2013

Gratuated in cinema from La Sapienza university, Laura Bispuri was selected by producer Domenico Procacci to follow the Fandango Lab Workshop, where she followed classes of famous italian directors, such as Matteo Garrone, Paolo Sorrentino, etc. With her short Passing Time, she won the David Donatello award of Best short film in 2010. Passing Time was also selected in the programme Nuits en or du court métrage of Césars Academy. Biondina was produced by the Italian bank group banca Intesa, and directed with the support of Gabriele Salvatores. In 2011, Italian critics gave to Laura a Silver Nastro « Emerging Talent of the year ».  Her project Vierge sous serment was filmed in February 2014 and she is currently editing her feature film. 

Cogitore Clement was born in 1983 in Colmar. After studying at the École Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs of Strasbourg and at Le Fresnoy, Clément Cogitore developed an artistic practice halfway between cinema and contemporary art. Combining film, video, installations and photographs, his work questions the modalities of cohabitation of men with their images. There is often question of ritual, collective memory, figuration of the sacred as well as a particular idea of the permeability of worlds. He was in Angers in 2007 with his film Chroniques in the Free Form selection. He came back in 2012 to present Parmi nous in Competition of the French First Short Films. He received in 2013 for his project Le Front du Wakhan the advance on earnings from the CNC. He is currently directing his film, in Morocco. 

Born in Strasbourg in 1982, she grew up in Montpellier. After a master degree of Direction at Paris 8 University, which enables her to direct her first film (a documentary on footbal women player in Evry), she turns to fiction. She directed Ada (2008), C'est à Dieu qu'il faut le dire (2010) and L'Instant présent (2012). In parallel, she animates workshops with pupils in 19th district of Paris, in the frame of a Webserie, called Demain j'lui dis. Since the beginning, this work with young people and « non professionals » enriches her films' writting.

He holds a bachelor's degree in TV Journalism and is currently studying directing at the Polish National Film School in ?odz. He both writes and directs his films, which are simple stories about people that he hopes will resonate universally. Jonas' second year film at the National Film School in Poland, Darek, was already selected in the Premiers Plans Film festival in 2010. He came back in Angers in 2013 with his first short film Everything Will Be Ok, it received the Grand Jury Prize.

Laurent Larrivière wrote and directed five short fiction films L'un dans l'autre, J'ai pris la foudre, Au bout des branches (written with Vincent Rafis and Denis Lachaud), Les Larmes (written with Olivia Rosenthal) and Les Élus de la terre. Selected and awarded in festivals (Belfort, Pantin, Villeurbanne, FID Marseille, Hors Pistes Beaubourg, Rotterdam…), his films were broadcasted on France 2, France 3 and TV5Monde channels. With Olivia Rosenthal and Louise Bourgoin, he wrote and performed films for cinema : Les Larmes (Actoral, Théâtre national de la Colline, Trident in Cherbourg), La Peur (Montévidéo in Marseille, Spirale à Poitiers, Espace 1789 in St-Ouen, Centre G. Pompidou in Paris). He worked for theatre too (Eldorado dit le policier by Denis Lachaud, Vincent Rafis and Laurent Larivière to the CDN in Orléans and at la Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris) and he directed dance images (Camilla Saraceni, Kettly Noël, Montalvo-Hervieu). He is laureate of Villa Médicis Hors-les-Murs. With the writing support of CNC, he is developping his first feature film, Je suis un soldat, written by François Decodts. www.laurentlariviere.fr  He received in 2013 for his project Je suis un soldat the advance on earnings from the CNC. 

Born in Romania, Anca M. L?z?rescu emigrated with her family to Germany in 1990. In 2000 she began her studies at the "German Academy for Film and Television" in Munich. She directed several documentary and short films which attracted international interest. Her Thesis Film, Apele Tac, received the Audience Award in the Angers European First Film Festival in 2012.

Antti Heikki Pesonen originates from Korso, a small suburb near Helsinki. He studied directing at the ELO Helsinki Film School. He sometimes finds humor in the dark stuff of life and considers writing a biography about himself in the third person to be sort of funny - in a good way. His thesis film from ELO Helsinki film school, So it Goes, received the audience- and students of Angers awards this year in the Angers First Film Festival.  The filming of his project Hit The Wall occurred in April 2014 and he is currently editing  his feature film.