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The Art of Argument

Gereon Wetzel was born in Bonn, in 1972. He received his MA in Archeology from the University of Heidelberg, and completed the documentary filmmaking program at the University for Film and Television in Munich, where he currently lives and works as a freelance author and filmmaker.

Melanie Liebheit received her MA in Social Anthropology in Munich and Manchester, and documentary filmmaking at the University of Television and Film Munich. In 2001–2011 she worked for Documentary Campus. In 2007 she co-founded the documentary film festival, Nonfiktionale, in Bad Aibling (Germany), which she has led, together with Tamara Danicic, since 2016.

Lindy Lou: Juror No 2

Florent Vassault is a documentary filmmaker born in France. After several short fiction films and a mockumentary (Bernard Thomas, les secrets de la gloire, 2007), he co-directed the award-winning documentary, Honk! (2011), with sociologist Arnaud Gaillard. It is a take on the death penalty in the United States. In 2017 he continued to pursue the impacts of capital punishment in Lindy Lou, Juror Number 2.

Little Yellow Boots

John Webster is a writer and director born in 1967, in Helsinki, to English teachers who later moved to Finland. John graduated from the University of Art and Design in Helsinki in 1996 with an MA in documentary filmmaking. Since 1990 he has directed independent documentaries that have won numerous awards nationally and internationally. He has run his own production company, JW Documentaries, since 1993.

Watani: My Homeland

Marcel Mettelsiefen is a director, cameraman, photographer and producer. His films on the civil war in Syria, such as Syria: Children on the Frontline (2014), Children on the Frontline: The Escape (2016) and Watani: My Homeland (2016), earned him critical praise and recognition. Mettelsiefen won two BAFTA and two Emmy awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the category Best Documentary Short Subject for Watani: My Homeland.

The Waldheim Waltz

Ruth Beckermann studied journalism and art history in Vienna, Tel Aviv and New York, and earned her doctorate in 1977 at the University of Vienna. She contributed as a journalist to several Austrian and Swiss magazines. In 1978 she cofounded the distribution company, Filmladen, in which she was active for seven years. Since 1985 she works as a writer and filmmaker. Her film The Dreamed Ones was screened widely and won several awards. Her latest film, The Waldheim Waltz, won, among other prizes, the Glashütte-Original Documentary Award at Berlinale (2018).

Untitled

Michael Glawogger was born in Graz, Austria, and studied at the San Francisco Art Institute and the Vienna Film Academy. He started as an assistant camera operator, and later worked as a cinematographer, screenwriter, and director. He made numerous internationally-acclaimed shorts, documentaries, and feature films. He had recently devoted himself to literary writing. Michael Glawogger died in Monrovia, Liberia, in April of 2014 while shooting Untitled.

Monika Willi is a film editor who has worked with Michael Glawogger, Michael Haneke, Barbara Albert, and Florian Flicker. She was nominated for the Austrian Film Prize for her work on Whores’ Glory (Glawogger, 2011), and the German Film Prize for The White Ribbon (Haneke, 2009). She received the Austrian Film Prize for Best Film Editing for The Dead and the Living (Barbara Albert, 2012), and the Filmplus Award for Best Feature Film Editing for The White Ribbon (as well as for Barbara Eder’s Thank You for Bombing [2016]).

Singing with Angry Bird

Hyewon Jee works has worked in the Korean television industry since 1995 as a commissioning editor for a nationwide broadcasting network. In 2008, she established a production company, Upright Media, with her partner, Wooyong Song. She has produced and directed many TV documentaries about culture, history, and human interest stories, and won numerous awards. Singing with Angry Bird is her first feature documentary.

The Russian Job

Petr Horký studied journalism in Prague. He graduated in photojournalism in London, later moved to Berlin and then Prague where he worked for economic periodicals. His job exposed him to a wide range of issues, one of them was a Russian story which inspired him to make the documentary The Russian Job.

Sand and Blood

Matthias Krepp studied Comparative Literature and History, and joined Michael Haneke's directing class at the Vienna Film Academy in 2012. During his studies he directed several short films in collaboration with Angelika Spangel and Magdalena Gruber. Sand and Blood is his first feature-length documentary film.

Angelika Spangel was born in 1987. She is an Austrian filmstudent of cinematography. She studied Educational Science and received her degree in 2012. Since 2013 she has studied cinematography with Wolfgang Thaler at the Vienna Film Academy. She has worked on several short films with Matthias Krepp and Magdalena Gruber.

The Remnants

Paolo Barberi, visual anthropologist and documentarist, has released several documentaries with a focus on indigenous populations. Paolo is a founding member of the association, Esplorare la Metropoli (ELM), and research associate and lecturer on media studies at at the University of Ferrara.

Riccardo Russo is a geographer and filmmaker, holding a PhD in Human Geography with a specialization in multimedia for human rights. He has made several widely-screened documentaries on global socio-environmental issues.

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