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Radji

Georg Götmark has a degree in film and cultural studies from Stockholm University and the Universidad Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona. He has also completed a post-graduate course at the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm. Georg is currently working as a producer and director at Filmfront Media AB, which he co-founded. He has worked with documentaries and in TV since 2001. He has worked on a number of international documentary projects, such as The Last Lacandones, a film about Mayan Indians, shot in Mexico; Transit Tanger, about Moroccans dreaming of a new life in Europe; and Citizen Oketch, about a family living in the Kibera slum outside of Nairobi. His first feature creative documentary, Bellum – The Daemon of War (2021), was about AI, robotics, and ethics. Georg has traveled extensively producing a number of TV series and reports for Swedish television, and educational films for universities, organizations and companies.

John Erling Utsi is a freelance Sami filmmaker and journalist with an extensive career at SVT-Sápmi.

Burial

Emilija Škarnulytė (born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1987) is an artist and filmmaker. Working between documentary and the imaginary, Škarnulytė makes films and immersive installations exploring deep time and invisible structures: from the cosmic and geologic, to the ecological and political. Winner of the 2019 Future Generation Art Prize, Škarnulytė represented Lithuania at the XXII Triennale di Milano. Recent solo exhibitions include: Tate Modern (2021), Kunsthaus Pasquart (2021), and the National Gallery in Vilnius (2021). Her films are in the IFA, Kadist Foundation and Centre Pompidou collections, and have been screened at the Serpentine Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at numerous film festivals. She is a founder and co-director of Polar Film Lab, and a member of the artistic duo, New Mineral Collective.

Nelly & Nadine

Magnus Gertten is a director and producer born in Limhamn, Sweden, in 1953. He was a television and radio journalist for several years before turning to filmmaking in 1998. He has made 15 documentaries for Swedish and international television, which have been broadcast and screened at festivals in more than 60 countries, and which have won numerous awards. He works as a director, producer, narrative consultant, and adviser for his film production company, Auto Images.

Myanmar Diaries

The Myanmar Film Collective is a group of anonymous young filmmakers in Myanmar, working with an anonymous group of European film professionals, who, as an act of creative resistance, are determined to continue making films in the aftermath of the military coup of 1 February.

Kinshasa Makambo

Dieudo Hamadi Kisanganiban, a Kongói Demokratikus Köztársaságban született 1984-ben. 2005 és 2008 között orvosi tanulmányokat folytatott, majd több dokumentumfilmes workshopon vett részt. Két rövidfilmje, a Ladies in Waiting és a Zero Tolerance számos európai (Berlin, Párizs, Amszterdam) és észak-amerikai (Toronto) filmfesztivál figyelmét felkeltették. A Ladies in Waiting ‘‘Pierre and Yolande Perrault’’ ösztöndíjban részesült a Cinema du Réel fesztiválon Párizsban, 2009-ben. 2013-ban az Atalaku, Hamadi első egészestés dokumentumfilmje, mely a 2011-es kongói választásokat örökíti meg, elnyerte a legjobb filmnek járó Joris Ivens díjat Marceline Loridan (Cinema du Réel) prezentálásában, a legjobb külföldi film díját a San Diego Black Film Festival-on az Egyesült Államokban, a zsűri díját a FIDADOC-on Agadirban, Marokkóban, valamint további három díjat. 2014-ben a National Diploma című film elnyerte a SCAM nemzetközi díját, és a Cinema du Réel Potemkin-díját, valamint beválogatták a torontói TIFF-re és közel 60 másik fesztiválra világszerte. 2015-ben legutóbbi munkája, a Mama Colonel utómunkálatai a Sundance Intézettől és az IDFA-Bertha Fundtól részesültek támogatásban.

Kinshasa Makambo

Dieudo Hamadi was born in Kisangani (Democratic Republic of the Congo) in 1984, and studied medicine in 2005-2008. He then attended several documentary workshops. Hamadi is the author of two short documentaries, Ladies in Waiting and Zero Tolerance that caught the attention of festivals in Europe (Berlin, Paris, and Amsterdam) and North America (Toronto). Ladies In Waiting received the Pierre and Yolande Perrault scholarship at Cinema du Réel (Paris) in 2009. In 2013, Atalaku, his first feature-length documentary about the 2011 election campaign in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, won the Joris Ivens award for best first film, Best Foreign Film at the San Diego Black Film Festival (USA), the Jury Prize at FIDADOC (Agadir, Morocco) and three other awards. In 2014, National Diploma received both the International Prize of the SCAM and the Potemkin award at Cinéma du Réel (France), and was selected at TIFF (Toronto) and nearly 60 festivals worldwide. In 2015, Mama Colonel, his latest film, received assistance in post-production from the Sundance Institute and IDFA Bertha Fund.

Négy évszak egy nap alatt

Annabel Verbeke a belgiumi Ypres-ben született 1987-ben, tanulmányait a brüsszeli RITCS Filmiskolában végezte. Diplomamunkája, A tenger gyermekei, 8 nemzetközi díjat nyert, és több mint 20 nemzetközi filmfesztiválra válogatták be. Filmkészítőként a minket körülvevő, szerényebb célú hétköznapi tárgyak szépségét keresi. Szívesen tár fel és bont ki olyan történeteket, amelyekre kevés figyelem irányul, és találja meg a költőit és abszurdot a látszólag közhelyes dolgokban.

Selected filmography: 
Children of the Sea

Four Seasons in a Day

Annabel Verbeke, born in Ypres, Belgium, in 1987, graduated at RITCS Film School in Brussels. Her graduation film, Children of the Sea, won 8 international awards and was selected by more than 20 international film festivals. As a filmmaker, Annabel is looking for beauty in the modest, everyday objects surrounding us. She likes to reveal and unravel fascinating stories which are not always very visible, and find poetry and absurdity in seemingly banal things.

Selected filmography: 
Children of the Sea

Arica

Lars Edman Chilében született és Svédországban nőtt fel, majd visszatért Dél-Amerikába, hogy a Valparaiso Filmiskolában tanuljon. Első filmje, a Toxic Playground (Mérgező játszótér) 6 nemzetközi díjat nyert, több mint 30 fesztiválon vetítették és Európa-szerte több televízió is levetítette. A film befejezése óta Lars újraképezte magát, most beszédterapuetaként dolgozik Észak-Norvégiában. Az Arica a második egész estés dokumentumfilmje. Ebben Lars és rendezőtársa az első filmjükben elkezdett történethez térnek vissza, miután tizenöt évig követték az aricai lakosok életét.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

William Johansson Kalén rendezőként, szerkesztőként, operatőrként és vágóként 2006 óta számos dokumentumfilm, dokumentumfilm-sorozat és televíziós program elkészítésében vesz részt. 2009-ben társrendezője volt a díjnyertes Toxic Playground dokumentumfilmnek, majd 2015-től producerként kezdett dolgozni, és a Laika Film & Television társtulajdonosa lett. Jelenleg producere több készülő Laika produkciónak is, valamint egy, építészetről szóló dokumentumfilmnek, amelyet 2022 elején mutatnak majd be. A Cold Case Hammarskjöld című dokumentumfilm, valamint a Beauty And The Dogs és a The Man Who Sold His Skin játékfilmek társproducere volt. A 2021 tavaszán bemutatott jordán fikciós Farha svéd producere.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

Arica

Born in Chile and raised in Sweden, Lars returned to South America to attend the Valparaiso Film School. Lars’ first film was Toxic Playground which won 6 international awards, screened in over 30 international festivals and was broadcast on TV across Europe. Since completing Toxic Playground, Lars has retrained as a speech and language therapist and now lives in the north of Norway. Arica is his second feature documentary, in which Lars and his co-director revisits the theme of their first film, after following the lives of the inhabitants of the Chilean town.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

William Johansson Kalén has worked as a Director, Editor in chief, DoP and Film editor on a number of documentaries, documentary series and TV-programs since 2006. He co-directed the award-winning documentary Toxic Playground in 2009 and started as a film producer in 2015 when he became a shareholder of Laika Film & Television. He is currently producing an artistic documentary about architecture that will premiere in early 2021 and producing a couple of Laika’s projects in development. He has worked as assistant producer on the documentary Cold Case Hammarskjöld and the fiction Beauty And The Dogs and The Man Who Sold His Skin. He is also the Swedish producer in the Jordanian fiction film Farha that premiered in spring 2021.

Selected filmography: 
2009 - Toxic Playground

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