The award-winning director was born in Tehran. She studied Art at Art faculty in Tehran and continued her education in Sweden. Maryam has a deep knowledge of visual storytelling as well as extensive experience in location shooting. Most of her films have been shot in places with the most difficult access like a women prison in Afghanistan, the forbidden war zone between Iran and Iraq or a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. In 2018 she received the gold prize at FIPA for her documentary Stronger than a Bullet.
Editor
MARY STEPHEN
Born in Hong Kong, Mary grew up in Canada and lives in Paris. She was Eric Rohmer’s editor and occasional music co-composer. She has worked on several continents with documentary and fiction directors. She is editing, script-consulting, coproducing and mentoring and also directs her own documentary and experimental films.
Festival programmer
MARTIJN TE PAS
As senior programmer of the IDFA Program Department (April 2000 - December 2019) he was responsible for doing extensive research activities for regular and focus programs, for maintaining a huge network consisting of filmmakers, producers, sales agents, distributors, cinema and festival programmers, for the selection of films and to give input to report back to funders. He visited many (inter)national film festivals every year – either as juror or as a guest.
FRENCH DOCUMENTARY
Director, photographer, visual artist
GILLES ELIE-DIT-COSAQUE
Gilles Elie-dit-Cosaque’s works are characterised by lyrical writing that seamlessly blends different media. Kamo, Ma grena’ et moi, Outre-mer Outre-tombe, Zétwal, La Liste des courses, Nous irons voir Pelé sans payer, Je nous sommes vus all treat everyday themes and stories with humour. He mixes the sociopolitical analysis of documentary with the poetic narrative of fiction. His work as a visual artist has led to exhibitions in Paris, New York, and the West Indies.
Journalist, produce
KATHLEEN EVIN
Kathleen Evin is both a journalist (Le Nouvel Observateur, Le Matin and others), and a producer at France Inter. Since 2001, her radio programme “L’Humeur Vagabonde” has prominently featured documentaries alongside books, plays, and dramas, with numerous directors as her guests. The programme ran daily until 2016; it now airs Saturdays at 7:20pm. In 2016, she received SCAM’s Grand prix de l’oeuvre radiophonique.
MUSICAL DOCUMENTARY
Journalist
JEAN-DANIEL BEAUVALLET
Jean-Daniel Beauvallet was a founding member of the Les Inrockuptibles magazine in 1986, running the music section until 2019. For more than 30 years, he has been interviewing and forging strong bonds with musicians, as well as those in the wings who are central to the history of rock. He has contributed to many documentaries, including films on Portishead, Jeff Buckley, Scott Walker, Daft Punk, David Bowie, the Liverpool and Manchester music scenes, Brexit, and the Queen of England.
Producer, Director
ERIC DARMON
Eric Darmon has produced numerous shorts and documentaries. In 1982, he founded the production company M.moire Magn.tique. Meeting Ariane Mnouchkine was a catalyst, and he directed Au soleil même la nuit. Darmon has produced and directed documentaries on Philip Glass, Pierre Henry, Steve Reich, Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Les Percussions de Strasbourg for ARTE. Since 2015, he has worked on the series Les Coulisses de la création for SACEM.
Composer
SELMA MUTAL
Selma Mutal composes music for film, dance, and television. She has written scores for numerous feature-length films including The Milk of Sorrow (Golden Bear, Berlin International Film Festival; Academy Award nominee, Best Foreign Language Film) and Undertow (Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival). Since 2012, she has also composed scores for various France T.l.visions programmes and foreign feature films (Poland, Spain, Colombia, Peru, USA).
IMPACT DOCUMENTARY
Director
DELPHINE DELOGET
An Albert Londres laureat, Delphine Deloget directs documentary and feature films. Her work has won awards at several festivals: Berlinale, Canal+ Award at Clermont Ferrand, ACID selection at Cannes, Prix Regard Neuf Vision du Réel, Grand Prix Primed, Best Documentary at the New York Film Festival, amongst others. Ms. Deloget is currently working on a feature project that earned a box office advance grant from the CNC in 2018.
Journalist, director, producer
SEBASTIEN DEURDILLY
Journalist, director, and documentary producer Sébastien Deurdilly runs the press agency Upside, which produces for TV networks, film, and online platforms in France and internationally. He produced Coming out, winner of the IMPACT Award at FIPADOC 2019 and released in cinemas in May. Mr. Deurdilly also cofounded Live Magazine, a live journal for theatre performed on stage in 18 European cities.
Event creator
CAROLE VEZILIER
Since 2004, former Chief-of-Staff Carole Vezilier has overseen “Les Entretiens de Royaumont”, which addresses economic, social, and political issues. In 2019, she founded “Les Oracles”, which coordinates intelligent events; and works with Jacques Attali’s Institut de l’économie positive to organise the Global Positive Forum and the Semaine du Cin.ma Positif in Cannes, among others.
SMART
Digital strategy specialist
AGNÈS ALFANDARI
She is Head of Digital at the Institut francais. She is in charge, with her team, of promoting French culture abroad through digital technologies and to foster the French professionals of digital creation’s international development (VR, Video Games, Transédia, Média Art…). Specialized in digital strategy for the cultural sector, she has worked alternately for digital publishers, private cultural engineering companies, as well as for large cultural public institutions such as RMN-Grand Palais and the Louvre Museum.
Producer, DOP, director
RICHARD COPANS
After studying at IDHEC, Richard Copans worked in the Cin.lutte collective. In 1980, he became Director of Photography, alongside Robert Kramer, Luc Moullet, and Claire Simon. He founded Les Films d’Ici in 1978 and produced some 30 feature-length films for the silver screen, nearly 150 TV documentaries, and 67 films for the “Architecture” collection. Since 1981, he has directed 3 shorts and 3 feature-length films, 20 TV documentaries and 29 films for the “Architecture” collection.
Director
VICTORIA MAPPLEBECK
Writer and director, she has been experimenting with immersive and interactive documentaries for the last two decades. She shot and directed Missed Call which explores the relationship with her teenage son Jim as they reconnect with his father, who’s been absent for a decade. It was the first commissioned short film to be shot on the iPhone X and won a 2019 BAFTA. She is Professor in Digital Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London and writes about non-fiction film and VR. In November 2019, she won the IDFA DocLab for Digital Storytelling Award for The Waiting Room.
DIGITAL STORYTELLING
Writer, director
GÉRALDINE BRÉZAULT
Géraldine Brézault is an author and director of short films, advertisements, and documentaries. She has also worked extensively in the music and sound industry, creating jingles and doing voiceovers for advertisements and documentaries. Ms. Brézault is fascinated by the animation process and is carrying out research on special effects. She worked in animated photography for a documentary, Mamy Blues, which blends film shots with archive images.
Author, director, producer
GILLES COUDERT
As a documentary writer-director and producer, Gilles Coudert has been supporting, documenting, and analysing contemporary creation for more than 30 years. He worked with Pierre-Andr. Boutang on “Métropolis” for ARTE, and has directed several documentaries on the visual arts and architecture. He is artistic director of several DVD collections and book-DVDs at a.p.r.e.s Editions, and has been a member of SCAM’s “écritures et formes émergentes” commission since 2014.
Journalist
MARIANNE RIGAUX
Marianne Rigaux has been an independent journalist for 10 years and as such has worked with various magazines. She has also directed several web documentaries and audio slide shows. In 2012, she cofounded the Diapéro collective, which promotes new works combining sound and images, through screenings and an annual prize. She has been a member of SCAM’s “écritures et formes émergentes” commission since 2018.
SHORT FILM DOCUMENTARY
Festival manager
GEORGES BOLLON
Georges Bollon is co-founder of the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival and a member of “Sauve qui peut le court-m.trage” association, which manages the Clermont-Ferrand market for short film, the Auvergne Film Commission, and the Pôle Régional d’éducation aux Images. Mr. Bollon created the “Court d’Histoire” department, which explores the relationship between film and history. His short film Lointain received a mention at Oberhausen in 1986.
Producer, Festival director
EVELINE KLUGER KADISH
She is content and strategist director for the Makor Foundation for Israeli Films. She has also been producer and movie festival director for 25 years. She considers documentaries as an incredible tool to enforce democracies and a dynamic way to educate people.
Director, Editor
CORINE SCHWINGRUBER ILIĆ
She lives and works in Lucerne (Switzerland) and Belgrade (Serbia). She studied Fine Art in Basel and Belgrade and Video at the HSLU Lucerne. Since 2010 she works as a filmmaker & editor. She’s a co-founder of Pro Short, the Swiss association for short films. Her last short documentary All Inclusive was world-premiered in Venice and has won various awards including the Golden Dove at Dok Leipzig, while being selected worldwide in numerous festivals such as IDFA, Sundance, TIFF and
NEW TALENT
Producer
REA APOSTOLIDES
She produces documentaries and cross-media projects for Anemon, an Athens-based production company. Her recent works include When Tomatoes Met Wagner (2019, Greek entry for the Academy Awards), Citizen Europe (2019), Berlinale Teddy Award winner Obscuro Barroco (2018), and Dolphin Man (2018). She co-organises CineDoc and CineDoc Kids, that screen documentaries and children’s films across Greece, all year round. She is also the coordinator of Moving Docs, an EDN led network focused on audience development.
Director
ANNA FEILLOU
Anna Feillou completed a master’s degree in international finance before turning to film, and studying in the documentary departments of La F.mis and Lussas. Since 2003, she has been making creative documentaries both independently and for television in France and Argentina. Ms. Feillou is also a documentary-writing consultant and is heavily involved in organisations that work to defend creative documentaries and provide a platform for authors.
Producer, director, journalist
SÉBASTIEN LEGAY
Producing documentaries at Bangumi (notably for France Televisions and ARTE), Sébastien Legay also created the cellule for reportages for Envoyé Spécial and Complément d’enquête. He directed Erasmus: notre plus belle année (2017), retracing the programme’s history and reconnecting with friends from his year in Amsterdam. Previously, he was editor-in-chief at Supplément (Canal+), Global Mag (ARTE), and a journalist at Envoyé Spécial. He is passionate about languages and cultural exchange, and has worked in Italy and in India.
MITRANI
ADAMI
JEAN-PAUL TRIBOUT
Famous for his role as Inspector Gustave Pujol in the television series The Tiger Brigades, Jean-Paul Tribout is also a stage director and manager of the Sarlat Theatre Festival.
France Télévisions
XAVIER GUBERT
Part of France Télévisions since 2015, Xavier Gubert is a member of the Pôle Société et Géopolitique, managing Thursday’s late-evening slot on France 3 in particular.
SACEM
MARION SARRAUT
Marion Sarraut made films with New Wave directors and directed variety shows and numerous telefi lms. Ms. Sarraut endeavours to defend women’s rights and improve everyday ethics.
SCAM
JÉRÔME CLÉMENT-WILZ
Jérôme Clément-Wilz is a director and director of photography for documentaries and documentary series. His films, from A Baptism of Fire to Quand tout le monde dort have earned festival selections and awards
PROCIREP
BLANCHE GUICHOU
Producer for more than 60 documentaries championing hybrid and creative writing styles, Blanche Guichou believes in transmitting knowledge and is involved in training young writers and community service projects.
YOUNG EUROPEAN
Trinity College de Dublin – Irlande
YANN BLAKE
Lycée de L’image et du son d’Angoulême – France
ANTOINE BOURGEAIS
université de Lund - Suède
VICTORIA KLOCH
Université des arts de Berlin – Allemagne
MAX LIEBSTEIN
Liceo Ginnasio Luigi Galvani de Bologne – Italie
GIORGIA MAZZANTI
Lycée Karol Marcinkowsko de Poznan – Pologne
JOANNA NOWISKA
Collège national Vasile Alecsandri de Galati – Roumanie
