Lauriane Almeda

I have always been a storyteller since I was a little girl. Growing up black as a child of immigrant parents in Holland shaped how i salw the world. Every piece of my work reflect the different identities that I have. At age 21 I started with my own modeling agency to promote more diversity in the fashion industry. In the last decade I have been able to grow my business into an international production house. My creative skills led me to work with top brands all over the world from Amsterdam to Paris, Luanda and Accra.

In 2021 I moved to Ghana to work in the creative field and challenge my creativity. Beautiful projects came out of this decision and I have produced amazing music videos for top international artists and wrote various movies that are yet to be produced.

Being a creative is the greatest gift God has ever gave me, it helps me express myself, I but more beautifully it allows me express other peoples creativity in poetry, music or movies. My greatest joy comes from creating something out of nothing and seeing it come alive with the artists that I work with.

Katleho Mavundla

Connection. Community. Communication. Because where do I begin to tell this journey.

The “Lifestyle Studies” focuses on the many facets that contribute to someone’s sense of style. This narrative is leant from the “in a moment of style” collection that was released in 2019 by Thabo Kopele. The short-films are meant to highlight the mentalities that a person would have to contribute to their sense of style.

Beli Sullivan

After spending eight years as a commercial producer and announcer in radio, Beli Sullivan began training in the visual arts, creating video, motion graphics and animation in 2009. Using photography as a starting point, many of Beli’s animated shorts begin with a series of photographs and hand drawn art pieces.

Utilizing Photoshop, After Effects, Premiere Pro and Pixelmator as tools for thework, she focuses on creating beautifully rendered composites in thick, rich colors and blended textures and her work has been featured in several independent films. As an editor and sound designer, she has consulted and collaborated on numerous short films.

Beli has spent five years as a teaching Artist, working with the Ninth Street Independent Film Center’s TILT Program, Streetside Stories, and UC Berkeley’s 21st Century After School Program and has been the lead Digital Media Instructor for numerous schools within OUSD, where she helped produce over 42 student films which have been showcased at Frameline, Columbia University and even had an entry in the first ever White House Film Festival in 2014! She is currently working as a freelance digital video editor, website designer and content producer.

Márcio Januário

Márcio Januário is an actor, singer, dancer, writer and director of theater and cinema. As a choreographer and body trainer he participated in assemblies of children's plays, music shows and adult plays. In 2006 he founded the "Cia Completa Mente Solta", of Theater and was awarded at the "V Mostra de Teatro de Petrópolis" with the text "Tratado do Vão Combate", - whose play was presented in Brazil and Europe. Since 2011 he participates in the "FLUP – Literary Festival of the Peripheries", as a writer, speaker and master of ceremonies. In 2015 he represented Brazil at the Shakespeare Festival in Germany with the play "Trans Hamlet Formation", in which he wrote, acted and directed. In 2016 he created and directed the Casa das Artes de Algodões, in the south of Bahia, where he offered workshops and artistic activities to the low-income residents of Praia de Algodões. He currently works as a producer, actor and director with the filmmakers Nina Kopko, Clementino Junior, André Sandino and Paulo Cesar, in feature and short films. The film "As Canções de Amor de Uma Bicha Velha", by director André Sandino, received six awards for best documentary and an award for best performer and turned into a theatrical monologue.

Patrícia Moreira

Bachelor in Cinema and Audiovisual (2014) from the State University of Southwest Bahia (UESB) - Master in Memory: Language and Society (PPGMLS) (2019) and PhD student in Memory: Language and Society from the same institution, where she also works as a professor of Bachelor in Cinema and Audiovisual. Filmmaker and multi-artist, works in several areas of artistic and cultural manifestations, having experience in visual arts (drawing and painting), theater, music; and since 2006 in audiovisual productions in live action and animation cinema.

JOSÉ CARLOS ARANDIBA “ZEBRINHA”

JOSÉ CARLOS ARANDIBA “ZEBRINHA” graduated in classical and modern dance at the Stadeliyk Conservatorium en dans Academie te Arnhem (Holland), where he also taught, and at the Alvin Ailey American Ballet Theater, in New York (USA). In Paris, he taught at the Academie Internaciole de Dance, at the Project Studio in Munich, and in Belgium, he taught at Federatie Friy Tiyed. As a soloist, he has performed at Introdanns, Paradis Latin in Paris, the Alcazar de Paris and the Ballet de MonteCarlo. He has acted and danced in shows with established artists such as Joel Grey, Ben Vereen, Liza Minelli and Tina Turner. He was the choreographer of the telenovela Lado a Lado and the series Mr. Brau, produced by Rede Globo de Televisão, in addition to the musical D. Ivone Lara and the shows O Jornal, directed by Lázaro Ramos and Exú (Cia de Teatro NATA). He was nominated for a Shell award for the show Candaces (RJ), and received the Braskem Theater Award for the show Bença (BA), one of the many shows by Bando de Teatro Olodum that he helped put together. Currently, he is part of the technical jury of Dança dos Famosos, from Domingão com Huck (Rede Globo) and is artistic director of Bando de Teatro Olodum and Balé Folclórica da Bahia, one of the most acclaimed dance companies in the world.

Imoh Umoren

Nigerian filmmaker Imoh Umoren directed The Prettiest Ones are the Loneliest, a feature film about Emem, a 37-year old woman in a rocky marriage not helped by
the fact that her teenage son from a previous relationship,
Bassey, always gets in trouble, drawing the angst of his stepfather Tamuno. Emem decides to take him to stay with her Widower Father; Dr. Udoh who had retired and has been living in his country home since the death pf his wife. Bassey who has always searched for a place to belong finds it in his Grandfather's home. They form a bond which transcends that of relatives and
he has to help his Grandfather who has a love trouble of his own.

Joshua Otis Miller

Starting as a small media company operating out of his apartment, he has grown C&I Studios operating out of Washington DC, New York, and Los Angeles California. Joshua has a wide range of media experience, working with companies big and small to communicate their messages to the world. Specializing in film, he has a knack for communicating stories in ways that stick with people. Joshua has produced media for companies as large as Coca-Cola and as small as your neighborhood restaurant. Most importantly, Joshua provides a unique ability to take your company’s message and clearly communicate it with the world, in a way that excites and inspires.

Janice Mascarenhas

Janice Mascarenhas is a phygital artist, hairdresser, sculptor and creative director. At age 26, won her first award as an artist, being chosen by the British magazine DAZED as the artist of the year 2021. From this investment the artist directed a film called "anatomy of the diaspora" and generated employment for a team of artists across 3 continents. Janice was born in São Gonçalo, region metropolitan area of ​​the city of Rio de Janeiro. Being approved for the Journalism course at rural university in Rio de Janeiro at the age of 16, but the pregnancy of her first child distanced itself from its purpose at that moment. Today, 10 years later, the artist adapted to the advertising market through his study and self-taught research, his voice proposes to the world that personal experiences result in valuable research and relevant to a country where most of the population did not even go to school. Daughter of a mother semi-illiterate Janice accessed the Brazil that most of the population accesses daily and found in her memoirs a way of recording the lives of those who cross.

DáSean Clark

I am from North Carolina, born and raised. In 2019, I obtained my BFA in Animation and Interactive Design from East Carolina University. then I completed my Master of Arts in Animation at SCAD. When I began pursuing this career path it was in hopes to create video games one day; however, I now aspire to animate for film instead. My work tends to focus on composing the 3D and 2D mediums together, as I really enjoy that visual aesthetic and the many opportunities it presents narratively.

Natasha Phicil

Natasha Phicil is the Columbia College student producer. She's a proud, young Haitian-American. This student-produced 5-minute trailer & music video to Stan West's "James Baldwin's Black Lives Blues Are Mine" is ripped from today's & yesterday's headlines. In style & content it's both experimental & traditional. Its jazzy dialogue against a blues soundtrack, paints a poetic musical picture. On one hand, West explains his first & only meeting with the famous Black gay writer who is known for his piercing essays. Baldwin wrote a lot about police brutality. Tampa-based author-journalist West who holds an MFA in Creative Writing from University of New Orleans, wrote news stories about police misconduct. His Chicago Defender cover story features West's Black-Mexican-Italian-trans-rabbi cousin's views on this issue & others. Both writers intersect their writings with their gay & straight relatives. This is their story.

Joshua Akubo Gabriel

Joshua Akubo Gabriel is a dancer, teacher, choreographer, and community strategist born and raised in Kaduna, Nigeria. He is co-founder of @dateculturefoundation/Festival and Art Resource Center Kaduna - an arts and culture organization that supports and highlights the creative ingenuity of young, emerging artists, with a passion for uplifting cultural diversity through exchanges programs and art project developments. He has been touring with world renowned choreographer Qudus Onikeku in the award winner piece REINCARNATION and just completed his first work No Man’s Land set to tour and premiere in the African biennial in Maputo, Mozambique in November. He is motivated by the need for cross-cultural literacy in human rights and diversities.

Kol Bela Alejandra Evuna

Sol Bela (May 1996, Bioko island) is a photographer and Director established in Barcelona, Spain. Sol’s work was born because of the lack of cultural references while growing up in the African diaspora and her goal is to create space for underrepresented voices in media on her creative journey.

Alejandra Evuna is a multidisciplinary creative, born in Madrid (March 1996), raised between Brussels and London. Alejandra believes in challenging the cinematographic field by combining the magic of surrealism through diverse angles. Celebrating the communities mixing the political parts, cultural and artistic.

Ally Hajji Simai

Ally Hajji Simai Director from Mararu Film Production (M.F.P) located at Mkunazini Zanzibar, happy being director of Jabu the short film, a great experience and fun working with M.F.P team people with film passion and love thus looking forward to another projects with them.

Lavinia Tukuhole Kapewasha

Lavinia Kapewasha is a performer, multidisciplinary artist, director, producer and screenplay writer. Gracing the stage as well as the screen, she has taken a liking to the work behind the scenes, in order to not only give herself opportunities but to create opportunities for black female artists as well.

Lavinia’s Bijou Film Festival work is Grootman. Grootman is a well-known tale. As a woman in this world, we’re constantly fighting the status quo or trying to shatter the glass ceiling. These issues are often prerequisites and are firstly found in the family. Family, is the basis for, if not all, our learned experiences in society. Namasiku’s character is every woman, who has tried their best to show their tenacity, bravery, their value and their heart.

Stephané Alexandre

Stephané Alexandre is a Black British Producer + Director. Her work spans over 14 years across Film + TV. From branded campaigns for Star Wars x Nokia, Huawei, BBC Storyworks to her work in broadcast for ITN Productions, Discovery Channel (Quest), Comedy Central UK and BET UK to name a few.

Series’ Producer of 5x part series, The Evolution of Black British Music for BET UK and Viacom’s, Drunk History: Black Stories for Comedy Central UK. Here she also directed her debut narrative piece episode, Yaa Asantewaa starring The Woman King actress, Sheila Atim and BAFTA Winning Director, Amma Asante.

She has since directed BBC Bitesize Parents We Got You’ campaign and Amazon Prime UK’s series, ‘Where Are You From From?’. A short documentary series following the success of three Black creative pioneers, Yung Filly, Fenn O’Meally and Rapman.

Her official directoal debut The Perfect Knight released in Feb 2023. Starring Jessica Allain and CJ Beckford. The short serves also as a proof of concept for a TV series, Alie. A comedy drama series. Black Bridget Jones meets Emily In Paris.

Justin Jean

Utilizing imagery that hearkens to neighborhood connections, Diasporic through-lines, cultural unity, and ancestral brilliance, film director Justin Jean gives us a lush visual and audio journey into Blackness.

With the juxtaposition of color and joyful movement while taking ownership of public space up against black and white footage of liberation leaders like Malcolm X and Dr. King, For the Culture blurs the lines between past, present, and future in a beautiful homecoming.

It feels natural that much of the movement takes place on a bridge since the film itself seems to offer a bridge that leads us to those intangible cultural connections that require more than mere words to express.

Alexandre Maciel

Born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Alexandre Maciel has a major degree in Publicity and Marketing, Public Relations. He was also recently accepted in PUC University in Rio for a Masters in Art and Design with a focus on Emotional Design, which studies the emotional value objects and things can bring to people. 

"I am 35 years old and have through the years I have been specializing in audiovisual narratives. These narratives can manifest in the form of documentaries, short films, independent films, video clips, internet content and other possibilities.

I have a profound interest on individuals and their idiosyncrasies.

Lucas Carvalho

Curious and creative since I was a child, I found in the arts a way to express myself and externalize my private universe. I have been working as a still photographer since 2012, majoring in Photography at Universidade Vila Velha - ES in 2015 and more recently also exploring the audiovisual medium where I work as a cinematographer in advertising films, video clips and independent productions, also assisting camera directors, camera, photography assistant, editor and colorist.

It has been a journey of a lot of dedication, study, learning, growth, love, passion and a lot, a lot of desire to make it happen. The magic is in bringing projects, ideas and writings to life with intention and beauty.
Creating is my life, it has become part of what I am. Producing is the renewable fuel that drives me to explore other universes while being responsible for creating them.
“My superpower is art in my hand, it's never just another one, it's always a heart” Drika Barbosa

Luane Bento dos Santos

Researcher of Ethnic-Racial Relations, Ethnomathematics of braided hairstyles and black aesthetics. She is PhD student in Social Sciences at PUC/Rio. Teacher of Sociology and Philosophy at SEEDUC-RJ.

You can read her articles about Black culture and the use of hair as resistence on Medium here.

Director Luan Bento dos Santos’ film, Braided memories uses imagery and sound to take the audience through a journey of something that is at once organic, intimate, political, and grounded in connections that transcend space, time, and location.

Thabang Masanabo

Thabang Masanabo is  a seasoned media professional. As the CEO and executive producer of Thape Media, she has lead and managed multiple teams to produce more than 120 hours of scripted and unscripted content for local and international broadcasters.

She founded the business and manages it together with her husband, Jo Masanabo, from zero revenue as a start and they have led it to a multimillion turnover in less than 7 years. She is a creative at heart, pioneering content creation for television broadcasters with 9 broadcast title produced under her leadership.

Thabang believes in creating content with heart. As such the content she has pioneered through Thape Media has primarily been purposeful content with impact.

In 2018, Thabang led her team as an Executive Producer Gospel Unplugged for SABC 1, a barrier breaking urban gospel show that featured modern genres of contemporary gospel music like hip hop gospel in a way that Gospel had not been heard on local screens before. The show won a Crown award for Best Gospel TV show and was nominated for Best Urban Gospel Show at the Africa Music Awards held in Ghana.

Brandon Jones

Born in Queens, raised in Orlando, and based in Chicago, Brandon Jones is an artist, filmmaker, and photographer. Multi-talented in a wide variety of creative fields, Brandon specializes particularly in the visual and performing arts. He attended and graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts degree in film. From short films, to portraits, to voice-acting, Brandon is on a never-ending mission to both redefine what it means to be an artist, while telling memorable stories and creating captivating visuals along the way.

Zain Shahid

Zain Shahid was born in Lahore, Pakistan and is currently living in United Arab Emirates, Dubai. He says of his film, “wanted to Create short Narratives of people who have been doing amazing in life, Then I met Nadir I did not know his language but his eyes were speaking of love and satisfaction for his passion. This is why there are shots at the end of him looking through the bridge. Nadir was one of the most passionate real-life characters I have met, and I wish we all be satisfied and happy as him in all the situations we face in life.

Levy David Ekofo

he story follows three talented but little-known artists in the music world: Yvette is a street youth from Kinshasa (Shegue), but a singer with a powerful voice; Dendon, an ethno-folk guitarist, who is a luthier and charismatic; and ROZO L'arsouillle, a rapper with poignant lyrics about life in the city.

The three artists come to a music recording studio located at the large ZANDO market in Kinshasa, Congo DRC to write and record songs, while playing in small concerts around town. and try to break into the music industry. They were introduced to Levy David a music producer. The latter offers them a chance to record a song by each for a future compilation.

Priscila Paciência, Rodrigo Pépe

Priscila Paciência holds a bachelor's degree and a degree in Dance and Movement, a postgraduate degree in Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Histories for Education. Dancer, choreographer, teacher, samba singer and cultural producer. Founder of Coletivo Goma.

Rodrigo Pépe is a screenwriter, editor and director of documentaries, is the founder of the production company Gaspacho Filmes and creator of "Pense Colorido", an LGBTQIA+ Collective that produces social documentaries.

In the videodance "Maracatu vs Passinho" they invited a Passinho dancer and a Caboclo de Lança to present some of their expressions in a friendly duel.

Jake Phillips

I have been filming and editing music videos, interviews and short docs since secondary school, where I started my own YouTube channel to platform and showcase local musical talent.

I graduated the MAMA Youth Project at Sky in 2019 which gave me the experience and network required to access this work professionally and with the help and mentorship of DoP Spike Morris and subsequent camera teams I have been working as a Camera Trainee and Assistant in Commercials, HETV Drama and Film.

Having now worked on a range of incredible projects such as Atlanta S3, The Witchfinder, The Kitchen and Life & Rhymes, I intend to learn what I can from how the professionals do it, and bring that knowledge into developing my own project ideas.

Juliana Teixeira

Juliana Teixeira works in research and photography in cinema. Master in Communication from the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia (UFRB). Director of the films Ruína (2020), Carta #1: substantitvo (2020) and Geruzinho (2022). His research focuses on the Brazilian Black Cinemas, from the trajectories of peripheral filmmakers who resort to the margins as a strategic position of dismantling the Order from the moving images.

Luli Morante is an Ecuadorian immigrant photographer, producer, communicator and creative director. Journalist from the Federal University of Sergipe, she serves as co-founder of the Curiar audiovisual production company, is a cultural producer of the Desloca Festival and is a founding member of the creative ecosystem EXP. His most recent films are Itineraries (2021), Pedalo and Discover the City that Dwells in Me (2021), Agora (2021) and Geruzinho (2022).

Rafael Amorim is a journalist and marketing director of the Semblantes project. In cinema, he co-directed the documentaries Geruzinho (2022), Na Sala de Parto (2017) and the short films Ruína (2020) and Carta #1: Noun (2020). Currently, he directs marketing campaigns focused on the fashion, music and culture segment in Sergipe, uniting design, audiovisual and creative production in products designed for social networks.

Kossi Messan AKODA

AKODA Kossi Messan is graduate in Computer and Multimedia system. He realizes a short animation « The animal wickedness » in 2018 an official selection at FESPACO 2019 and for the LIFANIMA 2020. He participates to the Cinephilia short lab residency program at Journee Cinématographique de Carthage 2019 (JCC) with the project “The hand in the mango tree”. His second short animation “The Symbolic of loot” is selected for competion in the “Make art not War Teaser Future Film Festival 2020” in Los Angeles and in the Silicon Valley African Film Festival 2020. He presented his project "The Elected" at Talent Durban and Durban FilMart 2020

Pascal Tessaud

PASCAL TESSAUD was born in Paris. After earning a Bachelor of Arts degree, he studied literature and cinema at Paris X Nanterre University and documentaries at IECA Nancy University. He directed four short films : “Noctambules” (12’), “L’Ete de Noura” (18’), “Facies” (15’) and “City of Light” (30’) which have been screened during many international festivals. “City of Light” won the Best Short Film Award in New York, Warsaw, Toronto and Mexico and won the Colcoa Audience Award in Los Angeles. He also directed many famous documentaries: “Slam, Ce Qui Nous Brûle” (52’), “Mantes la Jolie sur le Mic” with Charles Aznavour (44’), “Saint-Denis” (52’), “Marseille” with Akhenaton (IAM) (52’) and “Beatbox, Boom Bap around the world” (55’). He wrote, directed and produced his first long feature film “Brooklyn”. The movie premiered in the independant ACID sidebar in Cannes, was shown at more than 65 festivals all around the world and won the Grand Prize for the Best Original Score at Aubagne International Film Festival and Best foreigner feature film at New York Hip Hop Films Festival in 2017.

William Kojo Agbeti

Esteban Richmond U

Directed by Esteban Richmond U, Waak an Danz is the first Central American documentary video dance film filmed in the province of Limón and starring limonense artists. El largometraje highlights the transformative power of art, offering a portrait of some fragments from the culture and sensibility of Limonense, its potential, its wealth and its contributions. A sensorial portrait through poetry of dance and music.

Ramone Anderson

Film Director from London with a demonstrated history of working in the music industry. His work is predominately documentary based. He has filmed documentaries all across the world, developing his passion for understanding people and learning about our sub-cultures and what makes us all unique.

His Bijou Film Festival film is Soul Skate. Running for over a decade, Soul Skate was founded in 2007 by Detroit natives Kenny Dixon Jr aka Moodymann and Tracy Washington, with the aim of giving contemporary skate culture a new home.

Every two years roller enthusiasts from all across the U.S. and Europe congregate at the church of Soul Skate, but the movement is more than just killer soul records played by phenomenal DJs. Anderson's film gives an intimate glimpse into a tight-knit global community, brought together by the love of skating.

Danilo Marinho

In the proposal of my work, I seek to explore the physical commitment of musicality and its relationship with textuality, as well as the experimentation of new sound relations in the performative practices. In “Natura” I offer experiences of sound stimulation to transform the perception of what is lived and observed, the result of the desire to discover how to reconstruct reality.

I am a young Brazilian filmmaker who has directed five films. I started my career recently in 2020 directing and writing Vientre Libre, Bárbaros y Negro. As an independent filmmaker, he received awards such as Jury Prize winner at the Cannes Short Film Festival 2022 (France), winner of the Best Experimental Music Video" award at Best MusicVideo - Summer Edition 2022/23 (England), received the nomination in the Cannes Film Festival (France), the Honorable Mention at the Hollywood Poetry Film Festival 2022, was a finalist at the Rome Music Video Awards (Italy), a finalist at the International Sound Future Awards (United States).

Brandon Mathis

Brandon Mathis (b. 1995) is a movement and visual artist, born and raised and based in Los Angeles. Heavily drawing upon LA for inspiration in his work, Brandon turns a blind eye to the glitz and glam, and focuses his attention on the rich culture and history of the city he grew up in. The city that continues to ground him in his craft.
Angles, natural elements, lighting, shadow play, and abstraction, these are monikers of Brandon’s work. These are the pillars he draws upon to bring together visceral and compelling visuals of storytelling and Afro-futurism. With a BFA in Dance and a BA in Political Science from Loyola Marymount University, Brandon combines his love of knowledge with his love of creation, effortlessly.
Simplicity is the name of his game, because beauty can be found in everything. And no matter the medium, Brandon’s foundation is and will always be movement based. By incorporating modalities of healing and spirituality in all that he does, Brandon’s mission is to elevate the way in which movement is viewed as an art form and healing practice around the world.

Eniola Rufus

Graduated from Ladoke Akitola University of technology, Ogbomoso, Oyo state. with a bachelor of technology degree in fine and applied arts and a major in Graphics. Worked on several projects in school including my thesis titled “Leather works in Oyo”. Out of all the section associated with graphics, I decided to pursue a career in film making. Working hard to attain a level of professionalism in cinematography and video editing, i also have adequate knowledge in graphics design, printing and branding.

Andreas Scheibenreif

Born in 1981 in Vienna, Austria, school training in electrical and communication engineering. Training and various jobs in sound engineering in Vienna, Austria
4 years in Mozambique with Austrian cooperation, Horizont 3000, 2009 in Chimoio and 2012 in Beira.
2014 founded the company Mango Sound Mozambique in Beira, which offers services in the areas of audio, video, photos and events.. The initial idea of Mango Sound was to carry out music projects to contribute to a development outsider of the capital Maputo. With a lack of support for these musical projects, he moved into the field of film production, but continues to realize musical projects on his own. He never was taught in the area of video or photos, but has been taking photographs and filming as a hobby for over 20 years.

Karim Lazaar

Mandatory Happiness is a track by 1441, a french-algerian dj/producer based in Rennes, France, filmed by Sophie Wallet, which intends to focus on the importance of dance communities for queer people through the history of the ballroom scene.

Paloma Etienne

Paloma Etienne is a biracial and queer filmmaker/visual artist from Madrid, Spain, with Haitian and Spanish heritage. Paloma is passionate about involving BIPOC and diverse communities in Web 3, and is the founder of ASHÉ, the first arts and activism NFTs community for BIPOC, LGBTQI+, diverse communities, and allies in Spain. She is developing various art pieces and film projects around the presence of Afro-Spaniards in Spain. Her approach is imaginative and wild as she recreates herstory.

Daniel Ross

Daniel Ross Dieguez (DaRoDe) (Guantánamo, December 3, 1986) is a Cuban visual artist and filmmaker. He is known for his work that balances between research and digital archives on unknown and poorly disclosed topics from Guantánamo, as well as diverse notes and objective representations and objective information on Cuban society in terms of new forms of urban pollution such as queues, riots, scandals, lack of culture of the loudspeaker, smoking in public, harassment and siege, resellers, as well as other urban social phenomena .

DaRoDe graduated from the Guantánamo Academy of Plastic Arts as a Plastic Artist specializing in Engraving and Painting on May 20, 2005 at the José Martí Memorial in Havana. Among his most significant exhibitions is Kafetánamo, which portrays a Guantánamo of workers moved by the pleasure of working in society with antiques and giving objects other uses in Cuban society.

Maky Madiba Sylla, Lionel Bourqui

Maky Madiba Sylla is a musician artist and director born September 19, 1976 in Dakar. He is the founder of Djoloff Reggae festival and assistant of Ibrahima SARR, Senegalese director based in Canada. He studied film at the Birmingham Film Institute in 2002. And he holds the diploma of higher technician in audiovisual year 2011- 2012 at ESMA (Higher School for Audiovisual Professions in Dakar).

Lionel Bourqui worked for 10 years with various private Swiss television stations after university studies in journalism and social communication. He officiates there as journalist, cameraman, editor, news anchor or editor. Since 2009, he has been an editor for RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse). In parallel, he also works as a freelance director. He specialized in years in the capture of shows

Laila Xavier

Leila Xavier is a filmmaker, teacher in the Public Education Network, master and doctor in education from the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro. Manager of the Conexões das Artes Cultural Center and coordinator of the Chantie Brasil-França cultural exchange. Organizer and author of the book 21 Days of Activism Against Racism. As a filmmaker, his works were selected for the Festival Visões Periféricas 2017 and the X and XI, XI and XII International Meeting of Black Cinema Zózimo Bulbul: Brazil, Africa and the Caribbean, participated in the Black Cinema Show in Lisbon and France, Show Redemoinho, Festival de Cinema Tamoio, Festival de Audiovisual da Negritude na Baixada Fluminense (FAN Baixada), II Festival zélia Amador de Deus among others. As a director, he acted in the films "Do not think who knows how to be who he is", As Three Madureiras, "Encontros Severos" "Reexistêcias", Por Gerações, O Lado B do Consumo Saudável, Cinema Está Served and Here de Fome Não Morro. She acted as executive producer of the film "Mystique, Music and Social Movements".

Stefano Motta

trained in political science, began his artistic career in 2015 studying cinema at ICAIC (Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry in Havana, Cuba), directing for cinema at the school of cinema Darcy Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro); and theater at UNIRIO (Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and at the Martins Pena Theater Technical School. He works as an actor in films like Encontros Severos, Blackout, among others, and em peças teatrais like Inimigo Oculto, Psicose 4:48, among others; as director of the films Le cinema est servi (selected at the XIII Zózimo Bulbul Encounters of Black Cinema: Brazil, Africa, Caribbean and Other Diasporas) and The Year That Has No Carnival (and now); As a production we shoot O Jogo, Depois de amanhã, Anistia 79.

Nuno Barreto

Nuno Barreto founded in Angola (2014) the non-production company FILMES SEM FUTURO (FSF) with the goal of elaborating cinematographic experiences with the artistic community of Lubango and in particular with the city and region’s theater groups.

In 2022 the FSF changed hemisphere, planet and residence, (con)living now in the Lands of Fantasy of the village of Lousã, in Portugal. With the change of geography, the operational and philosophical principles thatcharacterize it have not changed.

FSF’s philosophy is to work with the scarce technical resources available, to contribute to the art in the region where it operates, to give visibility to its artists and to democratize/decentralize cinema and audiovisual.

Costa Valente, Monica Musoni

Costa Valente is one of the founders of the Cine-Club of Avanca. Professor in the Department of Communication and Art at the University of Aveiro, he teaches film and animation. He has held administrative positions at Cartoon, FPCA and is the national coordinator of the INPUT - International Public Television-Conference.
He has been the producer of great part of the works produced by Cine-Club of Avanca, also has directed documentaries, fiction and several animations. As a producer and director, his works have been distinguished for more than half a hundred times in several countries.

Monica Musoni was born in Nigel, South Africa, in 1972. She's lived between South Africa and Italy, until the family settled in Portugal in the early 1980s. Graduated in International Relations, in the Universidade Lusíada of Lisbon.
In the last years, has been working as cultural producer and photographer and writes for documentaries. Direct’s her first documentary in 2018, ”Pretu Funguli”. Currently lives and works between Brussels and Lisbon.

Anderson Rufino Barbosa

Laurie Little

Laurie Little is an award-winning director/producer/writer/colorist from Montreal, Canada now connected with Columbia College Chicago.