Barbet Schroeder

Director

Barbet Schroeder was born in 1941, in Tehran, Iran, and he grew up in Colombia.

Luis Miguel Cintra

Actor, stage director

An iconic actor and stage director in Portugal, Luís Miguel Cintra was born in Madrid, in 1949.

Jonathan Demme

Director

The cinematic work of Jonathan Demme (1944, USA) dwells in different areas.

Wim Wenders

Director, writer, photographer

Wim Wenders is one of the most important figures in contemporary German film

Nanni Moretti

Director

Born in 1953, Giovanni Moretti, known in cinema as Nanni Moretti, is one of the most important and awarded contemporary Italian directors

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

Director

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg, German filmmaker born in Nossendorf in 1935, is the author of truly unique set of works.

David Gordon Green

Producer

Green grew up in Dallas, Austin and Longview, Texas. He was “obsessed” with cinema from a very young age.

Laurie Anderson

Producer, Multimedia artist

Laurie Anderson will present at the LEFFEST her new film Heart of a Dog

Andrzej Zulawski

Producer

Polish director Andrzej Żuławski studied cinema in France and his directing career was divided between the two countries

Bruno Ganz

Actor

Bruno Ganz is a Swiss actor with an internationally acclaimed career

Jerzy Skolimowski

Producer

Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland) is an actor, screenwriter and director

Benoît Jacquot

Producer

One of the most prolific filmmakers in French cinema.

Elia Suleiman

Producer

Elia Suleiman is a Palestinian actor and director, born in 1960. Known for his film Divine Intervention (2002), a modern dramedy about life in occupied Palestine

Otar Iosseliani

Producer

Otar Iosseliani (1934) is a filmmaker born in Georgia, but a significant part of his career was spent in Franc

Jessica Hausner

Producer

Jessica Hausner, director and screenwriter, was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1972.

Amos Gitai

Producer

Amos Gitai, born in Haifa, in 1950, is an Israeli author and director.

Bob Byington

Director, actor

Bob Byington (Nebraska,1971) est l’un des réalisateurs du mouvement d’Austin, tout en étant également scénariste et acteur.

Sara Driver

Producer

Sara Driver is an independent director who was part of the creative wave in downtown Manhattan from the late 70s

Martín Rejtman

Producer

Writer and director Martín Rejtman was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1961.

Nabil Ayouch

Director, producer, writer

Nabil Ayouch is one of the most internationally acknowledged Moroccan directors

João Salaviza

Director

João Salaviza é um realizador português premiado em diversos festivais de cinema

Kate Barker-Froyland

Director, writer

Kate Barker-Froyland is a writer and director, who graduated in directing form the University of Columbia.

Don DeLillo

Writer

Fiction, drama and essay writer, Donald Richard “Don” DeLillo (1936, USA) is the eldest son of an Italian family.

John Berger

Writer

John Berger iis one of the greatest writers of the last 50 years, with a vast work which unfolds into narrative fiction, poetry and essays

Juan Goytisolo

Writer

Juan Goytisolo is a Catalonian author and intellectual, born in 1931.

Hélia Correia

Writer

Portuguese author, born in Lisbon, in 1949.

Bernardo Carvalho

Writer

Born in 1960, Bernardo Carvalho is a Brazilian writer, journalist and translator

Piotr Anderszewski

Musician

One of the greatest pianists nowadays

Itamar Golan

Musician

Born in Vilnius, Lithuania, in 1970, Itamar Golan is a prestigious Israelite pianist.

Daniel Fish

Artist

Daniel Fish is an American stage director and artist

Kai Wiedenhöfer

Photographer

Kai Wiedenhöfer (1966) is a German photographer

Vincent Lindon

Actor

Vincent Lindon is a French actor, born in 1959, with a career spanning over thirty years.

Natsuko Inoue

Musician

Natsuko Inoue was born in Osaka, Japan, where she started her musical studies

Vera Mantero

Dancer and Coreographer

Choreographer and dancer, Vera Mantero studied classical dancing, under Anna Mascolo’s guidance.

Sabine Azéma

Actress

Sabine Azéma, French actress, was born in Paris, in 1949.

Yasmine Hamdan

Musician

Born in Lebanon in 1976, Yasmine Hamdan is a singer, composer and actress

Nicoletta Braschi

Actress

Nicoletta Braschi is an Italian actress, born in Cesena, in 1960.

Laetitia Casta

Actress

Born in 1978, Laetitia Casta is a French model and actress.

José Gil

Philosopher

Portuguese philosopher and essayist, born in 1939, in Mozambique.

Teresa Rita Lopes

Writer and Researcher

Teresa Rita Lopes, researcher, essayist and writer, was born in 1937, in Faro.

Andrei A. Tarkovsky

Photographer

Younger son of the director and Larissa Pavlovna, Andrei Andreievich is the chairman of the Andrei Tarkovsky International Institute

Pedro Gadanho

Architect and curator

Pedro Gadanho (1968) is an architect, curator and writer. He is the author of the blog Shrapnel Contemporary

Peter Pál Pelbart

Philosopher

Peter Pál Pelbart, born in 1956, is a Hungarian philosopher, essayist, professor and translator

Arnaud Villani

Philosopher

Born in 1944, Arnaud Villani is a French philosophy professor and poet.

Marie-Laure Bernadac

Curator

Marie-Laure Bernadac, born in 1950, is an honorary general curator, currently responsible for the contemporary art at the Louvre museum.

Lucienne Peiry

Researcher

Lucienne Peiry was the first woman to obtain a PhD in Art History from the University of Lausanne, her birthplace.

Cédric Villani

Mathematician

Cédric Villani is a renowned French mathematician, born in 1973, who was awarded the Fields Medal in 2010

Louis Black

Producer

Louis Black (USA, 1948) is a producer and an important agent in the Austin film scene.

Jean Douchet

Director

Jean Douchet, born in France, in 1929, is a filmmaker, historian, critic and cinema professor.

Françoise Davoine

Psychoanalyst

Psychoanalyst and PhD in Sociology, Françoise Davoine also possesses an “agrégé” in classical languages.

Alain Fleischer

Director

Born in 1944, in Paris, Alain Fleischer is a versatile artist, with works as a writer, director, photographer and visual artist.

Évelyne Grossman

Professor and Researcher

Évelyne Grossman is a professor of modern and contemporary literature at the Paris Diderot University – Paris 7.

Bernard Marcadé

Art Critic

Bernard Marcadé, born in Bordeaux, in 1948, is an art critic, professor and exhibit .

Ana Godinho

Researcher

Ana Godinho is a researcher at the Langauge Philosophy Institute of the New University of Lisbon

Bernard Eisenschitz

Historian

Born in 1944, in Saint-Calais, Bernard Eisenschitz is a cinema historian, programmer and translator.

Bruno Monsaingeon

Director, Writer and Musician

Bruno Monsaingeon is a French musician, director and writer, born in 1943.

Ivry Gitlis

Musician

Born in 1922, Ivry Gitlis is an Israeli violinist, who has performed witht he most prestigious philharmonic orchestras in the world

Bulle Ogier

Actress

Bulle Ogier (born in 1939) is a face, a body, a voice and a crucial name of the great European cinema

Geoff Marslett

Director, author, producer, animator and actor

Settles in Austin, Texas, Marslett has directed, among other projects, two successful feature films

Sandy Boone

Actress

Sandy Boone is linked to “Invasion of the Aluminum People”