Brillante Ma. Mendoza was born on July 30, 1960 in San Fernando, Pampanga, Philippines. He studied fine arts major in advertising at the University of Santo Tomas in Manila. He started his career as a production designer in feature films, television, theater and eventually in television advertising for the past 10 years. His production design ...
Born on Maui, Hawaii, Kaleo studied fine arts in New York and film making in Switzerland. He is the director of the documentary films “Crooked River” and “Beyond This Place”. Based in Switzerland, Kaleo works internationally as an independent director and cinematographer of documentary films. FILMOGRAPHY 2009 Beyond This Place 2005 Crooked River (Nominated ...
Rob Lemkin is the founder and director of Old Street Films. He has produced and directed over 50 documentaries for BBC, Channel 4, ITV, Sky, The History Channel (US) and Arts & Entertainment. He has won numerous awards in Britain and abroad, and his work has appeared in major documentary strands for C4, BBC and ...
Thet Sambath is a senior reporter with the Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia’s premier English-language newspaper. He is widely regarded as one of Cambodia’s best investigative reporters and his stories have been syndicated all over the world. He has worked for the American Refugee Committee as a paramedic on the Thai-Cambodia border; as police interpreter ...
She graduated from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan (political science and culture) and from The Film School in Lodz (Directing Department). At the moment she works in the local department of Polish Public TV Lublin as an editor of her own program dedicated to culture events “Afisz” and news magazine “Zdarzenia”. FILMOGRAPHY 2009 W ...
Karen Harley has directed several short film documentaries on Brazilian artists including Ernesto Neto in “We Fishing The Time”, a biographical portrait of artist Leonilson titled “With the Whole Ocean to Swim” and Marcos Chaves “Comfundo”. With Mika Kaurismaki, Karen edited “Moro No Brasil” (2002), “Honey Baby” (2003) and “Brasileirinho” (2005). “Waste Land ” is ...
João Jardim’s first feature film, “Janela da Alma” (2002), surprised everyone for its unusual theme: the sight. This documentary was awarded important prizes and became number 8 at that years Brazilian box-office, staying for 48 weeks on screens – a record for documentaries. In 2006, his documentary feature “Pro Dia Nascer Feliz”, received 10 awards, ...
Lucy Walker uses dramatic filmmaking techniques to make documentary films, following memorable characters on transformative journeys that grant unique access inside closed worlds. In addition to “Waste Land”, Lucy Walker directed a second feature documentary that premiered at Sundance 2010: ” Countdown to Zero”, a terrifying exposé of the current threat of nuclear terrorism and ...
A history graduate from the University of Toronto. Her work explores the cultural, historical and visual representation of trauma. She is writing a monograph based on archival documents and personal narratives aimed at articulating the memory of trauma. Her research is based on multiple interviews with former inmates, guards and functionaries of the camp system.
Born in Sofia, Bulgaria. He has been a bartender in Prague, a cook in Washington DC, a gardener in Toronto, a boom operator in New York, and an accounting clerk in San Francisco. Graduated from the National Academy of Theatre and Film Arts in Sofia, Bulgaria in 2000. His first documentary “Georgi and the Butterflies” ...
Polish-born film director and producer. He has gained a reputation for cinematic portrayals that are atypical of both Hollywood and independent film styles and that cleverly mix different film approaches into a cohesive whole. Initially Kotowski studied dance and dance choreography in Poland, and received a Master of Arts in Education before being accepted into ...
He graduated as a fiction director in 2004 from Helsinki University of Applied Sciences, Stadia. Mika has been working in television and film industry since 1998. He has directed a long documentary films called “Freedom to Serve” and “Steam of Life”, and also short fiction “Visitor”. He is part owner of Oktober Production Company. ...
Born in Kemi. He has studied film producing (2000 – 2005) at the Tampere University of Applied Sciences, School of Art and Media. He has been involved in film making since 1998. Today he is a film producer and owner of the Oktober Production Company. Documentary films produced by him, ”The Smoking Room” and ”A ...
Graduated from Commenius University in Bratislava (FiFUK) in 1996 at the department of Journalism and from the Academy of Music Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU) in 2001, Documentary film directing. He works as a director and producer of documentary films. FILMOGRAPHY 2009 Osadné 2006 Iné svety / Other worlds 2005 Celebration of a lonely palm ...
She graduated from UC Berkeley with Honors in Political Science and holds a Masters in Education with honors from University of Vermont. She co-produced and co-directed the award winning PBS documentary, “The Good War and Those Who Refused to Fight It” (2001), which won both major US history film awards in 2003. Ehrlich made dozens ...
He studied architecture and dabbled in film at the Rhode Island School of Design. He produced and directed the Academy-Award-nominated documentary feature “Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press” (1996). Goldsmith also co-produced and co-directed “Everyday Heroes” (2001), a behind-the-headlines documentary feature about AmeriCorps (the domestic Peace Corps). He was writer ...
Cabeza, with a degree in Communication Sciences, formerly worked in journalism with the newspaper “Avui”. She is currently a freelance journalist and combines teaching at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona with cinema. Together with Esteve Riambau they wrote and co-directed “La doble vida del faquir” (2005). FILMOGRAPHY 2009 Màscares / Masks 2005 La doble ...
Professor of Audiovisual Communication at the Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, has written around 30 books on the history of cinema. Co-screenwriter of several TV documentaries, he adapted and directed the play “Su seguro servidor, Orson Welles” (Obediently yours, Orson Welles) in 2008. FILMOGRAPHY 2009 Màscares / Masks 2005 La doble vida del faquir Elisabet ...
Serge Bromberg is so busy he has two separate companies to handle his activities. Through Lobster Films, founded in 1985, he has restored numerous film classics, including The Crime of Monsieur Lange, The Young Girls of Rochefort and Abel Gance’s J’accuse. His newer company, Steamboat Films, produces documentaries and shorts for television. Bromberg is also ...
She is a Brazilian actress and director. To date, Issa’s credits include eighteen successful theatrical productions, daytime television host on the Globo Network and numerous leading roles in major motion pictures. As producer and director she makes the weekly cable television show “NY Underground”: an insider’s look at the NYC way of life, the documentary ...
