2016

Cristèle Alves Meir trained as an actress and is a stage director since the age of 20. She staged The Blacks, Splendid’s by Genet, Venui by Suzan-Lori Parks at the Athénée Théâtre Louis Jouvet. She directed a first documentary in Cape Verde, Som & Morabeza, about immigration in the Portuguese-speaking communities in Africa through the music and through the prism of the Angola’s youth to deal with social realities in Born in Luanda. Since 2008, Cristèle leads training workshops in acting in high school and students, under the auspices of the Scène Nationale de Saint-Quentin en Yvelines. After Sol branco (Quality Prize CNC 2015 and selected at Angers in 2015 in the French short films category), Cristèle directed her second short film also in Portugal, Campo de Víboras, which was selected at the Critics' Week in 2016. She is currently preparing her first feature film, Alma viva, developed at La Fémis (scenario Workshop 2015). 

Born in Copenhagen, raised in Cornwall and on Bornholm, Johan Carlsen worked on tunnel construction in Sweden before studying theology and architecture in Copenhagen and then graduating in film-directing from the German Film and Television Academy in Berlin (DFFB). He founded Berlin directors’ co-op and production company Makrorama, which he runs with his wife, Micah Magee. Films include a mid-length feature Headlock with ZDF-Kleines Fernsehspiel (writer/director/editor/co-producer), The Man With the Microscope (writer/ director) and recently as producer Petting Zoo by Micah Magee, selected and awarded this year at Angers in the European feature film (Best actress Award for Devon Keller).

Lukas Dhont is a young filmmaker who graduated from KASK Art Academy (Ghent). With his short films Corps perdu and L’infini, he has won several awards including Ghent Film Festival and Leuven International Short Film Festival, qualifying L’infini for Oscar selection in 2015. During his studies he has not only focused on fiction films but also explored the possibilities of documentary. His short documentary Skin Of Glass was selected as a part of the Your Film Festival at the Venice Film Festival in 2012. In addition to his short films, Lukas has directed several music videos, in which he displays his unique filmic style and his strong interest in visualizing themes related to youth. His first feature film Under My Skin will combine all the themes he has previously worked with: dance, transformation and identity.

Born in 1977 in Sweden, Frida Kempff started working with television and film in the late 90ʹs and graduated from the Stockholm Academy of Dramatic Arts, SADA, in 2006. In 2010, she directed the short documentary Bathing Micky that won the Jury Prize in the Official Selection at Cannes. Her feature documentary debut, Winter Buoy, was released and had its world premiere in competition at Gothenburg International Film Festival 2015. The film, produced by Les Films du Balibari, was screened at the Angers Workshops in 2015 in the selection of the films produced in the region Pays de la Loire. Frida is currently working on her first fiction feature, Twentytwo Minutes, together with production company Cinenic. 

Born in Paris, Laurie Lassalle lived a nomadic childhood between France and Nigeria. During her studies in literature and film at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, she learns the editing, with among others François Quiqueré for La France by Serge Bozon. Editor and musician, she directed numerous music videos (Melody's Echo Chamber, Mina Tindle, Judah Warsky, Cat People). In 2014, she directed her first mid-length feature, Les Fleuves m'ont laissée descendre où je voulais (The Rivers let me down when I wanted), selected in the Critics' Week at Cannes, at the Festival de moyen métrage at Brive, at the FIFAM and prize for the best photography at the Mumbai Shorts International film Festival. Since 2015, she leads workshops with the association Mille Visages. She just finished Je suis Gong (I'm Gong), a short film shot in the city of Grande Borne with young people living there. She is currently developing a feature film script, co-written with Lucille Dupre, Les Monstres calmes. With this project, she has won the Next Step and resident at the Moulin d’Andé in 2015 and selected at the Script & Pitch (Torino Film Lab 2016). She also received a film-writing bursary Beaumarchais.

Pierre Primetens was born of a Portuguese mother and a French father. After plastic art and film studies, he directed an autobiographical trilogy, A Trip to Portugal (selected at Premiers Plans in 2001 in theFrench first short film category), A Holiday in Mauritius and Contre Toi. La Fête des garçons, his latest film, deals with the rite of passage of young boys to adulthood in northern Portugal. His films have been broadcast in French and international festivals (Short Film Festival Clermont-Ferrand, the General States of Documentary Film of Lussas, Doclisboa, Indie Lisboa, etc.) and European channels (Canal +, RTP2). He produces radio documentaries for France Culture (On the Docks, Cities Worlds, The Workshop of creation) and written for television (M6 and Teva). He was a member of film support reading committees (CNC, GREEK, Moulin d'Ande-Ceci) and regularly leads workshops of directing, film analysis or script writing. He is currently writing his first feature film about the romantic encounter between a French teenager and a young fisherman in southern Portugal, whose community is faced with the mass tourism industry.

Haris Raftogiannis studied Sociology (University of Crete) and Film studies (MA, University of Crete). He directed and produced the shorts, The Long Hall (2006) and On the Butcher’s Bench (2007) selected at Angers in 2007 in the student films category, and documentaries for the Greek national television (ERT). He also produced and directed the independent doc True Blue (2016). His films were selected in numerous European film festivals and awarded in Greece. His feature documentary Airland, is in post-production. 

Piotr Złotorowicz was born in 1982 in Debno/Poland. He graduated from the Electrical Engineering Faculty at Szczecin University of Technology and the Directing department at Polish National Film School in Łódź. He directed several short films, including Charcoal Burners (2010) and Normal People (2011), both receiving critical acclaim and numerous awards. His diploma film Mother Earth (2014) was premiered and awarded at 67th Locarno Film Festival and up to now traveled to 60 film festivals around the globe. Eloe will be his feature debut.