Ewa Stern

Shary Boyle: Heartburn Porcelain, Colour, 9 minutes, English, 2009
Ewa Stern is production manager and chief editor at CastYourArt in Vienna, Austria, a company that makes documentaries about artists, museums, exhibitions and other art-related themes. After immigrating to Canada from Poland in the 1990s, Stern studied in Montreal and worked as a visual researcher there at Images en Boîte.

Jannik Splidsboel

HOW ARE YOU, Colour, 70 minutes, English and Danish with English subtitles, 2011
Jannik Splidsboel grew up in Copenhagen, Denmark. He has worked as an assistant director and production manager on several projects and has been mainly making documentaries since 1999. Aside from filmmaking, Splidsboel teaches in various international institutions.

Ewa Stern

Michel de Broin: Matters of Circulation, Colour, 6 minutes, English, 2008
Ewa Stern is production manager and chief editor at CastYourArt in Vienna, Austria, a company that makes documentaries about artists, museums, exhibitions and other art-related themes. After immigrating to Canada from Poland in the 1990s, Stern studied in Montreal and worked as a visual researcher there at Images en Boîte.

Gaukur Úlfarsson

Gnarr, Colour, 90 minutes, Icelandic with English subtitles, 2010
Gaukur Úlfarsson has established himself as one of Iceland’s most dangerous and outspoken directors over the last decade. He has directed and produced many television shows over the years, his most notable being The Silvia Night Show, in which he plays the show’s host, Silvia Night. Recently, Úlfarsson has done work for the National TV where he has directed and produced documentaries and news-related shows.

Zara Hayes

Tacita Dean, Colour, 11 minutes, English, 2011
Zara Hayes has worked as a documentary filmmaker ever since her graduation from Cambridge University in 2004. She has made films about visual arts for BBC Four and Tate Britain. One of her latest projects involved making a film with artist Ai Weiwei.

Ralph Goertz

Thomas Ruff, Colour, 50 minutes, German with English subtitles, 2011
Ralph Goertz is the founder of Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie (IKS) in Düsseldorf, Germany, a company specializing in documentaries about contemporary art. Starting his career as a stage director, Goertz now works as a curator, filmmaker, television journalist and producer.

Caroline Deeds

Chris Ofili: Exploding the Crystal, Colour, 15 minutes, English, 2010
Caroline Deeds studied fine art at the Central St. Martin’s School of Art. Upon her graduation, she taught and ran storytelling workshops in Nigeria, before returning to the UK to be an assistant editor for commercials and promos. Deeds has experimented with different storytelling traditions in the making and shooting of her films.

Corinna Belz

Gerhard Richter Painting, Colour, 97 minutes, German and English with English subtitles, 2011
Corinna Belz studied philosophy, art history and media sciences in Cologne, Zurich and Berlin. She is an actor, writer and documentary filmmaker. Belz has worked on television productions and feature-length films of various genres.

Susan Doyon

Gabriel Orozco, Colour, 9 minutes, English, 2011
Susan Doyon graduated from the Theatre Department at Montreal’s Concordia University. She has lived in Japan and Canada working as a producer and a freelance theatre director. She works on a variety of broadcast programs for ACA Films, BBC, Tate, Channel 4 and Discovery International.

Roz Owen and Jim Miller

Portrait of Resistance: The Art and Activism of Carole Condé & Karl Beveridge, Colour, 72 minutes, English, 2011
Roz Owen, together with her partner Jim Miller, set up Anti-Amnesiac Productions in 2006 with the aim of creating memorable, socially engaged media. In 2008, their short documentary “Community Matters” won the OAAG visual Art Film Award. She has worked both collaboratively with Miller and independently on various projects and films.

Ralph Goertz

Mark Dion, Colour, 16 minutes, English, 2011
Ralph Goertz is the founder of IKS (Institut für Kunstdokumentation und Szenografie) in Düsseldorf, Germany, a company specializing in documentaries about contemporary art. Starting his career as a stage director, Goertz now works as a curator, filmmaker, television journalist and producer.

Peter Scharf

Oliviero Toscani: The Rage of Images, Colour, 44 minutes, English and Italian with English subtitles, 2010
Peter Scharf was born in Hagen, Germany. He studied history, German linguistics and Anglo-American history at the University of Köln. He worked for many years as a freelance journalist, mainly for music magazines and broadcasters, such as MTV and VIVA. Since 2000, Scharf has directed several documentary films.

Katja Duregger

Oliviero Toscani: The Rage of Images, Colour, 44 minutes, English and Italian with English subtitles, 2010
Katja Duregger was born in Stuttgart, Germany and studied at the Universities of Köln, Tübingen and Marbug. She worked for various radio stations and television production companies, before turning in 2000 to freelance television journalism and documentary filmmaking.

The Selby

Christine Sun Kim, A Selby Film, Colour, 10 minutes, English, 2011
The Selby is a project by Brooklyn-based artist Todd Selby that offers an insider’s view of creative individuals in their personal spaces. Over the last few years, The Selby has gained increasing popularity, contributing to several well-known publications and collaborating with top companies such as Louis Vuitton and Hennessy.

Giampiero D’Angeli

Massimo Vitali, Colour, 50 minutes, Italian with English subtitles, 2011
Giampiero D’Angeli is an Italian director living in Paris. He has directed over 20 documentaries about contemporary artists, including Maurizio Galimberti, Mimmo Jodice, Ferdinando Scianna and Gabriele Basilico.

James Price

Rachel Whiteread, Colour, 8 minutes, English, 2010
James Price received his MA in Documentary Direction at the National Film and television School in the UK. He has been a lecturer in filmmaking at the School of Arts and Media at the University of Brighton and, since 2008, he has run the production company Field Studies Ltd.

Jason Cohn

Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Colour, 84 minutes, 2011
Jason Cohn produced various PBS programs prior to the making of his first feature documentary, Eames: The Architect and the Painter. As a public-radio reporter, producer and managing editor, Jason covered the culture of technology for Beyond Computers, and issues of Asian art, culture and politics for the nationally syndicated program Pacific Time. He has written documentaries for National Geographic and PBS, and his articles have appeared in various major periodicals.

Bill Jersey

Eames: The Architect and the Painter, Colour, 84 minutes, 2011
Bill Jersey has been producing documentaries for broadcast television for over forty years. In the early 1960s he established his reputation as one of the pioneers of the cinéma-vérité movement. Since then he has produced documentaries for all of the major networks and in association with PBS, WNET New York, KCET Los Angeles, WGBH Boston, and others.