Cinéastes de notre temps collections.
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