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The Dreams of Centenarians

Robertas Verba was a pioneer of Lithuanian poetic documentary, a chronicler of Lithuanian national revival, a director, cameraman and scriptwriter. He made over thirty documentaries and filmed hundreds of videos chronicling that historic period. He graduated from the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography as a cameraman. According to film critic Živilė Pipinytė, the films he made in 1965–1970 “shaped the genetic fund of Lithuanian documentary film – its stylistic features, the taste for metaphoric image as well as minimalism of a means of expression”.

Earth

Nicolaus Geyrhalter is a director, cinematographer, scriptwriter and producer. At the age of 22, he formed his own production company, Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion (NGF), which has since produced many award-winning documentaries, fiction features, and series for TV and cinema. Geyrhalter's films have been screened at the New York Museum of Modern Art's Doc Fortnight, and at multiple festivals worldwide.

Selected filmography: 
2018 - The Border Fence
2016 - Homo sapiens
2015 - Over the Years

Earth of the Blind

Audrius Stonys is a member of the European Documentary Network and the European Film Academy. His 1992 film Earth of the Blind received the European Film Academy Award for the Best European Documentary Film. His 2011 film Ramin was selected as the Lithuanian entry for the Best Foreign Language Oscar at the 85th Academy Awards.

Está Todo Bien

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

How Big Is the Galaxy?

Ksenia Elyan has been a professional editor of documentaries, TV programs, commercials and other video productions for nearly two decades. She has experience as a film director and DoP. In 2010, she graduated as a documentary director from Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov’s School of Documentary Film and Theater, in Moscow.

Code of Freedom 1991

Andrius Lekavičius is a multimedia storyteller directing commercial and non-commercial audiovisual productions. His latest animated documentary, Delta Zoo, was screened in cinemas across Lithuania and at festivals around the world. Growing up in the 1990s, his creative focus is on this period of essential change.

Selected filmography: 
2019 - Delta Zoo
2018 - Blurred Border

Call Me Intern

Nathalie Berger applies her interest in art and politics to incite debate on social issues. She made a documentary about the impact of “voluntourism” on local communities in Kenya, and initiated a human rights art collective in Geneva. She was a content creator for the Solar Impulse project, and produced videos for the world's first solar plane.

Leo David Hyde is an activist, filmmaker and editor from New Zealand. He has worked on a variety of projects, including social media campaigns for NGOs and political activism, through Collective Bievre. He recently completed work on a 12-part documentary series for Public Services International, which examines the achievements and challanges of public service workers across the world.

Above the Line

Anikó Mária Nagy graduated as a broadcast director from the University of Theatre and Film in Budapest, in 2004. She worked as an art director for Film.dok, a Hungarian-Romanian documentary film festival between 2005 and 2007, and has directed for Duna Television.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - ...every little kid
2015 - Box Street (producer)
2015 - My Great-grandfathers and I (producer)

Advocate

Rachel Leah Jones is a critically-acclaimed documentary filmmaker whose work focuses on Israel/Palestine. She has a BA in Race, Class and Gender Studies, and a MFA in Documentary Media Arts. In addition to making her own films, Jones has produced extensively with others, and has been affiliated with progressive media outlets such as DEMOCRACY NOW! in New York.

Selected filmography: 
2011 - Gypsy Davy
2010 - Targeted Citizen
2002 - 500 Dunam to the Moon

Born in France, Philippe Bellaiche is an award-winning cinematographer. A graduate of the École Nationale Supérieure Louis-Lumière and the Sorbonne, Bellaiche, a cinematography lecturer and master-class instructor, received the Israel Cinema Arts Award in 2013.

Selected filmography: 
2016 - The Settlers
2011 - Gypsy Davy
2011 - The Flat

After the Silence

Natalie Cubides-Brady is a British-Colombian documentary filmmaker with a background in visual arts. She graduated from the NFTS with a Masters in Documentary Directing, and was selected to take part in Future Frames: 10 New Directors to Watch, at Karlovy Vary’s International Film Festival in 2019.

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