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).
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.
​www.filmuminati.com
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Photo Credit: Anna Thors
SEBASTIÁN NEMO ARANCIBIA
Sebastián Nemo Arancibia was born in Santiago, Chile.
As a kid he started working as an actor on national television and then started working dubbing for tv series until now. In 2011 he enters to Film School, where he stands out in the direction of short films as Éxito (2011), El cómplice (2012), Terapia de pareja (2013), Vaivén (2014), short film that was selected by a few internationals film festivals, including Montreal and La Habana.
His latest short movie is Un cortometraje sobre educación, which was selected in the main competition at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival 2018.
DOMENICO DE ORSI
Domenico De Orsi was born in Apulia (Italy) in 1978.
​He has directed three short movies and edited several shorts and documentaries. Co-founder with Efisio Scanu of Purple Neon Lights,
​a production company based in Rome.

GAN DE LANGE

Gan de Lange was born and raised at upper Galilee in the north of Israel. Graduated with honors from the Sam Spiegel Film School, Jerusalem.
Her four short films participated in international film festivals in Israel and abroad and won a series of awards. Her graduation film Babaga participated in numerous film festivals, including the official competition of Cannes Cinéfondation 2013 and won 4 awards for Best Short. Revital is an Alien (2016, selected at Aspen Shorts, Palm Springs International ShortFest among others), Groundwater (2014, Vancouver, Jerusalem Film Festival), Nest (2011, First Prize at the International Film Festival in Kyoto, Japan. First Prize at the Jerusalem Children’s Film Festival).

ESTEBAN GARCÍA GARZÓN 

Esteban García Garzón is a Film and Television Director/ scriptwriter with experience in development documentaries, TV commercials, corporate videos and feature films. Philosopher by profession with Master in Filmmaking, with great experience in working with actors, accomplishment of projects and leadership.

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
MICHAEL KAM
Born and raised in Singapore, Michael completed a post-graduate diploma in film production from Ngee Ann Polytechnic.
​He currently teaches in his alma mater in its film diploma programme. His short films have screened in festivals such as Berlinale, Uppsala, Encounters, and won awards in Tampere and Hamburg, among others.

CRISTINA PICCHI

Cristina Picchi is an award winning Italian director, writer and visual artist based between Italy and London.
Her films have been screened in festivals and galleries worldwide, winning prizes in festivals such as Locarno, Clermont-Ferrand and Thessaloniki. In 2013 she was nominated for Best Short Film at
the European Film Awards, while her following work was selected at the 72° Venice International Film Festival. She is the recipient of the EMAN/EMARE residency program in Montreal and the
Quartier21 residency program at the Museumsquartier in Vienna and a Berlinale Talents alumnus.
She holds a degree and an MA in European Literature from the University of Pisa and a master's degree in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths University of London.
www.cristinapicchi.com
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.
DARWIN SERINK
Darwin Serink is an award winning Canadian/American Filmmaker currently living in Los Angeles.
His debut film Aban + Khorshid​ screened at over sixty film festivals world-wide and won over a dozen awards including: Cannes Emerging Filmmakers Showcase – Best LGBT Film, Seattle International Film Festival – Special Jury Award, Cleveland International Film Festival – Best LGBT Short, to name a select few. He was a writing fellow at Out Fest Los Angeles’ Screenwriters lab with his screenplay PAPER CRANES which went on to become a quarter finalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting.
​Darwin’s passion for making films is out of a desire to use the power of story to inspire and grow our world.
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.
OLIWIA TWARDOWSKA
Oliwia Twardowska was born in Lodz, Poland.
In 2012 she graduated from Fine Arts School, Faculty of Film of Aristotle’s University of Thessaloniki, acquiring a film directing diploma. She has directed four short films: Telepherique (2011), Anemography (2012), The Psychotronic Lady (2017) and Ave Eva (2018). She participated twice in script developing workshop of MEDIA DESK (Salonika Studio in Thessaloniki-2007 and Four Corners in Barcelona-2011). She has collaborated with the Italian television RAI 5, directing short documentaries.
​Since 2014 she has been training teenagers in filmmaking in the framework of the educational programs of the Onassis Cultural Foundation in Athens. Lately she is exploring mini narrative forms, documentary portraits and transmedia storytelling. 
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.

SIMÓN VÉLEZ  LÓPEZ

Medellín, Colombia. Director and Producer, he has directed and produced three short films. Studied film direction at Universidad del Cine in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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.