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| BOB SWAIM | ||
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| Director of The International Film School of Paris, EICAR. | ||
| American | ||
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| Bob Swaim holds a Brevet Technicien Supérieur de
Cinema from the French National Film School, Louis Lumière as well as
a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University. For over thirty years, he has written, directed and produced feature films in Europe and Hollywood. His films have received numerous International awards and prizes including three César Awards from the French Film Academy, and the UNICEF Grand Prix for Best Feature at the Berlin Festival. His documentary, "Lumières Noires" was one of the ten finalists for Grand Prix International du Documentaire d’Auteur – as Best Documentary Film of 2006 at the Monte Carlo Television Festival. He is a member of the Directors Guild of America, Writers Guild of America, Screen Actors Guild Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, European Film Academy, the French Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma, and the Société des Auteurs et Compositeurs Dramatique. He has contributed to many international film programs including the Equinoxe Screenwriting Workshops, the Australian Film Commission’s Spark workshops and Andrzej Wajda’s Master School of Film. For his contribution to the French film industry, the French Minister of Culture has recently named him Officier des Arts et des Lettres. |
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| Gilles ARNAUD | ||
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| Cinematography | ||
| French | ||
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| A veteran director of photography, Gilles Arnaud has worked on a wide range of feature and TV films, including Requiem (directed by H. Renoh and produced by Fidélité production) and Highlander (a TV series produced by GTV). He’s also shot many short films, commercials, docudramas and documentaries. More recently he’s worked on forty 3' films, Ça va pas être possible, produced by Leonis production and directed by François Guérin and on six 52' films, Duval et Moretti, produced by Italique productions. He also holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University. http://www.gillesarnaud.com |
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| Nathalie ASCHER | ||
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| French language and culture | ||
| Française | ||
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| Nathalie Ascher comes from both a film and a language background. She has worked as a script-coordinator and was responsible for the Research and Development Department in an animation production company. She then joined the post-production sector and worked as a post-production director in a mixing, editing and recording studio. Currently she translates scripts and documentaries for writers and production companies. She is also a script-reader for film production companies and teaches French and English at The International Film School of Paris. | ||
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| DENNIS BERRY | ||
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| Directing | ||
| American | ||
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| Award winning Writer – Director Dennis Berry has directed dozens of television series, scores of TV movies, shorts and several feature films working with such international stars as Joe Mantegna, Sergio Castellitto, Anna Karina, Jean Seberg and Isabelle Huppert. He has worked extensively in France, the United States and Canada. | ||
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| Hugo BORIS | ||
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| Pedagogical Manager Personal assistant to the Director |
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| French | ||
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| Having completed his literary and political science studies before moving on to cinema, Hugo Boris, a graduate of France’s prestigious national film school, the École Nationale Supérieure Louis Lumière, worked as an assistant director for film and television and directed some ten award winning short films. For his first published story N’oublie pas de montrer ma tête au peuple (Mercure de France, 2003) he won the prestigious “Laureate of young writers award”. His first novel, Le Baiser dans la nuque (Belfond, 2005, Pocket edition, 2007) was awarded the coveted Emmanuel Roblès Prize, hosted by the Académie Goncourt. His latest novel, La Délégation norvégienne, winner of two literary awards, is due to appear in a pocket edition soon. | ||
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| Jonathan BRODA | ||
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| Film History and Culture | ||
| French | ||
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| Jonathan Broda was born in Toulouse in 1970. He graduated from the ESAV (Ecole Supérieure d'Audiovisuel of Toulouse) in 1995 and completed a PhD in History of cinema at La Sorbonne in 2005 on "The auteur (author) theory in France". He has been teaching History of cinema at La Sorbonne Nouvelle since 1997 and has combined this activity with film analysis since 1998. Since 1993, he has directed and produced a dozen of short-films, feature-films and documentaries. | ||
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| Sophie CADET | ||
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| Cinematography | ||
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A veteran cinematographer, Sophie Cadet graduated from the French national film school, Louis Lumière. Over the last decades, she’s worked as a cameraman and cinematographer for many distinguished directors, such as cult director Jan Kounen. The scope of her work covers TV series as well as action films, documentaries and music videos. http://cadet.sophie.free.fr |
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| Karim EL AZAWI | ||
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| HD and Editing | ||
| Franco-Egyptian | ||
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| Karim holds a degree in editing and is a certified level 1 trainer by Apple. He has taught for several years at EICAR for the journalism, directing and BTS sections . His first feature documentary is currently in development. He is in charge of the High Definition Program at EICAR. Work for 2 years at Duboi in the FX on "Amélie poulain". | ||
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| Agatha DOMINIK | ||
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| Visiting Professor, Screenwriting | ||
| Polish-American | ||
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| Polish-American, born and educated in Warsaw, Poland, with M.A. in Film and Theater Critical Studies, has worked in Hollywood first as an executive at TriStar/Columbia, then as a V.P. of Production at Summers-Quaid, actor Dennis Quaid’s company at the same studio, where she produced a supernatural thriller, “Hideaway”, starring Jeff Goldblum and Christine Lahti. After becoming a full-time screenwriter, she wrote feature projects for Warner Brothers, DreamWorks, Miramax, Universal, Fox 2000, and a few mini-majors. She also collaborated with director Agnieszka Holland on three feature screenplays. In 2005, she wrote a highly regarded miniseries, HUMAN TRAFFICKING, for Lifetime Television, starring Donald Sutherland, Robert Carlyle and Mira Sorvino, which received a few Golden Globe and Emmy nominations. Earlier this year, she finished another big miniseries for Lifetime and is presently working on three feature projects, one of them a remake of Krzysztof Kieslowski’s BLIND CHANCE. | ||
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| DOMINIQUE GREEN | ||
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| Guest lecturer, Producing | ||
| British | ||
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| Currently Delegate, Berlin Film Festival. Film & photography industry consultant. Film projects in development; Executive Producer Funeral Train and Mission London. Prior to becoming Managing Director of Magnum Photos in London, Green worked in Paris having moved there in 1992 to establish ACE, a training programme for European film producers later becoming Head of Co-Production for TF1 and then StudioCanal+ ; developing, financing and executive producing over a dozen feature films and Associate Producer of Francesco Rosi’s The Truce with her own company Greenlight Productions. Green has been a consultant to the Media Business School and taught at the Film Business School and Mega programmes in Spain. Previously, Green was Managing Director of Comic Relief responsible for the business and legal affairs of a major charity fund-raising event and live television broadcast and worked in the British film industry in both distribution and exhibition, notably as Head of Distribution with Virgin Vision, responsible for acquisitions and marketing of a wide range of British and international feature films. | ||
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| Chantal PERRIN | ||
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| Head Professor BFA 2 Directing |
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| French | ||
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| Chantal Perrin has worked as a First AD and line producer on commercials and feature films with many internationally renown directors as Terry Gilliam, Adrian Lyne, Jean Paul Rappeneau, Etienne Chatiliez, Bernard Stora and others. Since 1985, she has been directing music videos, commercials, documentary films, and TV magazines for France 2, France 3, ARTE, etc. She regularly works for Thalassa, the popular TV documentary series on France 3. | ||
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| Alex ROWE | ||
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| Head of Tutoring and Scriptwriting Programme | ||
| British | ||
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| After leaving the London School of Economics, Alex has worked as a writer, producer, script doctor and has collaborated with the Equinoxe Workshops (the European equivalent of Sundance). Former director of European Film Development, he is the Director of the professional training program”Script-writing for Hollywood and Europe. | ||
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| Lucy LONTAY | ||
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| Co-ordinator of the International Department | ||
| British | ||
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| Previously worked for Warner Brothers and Pacific Renaissance within the production of the feature film Batman Begins and the television production of Xena: the Warrior Princess. | ||
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| John MCNULTY | ||
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| Head Professor BFA 1 Directing |
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| American-British | ||
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| John McNulty has an MFA in Film from NYU where he studied under Spike Lee. He also has a BA in Philosophy from the University of Edinburgh. He has directed numerous award winning short films including "Release" featuring David Letterman. His film experience includes working on such prestigious productions as the Academy Award winning film "Boys Don't Cry" and the acclaimed BBC documentary on the making of William Friedkin's "French Connection". | ||
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| Agatha DOMINIK | ||
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| Directing | ||
| Slovenian | ||
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| Boris Petkovic, part of the new generation Slovenian filmmakers, has worked extensively in independent film productions. His prize-winning fiction short film "Straight ahead" dealt with blindness and the paraplegic. Through his work for television he has touched themes such as mental disability, aids, and orphan children. A socially committed filmmaker he has made documentaries about the Western Sahrawie refugees and the last leper’s colony in Europe. Last year he finished his first feature, "Paris.love" and is now currently working on a documentary of the French-Slovenian writer Brina Svit. | ||
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| Adriano Fabrizio VALERIO | ||
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| Head Professor Fast Track Directing | ||
| Italian | ||
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| Director and Screenwriter. After his BA in Law he has studied filmaking in Italy (Filmaker, Cinelife, Marco Bellocchio’s workshop) and France (EICAR). He has worked for Antenna 3 Tv and has founded the Babele Theatre Company. His short-films "Claire" and "Da lontano" have been awarded in worldwide International Film Festivals. His first feature film "Traction Avant" is currently in development. He also works as a journalist and graphic novel screenwriter. | ||
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| Martin COPELAND | ||
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| Screenwriting | ||
| American | ||
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| Martin Copeland holds a degree in screenwriting from the American Film Institute's Center for Advanced Film Studies and a Ph.D. in English literature from UCLA. He has sold numerous screenplays to US producers and studios, and in Europe he has sold or developed screenplays for producers in Britain, France, Switzerland, Italy and Russia. He co-wrote the Orion feature film "The Heavenlay Kid" and the telefilm "The singing of the Rainbow Warrior", an ABC/ZDF production starring Sam Neill, Jon Voight, Kerry Fox and Lucy Lawless. He co-authored the original script for the Dimension/Miramax Films western "Texas rangers", starring James Van Der Beek and Ashton Kutcher, and the popular 2006 Swiss comedy "Handyman". Most recently he has worked on the Russian film epic "Admiral Kolchak" and adapted for the stage the classic work of Native American literature "Lame Deer Seeker of Visions".Most recently he has worked on the Russian film epic, "ADMIRAL". | ||
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| George WALKER TORRES | ||
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| Screenwriting | ||
| Venezuelan | ||
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| George moved Caracas, Venezuela to Paris to attend the Fémis, one of France’s two national film schools, to study Film Directing. After that he received a scholarship to participate in The American Film Institute Masters program in screenwriting in Los Angeles. He has written and directed several short films premiered at various international film festivals. He has been mainly working as a professional screenwriter. His last work produced was the feature "Leap of Love" directed by Fina Torres. George is currently editing a feature documentary that he wrote and directed. | ||
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| Alain ROSS | ||
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| Screenwriting and Directing | ||
| British-French | ||
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| Alain Ross is a writer/director of Franco/British origins. He trained in theatre in which he worked for ten years before turning to film. In 1997 he wrote and directed "Bound", a short film, which won several prizes and was selected in 40 international film festivals. In 2000 he co-wrote and directed his first feature film, "L'attrape-rêves" (Dreamcatcher), which received good critical acclaim. He then co-wrote Eric Veniard's first feature film, "Une affaire qui roule" (2003), a comedy. He recently co-wrote Laurent de Bartillat's first feature film "Ce que mes yeux ont vu" (2007) about Watteau, the artist. He is currently developing his second feature film. | ||
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| Virginia FIELD | ||
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| Head Professor BFA 3 Production Design | ||
| American | ||
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| Virginia Field has been a production designer for 25 years. Originally from New York, she has worked on films shot in Turkey, Cambodia, the Czech Republic and France. The scope of her work covers many styles from genre films to period films, including Friday the 13th, Framed, A Stranger is Watching, Les Clients d'Avrenos, Le Sourire du Clown, Femme de Passions, plus television series and dozens of commercials. The course explains and demonstrates why the production designer is an important partner in the complex process of making a film. | ||
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| Claudio HUGHES | ||
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| Editing | ||
| Uruguayan | ||
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| Claudio has been an editor of feature and documentary films for the past 12 years in France. His work was selected for Cannes, IDFA (Amsterdam) and Sundance Festivals. He has taught for several years at EICAR and regularly holds workshops at La Fémis for visiting students from Harvard University, USA. | ||
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| Shailesh MACWAN | ||
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| Editing | ||
| Indian | ||
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| Multimedia Professional - Has been Designing and Training in Multimedia Software’s since 1997. Former EICAR Master of Fine Arts student. Diploma in Multimedia. Apple certified pro. | ||
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| Murielle DAMAIN | ||
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| Sound | ||
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| A graduate of the National French Film School, Louis Lumière, Murielle has worked on more than 50 TV or feature films such as "Dien Bien Phu" by Pierre Schoendoerffer or "Les amants du Pont Neuf" by Léos Carax as well as many documentaries and short films ("Poulet cocotte" awarded 30 times). Her last two feature films, "Trance", and "The Man from London", have both been selected by the Cannes Film Festival and have won many international awards. | ||
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| Karim EL AZAWI | ||
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| HD and Editing Trainer | ||
| Franco-Egyptian | ||
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| Karim holds a degree in editing and is a certified level 1 trainer by Apple. He has taught for several years at EICAR for the journalism, directing and BTS sections . His first feature documentary is currently in development. He is in charge of the High Definition Program at EICAR. Work for 2 years at Duboi in the FX on "Amélie poulain". | ||
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| Laurence VASSEUR | ||
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| International Office coordinator | ||
| French | ||
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| Laurence started her career at UNICEF Publication department and after several years at EICAR, she has recently joined the International Section. Laurence hasn’t abandoned her talents as a writer; she has just finished her first novel and is currently working on a screenplay. | ||
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| Edith POMMEROL | ||
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| Operations Manager | ||
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| After working in advertising for many years, Edith Pommerol became a line producer of feature films, documentaries, and commercials. For over twenty years she has worked with some of the best directors in the French film industry such as J-J Beineix, Bertrand Blier, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Marc Caro, Jan Kounen and Gaspard Noe. | ||
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| Laurent DHAINAUT | ||
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| Cinematography | ||
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| After graduating from the French National Film School Louis Lumière in 1990, Laurent Dhainaut has worked as a camerman and cinematographer for many distinguished French filmmakers such as Michel Deville, Patrick. Dewolf, Denis Amar, B.Dega, Charles Barbier, Louis Choquette, Darius Kondji and Pierre-William Glenn. | ||
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| Aline ISSERMANN | ||
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| Directing | ||
| French | ||
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| Writer and director Aline Isserman began as artist drawing strip cartoons and then went on to write and direct films. An accomplished professional who has an impressive body of work behind her, Aline has directed six feature films, some 23 television movies, and countless commercials and music videos. | ||
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| Didier SOUBRIER | ||
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| Camera Lighting | ||
| French | ||
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| Since his graduation in 1990 from the French National Film School, Louis Lumière, as a cameraman on feature films, television films as well as a director of shorts and documentaries, many of which have been selected in festivals. In 1998, Didier started his production company where he produces, shoots and directs corporate and industrial films as well as documentaries. His work has been broadcast on French National television and seen in numerous international festivals including Montreal, the FESPACO, New York and Quebec. | ||
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| Michaëlle RAFARALAHY | ||
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| Michaëlle Rafaralahy graduated (Maîtrise) in English Literature and Civilisation from the University of Nanterre in 2000. In 2005, she graduated (Maîtrise) in Français Langue Étrangère from the University of La Sorbonne Nouvelle and has been teaching FLE since then (AUP, Nationale Supérieure du Pétrole et des Moteurs, EICAR). Aside from teaching, Michaëlle Rafaralahy has also been acting for more than 10 years : studying acting and directing in New York and Paris, acting in plays and short films. | ||
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| Jean-Marie BÉNARD | ||
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| Special Projects Producing commercials |
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| Veteran French producer Jean-Marie Bénard went to the US as a teenager and ended up with a Master of Fine Arts degree from the Film Department at UCLA. Back in France, he co-wrote with Roger Andrieux a feature film, "l'Amour en Herbe", but started freelance producing commercials to make a living. After having won several prizes at the Advertising Film Festival in Cannes, he decided to create his own production company, Summertime. He has produced commercials for 20 years, and is happy to pass on whatever knowledge he may have. | ||
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| Jennifer KENT | ||
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| Visiting Professor Acting | ||
| Australian | ||
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| Jennifer graduated from NIDA (The National Institute of Dramatic Art, Australia) as an actor and has worked extensively in theatre, film and TV for thirteen years. In 2002, Jennifer undertook a directing attachment with Lars von Trier on "Dogville", starring Nicole Kidman. She has since been writing and developing her own film projects. Jennifer’s first short film, "Monster", was screened at over fifty local and international festivals, winning major awards. She recently directed a television show called "Two Twisted", produced by Bryan Brown for Channel Nine Australia. Jennifer has three feature films in development. One of her feature scripts, "Grace", recently won the ‘Prix du Scenario’ for unproduced scripts at the Cinema Des Antipodes festival in St Tropez. Apart from her work as an actor, writer and director, Jennifer has been an acting teacher for 13 years, working at all major institutions in Australia including NIDA, and the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS). | ||
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| Chris MACK | ||
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| Acting | ||
| American | ||
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| Chris Mack acts, writes and directs plays and films, and coaches actors in Paris and New York. He resides in Paris, where he also acts in and directs voiceovers. Recent/current directing credits include Alan Arkin’s "Virtial Reality", film shorts for Theatre en Anglais "The Importance of Being Earnest", "Seventy Scenes of Halloween", and "Vampire Vermont". He has also been a director and acting coach on and performed in a variety of industrial films and ads, and horror films. A co-founder of Paris Playwrights and a former member of Blueprint Theatre, The Empty Space Theatre, and Annex Theatre in Seattle; he is a former advisory board member for ESTRENO, which promotes Spanish plays. Chris taught theatre, communications and voice classes within the City University of New York, where he also ran Bronx Community College's Theatre Workshop. He also has taught scene study and acting on camera classes for the New York Film Academy at La Femis. Currently, he teaches acting classes for stage and screen for Bilingual Acting Workshop, the Sudden Theatre, the American University of Paris, as well as periodic workshops for EuroDisney. Chris is also a Paris-based voiceover artist, he does voiceovers for numerous documentaries and films, including such recent films as "Persepolis", and an upcoming series of animations based on Rudyard Kipling’s Just So stories. He can also be heard as the English narrator on www.pocketvox.com, a series of audio guides of the cities of Europe. | ||
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| Ashley MENDOZA | ||
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| Visiting Professor, Screenwriting | ||
| American | ||
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| Ashley Mendoza has a M.F.A. in directing and screenwriting from Columbia University, School of the Arts, Film Program. While at film school, she worked as a reader at the William Morris Agency. Her thesis film, "Mad About Harry", was a finalist in The Hollywood Film Festival. After graduation, she served as an associate producer and writer on Nick Jr.'s acclaimed preschool show, "Dora the Explorer". Other writing credits for preschool shows include "Higglytown Heroes", "The Care Bears", and "Maryoku Yummy". She just completed work as a staff writer on three seasons of Disney's "Mickey Mouse Clubhouse", now the highest rated preschool show. Her script, "Sleeping Minnie", was nominated for Cartoons on the Bay, Pulcinella Awards, in the Educational and Social Program, 2007. Another script, "Goofy the Great!" was nominated for an Emmy Award in 2008. "Mickey's Adventures in Wonderland", her second direct-to-video movie for Disney, will be released later this year. | ||
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| Michelange QUAY | ||
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| Head Professor MFA1 Directing | ||
| Haitian-American | ||
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| Filmmaker Michelange Quay was born of Haitian parents in New York City. He studied anthropology and filmmaking at the University of Miami and received his M.F.A. in directing at New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. "Eat, for This Is My Body" is his feature film debut, winning The Miami Film Festival after being presented in such competitions as Toronto, Sundance, Rotterdam, Edinburgh, and Tokyo Filmex. Before this he had directed the prize winning short film "The Gospel Of The Creole Pig" as well as "Let Them Eat Yo Yos", "Forty Days", "Myth of Seus", "Haiti Exists" and "Making Fire, Making Forget", a portrait of the celebrated French jazz musician Julien Lourau. | ||
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| Daniel MEYERS | ||
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| Documentary Boot camp | ||
| American | ||
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| Born in California, Daniel Meyers studied Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley and in 1987 he started working on public television documentaries. His work as director, cameraman, producer or editor, has shone in festivals throughout Europe and North America and received many awards, including a 1993 Academy Award nomination for best short documentary for "When Abortion Was Illegal". In 1996 Daniel moved to Paris where he has been working on international documentaries for British and French television in well over 50 countries around the world. He currently divides his time between shooting documentaries for the BBC and Channel Four, teaching documentary production at the Frontline Club in London where he helped design the training program, and producing and directing his own projects. | ||
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| Rhonda E. CONSTANTIN | ||
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| Operations Manager | ||
| American | ||
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| Production Manager and Producer Rhonda E. Constantin, after a decade of working in commercials with such international directors as Wim Wenders, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jean-Paul Goude, Jeanne Moreau, Claude Miller and Hugh Hudson, moved into the productions of many European and American television, documen-taries and feature films. | ||
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| Cécile LICONNET | ||
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| Producing | ||
| French | ||
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| Cécile has a long experience in the production of shorts, television films, music videos and commercials. HBO, BBC TV, Avalon Television, Franco American Films are among some of the companies for which she has produced. | ||
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| Sandrine AGEORGES | ||
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| Producing | ||
| French | ||
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| Sandrine comes to EICAR with an impressive experience as production manager, line producer, and location manager on feature films, documentaries and commercials, working with such directors as Sydney Pollack, Billy Crystal, Neil Jordan, Sally Potter, Walter Salles, and Martin Scorsese. | ||
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| David AMSALEM | ||
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| Sound | ||
| French | ||
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| Diplômé de la FÉMIS (10e promotion - Département Son), David AMSALEM est Ingénieur du Son, Monteur Son et Sound designer pour le cinéma. Parallèlement à son activité principale, il pratique la photographie et enseigne le cinéma à la FÉMIS, l'ISART DIGITAL et l'EICAR. FILMOGRAPHIE : "Suerte" de Jacques Séchaud (2009), "Valérie n’est plus ici" de Pascal Cervo (2009), "Le Secret d’Yvette" de Christophe Durand (2008), "La troisième Paris du monde" de Eric Forestier (2008), "Les randonneurs à Saint-Tropez" de Philippe HAREL (2007), "Paris, je t’aime" (partie réalisée par Tom Tykwer, 2006), "Foon" réalisé par Les Quiches (2005). | ||
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| Suzanne FENN | ||
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| Editor | ||
| French-American | ||
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| Suzanne FENN has worked as a director and writer but is especially known for her extensive work as a feature film editor both in Europe and the United States. While in Los Angeles, Suzanne also taught at the American Film Institute and was actively involved in the birth of Gangsta Rap, cutting the music videos of NWA (Doctor Dre, Ice Cube), Ton Loc and McHammer, followed by a stint at Chris Blackwell's Island Records in Jamaica. As a Hollywood editor, Suzanne cut over twenty feature films during the golden age of American independent cinema before returning to Europe where she continues to work as an editor, writer and director. | ||
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| Harry CLEVEN | ||
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| Visiting Professor Directing |
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| Belgian | ||
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| Trained as an actor at the Royal Academy of Liège, Harry Cleven has worked with many prestigious European directors, such as Andrzej Zulawski, Alain Corneau, Jaco Van Dormael, Jean-Luc Godard and Martine Dugowson. Harry began as a director with his first feature “Abracadabra” (1991), followed by "Why get married the day the world ends” (1999) and “Duplicity” (2004) as well as several television films. | ||
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| Jacob BERGER | ||
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| Visiting Professor Directing |
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| Jacob Berger, a filmmaker of Swiss and British origin, shot his first film, Angels, in Barcelona, which was presented in competition at the 1990 Berlin Film Festival. He then directed a TV film in the Swiss Alps, which went on to win the Prix de la Fiction at the Festival du Film de Montage d’Antibes. Between 1990 and 1994, he worked for Suisse Romande Television, directing several documentaries for their prestigious program, Temps Présent, and another documentary on stage fright, Le Trac, featuring Charlotte Gainsbourg, Pierre Arditi, and Jean-Claude Brialy. From 1994 until 2001, Jacob Berger directed numerous TV Films for French and Swiss television. In 2001-2002, he directed his first feature film, Aime ton père, featuring Guillaume and Gérard Depardieu. The film was presented in competition at the Locarno Film Festival in 2002, and went on to represent Switzerland at the Oscars in 2003. In 2004-2005, Berger directed a documentary series for Arte on the Cirque du Soleil. In 2006, he shot his 2nd feature, 1 Journée, starring Bruno Todeschini, Natacha Régnier, and Noémie Kocher. The film won several international prizes at film festivals and was a critical success upon its theatrical release in Switzerland. Since 2007, Berger has been directing commercials between France and Switzerland. | ||
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| Pascale REY | ||
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| Screenwriter, Visiting professor | ||
| Swiss and French | ||
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| Screenwriter and script doctor for the cinema, Pascale Rey (of Swiss and French nationality) lives in Paris. A veritable globe trotter, she divides her time between giving screenwriting workshops in France and abroad (Philippines, Senegal, Morocco, United Kingdom, Spain, Madagascar), and teaching drama (London Film School, Conservatoire Européen d’Ecriture audiovisuelle, International School of Cinema, los Banos in Cuba). Pascale is a founder of an international non profit organization called Dreamago, and is fluent in four languages. She is motivated by her deep commitment to fostering international exchange, building cross-cultural solidarity, and respecting cultural differences. | ||
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| Natalia LAZARUS | ||
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| Visiting Professor Acting |
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| Natalia Lazarus is currently Director of the Promenade Playhouse in Hollywood. She is also a private coach for film celebrities. Ms. Lazarus is a graduate of the Sorbonne University in Paris, France, the American Academy of Dramatic Arts in New York City, the Film Program at New York University with adjacent studies at the University of London. She is Syd Field's “docent” & one of the few in the world authorized to teach his trademark screenwriting technique. | ||
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| Sean CULLEN | ||
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| Editing | ||
| American | ||
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| Editor Sean Cullen has worked on major Hollywood productions with film editor Walter Murch and directors including Francis Ford Coppola, Sam Mendes and Kathryn Bigelow. For Anthony Minghella's "Cold Mountain", Sean was responsible for the first major use of Final Cut Pro on a large-scale feature film. More recently, Sean has been an editor at Apple and has written a book on designing feature film workflows. He has given talks at Telluride and MacWorld and his latest film, a documentary on the Austrian artist Otto Muehl (Sellenium 2010), premiered in Vienna at MAK in June of 2010. Sean entered the film industry through the stage door, having received his MFA in sound design at the Yale School of Drama. | ||
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| Don DEVICE | ||
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| Directing | ||
| American | ||
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| A (bad) child actor, Don Device directed his first film at the age of six. It was not a success. Nonetheless, he persisted and by the age of 22 was directing national television. A graduate of CalArts where he studied with the late Alexander MacKendrick, he consideres himself a storyteller in the classic sense. He has directed over 30 short films as well as videos, sitcoms and industrial films. For the last ten years he has been directing 3D films for museums, monuments and amusement parks. | ||
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| Kapwani KIWANGA | ||
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| Head Professor MFA1 Directing |
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| Kapwani Kiwanga is a Canadian-born artist who works primarily with video, sound, and installation. Kapwani studied Anthropology and Comparative Religions at McGill University. Her work has won a number of awards, and has been shown widely at film festivals, art institutions, and on international television. She has been an artist in residence at L’école nationale supérieure des Beaux-arts, Le Fresnoy: Studio national des arts contemporains and most recently at MU Foundation in the Netherlands. | ||
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