ANTOINE THIRION
French film critic and programmer, Antoine was born in 1981. He is a member of the selection committees of the Locarno Film Festival, as well as of Cinéma du Réel. He wrote for Cahiers du Cinéma from 2001 to 2009, co-founded the website Independencia and published in various magazines and collective works. He has curated retrospectives at the Jeu de Paume and at the FID Marseille. He is an occasional screenwriter and author, including two projects with Raya Martin, How He Died Is Controversial (2015) and UNdocumenta (2016).
ASLI ÖZGE
After making her feature debut in 2009 with the acclaimed drama Men on the Bridge, which premiered at Locarno and Toronto Film Festivals, award-winning filmmaker Aslı Özge wrote and directed Lifelong (2013) and the German-language All of a Sudden (2016), both of which premiered at Berlin Film Festival; the latter feature won both Europa Cinemas Special Label and Fipresci Awards. In 2019 Özge directed a mini-series Dunkelstadt, in Belgium for German Tv ZDF-Neo. At the moment she is working on her recent project, Black Box. Özge is born in Istanbul and based in Berlin.
RENAN ARTUKMAÇ
Producer and international distributor. He has been involved in the worldwide distribution of many award-winner films. He also participated in the production of internationally well-received features, such as Golden Globes nominee Neruda by Pablo Larrain and Venice Days winner Return to Ithaca by Laurent Cantet. This year he joined Elle Driver, as Sales & Acquisitions Manager.