Directores

QAFF 2025

Daresha Kyi Director / United States Daresha writes, produces, and directs both narrative and documentary films and television in Spanish and English. A graduate of NYU Film School, she recently completed Battleground Georgia, a documentary about voter suppression in the sought for MSNBC Films' series The Turning Point executive produced by Trevor Noah. Mama Bears, her second feature documentary about how conservative, Christian mothers are transformed when they decide to accept their LGBTQ children	Dwayne LeBlanc Director / United States Dwayne LeBlanc is a Los Angeles based, first generation, Caribbean-American artist and filmmaker. Primarily self taught, his multimedia practice focuses on themes of migration, visibility and dual identities. His debut narrative short film, Civic, an introspective short film about homecoming, was awarded a production grant from Ghetto Film School and Netflix and was simultaneously developed at Berlinale Talents Short Form Station.	Claudia Marcela Angulo Murcia Director / Colombia Passionate about storytelling and video clips, Claudia Marcela studied Audiovisual Communication and Multimedia. Later in Buenos Aires she began her studies in dramaturgy, screenwriting and acting. Her independent projects, both audiovisual and theatrical, are nurtured by her experience in the field as first assistant director of national and international series and soap operas of all kinds. She has also professionally explored fiction and non-fiction writing.
Nuno Boaventura Miranda Director / Cabo Verde Nuno Boaventura Miranda is a Cape Verdean director, screenwriter, cinematographer, and editor, based in Lisbon. He is celebrated for crafting poetic, introspective films that explore identity, memory, and belonging across islands and diaspora. His debut documentary Kmêdeus: Eat God premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2020. His recent short, The Last Harvest (2024), centers on Cape Verdean immigrants...	Abbesi Akhamie Director / Nigeria Born in Heidelberg, Germany, Abbesi Akhamie is a Nigerian-American filmmaker and educator working between Lagos and Washington DC. She received her MFA in Film from New York University and holds a BA in Communications from George Mason University. Her work focuses on Africa and diaspora experiences as well as the politics of culture and identity. Her debut short film, Still Water Runs Deep (2017), premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and won Best Student Short	Baloji Director / DR Congo Baloji, born in Lubumbashi, Democratic Republic of the Congo (1978), is a multidisciplinary artist—a rapper, poet, filmmaker, art director, and costume designer based in Belgium. Contemporary And. His feature debut, Augure (Omen, 2023), premiered in Cannes’ Un Certain Regard competition and won the New Voice Prize. The film, a powerful blend of magical realism and cultural memory, was Belgium’s
Ángela Carabalí Director / Colombia Ángela Carabalí, documentalista y docente universitaria, con títulos de maestría (con honores) en Cine Documental de la UPB Colombia y máster en Fotografía Documental de la Escuela EFTI de Madrid. Socia fundadora de la compañía Carabalí Films & New Media, que aborda temas sociales, étnicos y narrativas transmedia. Es directora, guionista y coproductora del documental interactivo "Pregoneros de Medellín", reconocido internacionalmente (Dok Leipzig, Docubase del MIT).	Ahmed Zitouni Director / Algeria Born in Algiers in 1992, Ahmed Zitouni is a theater, cinema and television actor. It begins with by Actarus Ahmed Aksas at the age of 18 and quickly appeared in several series for Algerian television. In the cinema he crosses paths, among others, with Mohamed Chouikh in “L’Andalou”, Damien Ounouri in “Kindil Al-Bahr” and “The Last Queen”, Belkacem Hadjadj in “La berceuse rouge”. Ahmed is also an artistic director specializing in post-production in television and cinema.	Alice Mendy Director / Switzerland Alicia Mendy is a Swiss filmmaker of Senegalese and Italian descent, born in Lausanne in 2000. After initially studying sociology, she graduated in cinema from HEAD–Genève in 2023. Her debut short Beutset (The Dawn, 2023) — made in Wolof — won Best Swiss School Film at Winterthur and Best Direction at Rio Curtas. Her visionary work blends fantasy, science fiction, spirituality, and Afro‑descendant heritage into poignant, genre-bending cinema.
Andrés Mosquera Director / Colombia	Johanné Gómez Terrero Director / Dominican Republic Johanné Gómez Terrero is an Afro-diasporic artist who positions her work within a Caribbean and decolonial framework. Her field of interest and study encompasses Complex Thinking, Anti-Racist Struggle, and Marronage Cinema. The short documentary 'Caribbean Fantasy' sparked her career as a director. She is also involved as a producer and consultant in various development labs.	Arthur Musah Director / Ghana Arthur Musah is a filmmaker from Ghana, Ukraine, and the United States. His 50-minute Naija Beta (2016) played at festivals in the U.S., Africa and Europe, and won the Roxbury International Film Festival’s Best Documentary Short and the Silicon Valley African Film Festival’s Achievement in Documentary awards, among others. Arthur studied filmmaking in the M.F.A. program at the University of Southern California as an Annenberg Fellow.
AYOUB LAYOUSSIFI, ZAHOUA RAJI Director / Morocco Ayoub Layoussifi is a Moroccan actor, writer, and director. He trained at the Actors Studio in Paris and holds a Master’s in Directing and Creation from University Paris VIII. His acclaimed work Chikha (2024), which earned Best Director at the Arab Film Festival Rotterdam - Zahoua Raji studied photography at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts. With experience as a makeup artist and costume designer across Moroccan cinema, she co-directed and co-wrote Chikha (2024)...	Badewa Ajibade Director / Nigeria Badewa Ajibade is a Nigerian film artist. Badewa was initially trained in filmmaking at the Toronto Film School in Canada. He also holds an MFA (Master of Fine Arts) film production degree from Concordia University, Montreal, Canada where he researched loss, the subconscious and variances of African queer sexuality. He has written, directed and produced 5 short films in addition to a feature documentary. His work has been screened around the world	Bassma Farah Nancy Director / Egypt Bassma Farah Nancy is a versatile artist with a bachelor's degree in Art Direction in Cinema and Theater from the Faculty of Fine Arts at Helwan University. She is also a graduate of Ramses College in 2012, and the Jesuit Cairo Film School in Egypt in 2022. Currently, Bassma works as a filmmaker, editor, actor, photographer, storyboard artist, singer, and music composer. She currently works as an international press guest relations manager at the Cairo International Film Fest
Cecilia Fontenele Director / Brazil Born in Pernambuco, they moved to João Pessoa, Paraíba, where they still live. In 2021, they wrote, directed, and co-produced their first short film, "Aláfia". In 2022, they produced, wrote, and directed the short film "Ayana Nos Contou" with Caio Costa Dornelas, which is currently in post-production. They work as a screenwriter, director, and executive producer in short films from Paraíba	Modou Dieng Director / Senegal Modou Dieng is a Senegalese producer, screenwriter, and director, and CEO of Rebel Film SN. Trained in graphic design and editing at Global Systems Technology, he has worked with top production houses such as Glosystech, AFM Studio, Malcom Production, and TV1 Africa. He has also held senior creative roles in major Senegalese companies, including CCBM, EBG Digitalstores, and REGIOSIS – XAAMGA.TV. As co-founder of Rebel Film SN, Modou co-directed and produced the short film...	Ousmane Hanne Director / Senegal Ousmane Hanne is a sound engineer, screenwriter, and filmmaker with a background in graphic design. A graduate of Studio Factory, he has worked with major production houses including Studio Factory, Glosystech, AFM Studio, Malcom Production, TV1 Africa, and Pikini Prod. His credits include contributions to projects such as Garmi, Xërëm, Les Pleurs de l’âme, Jigën, Beew, Takander, Damay Tekki, and DSR. Twice, he has participated in Kino filmmaker gatherings in Senegal...
Chloé Aicha Boro Director / Burkina Faso French-Burkinabé writer and director, Chloé Aïcha BORO, after studying modern literature, began her career as a journalist in print, radio, and television. Her first novel, Paroles d’orpheline, was published by L’Harmattan. Since 2012, she has directed four independent documentary films. Her first feature-length fiction film, Les Invertueuses, was selected for the official competition at FESPACO 2025.	Claudia Castellanos Hernández Director / Colombia Producer, Director and screenwriter. Audiovisual director. Cultural manager from Colombia. She founded the audiovisual production company and foundation Hicotea Films. With over a decade of experience in community engagement and empowerment initiatives with grassroots communities, including women, farmers, youth, Afro-descendant populations, Indigenous peoples, and the LGBTIQ+ social sector. Winner of various distinctions for her independent documentary	Abraham Kamara Director / Mali
Cyrill Noyalet Director / France First a projectionist and manager of a traveling cinema, Cyrill Noyalet is a filmmaker trained at La Fémis. He specialized in ethnographic documentaries, drawing inspiration from the concept of “shared anthropology” pioneered by Jean Rouch.	Danielle Villanova Director / Brazil Danielle is a cisgender woman of mixed race, born and raised in the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. She has been working as an audiovisual producer for over 10 years. She was the Executive Producer of "FICO TE DEVENDO UMA CARTA SOBRE O BRASIL" (doc, 2019, 88’, dir. Carol Benjamin) – Honorable Mention of the Official Jury at IDFA 2019 and at É Tudo Verdade 2020; Co-Producer and Executive Producer of "ESPERO QUE ESTE TE ENCONTRE E QUE ESTEJAS BEM" (doc, 2022, 84’, dir. Natara	David Lasso Director / Ecuador Ecuadorian filmmaker, cultural manager, and audiovisual educator. His work focuses on the ancestral knowledge of Indigenous and Afro-descendant communities, exploring the relationship between culture and nature through permaculture. He has directed community cinema projects such as Rodando en Corto and the Cine Mochila film club. His feature debut, Guañuna (2022), has been recognized at festivals in Latin America, Europe, and Africa for its ethical and poetic perspective.
Demba Konate Director / France Demba Konate is self-educated when it comes to cinema. He starts directing in 2014 during the Génération Court film festival in Aubervilliers. Owner of a Master in Politic Sciences, he is a social worker and intrervenes at the Pôle Emploi with incarcerated people to help them with their re-insertion. I	Donna Sibande Director / South Africa Born in a small town called Witbank in South Africa, Donna Sibande is an award-winning filmmaker whose emotionally resonant storytelling has earned international acclaim. She is a South African Film and Television Award winner for Best Achievement in Scriptwriting in a Telenovela and was part of a hit series that was nominated for an International Emmy. She’s also received the Excellence Award at the WRPN Women’s International Film Festival for her directorial work...	Ebony Marie Bailey Director / Mexico Ebony Bailey is a documentary filmmaker from Central California whose work explores cultural intersections, diaspora and social movements. Her documentaries have screened at film festivals and universities in the US, Latin America and Europe. She has produced visual media for organizations such as Mijente, LA Times, NPR and Africa is a Country.
Eleggua Luna Laverde Director / Colombia Afrocaribbean trans artist from Mercado de Bazurto, Cartagena de Indias, inspired by Yemayá and the Caribbean Sea to tell stories from childhood, which helped her discover herself and survive in a complex environment. Left at seventeen and graduated with honors in Scenic Arts from the National Pedagogical University of Bogotá. Her work focuses on queer black and afroindigenous lives through intimate and community centered perspectives.	Elena Herminia Guzman Director / United States Elena Herminia Guzman is an Afro-Boricua director and producer raised in the Bronx with deep roots in the LES. As an educator, she teaches feminist filmmaking, Black cinema, production, and visual anthropology. Her work as a filmmaker has been supported by PBS, Black Public Media, the Independent Public Media Foundation, and the Scribe Foundation amongst others.	Germain Le Carpentier Director / Mayotte Germain is a screenwriter, director and cinematographer who lives in Mayotte, in the Indian Ocean. After studying graphic design, he multiplied the cinematographic experiences between Europe, the United States and Argentina. Since 2020, he has mainly dedicated himself to making short films. First with a diptych on faith and mourning: The Beginnings (2020), awarded at Brest European Short Film Festival, then The Sky Has Been Broken (2022), shot in an active abbey and presented
Hachimiya Ahamada Director / Belgium Hachimiya Ahamada studied directing at INSAS, Belgium. Zanatany is her second fiction film. With this project, she continues her work on the trajectories of the Comorian diaspora to which she belong. Between fiction and observation of reality, she builds a universe whose narrative deepens her relationship to her roots. Ylang Ylang Residence, her first short film, has been selected many times in international festivals.	Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí Director / Colombia Indigenous of the Embera Chamí people, audiovisual and multimedia communicator, director and producer. With experience working as a researcher and workshop leader in indigenous communities in Colombia in territories of Antioquia, Nariño, Guajira, Caldas and the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta.	John Agudelo Director / Colombia Productor, Director, guionista y montajista de cine y televisión de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia, con más de 12 años de experiencia en cine y tv. Entre sus proyectos más destacados están los cortometrajes “El camino a La Soledad”, “Gilberto Cava” y “Yolanda Camila Sola” con los que participó en más de 50 festivales nacionales e internacionales, ganando múltiples reconocimientos.
JOHN VAN AIGLON, TWANA SHERIYA Directors / DR Congo	Juan Felipe León Director / Colombia Juan Felipe León. Quindío, Colombia. Filmmaker from the Universidad Nacional de Colombia with studies in direction of actors at the EICTV - San Antonio de los Baños, Cuba. His work has focused on the cinematographic portrait from an authorial approach, exploring hybrid formats and based on a transdisciplinary development of knowledge. His short films as director “Nilza” and “El Lobo” won the Colombian film development fund in 2023 and 2024.	Lucía Benamo Director / Argentina Audiovisual filmmaker and producer, editor, photographer, and dancer. Founder of La zona films (body darkroom/camera obscura). She studies movement through the image-body.
Daniela Romero Director / Colombia Butoh dancer, painter, and multidisciplinary artist. Her research explores the body as territory, a nexus of micropolitics and macropolitics.	Juan Fernando Uribe Director / Colombia Juan Fernando Uribe, director y productor audiovisual, ha desarrollado una notable trayectoria en el ámbito, dedicándose a la creación de historias y proyectos documentales. Su versatilidad se refleja en su colaboración con reconocidas productoras audiovisuales en Colombia, donde ha desempeñado roles destacados como montajista, director de fotografía, y director en proyectos que abarcan videoclips, comerciales, series y documentales.	Juliana Segóvia Director / Brazil Juliana Segóvia é cuiabana, cineasta, graduada em comunicação e mestre em Estudos de Cultura Contemporânea pela UFMT. Atua há 8 anos no audiovisual. Desenvolve ações na área de arte-educação para instituições como o Sesc e para projetos municipais e estaduais. É uma das integrantes fundadoras e atuantes do Coletivo Audiovisual Negro Quariterê - MT.
Lisa A Maydwell Director / United States Lisa Maydwell was born and raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She moved to Indianapolis to pursue her third career as an Elementary School Teacher. Ms. Maydwell taught in the MSD Decatur Township school system for seventeen years, where her peers selected her as the 2015 Teacher of the Year. Lisa decided to follow her dreams and relocate to Atlanta, Georgia to pursue her dreams of filmmaking and entrepreneurship.	Kenlo Primate Director / La Réunion Kenlo Primate, whose real name is Christophe Sautron, was born and raised in the highlands of Réunion Island, a place rich in history where the small Creole houses often depicted in postcards conceal a past marked by slavery and colonialism. This background deeply influences his work and his vision of cinema. After studying audiovisual production at the Institut de l'Image de l'Océan Indien, Kenlo began making music videos for his band Primate Nggz.	Kwesi Awotwi Director / United Kingdom Kwesi Awotwi b.1992 is both a visual artist and film maker based in Hackney, East London. Kwesi started painting before picking up a camera. In 2021 he made his first short film 'Tree of Roots' before attending Met Film School to learn Practical filmmaking. Kwesi's aim as a director is to tell stories with an artistic frame of mind.
Maica Gugolati Director / Colombia PhD in anthropology of art and performance, artist, movie maker, and author. Feminist decolonial thinker. Scholars specialized in the Caribbean region, Black studies, and urban dance. Invisible disable dancer. Living between Cali, Colombia and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.	Marcos Alexandre Director / Brazil Marcos Alexandre is a screenwriter, director and producer with a degree in Audiovisual Production. He has a Master's Degree in Screenwriting from the Chavón institution and a Master's Degree in Cinematographic Direction from the AIC. He was part of the 2023 class of Netflix's accelerator program for black and indigenous screenwriters. He is a partner and founder of the production company Gran Maître Filmes, founded in Salvador.	MAUD-SALOMÉ EKILA BOFUNDA Director / DR Congo Maud-Salomé Ekila is Congolese and lives in Kinshasa. She is a journalist, reporter and director. Pan-Africanists and grassroots activist in Congolese civil society, she is spokesperson for Urgences Panafricanistes, the citizen organization and movement of Kemi Seba. She worked for several years for Congolese television channels and radio stations as well as on several channels broadcasting in different French-speaking African countries, Europe and the USA.
Mouhamadou Makhtar Diao Director / Senegal Mouhamadou Makhtar Diao is a young Senegalese filmmaker. Yadikoon is the first short film he co-directed with his fellow students at the Kourtrajmé Dakar School.	Nadi Saddy, Nuits Balnéaires Director / Côte d’Ivoire Brand designer and self-taught filmmaker, Nadi Saddy explores surfing as a powerful lever for cultural transformation in Côte d’Ivoire. Having grown up between Abidjan and the beaches of Assinie, he dreamed of waves he believed were out of reach. It was in California, during his studies, that he discovered surfing—a revelation that reshaped his perception of the Ivorian coastline. Upon returning home, he founded Surf Côte d’Ivoire	Natalie Jasmine Harris Director / United States Natalie Jasmine Harris is an award-winning Black queer filmmaker from Maryland. Her work is centered around a mission to tell stories that capture coming-of-age experiences and reimagine liberation for marginalized communities. Natalie's forthcoming short film, GRACE, had its world premiere at The 2024 Sundance Film Festival. She has participated in artist programs with Film at Lincoln Center, GLAAD, SFFILM, and Outfest. Natalie is currently a 2024/2025 Sundance Ignite
Oluwaseun Babalola Director / United States Oluwaseun Babalola is an award-winning director, 2x Emmy-nominated producer, DOC NYC 40 under 40 Honoree, exhibited photographer, and nonprofit founder/executive director. She has produced for networks such as CNN, HBO, CNBC, PBS, Netflix, AMC, Starz, and The Africa Channel. Her passion for storytelling led to the creation of Kosinima, Inc. This nonprofit provides funding and career support for African and African diaspora creatives, including two short film grant funds	Othmane Saadouni Director / Morocco After studying computer science, Othmane Saadouni decided to enroll in the Higher School of Visual Arts in Marrakech. He started to develop his artistic spirit well by studying directing. He accumulated many artistic and creative residencies with international choreographers and dance companies while maintaining his association with cinema where he worked as the first assistant director in short films and directed many videos for young rappers in his hometown.	Pablo Cesar Director / Argentina Pablo César is Argentine, born in Buenos Aires in 1962. He is the only Latin American filmmaker who has dedicated himself for more than 20 years to dealing with African themes, filming in Africa, and addressing issues related to Afro-descendants and the African cultural legacy in Argentine society. Pablo has been dedicated to professional cinema since 1987.
Pascal Tessaud Director / France Pascal Tessaud was born in Paris from a working class family. He earned a Master's degree in Cinema and Literature at Nanterre Université Paris X. After three years as social worker in Saint Denis, he directed awarded short films "Noctambules" (World film fest Montreal) with the palestinian actress Hiam Abbass, "Noura's summer" (Fuji award at Grenoble, New York African film fest, Rooftop film of Brooklyn, Fipa Biarritz, Unesco Paris)	Resem Verkron, Marc Serena Directors / Angola Resem Verkron (1999) is part of the two most exciting cultural movements in Luanda: the street art Verkron Collective (from which he takes his surname) and Geração 80, the leading art-house cinema production company. Marc Serena (1983) codirected the award-winning feature doc “Tchindas” (2015), which won 13 prizes in festivals such as Outfest Los Angeles (US), was nominated at the African Oscars in Nigeria (AMAA Awards) and was broadcast at PBS (US).	Robert Asimba Ngoge, Ras Mutabaruka Directors / Botswana Robert Asimba is a filmmaker with a background in telecommunications engineering . Over the years, he has honed his craft in cinematography, directing, and editing—traveling across Africa to capture compelling, human-centered stories on film.
Rodrigo Sena Sena Director / Brazil Rodrigo Sena diretor premiado por seus curtas "O Menino do Dente de Ouro", vencedor da Mostra de Gostoso, e "Cuscuz Peitinho", premiado no Festival de Cinema de Vitória, além de "A Tradicional Família Brasileira Katu", premiado no Festival de Cinema de Brasília. Escreveu dirigiu e fotografou "Encantarias", uma série de TV com 3 ep , atualmente desenvolvendo seu primeiro longa-metragem	Rubén Abruña, Juan Carlos García Director / Puerto Rico In 2023 Rubén Abruña completed «Holy Shit: Can Poop Save the World?» a multiple award-winning documentary about the recycling of human excrement into fertilizer to grow food and produce energy, which the renowned German magazine Der Spiegel highlighted by saying: «...an excremental film as instructive as it is exciting, deftly helping its viewers to overcome any existing threshold of disgust within a few minutes.»	Seydina Mouhamed Ndiaye Director / Senegal
TAMNOU KOLOKO, SARAH DAUPHINE TCHOUATCHA Director / Cameroon Tamnou KOLOKO began his career in filmmaking in 2006 as an actor in the series "Trois filles deux garçons," produced by L NDZANA and broadcast on tv5 Monde. A graduate in performing arts and cinema with a specialization in audiovisual production from the University of Yaoundé I, he learned the basics of filmmaking and undertook professional audiovisual training at the Institut des Arts et Techniques Audiovisuelles de Namur, Belgium	Timeea Mohamed Ahmed Director / Sudan Timeea Mohamed Ahmed is an award-winning Sudanese film director, editor, and producer whose work focuses on experimental and documentary cinema. His films explore themes of conflict, identity, and cultural resilience, and have been screened at major festivals across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. He is best known for Khartoum (2025), which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and received multiple honors at the Berlin International Film Festival.	Vilma Carla Martins Director / Brazil Screenwriter/Director, Producer and Curator. Master in Film Analysis from Federal University of Bahia (UFBA 2017) and in Film Curation from Elias Quejeta Zine Eskola (EQZE - Spain 2022). She has studied in Université Paris Ouest Nanterre de La Defense (2014 - 2015), Escuela de cine y TV de Santo Antonio de Los Baños (EICTV 2019), Academia Internacional de Cinema (AIC 2020) and others. Member of Association of Black Audiovisual Professionals (APAN)
Vitor Bitencourt Rocha Director / Brazil Director’s biography (Brazilian Portuguese and English) Vítor Rocha was born in Salvador, Brazil, and is a director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is the head of the production companies Caranguejeira Filmes and Abará Filmes, where he is also responsible for distributing films for movie theaters and others.	Zoey Martinson Director / Ghana Zoey Martinson is a comedy and genre writer and director. In theater she’s written and directed Off-Broadway and internationally. MFA NYU Tisch. Her feature The Fisherman debut at the Venice Biennale Film Festival winning the Fellini Medal from UNESCO's 36th Enrico Fulchignoni Prize. For television, she wrote and directed Incomplete on Hulu’s/ Disney+ Bite Size Halloween that was nominated for an NAACP Image Award 2023.

DIRECTORES

Daresha Kyi

Dwayne LeBlanc

Claudia Marcela Angulo Murcia

Nuno Boaventura Miranda

Abbesi Akhamie

Baloji

Ángela Carabalí

Ahmed Zitouni

Alice Mendy

Andrés Mosquera

Director / Colombia

Johanné Gómez Terrero

Arthur Musah

AYOUB LAYOUSSIFI, ZAHOUA RAJI

Badewa Ajibade

Bassma Farah Nancy

Cecilia Fontenele

Modou Dieng

Ousmane Hanne

Chloé Aicha Boro

Claudia Castellanos Hernández

Abraham Kamara

Director / Mali

Cyrill Noyalet

Director / France First a projectionist and manager of a traveling cinema, Cyrill Noyalet is a filmmaker trained at La Fémis. He specialized in ethnographic documentaries, drawing inspiration from the concept of “shared anthropology” pioneered by Jean Rouch.

Danielle Villanova

David Lasso

Demba Konate

Donna Sibande

Ebony Marie Bailey

Eleggua Luna Laverde

Elena Herminia Guzman

Germain Le Carpentier

Hachimiya Ahamada

Irati Dojura Landa Yagarí

John Agudelo

JOHN VAN AIGLON, TWANA SHERIYA

Directors / DR Congo

Juan Felipe León

Lucía Benamo

Director / Argentina Audiovisual filmmaker and producer, editor, photographer, and dancer. Founder of La zona films (body darkroom/camera obscura). She studies movement through the image-body.

Daniela Romero

Director / Colombia Butoh dancer, painter, and multidisciplinary artist. Her research explores the body as territory, a nexus of micropolitics and macropolitics.

Juan Fernando Uribe

Juliana Segóvia

Lisa A Maydwell

Kenlo Primate

Kwesi Awotwi

Maica Gugolati

Director / Colombia PhD in anthropology of art and performance, artist, movie maker, and author. Feminist decolonial thinker. Scholars specialized in the Caribbean region, Black studies, and urban dance. Invisible disable dancer. Living between Cali, Colombia and Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago.

Marcos Alexandre

MAUD-SALOMÉ EKILA BOFUNDA

Mouhamadou Makhtar Diao

Director / Senegal Mouhamadou Makhtar Diao is a young Senegalese filmmaker. Yadikoon is the first short film he co-directed with his fellow students at the Kourtrajmé Dakar School.

Nadi Saddy, Nuits Balnéaires

Natalie Jasmine Harris

Oluwaseun Babalola

Othmane Saadouni

Pablo Cesar

Pascal Tessaud

Resem Verkron, Marc Serena

Robert Asimba Ngoge, Ras Mutabaruka

Directors / Botswana Robert Asimba is a filmmaker with a background in telecommunications engineering . Over the years, he has honed his craft in cinematography, directing, and editing—traveling across Africa to capture compelling, human-centered stories on film.

Rodrigo Sena Sena

Rubén Abruña, Juan Carlos García

Seydina Mouhamed Ndiaye

Director / Senegal

TAMNOU KOLOKO, SARAH DAUPHINE TCHOUATCHA

Timeea Mohamed Ahmed

Vilma Carla Martins

Vitor Bitencourt Rocha

Zoey Martinson