2012

Samuel Theis studied at ENSATT, Claire Burger and Marie Amachoukeli studied at La fémis. In 2008, Claire worked with Marie and Samuel on a medium-length film entitled Forbach. In this film, which was loosely based on the story of the Theis family, they chose to cast real family members. Forbach won the 2nd prize at Cinéfondation in Cannes (2008) and the Grand Prix National at Clermont-Ferrand (2009).    In 2009, Claire and Marie wrote and co-directed C’est gratuit pour les filles which won the César for Best Short in 2010. Samuel directed Jean-Luc Lagarce’s Juste la fin du monde which won the SACD prize and the Théâtre 13 / Young Directors prize in 2011.    Following on from Forbach, Samuel wrote the feature Angélique in collaboration with Claire and Marie. The story is loosely based on his mother. The film is produced by Elzévir Films. The film received the advance on earnings before direction from the CNC in february 2013. It was the opening film in the Official Selection Un Certain Regard in Cannes, in May 2014 under the title Party Girl and received the Golden Camera. 

Chen BYilin was born in Peoples Republic of China. Lives in Vienna. Austrian Citizenship since 1994. He got a B.A. in Sinology from the University of Vienna in 2004 and was accepted in the same year at the Vienna Film Academy. Since then he studied directing cinema with Michael Haneke and cinematography with Christian Berger. In 2011 he took an acting workshop for directors with Susan Batson. His latest short film Little precious was selected for several filmfestivals. The recent first feature film Moneyboys took part in ties that bind 2012.

Tamara Erde is a French Israeli director. She holds a Masters in Visual Communication Design and Photography form the Bezalel Academy of Arts & Design in Jerusalem and graduated from the Ecole du Fresnoy. Her work is constructed around various media, including documentary films, fiction, video installations, and stage performances. She has made two shorts, Rober and Jéricho, which was slected for competition in the Festivals of Clermont-Ferrand and Aix en Provence. She is currently developing a project for a short, Disney Ramallah, and a feature film, Un autre jour viendra, co-written with RaphaëlleValbrune, both films are produced by Iliade& Films.

Caroline Hellsgård works as a writer and director in Stockholm and Berlin. After completing a MFA from the Berlin University of Arts in 2007, she received a DAAD-postgraduate artist grant for Los Angeles, where she studied film directing and screenwriting at the California Institute of the Arts. Hellsgård's films have screened and been awarded in numerous venues and film festivals internationally. During 2008–2011 she developed a short film trilogy, all films revolving aroundthe lives of people on the outskirts of society: KARAOKE, HUNGER and HJÄLTAR.She is currently developing the feature film SUNBURNED produced by Silverosa Film in Stockholm, for which is selected to Angers Workshops.

Simon Jaquemet was born in 1978. He grew up on a farm near Basel in Switzerland. He studied film directing at the Zurich University of the Arts. He wrote and directed his diploma short film The Fortress (Die Burg) and two more shorts: Block and Laura’s Party, which participated in more than 30 international Festivals. He also specialised in directing music videos which won several awards including «most aired video of the year» and the Edi Swiss Commercials award. He worked as a cinematographer for video artists like Elodie Pong, Knowbotic Research and David Lamelas. Simon is currently developing his first feature film War which is supported by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, the Film Foundation of Zurich and MEDIA. The project was also selected for TorinoFilmLab’s Script&Pitch, FrameWork programmes, winning a Development Award there and Angers Workshop. The filming occurred during the summer in 2013. 

Emmanuel Marre was born in 1980. After studying literature in Paris he went to IAD in Belgium. His two graduation films,La vie qui va avecand Michelwere selected by Premiers Plans and several festivals around Europe and elsewhere (including Brest and Toronto). He went on to make two shorts,Les Cheveux coupés, and a drama commission from Aide à la jeunesse Belge, Le Petit chevalier. He lives and works in Brussels, Belgium, where he shares his time between documentaries and dramas. Alongside Territoire, produced by Entre Chien et Loup, he is completing Chaumière (Pour la lucarne ARTE) a documentary exploring the world of Formule 1 hotels.

After graduating from Journalism, Bogdan Mirica works as an editor, copywriter and novelist, until 2005 when he becomes the youngest Creative Director in theEuropean advertising industry, at the age of 27. Nonetheless, his interests in cinema lead him to study Screenwriting and Producing at the University of Westminster, London and then to a career in the industry. He begins as a script reader in London and then comes back to Romania where he works as a screenwriter, his credits including two feature films (2009, 2012) and a TV series (2012). In 2010 he writes and directs his first short film Bora Bora, winner of Best European Short Film in Premiers Plans in 2012. At the moment, Bogdan works on his debut feature film – Dogs and a new TV series. He received for Dogs the ARTE Award (development) in Cinelink, a co-production Market in the Sarajevo Film Festival. The filming is forecast in 2014. 

After a Master’s in cinematography at Montreal University, Laurent Teyssier returned to France where he worked as a focus puller on shorts and commercials. He was also been a cameraman on documentaries (Burkina Faso, Madagascar, 3 monthssailing in the Mediterranean in the footsteps of Ulysses) and a photographer. He then became a DoP. After working in a theatre group, where he worked on acting, he went into directing. His first short, 8 et des poussières, was shortlisted for the 2010 César, and won several awards at prestigious festivals in France and abroad. He is currently preparing his first feature. The script was red in the Festival in 2014 by Alice Belaïdi and Guillaume Gouix.