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After studying filmmaking, and  creating several music clip videos for Hip Hop artists, Guillaume Noura directed two short films, including Myriam, Saint-Louis, in 2017, which are set in Reunion Island. 

The director is recipient of « Talent La Kour » in 2021, a support system of Cinékour in Reunion Island, in connection with the CNC’s program « Talent en Court ».

This residency allowed him to pitch the screenplay of Tan Lontan at Rencontres Talents en Court at Paris’ Comedy Club, where he was accompanied by the production company Vision K by Aminata Touré. On this occasion, he met France TV’s team, who bought his film after production. 

This film were supported by La Région Réunion in partnership with the CNC. 

Hachimiya Ahamada studied directing at INSAS, Belgium. Zanatany is her second fction flm. With this project, she continues her work on the trajectories of the Comorian diaspora to which she belongs. Between fction and observation of reality, she builds a universe whose narrative deepens her relationship to her roots. Ylang Ylang Residence, her frst short flm, has been selected many times in international festivals. From the International Critics’ Week at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival to the Arab Film Festival in Oran, including the Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage Festival in Tunis.

Ng’endo Mukii is an award-winning film director most well known for ‘Yellow Fever,’ her documentary-animation exploring Western influences on African women’s ideals of beauty. At the prestigious Design Indaba conference she presented her talk, ‘Film Taxidermy and Re-Animation,’ proposing the use of animation as a means of re-humanizing the ‘indigenous’ image; a people whose ‘real’ image is burdened with stereotypes of being the ‘Other.’ Ng’endo is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design, and holds a Master of Arts in Animation from the Royal College of Art. She is an alumni of the beautiful Berlinale Talents, the distinguished Urucu Media REALNESS Screenwriter’s Residency, and the incredible Goethe Institute Bahia Vila Sul artists’ residency. She is a Professor of the Practice at SMFA at TUFTS University in Boston, a writer on Netflix first African animated series, Supa Team 4. She is the writer-director of Enkai, an episode on the Disney+ animated anthology, Kizazi Moto: Generation Fire.

South African filmmaker with a background in Law and Economics. She holds an Honours degree in film from AFDA Film School in Cape Town. Her student film, Nongqawuse, received critical review and was selected as the South African entry for the Escolas section of the BRICS film festival 2019. Sandulela is the winner of the second edition of The Pitch South Africa Short Film competition. Her first professionally produced short, Mirror Mirror, premiered at TIFF 2022.