Visions du Réel is an internationally renowned documentary film festival held in April each year in Nyon, Switzerland. Established in 1969 as the Nyon International Documentary Film Festival, the event adopted its current name in 1995 and is the largest Swiss documentary festival.
Tan Pin Pin is a Singapore-based film director. She is best known for the documentary film Singapore GaGa (2005). It was the first Singaporean documentary to have a theatrical run. In 2014, her documentary To Singapore, With Love (2013) was denied for all ratings by the Media Development Authority, effectively banning it in Singapore.
Xiaolu Guo is a Chinese-born British author, filmmaker and academic. Her writing and films explore migration, alienation, memory, personal journeys, feminism, translation and transnational identities.
Wang Bing is a Chinese director, often referred to as one of the foremost figures in documentary film-making. Wang is the founder of his own production company, Wang Bing Studios, which produces most of his films. His movie on Chinese labour camps, The Ditch, was included in the 2010 Venice Film Festival as the film sorpresa.
Out of Bounds is a 2005 French documentary film directed by Alexandre Leborgne and Pierre Barougier.
Cinéma du Réel is an international documentary film festival organized by the BPI-Bibliothèque publique d'information in Paris and was founded in 1978. The festival presents about 200 films per year in several sections by experienced documentary directors as well as first timers. The screenings take place at the Pompidou Centre in Paris, and in several movie theaters partners of the festival.
Christophe Bisson is an international film director. He created, with the American filmmaker Maryann De leo, the documentary White Horse for HBO Studios and the Discovery Channel. He is a well-known artist based in Caen, France.
God is American is a 2007 French documentary film written, directed and produced by Richard Martin-Jordan.
Honkytonk Films is a new media production company based in Paris, France.
InformAction Productions is a Montreal-based Canadian documentary film production company founded in 1971 by producer Nathalie Barton, directors Jean-Claude Bürger and Gérard Le Chêne. Their films explore major contemporary social and political issues or focus on human stories, art and culture. In 1999 and 2000 producers Ian Quenneville and Ian Oliveri joined the company so as to work with Nathalie Barton.
Tsipi (Tsipora) Reibenbach is an Israeli Film director, producer and screenwriter. Most of her work consists of documentary films dealing with painful issues in the Israeli society such as The Holocaust and Bereavement. Recipient of the Science and Arts Minister of Israel prize (1996) for directors and screenwriters. Her film "Choice and Destiny" is one of the most decorated documentary films made by the Israeli industry, among the notable prizes the film won are the Grand Prize in the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 1995, two Prizes in the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 1994, and the Scam award (1994) in Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris, France. She received the DAAD scholarship in 2006 as a distinguished Israeli filmmaker.
Armel Hostiou is a French filmmaker.
Michèle Kahn is a French writer who later lived in Strasbourg and currently in Paris. She first wrote books for the young, and mainly addressed the adult public from 1997. Her novels, strongly anchored in history and very documented, often inspired by the adventures of the Jewish people, draw readers around the world.
Susana de Sousa Dias is a Portuguese independent filmmaker.
Olivier Magis is a Belgian director of several award-winning documentaries.
Jeremiah Hayes is a Canadian film director, writer and editor. Hayes is known for being the co-director, co-writer and the editor of the documentary Reel Injun, which was awarded a Gemini Award in 2010 for Best Direction in a Documentary Program. In 2011, Reel Injun won a Peabody Award for Best Electronic Media. Hayes was the co-editor of Rumble: The Indians Who Rocked the World, which was awarded a Canadian Screen Award for Best Editing in a Documentary in 2018. In 2018, Rumble won a Canadian Screen Award for Best Feature Length Documentary, and in 2017 Rumble won the Special Jury Award for Masterful Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival in 2017. In 2020, Rumble received an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Arts & Culture Documentary. In 2021, Reel Injun is featured in the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures core exhibition of the Stories of Cinema.
The Centre de formation des journalistes or CFJ Graduate School of Journalism is a private non-profit Grande École and the Paris-Panthéon-Assas University graduate school of journalism, as part of a public-private partnership, located in Paris and Lyon, France.
Oan Kim is a French photographer, video artist, and musician.
Nora Mandray is a Berlin-based French filmmaker. Her works have notably screened at the Berlinale, Hot Docs, SXSW, Sheffield Doc/Fest, and the Camden International Film Festival.
Dieudo Hamadi is a documentary filmmaker from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
