Mark Karam was born in Beirut 1991. He graduated in 2013 with a BA in cinema from Holy Spirit University of Kaslik – USEK. Mark has made 4 short films played in various international festivals and has worked as a digital copywriter and agency producer at Mirum, JWT, a videographer in the humanitarian sector and currently he is the Social Media and Promo manager at Warner Music Middle East. MiaKhara is the debute feature film written by Naim Asmar and

George Sikharulidze was born and raised in Tbilisi, Georgia just before the collapse of the Soviet Union. At 18, he moved to the United States to pursue his studies in New York. He received a B.S. in Media Studies from New York University and an M.F.A. in Film Directing from Columbia university. He directed four short films and developed Panopticon, his first feature project. Panopticon explores adolescent sexuality and Christian fundamentalism in the post- Soviet Georgia. The project has been

Pablo Cotten graduated in Public Affairs, Culture Speciality, from Sciences Po Paris and also has a master degree in Philosophy from the Sorbonne. At the same time, he has completed an internship in the writing of the cultural program Boomerang, on France Inter. First mixing his literary studies in hypokhâgne / khâgne at Henri IV with his passion for music in a group of which he is the guitarist and the singer, named The Jools, which released several EP between

Arrived at six months old in France, Khalid Maadour grew up in Mézériat, a small town in Ain, before pursuing his education in Oyonnax, where he entered the conservatory of dramatic art. Noticed in 1996 by the director Jean Marbœuf, he began his acting career in the series Madame le Proviseur alongside Danièle Delorme and Daniel Gélin. Khalid Maadour works under the direction of directors like Bertrand Blier, Jean-Jacques Zilbermann, Michel Hazanavicius, Albert Dupontel… He landed his first leading role

Haris Raftogiannis studied Sociology (University of Crete) and Film studies (MA, University of Crete). He directed and produced the shorts, “The long hall” (experimental, 2006), “On the butcher’s bench” (fiction, 2007) and documentaries for the Greek national television (ERT). He also produced and directed the independent doc “True blue” (2016). His films were selected in numerous European film festivals and awarded in Greece. His feature documentary “Airland”, is in post-production. He just completed the short “Premier Amour”. Haris Raftogiannias a

Gianluca Santoni was born in 1991 in Fermo. He moved to Rome in 2010, where he attended courses in directing, he worked as an assistant for web series, commercials, short films. From 2013 to 2015 he attended  Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. In that time he worked on a short with a social background “With food is not joking” for Expo, and on a web series “Genitori vs Figli” for Rai Fiction. He made also  some music videos and

Rudy Zopire a 28 ans et vit à La Réunion. Initiateur aux arts du cirque, de métier, il enseigne pendant plusieurs années à Grenoble, en Corse, en Guyane et à Mayotte; il intègre à ses numéros de trapèze, création vidéo et composition musicale. En 2016, il renoue avec ses premières passions en effectuant un service civique en tant qu'animateur d'un programme d'éducation à l'image pour l'association d'éducation populaire Céméa Mayotte. Au cours de cette expérience, il s'initie à la réalisation

Thomas Keumurian was born in Châteauroux in 1989. After getting his Master's in cinema studies at Paris Diderot University, he worked as a screenwritter on tv project and then on film for cinema. In 2017, he won the Sopadin Junior prize for best script with his feature film script "Seul à la noce", and he directed in 2018 his first short film, "De La Fureur", produced by Ysé Productions. Simultaneously, he co-directed two short films with ROST and the Banlieues

Mahjoub Yarmani and Sofiane Benali are Jean 2 Mahj. They are two young creators who've been making short videos on facebook for a year and a half. From the start their goal was to create short viral videos to make themselves known and be able to develop more important projects around the art of comedy and audiovisual media. Completely self-taught at the beginning, the duo has increased their effort to learn quickly. Hard working, they work tiressly and followed a

After graduating from China’s Lu Xun Art Academy in 1992, where he specialized in oil painting, Dayong Zhao worked for a number of years as a professional artist and advertising director, first in Beijing and later in Guangzhou. In 1997, he founded Guangzhou Dake, a design company. He was also founding editor of Culture & Morals, a now deceased journal for the contemporary arts in China. Zhao began exploring the medium of digital video in 2002. His first documentary film,

Mathilde Boussac was born in Paris in 1989. After taking acting classes and working as an assistant director, she decided to turn to writing and directing. Self-taught, she naturally chose to direct her first short film. She directed, wrote and self-produced Tumultueuses. She also directed two music videos and is currently writing her next film.   Mathilde Boussac est née à Paris en 1989. Après avoir suivi des cours de théâtre et plusieurs expériences en tant qu’assistante mise en scène,

After winning the first prize of the screenplay SIRAR contest at the International Aubagne Film Festival, Latifa SAID directed Jours Intranquilles . Produced by the GREC in 2016, the movie is selected in over twenty festivals and won multiple prizes. Then, she directed Terrain Vague, shot in 35mm. Selected in over 90 festivals and 40 country, he won over twenty prizes. In 2018, she finished her third short fiction film La Chambre and shot her first documentary Tahity. She is