Author Archive

Master Chef   From an early age, the self-taught Michel Bras worked at his mother’s side in a modest working-class restaurant that she took over in Laguiole in 1965. For the 70-year-old chef, cooking was a necessity in the beginning but became the guiding principle in his life, influenced not only by his endless desire to experiment and to create, but also by his […]

Editor Nadia Ben Rachid is a talented editor who has worked for over 25 years and is known for documentaries as well as narrative films. She has received a number of international awards, including: the César for Best Editing for Timbuktu by Abderrahmane Sissako in 2015 and the 1st Final Cut Prize at the Venice Film Festival in 2013 for the film Le Challat […]

Filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer   Midi Z is a director, screenwriter and producer. Born in Burma in 1982, he came to Taiwan at the age of sixteen. He studied design and art before completing a masters at Taiwan Tech (National Taiwan University of Science and Technology). In 2006, his graduation film Paloma Blanca was invited to several festivals, including Busan and Gothenburg. In 2011 his […]

Photographer, filmmaker, writer   Seamus Murphy grew up in Ireland and is based in London. He is the recipient of seven World Press Photo awards for his photographic work in Afghanistan, Gaza, Lebanon, Sierra Leone, Peru and Ireland. He received The World Understanding Award from POYi in the USA for his work from Afghanistan and a film he made based around this work was […]

Filmmaker, scriptwriter, producer   Gustavo Taretto was born in December 1965 in Buenos Aires. In 1983 he began studying photography at the Foto Club Buenos Aires and won many awards in his home country. At the end of the 80s he participated in filmmaking and scriptwriting workshops and made four short films that he has jealously guarded since then. Moved by financial considerations, he […]

  Scriptwriter, filmmaker, photographer and author   Born in Zurich in 1953 but with roots in Italy and the canton Valais, Dominique de Rivaz now splits her time between Bern and Berlin.   Rivaz worked as an assistant director for Alain Tanner, Jacqueline Veuve and Bakhytar Kudoynazarov, and has also collaborated with the Fribourg International Film Festival for ten years. She has made a […]

Actor, filmmaker, theater director, producer   Lotfi Achour is a film and theater director who splits his time between Paris and Tunis. Having realized over twenty-five projects on different stages – from London to Paris to Tunis to Avignon’s Festival In, among others – he also created an installation for the 2006 Nuit Blanche in Paris celebration.   Achour began his studies at the […]

Actor, writer   Franc Bruneau’s astrological sign is cancer, capricorn rising, which means he’s sensitive and family-oriented. He plays competitive backgammon at a local level, and he’s interested in youth literature.   Like many of his contemporaries, he loves watching films. As a Parisian, he likes judging people, so his spot on the jury is legitimate. Also, he is an actor.

Actor   Born in Paris in 1965, Laurent Lucas grew up in Le Havre. He left high school at 16 to enlist in the army. During his military service, he devoured the classics of literature, and in 1989, he enrolled at the École Charles Dullin in Paris. In 1993, he entered the French National Theater of Strasbourg (TNS) under the direction of Jean-Marie Villégier. […]

Musician, composer, sound designer   Teho Teardo is a musician, composer and sound designer with an interest in developing connections between electronic and acoustic sounds. Teho began playing clarinet at the age of eight but a few years later, with the advent of punk, he began another, more interesting, age as a guitar player. From then on, Teho collaborated with artists such as Blixa Bargeld (Einstürzende […]