Tanxuan Shi completed his MFA in filmmaking from New York Film Academy. He directed the first commercial short Misdirection in New Academic Style at Beijing Film Academy and devoted himself to explore the localization of “Movie Universal” during his postgraduate stage in Hollywood. His film Lip Reader: Game of Detective won the “Best New Chinese Filmmaker Award” at the 23rd LA Shorts Los Angeles International Short Film Festival which is certified by the Academy Award.

Born in 1991 Graduated from the director of the film from the Iran Broadcasting University Making several short documentary and story short films Winner of numerous awards from national and international festivals

Born 1986 in Mazandaran, Iran. 2011- BA in Particle Physics, Mazandaran University. 2015- BA in cinema, Iranian Youth Cinema Society. An interest in cinema led Askarpour to begin studying editing and after effect and work in short film and documentaries. He graduated of cinema in IYCS. His first short film, Frame 2017. To date, he has made four independent short films and work as a Editor and after effect supervising in many projects. Now he teaching cinema in IYCS. Frame 2017 Selected in Five Continents International Film Festival and South Cinematographic Academy Film & Arts and won award in Apadana Film Festival.

In 2007 Sorin graduated from the National University of Theatre and Cinematography in Bucharest, where he studied Acting. In 2010 he co-wrote with Vera Ion an autobiographical theatre play: “Ich Clown” the story of a young Romanian actor immigrating to Germany to work as a street artist. In 2010, alongside writer Vera Ion, he founded and started teaching in the “Write Yourself” workshop in Bucharest where participants write scripts documenting their personal stories. Here, Sorin started to direct short films, following stories developed in the workshop. In 2015, “A girl I went to school with” won the Villa Kult Residency Award at the Next IFF in Bucharest. In August 2016 Sorin is selected for the Sarajevo Talent Campus. In 2018 “Ionuț and Călin” is selected in the National Competition at the Transilvania IFF in Cluj and Next IFF in Bucharest where it receives the Award for Best Romanian Short Film. In 2019 Ionut and Calin was selected to be screened at the Cannes Court Metrage and received an Official Selection from the PÖFF Shorts Black Nights Film Festival in Tallinn and the Pride Pictures Film Festival in Karlsruhe. It was also selected in competition at the Este Film Festival 2019 in Sibiu and the Gay Film Nights Film Festival in Cluj.

Valérie Lecomte wrote, directed, played in and co-produced ‘Claire de Lune’, her first Canadian short film. She had already written, directed, played in and produced a short film, in Paris, before immigrating to Canada. Now French and Canadian, she created Iridis Production with a co-producer, in Toronto, their goal being to keep on producing bilingual films, embracing French and Canadian cultures. Filmography: À Coeur ouvert (2005) Claire de Lune (2020)