Claire Lajoumard
After mastery of Modern Letters in cinema, at the University of Paris III, Claire Lajoumard has worked at CNC, and then at different production studios, among them Les Films de la Lune Vague.
From 1996 to 2000, she was associated to Paraiso Production, where she collaborated on films as a production director, associated producer, and executive producer (3 features, 15 short films).
She then worked as production director and executive producer at Key Light Productions (2 features, 1 short film).
In 2002 she founded Acrobates Films.
Parallel to this, since 2010, she has worked as an expert for the Produire au Sud workshops (3 Continents Festival Nantes) as well as for other workshops on international co-production (EAVE Ties That Bind, SEAFIC).
In charge of courses from 2016-2019 at the Polytechnics University of Hauts-de-France, Master 2 MCAV.
Graduate of EAVE 2000.
Pham Ngoc Lan
Phạm Ngọc Lân was born in 1986 in Hanoï, Vietnam. He studied urban planning and design from 2004 to 2009 at the Hanoi University of Architecture.
He worked as an urban designer at the Institute of Urban Planning and Rural Design (IPURD) in Hanoi until 2010. Then he became a photographer and exhibited several series of photos in Taiwan, the United States, Japan and Vietnam. In 2011, he studied video art at the Goethe Institute in Hanoi and participated in the Hanoi DOCLAB.
He directed a short documentary film “The Story of Ones” which was screened in numerous festivals and museums of Modern Art, including Visions du Réel (Switzerland), Rencontres Internationales du Nouveau Cinéma and Art Contemporain (France). In 2012, he is in Residence in Hokkaido (Japan) where he organizes his first photographic and video installation.
In 2015, he participated in the Short Film Station at Berlinale Talent.
His short film Blessed Landreceived numerous awards around the world.
Currently, Pham Ngoc Lan is working on his first feature film: Culi never Cries.
Tumpal Tampubolon
Tumpal Tampubolon is an Indonesian scriptwriter and director.
He first studied mathematics before devoting himself to cinema after graduating.
In 2007 he participated in the Asian Young Filmmakers in Jeonju, South Korea. He directed Drum Lesson during this period.
He directed Mamalia in 2010, one of the short films for Belkibolang Omnibus Film. Belkibolang was selected in Rotterdam, Hong-Kong, Jeonju and in Udine Far East Film Festival.
In 2014 he won the Citra Award for Best Original Screenplay for Tabula Rasa, one of Indonesia’s most prestigious awards.
In 2021 his short film The Sea Calls for Me won the Best Short Film Award at the Busan Film Festival.
Tumpal Tampubolon is currently developing his first feature film:Crocodile Tears.
Andrew Sala
Andrew Sala was born in 1981. He graduated with honors in Economics from the University of Buenos Aires and then studied directing at the Universidad del Cine where he now teaches.
His first film “Pantanal” (2014) premiered at the Warsaw International Film Festival and was selected for the Stockholm Film Festival and the Mar del Plata Film Festival, among others.
He is the author and director of several short films selected in many international festivals, such as Murder in Junin (2012) which won the Best Fiction Award at the Tampere Film Festival and the Special Jury Prize at the Poitiers Film Festival.
He is currently in post-production on his second feature film La Barbariewhich won the Cinema en Construction Prize in Toulouse.
He is part of the TIFF Filmaker Lab and the Carolina Foundation Alumni.
Aamir Bashir
Aamir Bashir was born in 1970 in Srinaga, Kashmir, India. After having received a diploma in History, he studied law at the University of Delhi. He worked as a journalist and as an anchor on Television.
He moved to Bombay in 1998 and began a career in acting. He has acted in several independent films such as Ashwini Malik’s Clever & Lonely, Dev Benegal’s Split Wide Open, Sarthak Dasgupta’s The Great Indian Butterfly, Neeraj Pandey’s A Wednesday, Anusha Rizvi and Mahmood Farooqui’s Peepli (Live)and Shivajee Chandrabhushan’s Frozen.
He directed HARUD (Autumn), his first feature film as writer, director and producer, in 2010. HARUD won the Don Quixote Award at the Freiburg International Film Festival in 2011 and the Best Film Award in Urdu in 2013.
As a director :
Pablo Fendrik
Pablo Fendrik was noticed in 2007 with the thriller The Assailant. Graduate of the Buenos Aires Center of Cinematographic Research, he invested himself in cinema at the frontier of genre and authorism.
Assistant director and then screenwriter, he was formed along with other filmmakers. He works with Alejandro Agresti on the staging of Le Vent en emporte autant and Une Nuit avec Sabrina, as well as with Jorge Gaggero and Sandra Gugliotta, for whom he wrote the screenplays for Vida en falcon and Las Vidas possibles respectively.
In 2009 he released his second feature film Blood Appears (La Sangre Brota). Again presented at Critic’s Week, this confirms the talent of Pablo Fendrik.
K. Rajagopal
Born the 21st of September 1965 in Singapore, K. Rajagopal was a theatre comedian for about 15 years. He collaborated with well-known staging directors (William Teo, Kuo Pao Kun, Ong Ken Sen, Arifin Noer, and Krishen Jit). He appeared as King Lear in The King Lear Project shown at the Brussels and Singapore Art Festivals in 2008.
In the present day, he has directed numerous documentaries and short films for Asian television channels.
He won the Special Jury Prize in the Singapore International Film Festival three consecutive times with his
three first short films I Can’t Sleep Tonight (1995), The Glare(1996) and Absence (1997).
In 2010, the National Singapore Museum organized a retrospective of his films.
Soudade Kaadan
Born in France in 1979, Soudade Kaadan studied Critical Theatre in Damascus, Syria, then Cinema at the Institute of Scenic, Audiovisual and Cinematographic Studies (ISACS) in Saint Joseph University in Beirut, Lebanon.
She has directed documentaries for UNDP, UNICEF and the channel Aljazeera.
Her first feature documentary, Looking For Pink won the Martine Filippi Discovery prize – Urti Documentary Grand Prize of author of Monte Carlo 2010.
Her short documentary Damascus Roof and Talesof Paradise was screened at the Dubai Film Festival.
Bui Thac Chuyen
Born in Hanoi in 1968, Bui Thac Chuyen studied directing at the Hanoï Academy of Theatre and Cinema. He started directing short films and TV series in 1991.
Also directing documentaries, he founded the Center for Assistance and Development for Cinema in 2002.
He supports and helps to produce numerous film projects by other directors and participates in the formation of the first cinema-specialized library in Vietnam.
Phan Dang Di
After studying at the Hanoi Academy of Theatre and Film, Phan Đăng Di began his career as a freelance filmmaker with the goal of training a team of young directors to create a “new wave” for Vietnamese cinema.
In 2008, his short film When I Am 20 became the first Vietnamese film to be selected in competition at the Venice International Film Festival.
His screenplay for the feature film Adrift (Bui Chuyên Thac, 2009) won the FIPRESCI Award at the 2009 Venice International Film Festival and was nominated for the Best Screenwriter Award at the 2010 Asian Film Awards.
Bi, Don’t Be Afraid! (2010), the first feature film for which, in addition to being a writer and director, Di is also a producer, won two awards at the 2010 Cannes Critics’ Week, as well as awards in Hong Kong, Stockholm and Vancouver.
Di ‘ second film Mekong Stories (supported by the World Cinema Foundation and the Hubert Bals Fund) is selected in the official competition at the Berlin Festival.
Di also teaches screenwriting at Hanoi National University and is one of the co-founders of Autumn Meeting, an annual film event held in Vietnam.
Christian Lajoumard
Christian Lajoumard was born in Marseille in 1960.
He moved to Paris in the early 1980s.
After studying cinema and theater, works in the distribution of Art & Essais films, the production of feature films and documentaries.
For the past twenty years he has been making short films and documentaries.
Non-exhaustive list:
Arnaud Soulier
Arnaud Soulier is a director and sound engineer. He has been living in Vietnam for more than 15 years and has collaborated with many Vietnamese directors such as Bui Thac Chuyen, Phan Dang Di, Pham Ngoc Lan. He has also trained many Vietnamese sound engineers in recent years.
As a director :
Laurent Lutaud
Laurent Lutaud is a French director and author born in Paris.
Initially an assistant director and editor of fiction films, he later devoted himself to documentary filmmaking.
Non-exhaustive list:
Fanta Régina Nacro
Born in 1962, Fanta Régina Nacro grew up in a rural region of Burkina Faso. A graduate of the Institute of Cinematographic Education in Ouagadougou in 1986, she then worked as a script writer on Idrissa Ouédraogo’s Le Choixbefore completing additional film training in Paris.
Her first short film, Un Certain Matinin 1991, is considered the first work of cinematographic fiction ever directed by an African woman, and won an award at the Carthage Film Festival.
Short and medium-length films then followed and reinforced her notoriety, notably Puk Niniin 1995 andLe Truc de Konaté in 1998, a comedy promoting the use of condoms.
Bintou was selected for the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival and also received the award for best short film at Fespaco in 2001.
In 2004, her fiction feature, The Night of Truth, on ethnic conflicts, was also noted.
Dominique Comtat
Director and photographer, Dominique Comtat is also a film technician (cameraman, sound engineer, editor) and teacher.
Graduated from the Ecole Supérieure des Arts Visuels de Genève in 1982.
In parallel to his activity as a freelance photographer and director, he has been teaching photography and film for more than 25 years, first at the Geneva School of Fine Arts and then in Provence where he has lived since 2001.
Non-exhaustive list:
Christian Argentino
Christian Argentino was an assistant on several documentary films (Philippe Grandrieux, William Karel) and on fiction films (Maurice Pialat, Jacques Rozier, Manuel de Oliveira, Alain Tanner, René Allio, Raoul Ruiz, Philippe Faucon) before becoming a director. He regularly works in co-direction with Marie-Laure Désidéri.
Marie-Laure Désidéri
Marie-Laure is a trained film editor, since 2001 she has been directing documentaries, regularly co-directed with Christian Argentino.
Jean-Robert Thomann
Jean-Robert Thomann has been living in Taiwan for over ten years. He has made many films about Taiwanese society. His films focus on the island’s traditions as well as contemporary life: Nan Fang Ao, a port for the goddess Matsu (2005), Paris – Taipei, chronicle of everyday cycling (2009).
