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Radji

Georg Götmark has a degree in film and cultural studies from Stockholm University and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has also completed a post-graduate course at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Georg is currently working as a producer and director at Filmfront Media AB, which he co-founded. He has worked with documentaries and in TV since 2001. He has worked on a number of international documentary projects, such as The Last Lacandones, a film about Mayan Indians, shot in Mexico; Transit Tanger, about Moroccans dreaming of a new life in Europe; and Citizen Oketch, about a family living in the Kibera slum outside of Nairobi. His first feature creative documentary, Bellum – The Daemon of War (2021), was about AI, robotics, and ethics. Georg has traveled extensively producing a number of TV series and reports for Swedish television, and educational films for universities, organizations and companies.

John Erling Utsi is a freelance Sami filmmaker and journalist with an extensive career at SVT-Sápmi.

Jozsef in Autumn

Cecilia Belén Sandoval is an Image and Sound Designer from Argentina, who graduated from the University of Buenos Aires. She is currently studying at DocNomads Master’s programme. She works as a director, DoP and camera operator for documentary and experimental film.

Erin Macpherson is a documentary filmmaker from South Africa, with an Honours in documentary filmmaking. By the end of 2022, they will graduate from the DocNomads Masters Programme. Their films often explore humanitarian socio-political issues, such as queer rights, climate change, and mental health advocacy, to name a few.

Judit Sára Elek started her documentary film directing MA at University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest but she graduated at the Academy Of Performing Arts, Slovakia, 2022. She will graduate in filmmaking master’s at Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary. Her first short documentary, Station (2019) won several prizes in Hungary. She works as assistant director in short fiction films, and in documentaries.

Lesia Diak is a Ukrainian documentary film director. She began studying documentary film directing with the international DocNomads masters program in 2021. She is finishing a feature-length documentary, Dad’s Lullaby, about the family life of an army veteran traumatized by the Russian-Ukrainian war that began in 2014.

Nelly & Nadine

Magnus Gertten is a director and producer born in Limhamn, Sweden, in 1953. He was a television and radio journalist for several years before turning to filmmaking in 1998. He has made 15 documentaries for Swedish and international television, which have been broadcast and screened at festivals in more than 60 countries, and which have won numerous awards. He works as a director, producer, narrative consultant, and adviser for his film production company, Auto Images.

Away

Born in Belarus, Ruslan Fedotow began his career as a cinematographer. He graduated from the Academy of Arts and moved to Moscow, and finished a degree at the Moscow School of New Cinema in 2015. He worked as a cinematographer for many documentary films that were screened at festivals like the LA Film Festival, Vision du Réel, and Hotdocs. Since then he has experimented with documentary filmmaking. His documentary Where Are We Headed? premiered at IDFA in 2021, and won awards for best first feature and best cinematography. Ruslan is currently a student at DocNomads. Away is his first-year work film.

Négy évszak egy nap alatt

Annabel Verbeke a belgiumi Ypres-ben született 1987-ben, tanulmányait a brüsszeli RITCS Filmiskolában végezte. Diplomamunkája, A tenger gyermekei, 8 nemzetközi díjat nyert, és több mint 20 nemzetközi filmfesztiválra válogatták be. Filmkészítőként a minket körülvevő, szerényebb célú hétköznapi tárgyak szépségét keresi. Szívesen tár fel és bont ki olyan történeteket, amelyekre kevés figyelem irányul, és találja meg a költőit és abszurdot a látszólag közhelyes dolgokban.

Selected filmography: 
Children of the Sea

Four Seasons in a Day

Annabel Verbeke, born in Ypres, Belgium, in 1987, graduated at RITCS Film School in Brussels. Her graduation film, Children of the Sea, won 8 international awards and was selected by more than 20 international film festivals. As a filmmaker, Annabel is looking for beauty in the modest, everyday objects surrounding us. She likes to reveal and unravel fascinating stories which are not always very visible, and find poetry and absurdity in seemingly banal things.

Selected filmography: 
Children of the Sea

Arica

Lars Edman Chilében született és Svédországban nőtt fel, majd visszatért Dél-Amerikába, hogy a Valparaiso Filmiskolában tanuljon. Első filmje, a Toxic Playground (Mérgező játszótér) 6 nemzetközi díjat nyert, több mint 30 fesztiválon vetítették és Európa-szerte több televízió is levetítette. A film befejezése óta Lars újraképezte magát, most beszédterapuetaként dolgozik Észak-Norvégiában. Az Arica a második egész estés dokumentumfilmje. Ebben Lars és rendezőtársa az első filmjükben elkezdett történethez térnek vissza, miután tizenöt évig követték az aricai lakosok életét.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

William Johansson Kalén rendezőként, szerkesztőként, operatőrként és vágóként 2006 óta számos dokumentumfilm, dokumentumfilm-sorozat és televíziós program elkészítésében vesz részt. 2009-ben társrendezője volt a díjnyertes Toxic Playground dokumentumfilmnek, majd 2015-től producerként kezdett dolgozni, és a Laika Film & Television társtulajdonosa lett. Jelenleg producere több készülő Laika produkciónak is, valamint egy, építészetről szóló dokumentumfilmnek, amelyet 2022 elején mutatnak majd be. A Cold Case Hammarskjöld című dokumentumfilm, valamint a Beauty And The Dogs és a The Man Who Sold His Skin játékfilmek társproducere volt. A 2021 tavaszán bemutatott jordán fikciós Farha svéd producere.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

Arica

Born in Chile and raised in Sweden, Lars returned to South America to attend the Valparaiso Film School. Lars’ first film was Toxic Playground which won 6 international awards, screened in over 30 international festivals and was broadcast on TV across Europe. Since completing Toxic Playground, Lars has retrained as a speech and language therapist and now lives in the north of Norway. Arica is his second feature documentary, in which Lars and his co-director revisits the theme of their first film, after following the lives of the inhabitants of the Chilean town.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

William Johansson Kalén has worked as a Director, Editor in chief, DoP and Film editor on a number of documentaries, documentary series and TV-programs since 2006. He co-directed the award-winning documentary Toxic Playground in 2009 and started as a film producer in 2015 when he became a shareholder of Laika Film & Television. He is currently producing an artistic documentary about architecture that will premiere in early 2021 and producing a couple of Laika’s projects in development. He has worked as assistant producer on the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld and the fiction Beauty And The Dogs and The Man Who Sold His Skin. He is also the Swedish producer in the Jordanian fiction film Farha that premiered in spring 2021.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

Százontúliak

Heddy Honigmann a világ egyik legjobb dokumentumfilmesének számít. Filmjei (rövid- és játékfilmek, rövid és egész estés dokumentumfilmek) az egész világot bejárták, továbbá számos rangos díjat és méltatást kaptak a teljesség igénye nélkül olyan helyeken, mint Toronto, a New York-i MOMA, Párizs, Berlin, Lisszabon, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Ontario, Utrecht, Graz, Chicago, Berkeley. Több életműdíj kitüntetettje, többek között az IDFA Élő legenda díja (2013), a Dortmund Legjobb dokumentumfilmnek járó kitüntetése (2013), a Hot Docs Kiemelkedő teljesítményért járó díja (2007), a San Francisco-i Filmtársaság Golden Gate Persistence of Vision-díja (2007), a hollandiai Humanista Szervezet J. Van Praag díja (2005) a Theszaloniki Filmfesztivál Dokumentumfilmkészítés művészetéért tanúsított hozzájárulás díja (2004), és a Televíziós Kulturális Filmek Holland Nemzeti Alapja jóvoltából a teljes életművéért odaítélt holland Jan Cassies-díj (2003).

Selected filmography: 
2018 - Buddy
2008 - El Olvido
2006 - Forever
2001 - Good Husband, Dear Son
1999 - Crazy
1996 - O Amor Natural
1992 - Metal and Melancholy

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Heddy Honigmann is considered one of world’s best documentary filmmakers. Her films (short & long fictions, short & long documentaries) have travelled around the world receiving major awards and important retrospectives (Toronto, the Museum of Modern Art in NY, Paris, Berlin, Lisboa, Minneapolis, Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia, Ontario, Utrecht, Grasz, Chicago and Berkeley, among others). She has received many lifetime achievement awards, like the Living Legend Award at IDFA (2013), the Dortmund Honorary Award for Documentary Film (2013), the Hot Docs Outstanding Achievement Award (2007), the San Francisco Films Society’s Golden Gate Persistence of Vision Award (2007), the J. Van Praag Award from the Humanist Association (2005) in the Netherlands, the award for her Contribution to the Art of Documentary Filmmaking at the Thessaloniki Film Festival (2004), and the Jan Cassies Award for her whole oeuvre from the Dutch National Fund for Cultural Films for Television (2003) in the Netherlands.

Selected filmography: 
2018 - Buddy
2008 - El Olvido
2006 - Forever
2001 - Good Husband, Dear Son
1999 - Crazy
1996 - O Amor Natural
1992 - Metal and Melancholy

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