Round table. How did you get here? Case study of the international female filmmakers participating in the festival
Date and time: Tuesday, Nov. 4th. 5.30 p.m.
Venue/room: Espacio Fundación Telefónica
Free admission with prior registration at:
www.espacio.fundaciontelefonica.com
Title: How did you get here? Case study of the international female filmmakers participating in the festival.
Type of activity roundtable
Participants:
- Charlène Favier / Director / France
- Evi Romen / Director / Austria
- Eva Aridjis / Director / Mexico
- Sarah Goher / Director / Egypt
*Moderator: Elena Manrique / film director and producer and member of the Festival's Programming Committee / Spain
Charlène Favier (Lyon, 1985) is a director and screenwriter. It was in Australia where she picked up a camera for the first time, and after several years traveling the world, she entered the Jacques Lecoq school in London, trained in directing actors and art direction with Lenore Dekoven in New York, and in screenwriting at FEMIS. She then wrote, directed, and produced several short films, and decided to explore her own adolescence in her first feature film, Slalom, selected for the Cannes Film Festival in 2020. Sold in more than 25 countries and selected and awarded at some thirty international festivals, Slalom won the Ornano-Valenti Prize at the Deauville Festival and was nominated four times for the Lumières Awards and twice for the César Awards in 2022. Charlène then adapted Tanguy Viel's novel La fille qu'on appelle for Arte, in competition at the La Rochelle Festival, which attracted more than 800,000 viewers. Oxana is her second feature film for cinema.
Evi Romen (Bolzano, 1967), studied Editing and Cinematography at the Vienna Film Academy, and has worked as an editor and screenwriter for more than 20 years. She has received numerous awards for short stories and the Diagonale Award for Best Editing 2011 for My Best Enemy, as well as the Austrian Film Award 2016 for Best Editing for Casanova Variations. In recent years she has dedicated herself to screenwriting, winning the Carl Mayer Award for Best Screenplay in 2017 for Hochwald. Evi Romen is co-writer of the series M – A City Hunts a Murderer, which premiered at the Berlinale Series and was broadcast by ORF and TV now in 2019.
Eva Aridjis is a Mexican-American director and writer. She has written, produced and directed six feature films, including the fiction films "The Favor" and "The Blue Eyes," and the documentaries "Children of the Street", "Saint Death", "Chuy, the Wolf Man," and "Goodbye Horses: The Many Lives of Q Lazzarus" she also wrote on "Narcos: Mexico" and co-wrote the short novel "Monarca," published by Harper Collins in 2022.
Sarah Goher is an Egyptian-American screenwriter and producer, born and raised in the Bronx. A former student of NYU Tisch and Nightingale Bamford School, Sarah worked on Cairo 678 (2010), Clash (2016), Amira (2021) and the Marvel Studios series Moon Knight (2022).
