BOARD OF ADVISORS DARREN ARONOFSKY Filmmaker, New York Darren Aronofsky's debut feature, Pi (1998) earned him the Director's Award at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival, the Open Palm Award from IFP Gotham, an IFP/West Spirit Award for Best First Screenplay and an Excellence in Filmmaking honor from the National Board of Review. In addition, pi (1998) was named one of the Top 10 Films of 1998 by the Chicago Sun-Times, the Washington Post and the Seattle Times, among other major dailies. Aronofsky was born and raised in Brooklyn and is a product of the public school system. He went on to study live action and animation at Harvard University. His senior thesis film, Supermarket Sweep, won international awards and was a national finalist in the 1991 Student Academy Awards. In 1994, he received an M.F.A. in Directing from the American Film Institute. In 1998, Aronofsky and producing partner Eric Watson founded Protozoa Pictures to develop future projects. Then, in 1999, Protozoa launched Amoeba Proteus, a digital studio, with its first undertaking to design and execute the 100 digital shots in Requiem for a Dream. Aronofsky recently complete photography of his third feature, The Fountain. DANIELLE ARBID Filmmaker, Paris Born in Beirut in 1970, Danielle Arbid left Lebanon for France at the age of 17 to study literature and journalism in Paris. She worked in the French press for five years, before she devoted herself to the cinema. Shot in 1997 in Beirut, Raddem is her first short film. Then she directed two documentaries, Alone with the War (2000), awarded with the Silver Leopard in the Locarno film festival, and On borders (2002). In 2002, she also directed Foreigner (2002) and a short, Living Room Conversations (2002). In the Battlefields is her first full-length feature film. VINCENT ADATTE Critic, Switzerland Born in 1959 in Neuchatel. Scriptwriter, journalist with specialisation in Cinema. Works and lives in Neuchatel. Since 1981, writes several scripts (Michel Rodde, Jean-Blaise Junod, Frederic Maire, Francois Kohler, Marcel Schupbach, Cinemagination sarl., etc.). From 1991 to 1998, was in charge of the writing and the edition of the catalogue and the journal "Pardo News" for the International Film Festival of Locarno. Creator and co-director of The Magic Lantern, film club for children since 1992. Member of the executitve board in the International Fribourg Film Festival (1996 to 2001). Creator of the global concept of The Magic Lantern's Fete (21-22 June 1997) and scriptwriter of the films made for it. 2001-2003, President of Mediafilms -- editor of FILMS cinema revue in the french speaking part of Switzerland. Scriptwriter of all the creations in relation with the Magic Lantern's activities (scripts, Short-Films, theatrical scripts). Works also with Cinemagination sarl, a production Society based in Fribourg (Animations-Films). ANISSA MARIAM BOUZIANE Writer, Paris Anissa Bouziane is Moroccan-American a novelist, screenwriter and filmmaker. Though currently based in Paris, Anissa spent the past fifteen years in New York City, after having grown up in Morocco. This constant movement between cultures has been a central focus of her fiction writing as well as her award-wining experimental film and video. Anissa holds a Masters in Fine Arts from Columbia University, a Bachelors of Arts from Wellesley College, and a Certificate in Film from New York University. She has taught writing at Columbia Teacher's College as well as in Public Schools in Harlem and the South Bronx. For several years she was Associate Producer of "Arab Voices" for WBAI - Radio in New York. Recently, as a consultant for the Moroccan Ministry of Culture, she helped organize an international conference at the Royal Academy in Rabat on the subject of "Is the Dialogue between Cultures Possible?" Her films, which she has produced and directed with her sister, Yasmina, have been screened internationally as well as in Morocco. She is currently the recipient of the prestigious Wellesley College Stevens Traveling Fellowship and is completing work on her first novel. LENNY BORGER Translator, film historian, Paris Born and raised in Brooklyn, translator and film historian Lenny Borger has lived for 25 years in Paris, where he was the long-time correspondent and critic for Variety. He has re-titled all of Rialto Pictures' French classics since the company's acclaimed re-release of Grand Illusion in 1999. Prior to Grisbi, he tackled the French argot of Jules Dassin's Rififi, Jean-Pierre Melville's Bob le Flambeur, Julien Duvivier's Pepe le Moko and Henri-Georges Clouzot's Quai Des Orfevres - all reissued theatrically by Rialto. He has also created sorely-needed new subtitles for the DVD releases of Marcel Carne's Children of Paradise, three classics by Rene Clair (Under the Roofs of Paris, Le Million and A Nous la Liberte), Clouzot's Le Corbeau, and Renoir's Rules of the Game. Working with fellow translator Cynthia Schoch, Borger has also subtitled recent films by Bertrand Tavernier, Patrice Chereau and Jean-Luc Godard. A specialist in French silent cinema, he has been involved in the recovery and restoration of a number of "missing" films including Raymond Bernard's Le Joueur d'echecs (The Chess player, 1927), Visages d'enfants (Jacques Feyder, 1923-25), Crainquebille (Feyder, 1922) and Henri Fescourt's Monte Cristo (1929). CHRIS DARKE Writer, film critic, London Chris Darke is a London-based writer and film critic who has published widely on all aspects of cinema and the moving image. His writing has appeared in Sight & Sound, Film Comment, Cahiers du cinema, Trafic and The Independent, among others. A collection of essays, Light Readings: Film Criticism & Screen Arts (Wallflower Press) was published in 2000; his monograph on J-L Godard's Alphaville will appear in 2005 from I.B.Tauris. Chris has participated in many film festivals, including London, Rotterdam and Berlin and has co-written screenplays as well as working as an assistant director and producing short documentaries on film and art. His mini-'video-portrait' of Chris Marker is included on the Arte/Argos Films DVD of La Jetee and Sans soleil. MAXIMILIANO LEMCKE Filmaker, Madrid Born in Madrid in 1966. Has been producing and directing short films in the past five years. Directing filmography: the documentary Pepe le Mouro (1993). La vida imposible (1995). Todos os llamais Mohamed (1998) - awarded at the Huesca IFF and the Valencia Cinema Jove and selected at Cinefondation section of Cannes IFF 2001-. Paleopolis (1999). Pequenas Historias entre Ventanas y Telefonos (2000) - Best film at the 2000 Madrid Experimental Film Week, Best 16mm film at the 2000 San Roque International Week of Short Film, and Best 16mm film at the 2000 Electrozine International Film Festival in Ibiza, Audience Prize at L'Alternativa - Barcelona. Mundo Fantastico (2003) is his first feature film. It has been selected at the 38th Karlovy Vary IFF, at 27th Sao Paulo IFF, at 9th Geneva International Film and Television Festival and 3rd Rome Doc Film Festival, L'Alternativa Barcelona Film Festival. FRANCINE PICKEL Cinema Project developing, Switzerland Born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, 1956. Founder and co-director of the Magic Lantern since 1993. Classics studies. Then travels in Israel, Mexico, Belize and the United-States. Main interest in painting, cinema and human relations. For living, works as an accouter since 1985. Differents experiences with Cinema (script, director's assistant and co-production). General Secretary of the Magic Lantern's Fete of June 1997. In charge of financial research and the human relations for the Magic Lantern's Association, in Switzerland since 1993. In charge of the developpment and the adaptation of the Magic Lantern's concept with the partners, out of Europa (The Philippines, Ethiopia, Senegal, Romania and Morocco). Retourner vers la page Partenaire Return to Partners