Argentinian actor Nahuel Pérez Biscayart graduated from a technical college and studied at the Academy of Beaux Arts in Buenos Aires and in private comedy workshops. He was quickly cast in theatre plays and film for the big and small screens in Argentina. In 2008, at the age of 21, he was granted the Rolex [...]
Maggie Lee is chief film critic for Asia for the well-known American publication Variety. Lee joined the Variety team after having occupied the same position at The Hollywood Reporter (2007-2012). Since 2002 she has been living and working in Japan, first as project manager and selector for Short Shorts Film Festival Asia, then as programming consultant for [...]
Born in Glasgow, Lynne Ramsay is considered one of the boldest British directors in contemporary independent cinema. Cannes Festival acknowledged her talent from the very beginning. In 1996, she won the Jury Prize for the graduation short film Small Deaths, and two years later she received the same distinction for her third short film, Gasman. In 2000, [...]
Robin Campillo was born in Morocco, in 1962. In 1983 he was admitted to the IDHEC school for cinema (which in the meantime became La Femis), where he met Laurent Cantet, with whom he’s been working as a screenwriter and film editor since the end of the ’90s. They worked together for L’Emploi du temps [...]
Andrey Zvyagintsev (Director/Writer): Born in Novosibirsk, Russia. In 1990, Zvyagintsev graduated from the acting program at the Russian University of Theater Arts (GITIS), under the tutelage of Evgeny Lazarev. He went on to take part in independent theater productions and had a few bit parts in TV shows and movies. In 2000, he made [...]
Antonio Piazza is a Sicilian screenwriter and director. His first feature "Salvo", was co-written and co-directed with Fabio Grassadonia and presented at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013, winning both awards of the Semaine de la Critique: Grand Prixand Prix Révélation. The film was distributed in about 20 Countries across the world including the USA and was screened in many prestigious [...]
Considered one of the most original contemporary filmmakers, Béla Tarr began creating documentary films as an amateur at 16 years old, his debut coming in 1977 at only 22 years old, with the feature-length, fictional film Családi tűzfészek / Family Nest. After finishing the film, he began his studies at the School of Theatre [...]
A renowned French journalist and film critic, Jean-Michel Frodon wrote for the prestigious publications Le Point (1983-1990), Le Monde (1990-2003) and was the editor-in-chief of the magazine Cahiers du Cinema between 2003 and 2009. Since then, he is the editor-in-chief of the site La science et l'art, a platform for reflections on the challenges [...]
Laurent Cantet is a French director, cinematographer and screenwriter. He graduated from France's most prestigious film school, IDHEC - renamed La fémis. His short film Tous a la manif received Jean Vigo Award in 1994 while his first feature, Human Resources (1999) received many awards among which Best New Director at San Sebastian International [...]
Victor Jenkins (Great Britain): got his first job in casting working under Lucinda Syson on the epic films Troy and Alexander and soon became famous. From there he moved into TV, heading his own shows at the age of 26. After 3 years he wanted to move back in to the film world and [...]
