Laura Aimone<\/b> was born in Ivrea, Italy, in 1978. She graduated\u00a0in foreign languages and literatures and studied film history\u00a0at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark and at Mount\u00a0Holyoke College in the United States. She has been working\u00a0for international film festivals since 2004, collaborating with,\u00a0among others, the Venice Biennale, the Berlinale, the Doha\u00a0and Ajyal Film Festivals in Qatar, the Edinburgh Film Festival\u00a0in Scotland, the Madeira Film Festival in Portugal and the\u00a0Tampere Film Festival in Finland. She also works as a film\u00a0consultant for films from the Arabian Gulf region for the\u00a0Middle East Now Film Festival in Florence, Italy. She curated\u00a0the section \u201cShort Film Special: Window on Qatar\u201d, which is\u00a0part of the programme at this year\u2019s Art Film Fest. She lives in\u00a0Venice when she is not travelling around the world.
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\nEmir Baigazin<\/b> was born in 1984 in Kazakhstan. He graduated\u00a0in directing from the Kazakh National Academy of Arts in\u00a02009. While at school he shot several shorts which were\u00a0shown at a variety of film festivals. He was invited to participate\u00a0in a workshop at the Asian Film Academy in Busan,\u00a0South Korea in 2007, and he was selected for the Berlinale\u2019s\u00a0Talent Campus a year later. His feature debut \u201cHarmony\u00a0Lessons\u201d (Uroki garmonii, 2013) was the first Kazakh film ever\u00a0to be selected for the Berlinale\u2019s main competition, where\u00a0it won the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution.\u00a0The film\u2019s 25 recognitions worldwide also included the Blue\u00a0Angel for Best Film at Art Film Fest 2013.<\/p>\n
Director V\u00e1clav Kadrnka<\/b> was born in Zl\u00edn in 1973. In 1988\u00a0he moved to the United Kingdom with his family, where he\u00a0earned a degree in theatre studies. From 1999 to 2008 he\u00a0studied fiction filmmaking at FAMU in Prague. In 2011 his\u00a0feature-length debut \u201cEighty Letters\u201d (Osmdes\u00e1t dopis\u016f)\u00a0premiered in the Berlinale\u2019s official selection, garnering\u00a0considerable international acclaim.\u00a0He is currently completing his second feature-length film,\u00a0\u201cLittle Crusader\u201d (K\u0159i\u017e\u00e1\u010dek), a Czech-Slovak coproduction\u00a0based on the writings of Jaroslav Vrchlick\u00fd.\u00a0He has taught at FAMU in Prague since 2014.<\/p>\n
Tina Leisch<\/b> is a Viennese film and theatre director, well\u00a0known for her experimental theatre projects – e.g. she developed\u00a0the play \u201cIrrgelichter am Spiegelgrund\u201d with patients\u00a0of Vienna\u2019s notorious \u201cSteinhof\u201d psychiatric hospital. She won\u00a0the Nestroy Award, Austria\u2019s most significant theatre prize,\u00a0for her staging of George Tabori\u2019s \u201cMein Kampf\u201d. Her first cinematically\u00a0released feature-length documentary \u201cGangster\u00a0Girls\u201d won a Special Mention at the 2008 Vienna IFF. Her documentary\u00a0\u201cI Must Do Something About It\u201d (Dagegen muss\u00a0ich etwas tun, 2009) portrays the resistance fighter Hilde\u00a0Zimmermann, and her \u201cRoque Dalton, Let\u2019s Shoot the Night!\u201d\u00a0(Roque Dalton, erschiessen wir die Nacht!) focuses on El Salvador\u2019s\u00a0most notable poet, Roque Dalton. It was named Best\u00a0Documentary Feature at the CineLasAmericas IFF in Austin,\u00a0Texas and at ElOjoCojo IFF in Madrid. She recently finished\u00a0her newest documentary \u201cSolely the Dead are Coming Home:\u00a0Insights into the Kurdish Resistance in Turkey\u201d.<\/p>\n
Gyula Nemes <\/b>was born in 1974 in V\u00e1c, Hungary. In 2007 he\u00a0graduated in documentary filmmaking from Prague\u2019s FAMU\u00a0in the same class as V\u011bra Chytilov\u00e1 and Karel Vachek. He\u00a0debuted with the short feature \u201cParrot\u201d (2001), based on the\u00a0writings of Bohumil Hrabal. His film \u201cThe Dike of Transience\u201d\u00a0(A muland\u00f3s\u00e1g g\u00e1tja, 2004) was screened in the short\u00a0documentary competition at Karlovy Vary in 2004 and\u00a0his \u201cLost Word\u201d (Let\u0171nt vil\u00e1g, 2008) won the festival\u2019s Best\u00a0Documentary award. His feature film \u201cMy One and Onlies\u201d\u00a0(Egyetleneim, 2006) was screened in Critics\u2019 Week at Venice.\u00a0His Hungarian-Czech-German co-production \u201cZero\u201d, a drama\u00a0about globalisation, is in post-production.\u00a0Gyula has shot films around the world – in Africa, Asia and\u00a0South America. He also produces his own projects through\u00a0his companies Absolut Film Studio and Playtime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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