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Holy Dilemma

Márton Vízkelety is a director and cinematographer. He was thirteen when he stared taking black and white photos with an analog camera. In 2007 he graduated from the University of Theatre and Film Arts, Budapest, Hungary, with an MA degree. He took part in many workshops, including the Berlinale Talent Campus, and Cinetrain in Moscow, Russia. He works on short films, commercials, and documentaries in Russia, Hungary, the United Kingdom and USA. Holy Dilemma is his first feature documentary as a director.

Julianna Ugrin graduated from university in 2005, after which she began working in film at Flora Film International. In 2009 she was selected to the EURODOC producer’s workshop. Since March 2009 she has worked at Havas Films as a producer and production manager. She established Éclipse Film, an independent film production company in 2011, and has developed projects at various international workshops and pitching forums. Films she produced were screened, nominated and awarded at festivals like Sundance, IDFA, DOK Leipzig, or Sarajevo IFF. Since 2013 she has taught at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in documentary MA studies, where she is also a DLA student. Ugrin is part of Emerging Producers 2014, and is an EAVE graduate. She is organizer of DunaDOCK Master Class & Pitching series, and a member of the Hungarian Film Academy and of EDN. Holy Dilemma is her first feature documentary as a director.

A Portrait on the Search for Happiness

Benjamin Rost studied directing at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg, and philosophy in Munich. His films have been screened at festivals like DokLeipzig, Dokfest München, and Max Ophüls Preis a.m.m. He has been part of the scholarship program of the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” since 2016. In 2017–2019, he lived in South Africa and Rwanda, supporting the German Development Organisation (GIZ) with the launch of the youth television channel “Iwacu”. In 2019 he participated in the Documentary Campus Masterschool with #Harraga. A Portrait on the Search for Happiness is his graduate film.

Khan's Flesh

Kristina Savutsina was born in 1989, in Riga, into a Belarusian family. From 1993 to 2014 she lived in Belarus. In 2011, she graduated with a degree in cultural studies, in Minsk. Since 2015 she has been studying film and fine arts at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg. In her work, Kristina deals with regulatory politics and its concrete manifestations in Belarus. She lives and works in Hamburg.

Midwives

Snow Hnin Ei Hlaing has worked as a freelance filmmaker in Myanmar since 2006, acting as director, producer, editor, and sound recordist after attending film schools in both Myanmar and Germany. Her short, Burmese Butterfly played festivals in over 20 countries, and Period@Period won for best short at the Wathan Film Festival. Midwives is her feature documentary debut.

f@ck this job

Vera Krichevskaya is the co-founder of Dozhd (TV Rain) Russia, the only independent, private television channel in Russia. She is also an award-winning television director, having worked for NTV and 24DOC as a senior producer and director.

Angels of Sinjar

Auteur-director Hanna Polak (1967, Katowice, Poland) has Oscar and Emmy nominations under her belt for Children of Leningradsky, and a Producer Guild of America nomination for Something Better To Come, amongst many other awards and accolades. Her emotional bond with her protagonists allows her to deliver visceral, poetic films that celebrate the power of the human spirit, and portray the beauty of humanity in the most adverse circumstances.

Minden rendben

A caracasi születésű Tuki Jencquel alapdiplomáját a New Yorki Egyetem Tisch Művészeti Iskolájában, mesterdiplomáját a venezuelai IESA-n szerezte. Első rendezőasszisztens volt José Padilha A törzs titkai című filmjénél, és éveken át dolgozott rendezőasszisztensként filmeknél és reklámoknál. Jelenleg következő dokumentumfilmjén dolgozik: ez egy személyes portré lesz édesanyjáról, aki az eutanázia franciaországi legalizálásáért küzd.

Selected filmography: 
2010 - Sin ti contigo
2005 - Sed en los pies

It's All Good

Born in Caracas, Tuki Jencquel holds a BA in Film and TV from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, and an MBA from IESA, Venezuela. He was the first assistant director on Secrets of the Tribe, by Jose Padilha, and has worked as an assistant director in film and advertising. He is currently working on his next documentary, an intimate portrait of his mother, who campaigns to legalize euthanasia in France.

Selected filmography: 
2010 - Sin ti contigo
2005 - Sed en los pies

Kinshasa Makambo

Dieudo Hamadi Kisanganiban, a Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaságban született 1984-ben. 2005 és 2008 között orvosi tanulmányokat folytatott, majd több dokumentumfilmes workshopon vett részt. Két rövidfilmje, a Ladies in Waiting és a Zero Tolerance számos európai (Berlin, Párizs, Amszterdam) és észak-amerikai (Toronto) filmfesztivál figyelmét felkeltették. A Ladies in Waiting ‘‘Pierre and Yolande Perrault’’ ösztöndíjban részesült a Cinema du Réel fesztiválon Párizsban, 2009-ben. 2013-ban az Atalaku, Hamadi első egészestés dokumentumfilmje, mely a 2011-es kongói választásokat örökíti meg, elnyerte a legjobb filmnek járó Joris Ivens díjat Marceline Loridan (Cinema du Réel) prezentálásában, a legjobb külföldi film díját a San Diego Black Film Festival-on az Egyesült Államokban, a zsűri díját a FIDADOC-on Agadirban, Marokkóban, valamint további három díjat. 2014-ben a National Diploma című film elnyerte a SCAM nemzetközi díját, és a Cinema du Réel Potemkin-díját, valamint beválogatták a torontói TIFF-re és közel 60 másik fesztiválra világszerte. 2015-ben legutóbbi munkája, a Mama Colonel utómunkálatai a Sundance Intézettől és az IDFA-Bertha Fundtól részesültek támogatásban.

Kinshasa Makambo

Dieudo Hamadi was born in Kisangani (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1984, and studied medicine in 2005-2008. He then attended several documentary workshops. Hamadi is the author of two short documentaries, Ladies in Waiting and Zero Tolerance that caught the attention of festivals in Europe (Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam) and North America (Toronto). Ladies In Waiting received the Pierre and Yolande Perrault scholarship at Cinema du Réel (Paris) in 2009. In 2013, Atalaku, his first feature-length documentary about the 2011 election campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, won the Joris Ivens award for best first film, Best Foreign Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival (USA), the Jury Prize at FIDADOC (Agadir, Morocco) and three other awards. In 2014, National Diploma received both the International Prize of the SCAM and the Potemkin award at Cinéma du Réel (France), and was selected at TIFF (Toronto) and nearly 60 festivals worldwide. In 2015, Mama Colonel, his latest film, received assistance in post-production from the Sundance Institute and IDFA Bertha Fund.

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