João Manuel Relvas Leopoldo Botelho is a Portuguese film director.
Alan Berliner is an American independent filmmaker. The New York Times has described Berliner's work as "powerful, compelling and bittersweet... full of juicy conflict and contradiction, innovative in their cinematic technique, unpredictable in their structures... Alan Berliner illustrates the power of fine art to transform life."
Neil Norman Burger is an American film and television director, writer, and producer. He is known for the fake-documentary Interview with the Assassin (2002), the period drama The Illusionist (2006), Limitless (2011), and the sci-fi action film Divergent (2014), based on the dystopian novel of the same name by Veronica Roth.
Salomé Breziner or Salome Breziner is a film director, screenwriter, and script supervisor, known for directing Fast Sofa and The Secret Lives of Dorks. starring Nia Vardalos in 2014. Born in Belgium and raised in Miami Beach, Florida, by Holocaust survivor parents, Salomé is a multi-lingual director and writer and producer of award-winning shorts, music videos, and feature films - both narrative and documentary. Based in Los Angeles and Edinburgh, she is in development with Screen Scotland, on her first Created By tv series, LANDED. LANDED is an ecological thriller and drama set in Scotland and LA that she will direct from a screenplay she wrote based on the novel LANDED by Louise Ramsay. She developed the series with Steven J Wolfe and Kim DeVenne to cement her message of rewilding and stopping damaging ecological practices, and bring it to the screen with magical realism elements to begin her foray into international streaming content. Currently, Salomé is the show runner and executive producer of the Epix TV show SEX LIFE - season three for MGM TV/Evolution. With a keen eye for quirky talent and dark comedy Salomé has directed 6 feature films, produced 9 feature films and various commercial and Music Video projects for clients like: CORONA LIGHT, GOODBY, SILVERSTEIN & PARTNERS, GDefy, Matthew McConaughey And Butch Walker, Black Widows, Lisa Loeb, Foxy Shazaam, and many more. Acting as a producer and creator through her company REALM, she produced and wrote SYNTHESIZERS which was nominated for best music video award VH1 and has earned several million internet views. Salomé’s films have screened at 30+ festivals around the world and won numerous awards, beginning with her first feature film TOLLBOOTH that premiered in Cannes to great reviews. “Cut from the same cloth as David Lynch’s Twin Peaks with a dash of Wim Wenders… and Samuel Beckett” Variety, A Best Documentary win in 2013 at The Nashville Film Festival for producing her documentary BUTCH WALKER: OUT OT FOCUS and going on to direct HELICOPTER MOM starring Nia Vardalos in 2014. Her films have garnered awards and special attention at Cannes, Oldenburg International Film Festival, Palm Springs Film Festival, Seattle Film Festival, Dallas International Film Festival, Cork International Film Festival, CIFF to name a few. Salomé’s film HELICOPTER MOM opened OUTFEST with a special Ford Ampitheater Premiere in 2014. She is a visual storyteller who elicits powerful performances from actors such as Stephen Lang, Fairuza Balk, Matthew McConaghey, Tom Berenger, Crispin Glover, Riley Voelkel, Jennifer Tilly, Jim Belushi, Eric Roberts, Valeria Golino, Natasha Lyonne, to name just a few. Salomé frequently blurs the lines between comedy and drama.
Scott Dacko is the screenwriter and director of The Insurgents, starring Mary Stuart Masterson, John Shea, Henry Simmons, Juliette Marquis and Michael Mosley. Winner of the German Independence Audience Award for Best Picture for The Insurgents at the 2006 Oldenburg International Film Festival at the world premiere of his debut film. Winner of the Best Screenplay award at his US premiere at the 2007 Palm Beach International Film Festival. Winner of Best Feature at the 2007 Long Island International Film Expo.
El Benny is a Cuban film released in 2006, directed and co-written by Jorge Luis Sánchez, his first feature-length film. It is a fictional story based on the life of the famous Cuban musician Benny Moré. It includes new versions of his songs performed by musicians including Chucho Valdés, Juan Formell, Haila and Orishas.
Gabriel Range is a British filmmaker, who is probably best known for his fictional political-documentary about the assassination of George W. Bush in Death of a President.
Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, known together as Pasek and Paul, are an American songwriting duo and composing team for musical theater, films, and television. Their works include A Christmas Story, Dogfight, Edges, Dear Evan Hansen, and James and the Giant Peach. Their original songs have been featured on NBC's Smash and in the films La La Land, for which they won both the Golden Globe and Academy Award for Best Original Song for the song "City of Stars", and The Greatest Showman. Their work on original musical Dear Evan Hansen has received widespread critical acclaim and earned them the 2017 Tony Award for Best Original Score.
Oren Lavie is an Israeli songwriter, author, theatre and video director. His music video for "Her Morning Elegance" earned a 2009 Grammy Award nomination for "Best Short Form Music Video" and has become a YouTube hit with over 32 million views to date.
Situated in Northwest Germany, the Oldenburg International Film Festival covers since 1994 the international movie scene in all of its aspects. This open minded approach leads to an inspiring mix of great premieres, surprising discoveries and original independent productions. Off beat innovation and ideas against the grain are the trademarks of the festival.
Jamie Thraves is a British film writer and director.
Liew Seng Tat is a Malaysian filmmaker based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
Ragnar Bragason is an Icelandic film director, screenwriter and producer.
Lola Randl is a German film director and screenwriter.
Denis Côté is an independent filmmaker and producer living in Quebec, of Brayon origin. His experimental films have been shown at major film festivals around the world.
Anjan Das was a critically acclaimed Indian film director. He was known for creating "Poetry on Celluloid", a tag that was designated by the critics post his lyrical masterpiece Saanjhbatir Roopkathara. He was awarded the National Film Award for Best Film on Family Welfare for Faltu. His films won numerous Bengal Film Journalists' Association Awards and were regularly showcased at A-list film festivals all over the world.
Chris Gibbin is an American filmmaker, producer and entrepreneur whose first feature film, From Within, had its worldwide premiere at the 2008 Tribeca Film Festival and went on to win the 2008 Grand Jury Prize at the Solstice Film Festival. Lost Angeles, his second feature film, starring Joelle Carter and Kelly Blatz, had its world premiere at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in 2012.
The Rhode Island International Horror Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Providence, Rhode Island, which features a wide variety of horror, sci-fi, and thriller films, as well as documentaries, from the United States and around the world. Founded in 2000, as one of several "festival sidebars" of the Rhode Island International Film Festival, it is the largest and longest-running horror film festival in New England.
Jakob Moritz Erwa is an Austrian director, screenwriter, film producer.
In Full Bloom is a 2019 American noir sports drama film written and directed by Adam VillaSenor and Reza Ghassemi. It stars Tyler Wood, Yusuke Ogasawara, Sean McCracken, Timothy V. Murphy, Hiroyuki Watanabe.
