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Leeanne Torpey is a film and TV producer based in Sydney. She was the impact producer on the War On Waste (ABC, Dir Jodi Boylan), she got involved in the muck of money and politics with Big Deal (ABC, Madman, Dir,. Craig Ruecassel), she’s worked on the mess of Australia’s health system with Magda’s Big National Health Check (ABC, Dir. Rob Innes), she collaborated closely with Julian Assange’s family on Ithaka (ABC, Bonsai Films, Dir. Ben Lawrence) and amplified...

04 May, 2024

Joseph Nizeti is an AACTA award-winning director, writer, producer and composer. Combining a background in music with a life-long love of film storytelling, Joseph has brought a unique perspective to acclaimed projects across the Australian film & music industries. Joseph is the co-director/co-writer of award-winning feature documentary River (2021), writer/director of the forthcoming IMAX documentaries Fungi: The Web of Life (2022) and Sunchasers: The Secret Life of Butterflies (2023), writer/director/composer of TV documentary Anatomy of a String Quartet (2022)...

04 May, 2024

Walkley Award Winning Hazara photojournalist Barat Ali Batoor first won international acclaim in 2011 for his powerful photo essay exposing one of his country’s darkest secrets. But his work made him a target and Batoor was forced to flee along an asylum seeker route taken by thousands before him. Shot and produced entirely by Batoor, this documentary is a moving insight into the work of photographers committed to bringing audiences the truth....

04 May, 2024

Esteban Coloma has produced and directed short documentary films in South and North America, which have been screened in festivals and exhibitions on three continents. He has participated in IDFAcademy, Ventana Sur, Miradasdoc, DocsMX, Guadalajara Film Festival, among other international industry events. Esteban is currently directing and producing the feature films “Carmela and the Walkers” and “Fabián”. He holds a Master’s degree in Social Documentary Film from the School of Visual Arts of New York. He is the co-founder and...

04 May, 2024

Luis has worked with communities and social organizations in Ecuador in audiovisual projects. He has worked as director and coordinator of different audiovisual projects in Ecuador, the United States and Europe. He is a founding member of the Audiovisual Cooperative CoopDocs of Ecuador. Besides Carmela and the Walkers, Luis is currently developing the feature documentary film “Del Páramo”, which has de support of Ibermedia....

04 May, 2024

Jessica Daugherty is an award winning producer and director of documentary and experimental film, podcasts, multi-media live performance, and co-founder of the production studio, Shrine13, in Portland, OR, US. She is a Board Member of the Documentary Producers Alliance, member of WIF, and alumni of IEFTA and Rotterdam Lab. Her films have participated at Cannes, Movies that Matter, Annecy and broadcast on Showtime, Arte!, PBS and more. As a member of Al Límite Collective and The Living Theatre, she facilitates refugee...

04 May, 2024

Daniela Repas is a Bosnian born visual artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work depicts storytelling through multiple mediums, from drawing and animation to installation and film. She has shown her work nationally and internationally, from New York to New Zealand, participating as an artist, a curator and as one of the founding members of DripDrop collective. She is a recipient of the prestigious Dorothy Lemelson Scholarship and an alumna of the Pacific Northwest College of Art, where she earned...

04 May, 2024

Mathieu Faure is an independent filmmaker, producer and writer known for Eat Bitter and An Edited Life...

03 December, 2023

Ningyi Sun is a Chinese national and known for Eat Bitter (2023), Intimate (2022) and Sapling (2023)....

03 December, 2023

Pascale Appora Gnekindy was born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and known for Eat Bitter (2023), Deux soeurs (2021) and Wakis, chasseur d'arbres (2020)....

03 December, 2023

Lina Soualem is a French-Palestinian-Algerian filmmaker and actress known for Bye Bye Tiberias (2023), Oussekine (2022) and Their Algeria (2020)....

03 December, 2023

Makbul Mubarak is a writer and director from Indonesia known for Autobiography (2022), The Malediction (2016) and Watch It Burn (In Production)....

03 December, 2023

EDUCATION Brooklyn College – Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema, Brooklyn, NY Jun. 2018 • Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in Screenwriting The University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica Jun. 2015 • Certificate of Participation - Short Film Writing Workshop Media and Technology Institute, Kingston, Jamaica Apr. – May 2009 • Certificate – Techniques of Video Production Showjam Promotion Company, Negril, Jamaica Sep. 2007 • Certificate for training in: Microphone Techniques, Public Speaking, Guest Relations and Social Directing The...

15 February, 2023

Semagngeta is an award winning Producer/Director based in Ethiopia, Addis Ababa. He is interested in stories that start conversation and show different perspective. He believes in creating an Ethiopian cinema industry that tells the Ethiopian, African and international stories from a native’s perspective. He was educated at Bahirdar University Institute of Technology , Bahir Dar, Amhara Degree, Graduated November 2015 Graduated with a very great distinction. Employment History Production Assistant Tilahun Zewge film production, January 2011 - December 2012 Assistant Camera Operator Samrach...

15 February, 2023

After graduating from American Academy in Tbilisi, David Japaridze studied Business Administration two years in Hungary, Budapest (Central European University) and two years in Prague, Czech Republic (University of New-York in Prague). After graduation with a Bachelor diploma David started to work in a business center in Prague. David decided to start doing something he was passionate and obsessed with, it was film-making...

15 February, 2023

A graduate of the Cinema & TV program at the Lebanese University, Hadi has directed five short films, produced three short films, and served as director of photography on ten shorts. director on a feature film and a short. He is in the post-production phase of the narrative short film “In Case of Conscious Inhibition, Break Glass” that he produced, directed and shot. Currently working as part of the production team on the feature film “Fog”, Hadi is a...

29 January, 2023

Maja Doroteja Prelog is Ljubljana based film director. Beginning her career with the short film WILD EAST (2012), she won the best student short award at the Festival of Slovenian Film. Since then, she has been a member of the art collective RÁ., and has directed videos for the world-renowned art-music group Laibach. In 2016, she wrote, directed, and produced a short experimental film 2045, which earned the Best of FeKK SLO award at the Ljubljana Short Film Festival....

12 October, 2021

Sara Chitambo is a filmmaker based in Johannesburg, South Africa.  She holds a Master’s Degree in Digital Documentary Production from Sussex University and  made her first short film as part of the National Film and Video Foundation Women Filmmakers Slate in 2018.  Her 2010 film Climate Theatre, was filmed, edited, and received awards at the Climate Change Summit in Cancun, Mexico in November 2010 as well as at the Royal Commonwealth Society UK Vision Awards the same year.  As a director, Sara Chitambo is passionate about...

17 February, 2021