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The International Festival Signes de Nuit organizes a serie of the meetings and dialogues with filmmakers and directors of the foreign festivals.
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Graca Castanheira (Portugal)
Filmmaker
On the occasion of the projection of her movie "Angst"
Date: 7 Octobre -- 19 h
Place: Cité Universitaire -- Maison Henrich Heine
27 C, Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
Graça Castanheira (Angola, 1962) is a portuguese documentary maker. She graduated from the Theater and Cinema Superior School in 1989, where she actually teaches documentary and direction practices courses. She is also in charge of courses teachings in Restart, as well as in the Instituto de Criatividade (Creativity Institute), and in the Artes e Novas Tecnologias (Arts and New technologies). She received many awards for her films during her carreer, and is part of the founder group of Apordoc (Association for the documentary) which promotes DocLisboa festival. She created in 2008 her own film production company, Pop-Films. She also regularly works as a colourist.
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Peter Torbiörnsson (Sweden)
Documentarist
On the occasion of the projection of his movie "Last Chapter"
Date : 8 October -- 15 h
Place: Cité Universitaire -- Maison Henrich Heine
27 C, Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
Peter Torbiörnsson produced since 1979 more than 20 documentaries from Latin America, Africa, Bosnia and Sweden. Among these documentaries, represents a series of movies about a family of the village San Fernando in Nicaragua: the Border ( 1985 ), Reyno ( 1987 ), The Cease-fire ( 1988 ) as well as The lovers of San Fernando ( 2001 ). Peter Torbiörnsson also worked as journalist and correspondent for newspapers, televisions, and Swedish radios abroad. |
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Jukka Pecca Laakso (Finland)
Director Tampere Film Festival
Date : 10 October -- 19 h
Place: Institut finlandais -- 60, des Ecoles, 75005 Paris
Jukka-Pekka Laakso (b.1959) is the festival director (since 2002) and president of the board of directors at Tampere Film Festival. He has worked for the festival already in early 80´s on the floor level, and has been involved with the selection and programming since 2000.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso acts also as the executive director for Pirkanmaa Film Centre (since 1998), a local film centre in Tampere. The film centre is a non-profit organisation that runs an art-house cinema and works extensively with media education. He has also worked as a free-lance filmcritic for radio and magazines.
Jukka-Pekka Laakso acted as the chairman of the National Council for Cinema 2004-2009 This position bought him also a seat at the National Council for the Arts. He is member of European Film Academy.
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Moufida Fedhila (Tunisia)
Visual artist , filmaker, photographer et poetess
On the occasion of a program about the recent Tunian movies: Tunisian Testimony.
Date: 10 October -- 22.15 h
Place: Cité Universitaire -- Maison Henrich Heine
27 C, Boulevard Jourdan
75014 Paris
Moufida Fedhila is a Tunisian visual artist, filmmaker, photographer and poetess. Arrived in France when she was very young, she studies various subjects before specializing in arts at the Fine Arts School of Rennes, from which she releases graduates. She realizes her first personal exhibition in Italy. Then, she specializes in photography, investigates performance and installation and exposes in Europe and Tunisia.
In 2006, Moufida Fedhila joins the Plastic Experiment of Sound Group and creates sound spaces while realizing experimental movies selected in several festivals. Moufida is the author of numerous philosophical essays and a poet known thanks to her poetry in Arabic language, published at Alhadara edition.
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Miguel Cabral (Portugal)
Festival Indielisboa (Lisbon): Selection committee
Filmmaker
On the occasion of the program "Portugal 2"
Date: 16 October -- 14 h
Place: Cinéma La Clef -- 34, rue Dauberton, 75004 Paris
Born in 1984, Miguel Cabral is a Belgian Portuguese director and sound engineer. He studied at the Cinema and Theatre High School of Lisbon in sound and film.
He studied at the Louis Lumière School where he specialized in sound. In 2009, he directed “Comptes de Nuit” and won the young film price at the Torrelavega International Festival in Spain. In 2010 his film “Equilibrio Justo” won the Great Price of the Mohammedia in Morocco. Miguel is currently member of short films selection comittee for the Independent Cinema Festival of Lisbon.
He also works as sound engineer on films. The year, he directed “Cette mélodie qui vient de loin”, a documentary produced by Gabriel Vanderpas. |
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Eva Pervolovici (Rumania)
Filmmaker
On the occasion on the "Spectre particular"
Date: 16 October -- 16 h
Place: Cinéma La Clef -- 34, rue Dauberton, 75004 Paris
Eva Pervolovici is a Rumanian director who already counts in its asset an interesting list of short films, artistic videos, photos and writing collaborations on novels and art magazines. Graduate of a degree in MFA Movie Advance Practice (Edinburgh), she lives and works in Paris since 2008.
Eva Pervolovici and the originality of its work were presented and rewarded in numerous festivals all around the world. She participated in the Talent Campus of Berlin, Sarajevo and Reykjavik. In 2010, a selection for the Berlin Today Award allows her to realize a new short film, "Little Red", which will be presented during the Berlin Festival 2011. The same year, she obtains the "Cannes à la Flip" prize rewarding the best short film. Her last two short films "LubeBen" and "Mina" are presented to Rotterdam Festival in 2011 (in competition and Spectrum) .
Currently, she develops three full-lengths in parallel: "Ileana" produced by Strada Film (Berlinale Silver Bear 2010) and coproduced by KinoElektron, as well as "You can call me Ada" and "Marussa" produced by KinoElektron
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