Andrea E. Leland is the producer and director of documentaries including Jamesie: King of Scratch, The Garifuna Journey and Yurumein (Homeland). These award-winning docs have screened at museums, conferences and festivals throughout Europe, Latin America and the United States. Selected screenings...

Abba T. Makama is an award-winning filmmaker and visual artist from Nigeria. His debut film, "Green White Green," had its world premiere in 2016 at the Toronto International Film Festival. Since then, it has screened at over 20 international film festivals, including the Stockholm International F...

Lewis Klahr is known for his uniquely idiosyncratic films, which use found images and sound to explore the intersection of memory and history. Klahr’s films have been included in The Whitney Biennial 3 times and screened extensively in the United States, Europe and Asia.

"No mere exercise in nos...

“If you’ve never heard of Marlon Riggs, you’ll wonder why the hell not. How could an artist this smart, this prescient, this frank, transparent, curious, ruminative and courageous — this funny — escape your notice? Why haven’t these trenchant, masterful video essays, with insinuatingly tangy name...

Marco Bellocchio, after studying at the Dramatic Art Academy of Milan and the Experimental Cinema Centre, directed his first feature film in 1965. Breaking with neo-realism, his politically-engaged works attacked the Italian symbols of conformism; after his cult movie, Fists in the Pockets, a man...

Janie Geiser is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, film, installation, and art. Geiser’s work is known for its recontextualization of abandoned images and objects, its embrace of artifice, and its investigation of memory, power, and loss. Geiser is a Guggenheim Fello...

Peter Friedman's documentaries were about diverse subjects including: portraits of extraordinary people, LGBTQ and AIDS related issues, contemporary biology, and subjective essays on matters such as humanity's relationship to nature, mortality, and existential questions.

Friedman's films were di...

Friedland is a NYC-based media artist and educator. Her work has been screened and exhibited at institutions including Cannes Film Festival, Lincoln Center, Anthology Film Archives, The DCTV Firehouse Cinema, PBS, the Tang Teaching Museum, The Chelsea Museum, The Queens Museum, The 14th Street Y,...

Signe Baumane is a Latvian born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 17 award-winning animated shorts. Her first animated feature Rocks In My Pockets premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it received a FIPRESCI Prize. The ...

Nathan Silver graduated from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts in 2005. Since then, the filmmaker has written and directed five short films and eight feature films. His films have played festivals and venues around the world, including New York Film Festival, Tribeca, Locarno, Rotterdam, Viennale, ...

Born in Kinshasa, Alain Kassanda left the DRC for France at the age of 11.

He has programmed several film festivals such as Ghett’Out Film Festival at the Brattle Theatre in Boston and BAM in New York. Kassanda has also been the film programmer for the movie-theater Les 39 marches in Sevran, nea...

Besides being a director and screenwriter, Thomas Lilti is also a doctor. After his short films caught the attention of French producers, he went on to direct the feature film, Les yeux bandés, starring Jonathan Zaccaï, best known for his work in THE BUREAU. After this, Lilti directed a trilogy f...

Jem Cohen (born 1962) is an Afghan-born American filmmaker based in New York City. Cohen is especially known for his observational portraits of urban landscapes, blending of media formats and collaborations with musicians.

Cohen’s feature-length films include Museum Hours, Counting, Chain, Be...

Aleksandr Ptushko (1900-1973) was a pioneering Soviet animation and fantasy film director who began his film career as a director and animator of stop motion short films, and became a director of feature-length films combining live action, stop motion, remarkable special effects, and Russian myth...

Marguerite Duras (1914-1996) - best-known as the author of The Lover and for the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour (the classic 1960 New Wave film directed by Alain Resnais) - was one of the most prolific, controversial, and renowned cultural figures in post-war France. Between 1943 (when she p...

Tyler Taormina is a film director based in Los Angeles whose debut film, HAM ON RYE, premiered at Locarno Film Festival and went on to receive critical acclaim, including Best Films of the Year lists from The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, Slant Magazine, and more. His work explores vast ensemble cas...

Filmmaker Mosco Boucault was born in Bulgaria in 1946 and emigrated to France as a child in 1957. As an adult, he completed a Bachelor's degree in Literature in Nanterre in 1970, and went on to train with Pierre Goupil and Pierre-William Glenn at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques ...

After studying at the Institute of Industrial Arts and the Marionette Faculty of the Prague Academy of Fine Arts in the 1950s, Jan Švankmajer started working as a theatre director, chiefly in association with the Theatre of Masks and the Black Theatre. He first experimented with filmmaking after ...

Born in 1931, Alain Cavalier is a French filmmaker who has notably received three Césars and the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 1987.

His journey as a director can be summed up by the title of one of his most radical films, Libera Me (1993): "Deliver me". By moving from fiction to doc...

Dominga Sotomayor studied Audiovisual Directing at Universidad Católica de Chile and received a master’s in Directing at ESCAC in Barcelona. She developed her first feature Thursday Till Sunday at the Cannes Cinéfondation Residence. The film won the Tiger Award in Rotterdam in 2012 and screened a...

Patricio Guzmán (1941-2026) was born in Santiago, Chile. As an adolescent in the late 1950's he became drawn to documentary filmmaking when he had the opportunity to see some of the films of Chris Marker, Frederic Rossif and Louis Malle. He studied filmmaking at the Film Institute at the Catholic...

Pema Tseden (1969-2023) was a Tibetan director and writer. He started his career by doing several short films, before directing in 2005 his first feature, The Silent Holy Stones, the first film in Tibetan shot in Tibet with a Tibetan cast and crew. His films The Search (2008), Old Dog (2010), The...

Recipient of the 2012 MacArthur “Genius” Award, Natalia Almada combines artistic expression with social inquiry to make films that are both personal reflections and critical social commentaries. Her previous directing credits include – Al Otro Lado (Tribeca 2005), El General (2009 Sundance docume...

Vitaly Mansky was born in 1963 in Lviv, Ukraine.

Mansky graduated from the All-Russian State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) and began his career as a cinematographer. These films were presented at more than 500 international film festivals, including Cannes, Berlin and the Toronto Internati...