HARRY BROOKS

HARRY BROOKS is a film maker and choreographer based in London. He trained at London Contemporary Dance School, graduating in 2018. He has worked with the world-renowned choreographers Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Akram Khan at Sadler’s Wells.

He was awarded a departmental scholarship and is currently studying an MA in Artist Film at Goldsmiths University exploring movement as a form of artistic language. In the future he wants to continue working as choreographer and artist film maker.

Daria Lippi

Daria Lippi, actress and theatre director, founded the company RESET in 2015. Between 1995 and 2014 she worked in France with Eric Lacascade as actress, then as co-director (two times in the Cour d'Honneur of the Festival d'Avignon). She also performs in Italy, in Belgium, and tours in many other countries. Her first personal project received the Moscow NET Festival Award and great reviews. She is the co-founder of the Fabrique Autonome des Acteurs, a structure for continuing education and trans-disciplinary basic research based in Bataville, Moselle. In this context she directs performances, creates arts/sciences research laboratories, writes, plays and directs short films and created the video game MAPS the Game, a platform that presents the work of the vast network of FAA artists.

Mitchell Rose

Prior to becoming a filmmaker, MITCHEL ROSE was a New York-based choreographer. His company toured internationally for 15 years. Eventually he was drawn more to visual media and graduated from The American Film Institute as a Directing Fellow. Since A.F.I. his films have won 88 festival awards and are screened around the world.

The New York Times called him: "A rare and wonderful talent." The Washington Post wrote that his work was “in the tradition of Chaplin, Keaton, and Tati—funny and sad and more than the sum of both.”

Mr. Rose is currently a professor of dance-filmmaking at Ohio State University.

mark freeman/ JULIUS YAW QUANSAH/ SENA ATZUGAH

MARK FREEMAN is a professor in the School of Theatre, Television, and Film at San Diego State University. He has produced and directed, written and edited programs for broadcast on American public television. Freeman's films have screened at national and international festivals, and won numerous awards including a Gold Apple at the National Educational Film and Video Festival, a Certificate of Merit at the Chicago International Film Festival and a Red Ribbon at the American Film and Video Festival.

JULIUS YAW QUANSAH, a graduate of the University of Ghana, is a well-respected choreographer and performer.  Recent credits include: Shaka The Zulu, Masking The King (Urithi Production House) and Wogbe Jeke for Ghana @60.

SENA ATZUGAH received an MFA from the University of Ghana. She is a versatile creator, scholar and performer.  Recent accomplishments include: Sankofa, a dance piece made in collaboration with Noyam African Dance Institute and the National Dance Company of Ghana, National Theatre Ghana.

Richard James Allen, Karen Pearlman

Dr RICHARD JAMES ALLEN and Dr KAREN PEARLMAN are directors of the critically acclaimed Physical TV Company based in Sydney, Australia.  Innovators in the dance film form over many years, they also create dramas and documentaries informed by scholarly research into the history and the future potential of the cinematic medium.  Their works have been broadcast internationally and travelled to over 300 film festivals/ public screenings on five continents, including the most selective and prestigious dance film festivals in the world.  They have garnered around 70 nominations or awards and many have attracted grant funding or support through government or philanthropic arts funding bodies. 

Richard is also well known for his work in poetry, including his most recent book, The short story of you and I (UWAP) and Karen as a leading theorist on film editing, including in her recent book, Cutting Rhythms: Intuitive Film Editing (Focal Press).

Leila Jarman

Leila Jarman is an Iranian-Brazilian-American filmmaker, producer, multimedia artist and activist. Her works have shown at film festivals worldwide, in galleries, and museums including the TATE Britain, Ars Electronica and LACMA and her films have been featured on outlets such as VICE, AFROPUNK, MTV, VH1, The Creator’s Project and Paper Magazine among others. Her work is informed by and focused on the dualities and contradictions inherent in nature but specifically within the human existential experience. Her work explores the human body and its relationship to movement, sound, space and time and allows for the visual and narrative exploration and juxtaposition of concepts like subtlety and drama, fiction and non-fiction, the beautiful and the grotesque, masculinity and the femininity, etc.

JULIANA LOBO

JULIANA LOBO (Brazil) has a BA in Design, earned her Master's degree in Alternative Cinema from the International School of Film and Television of Cuba. Throughout her work as an art director, her recent projects include the feature-films Todos os Mortos, directed by Caetano Gotardo and Marco Dutra (in production), Desterro, by Maria Clara Escobar, and Albatroz, by Daniel Augusto (both in postproduction). Her praxis in cinema was developed through her work in the art department of different arthouse projects, recognised by international festivals, such as Joaquim, by Marcelo Gomes, The Second Mother, by Anna Muylaert, and Sandra Kogut's Campo Grande. Her first short Coppelia premiered in Havana Film Festival in 2018.

Tiffany Rhynard/ TRENT WILLIAMS

TIFFANY RHYNARD makes work that examines social justice issues. Her dance films have screened in the U.S. and abroad including ScreenDance Miami where her short Invisible Queens (2015) and Black Stains (2018) were awarded the Jury Prize. Rhynard’s feature documentary, Forbidden: Undocumented and Queer in Rural America, was awarded a Television Academy Honor and aired on LogoTV with sponsorship from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). She currently teaches at Florida State University. 

TRENT WILLIAMS, Jr. a native Houstonian received his MFA in Dance Performance & Choreography from Florida State University and BA in Psychology from Morehouse College. Williamsʼ choreography has been performed by Dayton Contemporary Second Company, Urban Souls Dance Company, and showcased at The American Dance Festival, The Dance Gallery in Huntsville, Texas, and Kennedy Center. He is as an Assistant Professor of Modern Dance + Choreography at the University of Florida in the College of Arts.  

sze-wei chan

Sze-Wei is a movement-based artist who creates for the stage and screen. Her practice is grounded in the organic knowledge of the human body – coupled with an interest in the politics of the body. Her dance films have shown in the USA, UK and Brazil, and her choreographic work in Southeast Asia and Europe. She is also an arts journalist and an advocate for sustainable dance careers in Singapore and artistic networks in Southeast Asia.

RAY JACOBS

RAY JACOBS is a UK based artist who uses the mediums of image, film and movement to highlight the narratives that surround us all.

He works to create imaginative works with a wide variety of groups and companies, in particular collaborating with disabled artists.

Award winning films include The Sea Reminds Me, Bastion, Four Solos in the Wild and Your Rocky Spine.

Ray is co-director of Shropshire inclusive Dance and performance director of Arty Party a charity focused on supporting learning disabled artists to share work with the public.

JOHN DEGOIS/ OLIVIER BONNET

JOHN DEGOIS began dancing at the age of 15, spending every spare minute  so he could train. Later, he became interested by other types of dance: theatre, physical theatre and any other type of art - anything that gave him inspiration. 

Now, dance, choreography, performance and the theatre are no longer just his passion, they are his life's work. He still practise them with as much passion and appreciation as  ever. This showcase by me, John Degois, is a dedication to my work as a choreographer, project leader, dancer, performer, pedagogue, explorer and initiator.

Born in 1980, a musician from a very young age, OLIVIER BONNET attended a university programme training him to be a professional computer network engineer. He decided to make a 90° turn to develop what he most wanted to do- photography. As a professional photographer and graphic designer for over 12 years, he naturally evolved in the video world to make short films.

JOoWON SONG

JOOWON SONG is a professional contemporary dance choreographer and dance film director based in Seoul, South Korea. She focuses on the historical places in the urban city using contemporary dance. Using the body movement, she asks life questions through dance film. Since 2013, she started her research for the Pung Jeong. Gak(風精.刻) series, a site-specific dance film and performance project to revive the city space and produced film episodes and performances so far. Song received the Best Piece Award for the Seoul Dance Film Festival (2017), and Audience Jury Award in Cinema at the 18th Seoul International New Media Festival (2018). Her films were recently screened at the Dance and Media Japan International Dance Film Festival 2019 and will be screened at the Jumping Frames Hong Kong in 2019.