The Directors

PHAM THIEN AN
Pham Thien An was born on November 1989 in Vietnam.
After 4 years of undergraduate majors in Information Technology degree at Lotus University, Ho Chi Minh City, he realized his interest in cinematography and filmmaking.
In the past few years, Pham Thien An won some film awards in Vietnam (among others the 48 Hours Film Project HCM in 2014).
In 2015, he moved to Houston, Texas (USA) and continued working as a freelance filmmaker since then. His latest short film is The Mute (2018).

CECILIA ALBERTINI

Cecilia Albertini is a writer/director based in Los Angeles, CA.
Born and raised in Milano (Italy), she moved to the United States at 19, completing a BA in Film Studies at Columbia University in 2013 and a Film Directing MFA at UCLA in 2018.
Cecilia started her career in film as an actress, starring in feature films and TV shows in Italy. In 2012, she was the recipient of the Giglio d'Argento for Best Actress at the Valdarno Cinema Fedic for her performance in the film La Strada Verso Casa. She then transitioned to writing and directing because she wanted to tell her own stories and was also dissatisfied with the roles written for women. She recently directed and edited the documentary Francis Ford Coppola's Live Cinema, an exclusive insight into Francis Ford Coppola's latest Live Cinema experiment.
She also directed an episode for Sanity, a TV Series that was nominated for a Student Emmy Award in 2017.
Her short film First Love won the Award of Merit at the Best Shorts Competition and at the Global Shorts competition, and played at the California Women's Film Festival.
Cecilia also works as an editor, and she recently edited the award-winning film Afuera, directed by Steven Liang, which premiered at the Los Angeles Film Festival in 2016.
MÅNS BERTHAS
Måns Berthas was born in Sundsvall, a small town in Sweden. From early years he had a strong interest in film, literature and music.
He started to direct short films with a borrowed VHS camera. Måns has worked within different genres and he has directed number of award-winning documentaries and shorts. 
In 2015 he directed Champion which debuted at Göteborg Film Festival and it has been screened in more than fifty film festivals around the world (among which Bogoshorts in Colombia, FlickerFest in Australia and Asiana International Film Festival in South Korea). 
​Bitchboy and Vila i frid (Rest in Peace)  are both from 2016.  Bitchboy  had the world premiere at the Seattle International Film Festival 2016 where it was awarded with the Special Jury Mention. His latest short is called A Swedish Classic. It was premiered at the Seattle International Film Festival 2017.
Måns is now working on the script of his first feature.
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Photo Credit: Anna Thors
LUDOVICO BOSSI
Ludovico Bossi was born in Turin (Italy) in 1997 and studied filmmaking at London Film Academy. He approached direction as a child and some of his projects, among which Il male minore (2015) and L’Italia a tavola (2016), had being screened and won awards in several under 18 festivals all over the Italy.
Fatta male (2018), co-produced with Compagnia GenoveseBeltramo, is his last short film. 
BRUNO CARBONI
Bruno Carboni (Porto Alegre, 1988) edited more than 20 short films and several feature films such as Castanha by Davi Pretto (64th Berlinale Forum) and Beira-Mar by Filipe Matzembacher & Marcio Reolon (65th Berlinale Forum). His first short film as a director Quarto de espera (2009), co-directed with Davi Pretto, was selected to more than 25 festivals such as Tiradentes, Stockholm, Huelva, São Paulo, among others. He co-directed Garry (2012), with Richard Tavares, selected by important festivals such as Habana and Gramado, where it won the Best Director Award and Best Editing Award.
O Teto Sobre Nós (The Roof Above Us) is his first solo short film and had it’s world premiere at 68th Locarno Film Festival - Leopards of Tomorrow International Competition.
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MARCO JEMOLO

Marco Jemolo (1985) graduated in History of Cinema at Università La Sapienza, writing a final essay focused on parallel worlds in animated movies and attended a three months filmmaking workshop at the New York Film Academy in 2007. Since 2006, he has been working in films, theatre and TV as a Director and Assistant Director.
In 2013 Marco moved to London, where he lives and runs his video production company. His documentary Le città di Roma has been awarded with the Jury Prize at the ArtDoc Festival 2014 and has been screened at the MAXXI (Museo delle Arti del XXI secolo).
Framed is Marco’s first work of narrative fiction.
www.marcojemolo.com
MATTHEW MISHORY
Mishory (born 1982, Santa Monica, California) has been named a “rising talent” by Variety and “a new major figure in U.S. independent cinema” by French magazine Les Inrocks. His 35mm feature film debut, Joshua Tree, 1951: A Portrait of James Dean (official selection: Palm Springs, Seattle, Guadalajara, Rio de Janeiro, Transilvania, and Reykjavik international film festivals, among others) was released theatrically in the United States, the UK, and Germany. Artforum pronounced it “a nuanced portrayal of an entire era”, and Film International declared that “Matthew Mishory has managed to capture an austere beauty of a kind little known and little understood by all but the likes of Baudelaire.”
Matthew previously directed the award-winning experimental short film, Delphinium: A Childhood Portrait of Derek Jarman, recently re-released in the U.K. by the British Film Institute as part of its year-long Jarman2014 commemoration. The film was also selected for preservation in the BFI’s National Film Archive.
www.matthewmishory.com

WOO MING JIN

Woo Ming Jin has the distinction of being the first Malaysian director to have his films screened in Cannes, Berlin and Venice film festivals. His first film Monday Morning Glory (2005) screened at the Berlin and Locarno Film Festivals, while his second, Elephant and the Sea (2007), won awards in Torino, Cinema Digital Seoul, Portugal and Spain film festivals. Woman on Fire Looks for Water (2009) premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, and has played in Pusan, Rotterdam, Los Angeles and the Pompidou Center in Paris, among many others. The Tiger Factory (2010), only the third film in Malaysian history to be selected to the Cannes Film Festival, premiered at the Director’s Fortnight, and won the Special Jury Mention at the Tokyo Film Festival in 2010.
Ming Jin is a founding partner in Greenlight Pictures, which produces tv shows, branded content, commercials and movies.
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DAVI PRETTO 

Davi Pretto (Porto Alegre, 1988) produced and curated film series and retrospectives such as Free Zone (2009/10), 20 Years of Takashi Miike
(2011) and Platform Session (2013-2016) shown in important cultural centers in Brazil. His first feature film Castanha had its world premiere at 64th Berlinale – Forum 2014 and was selected by festivals such as BAFICI (FEISAL Award – Special Mention), Rio de Janeiro (Best Film Award – New Trends), Edinburgh, Hong Kong, Las Palmas (Best Actor Award), Art of the Real (Film Society Lincoln Center - NY), Havana, Geneva, Lisbon among others. His second feature project RIFLE was selected by Brasil CineMundi - International Co-production Meeting 2012, Co-production Forum at the 62nd San Sebastian Film Festival 2014, Rumos - Itaú Cultural 2014 and Berlinale Talent Project Market 2015, where he also was selected by Berlinale Talents 2015.  Metade Homem, Metade Fantasma (Half Man, Half Ghost) is his last short film.
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FEYROUZ SERHAL
Feyrouz Serhal acquired her Master's degree in Film and Screen Studies at Goldsmiths College University of London, after having worked extensively as director and producer at some of the most prominent Arab TV channels in the Middle East. She has also written and directed several independent short video works. Her first short fiction film Tshweesh was premiered in Locarno Film Festival in 2017. Serhal is now in development of I am Here But You Can't See Me, her first feature film as director.
ALESSANDRO STEVANON
Alessandro Stevanon was born in 1982 in Aosta, Italy.
​Studied cinema at the State Institute for Cinematography “R. Rossellini” in Rome. Since 2004 he has been working as director, cinematographer and independent producer.
JURGEN UREÑA
Jurgen Ureña is a Costa Rican filmmaker with a master's degree in creative documentary at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. His short films have been shown in the film festivals of Cannes, Trieste, La Habana, Clermont-Ferrand, Washington and Cartagena, among others. In November 2014 his first feature film, Russian Dolls, received the award for best director at the Icaro Film Festival of Central America.
His second feature film, Hold Me Like Before (2016), was premiered at the Costa Rica International Film Festival and won the Best Central American en Best Costa Rican Films. Ureña also received the Áncora Award to the Best Audiovisual Production for the biennium 2005-2006, and was selected for the meeting of Central American Visual Arts “Doubtful Strait” (2006-2007). Ureña currently teaches lessons in cinema history and documentary at the School of Cinema and Television of Veritas University.

SIMON VELEZ 

Simón Vélez. Medellín, Colombia 1990: Director and Producer. studied at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires-Argentina and he has directed and produced three short films.
ALBERTO VIAVATTENE
Alberto Viavattene was born on 1986 in Turin, Italy. He worked in the camera department of Paolo Sorrentino’s productions like “outh and the more recent The Young Pope”HBO tv series. As director he made music videos (like Rockin'1000 Learn to fly video, that reached more than 30 million views on YouTube), commercials and five short films released all over the world in festival circuits, video on demand and home video.

EDMUND YEO

Edmund Yeo makes films in both Malaysia and Japan. His short films have won critical acclaim in major film festivals the world. He was the youngest Malaysian director to ever compete at the Venice Film Festival in 2009 with his Japanese-language short Kingyo. The following year, he won the Best Asian Short Film Award at the Busan International Film Festival with his Malaysian short, Inhalation. Numerous of his short films, Exhalation, Last Fragments of Winter and Floating Sun were screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam.Yeo is also the producer, editor and co-writer of Woo Ming Jin’s films The Elephant and the Sea (2007), Woman on Fire Looks for Water (2009), The Tiger Factory (2010), which premiered at Cannes Film Festival and Second Life of Thieves (2014).
His debut feature film River of Exploding Durians premiered at the Main Competition section of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2014. The first Malaysian film in history to attain this honour.
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