Slices of Life. Evoking Memories

Kathryn Ramey is a filmmaker and anthropologist whose work operates at the intersection of experimental film processes and ethnographic research. Her award winning and strongly personal films are characterised by manipulation of the celluloid. Recent work focuses on developing anti-colonial and environmentally friendly photochemical processes utilising indigenous flora in Puerto Rico. AWARDS: the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Creative Capital, the Social Science Research Council on the Arts, LEF New England, Yaddo Artist Colony, Marble House residency and the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.

Olivier Pollet is an investigative journalist and award-winning filmmaker, producer and researcher based in the UK. Over the past decade his works have focused on corporate accountability, human rights, environmental issues and colonial legacies, working alongside indigenous communities in the Asia-Pacific region, and especially in Papua New Guinea. His films have been recognized numerous times on the festival scene, including with a nomination for the Albert Londres Prize, the most prestigious journalism award in France. His latest project is the award-winning feature documentary Ophir (2020), alongside its multimedia educational counterpart The Colonial Syndrome.

Alexandre Berman is a French documentary filmmaker and editor, based in Paris, France. He co-directed the documentary The Panguna Syndrome with Olivier Pollet and the film was a finalist for Albert Londres Prize 2017 in France. In 2018, his feature documentary Norvège: Les Ombres sur la Mer captured cultural heritage stories in Norway. Part of the relaunch of French “Connaissance du Monde” cinema circuit, it was screened in France and Switzerland for several months across 2018 and 2019.

Antonio Coello is a Mexican and Colombian filmmaker and visual anthropologist who collaborates as curator with the Dreamspeakers International Film Festival. His short films involve indigenous communities with which he creates collective cinematic stories that have been shown at various festivals and museums like the Guggenheim Museum in New York and ImagineNATIVE at Toronto. His short films have won awards in Brazil, Argentina, Colombia, the Czech Republic, India, Spain, Bulgaria, U.S.A., Canada, Belarus, Australia, and Mexico. As a teacher he has taught workshops and courses on screenplay writing and filmmaking in Mexico, Canada, U.S.A., India and Nepal. In his creative work he has benefited from grants from government and private institutions from different countries.

Sietefilos (Seven Ridges) is his first full-length feature film.

Christian Becker (*1971) studied at the Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Germany, and at the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (eictv), Cuba. He works as a filmmaker, producer and editor in Cologne, Germany.

Sophia Harb, is a filmmaker, with a diverse background in the film
industry, working across Palestine and Europe. Her recent projects
include notable productions such as a series for HBO and award-winning
films “It Must Be Heaven” and “In Vitro”.Additionally, she served as a
script advisor and production manager for the first online drama
series “Dandara” in Palestine, produced by BBC Media Action.

Recently, Sophia completed her MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at
the HMKW University of Applied Sciences in Berlin,where she did her
short film Chronicle of Digital Funeral.

Augustine Moukodi is a Cameroonian author, director and producer. She studied film at the Association of Cinema Professionals in Douala and received her degree in management at the High Technology of Information Institute in Douala, Cameroon. After her studies, she worked for six years as executive producer of the well-known children’s cultural programme Game Over Show in Cameroon. As Secretary General of the Cameroonian branch of the World Association of Cultural Actresses, she deals with gender issues within cultural institutions. She is the coordinator of a programme that promotes the cinematic adaptation of literary works within the Central African sub-region. As an independent researcher in the field of colonial history, she co-authored the Cameroonian historical television series Our Wishes, which focused on the signing of the German-Cameroonian treaty and was produced by the Zili Company, of which she has been president since 2017. She has also made films for the Humboldt Forum in Cameroon for the project In our own Images, in which children film excerpts from their everyday lives. The films are being shown regularly at the Humboldt Forum.