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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.

The Killing of a Journalist

Matt Sarnecki is a journalist, producer, and film director at the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. He earned a BA in political science and history at Columbia University. He spent two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Romania before moving to Prague, Czech Republic, where he held a Fulbright Teaching Assistantship at the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts. In 2011 he moved to San Francisco, and earned a master’s degree in journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 2013 he has lived in Bucharest, Romania. His documentary Killing Pavel, about the murder of investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet, won the Investigative Reporters and Editors Medal in 2017, and the DIG Award (Italy) in 2018.

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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.

The Conductor

Bernadette Wegenstein is an Austrian-born linguist, author and critically acclaimed documentary filmmaker living in Baltimore. Her work brings together feminist thought and an interest in human-centric storytelling. She holds a PhD in linguistics and is currently a professor of media studies at John Hopkins University. She’s directed four documentaries, including The Conductor, See You Soon Again, and The Good Breast.

A jövő gyermekei

Franz Böhm Stuttgartban született, 16 éves korában rendezte első filmjét, a Mások harmóniája-t. A Német Ifjúsági Filmdíj nyitófilmjének választotta Karácsonyi jókívánságok című második filmjét, amelynek készítése során Franz hajléktalanságot megtapasztaló fiatalokkal élt együtt. A Nemzeti Film & Televíziós Iskola és a 1185 Films produkciós cég számára készített munkái óta új projekteket készít elő Londonban. A jövő gyermekei az első egész estés filmje.

Dear Future Children

Franz Böhm is from Stuttgart, Germany. At 16, he made his first film as a director, Harmonie der Anderen. Franz' next project found him living with youth experiencing homelessness, the resulting documentary, Christmas Wishes, was selected as the opening film for the German Youth Film Awards. Following his work for the National Film & Television School and the documentary production company, 1185 Films, Franz is currently developing new projects in London. Dear Future Children is his debut feature film.

Mindent bele!

Debbie Lum San Franciscóban élő díjnyertes filmkészítő, aki filmjein keresztül mellőzött történeteket kíván bemutatni, például azt, hogy milyen ázsiai amerikainak lenni. Első, egész estés dokumentumfilmje, a Seeking Asian Female, az SXSW filmfesztiválon került bemutatásra, a PBS műsorszolgáltató Independent Lens című műsorában sugározták, és számos díjat nyert el. A film közönségkedvenccé vált, és adásba kerülésével egyidőben Lum ötrészes rövid videósorozatot indított etnikai hovatartozásról és társkeresésről. Korábban dolgozott dokumentumfilmes vágóként, valamint számos rövid vígjátékot írt és rendezett. A San Francisco Egyetem mozgókép szakán MA, a Brown Egyetemen vallástudományból BA fokozatot szerzett.

Selected filmography:

2012 - Seeking Asian Female

2005 - Chinese Beauty (fiction short)

Try Harder!

Debbie Lum is an award-winning San Francisco-based filmmaker whose projects give voice to the Asian American experience and other unsung stories. Seeking Asian Female, her feature-length directing debut premiered at SXSW, aired on PBS' Independent Lens and won numerous awards. The film was a “fan favorite” on PBS and alongside its broadcast premiere, Lum launched a 5-part short video series about race and dating. Previously she worked as a documentary editor; and she has also written and directed several short comedies. She has an M.F.A in Cinema from San Francisco State University, and a B.A. in Religious Studies from Brown University.