governance of Docmonde
Board of directors
College of external personalities
College of local partners
College of producers
College of trainers
Michele Eybalin
President
Michele Eybalin
President
An urban planner by training, Michèle Eybalin has invested a great deal, professionally and politically, in questions of town planning, the environment and ecology. Regional Councilor in Rhône-Alpes from 1998 to 2015, she chaired the Environment Commission there, was a member of the Culture Commission and also sat on the Committee of European Regions. Based in Montélimar, Michèle is active in local associations: she is notably on the board of directors of the Written on Screen Film Festival, and as an amateur photographer, works on projects such as Presence. (s) photograph in memory of the Teil earthquake.
Cathy Besse Gery
Treasurer
Cathy Besse Gery
Treasurer
Director of the Maison de l’Image Aubenas – Programmer of the European Cinema Meetings. Project manager then director for 15 years of a local cinema in Gironde, she deepened these skills through her active commitments in the departmental network of Local Cinemas (President of the ACPG for 4 years) and Aquitaine within the former ACPA which became CINA. Building on these experiences and eager to take on new challenges, she left her native region to join the management of Cinéma Le Navire in Aubenas (Ardèche - 2019 theaters) in January 6. In September 2021, she took over the management of the Maison de l'Image, which manages a traveling cinema circuit in Southern Ardèche, which develops image education actions and carries the Rencontres des Cinémas d'Europe in partnership with the Cinema Vessel. She also joins the Board of Directors of the Drôme-Ardèche Les Ecrans network of independent cinemas. Administrator of the AFCAE (French Association of Arthouse Cinemas) for 7 years, this mission is particularly close to her heart, particularly the subjects concerning the future of cinemas, their sustainability in the cultural network of the territories, distributor/relations producers/operators, the renewal of audiences... so many fundamental subjects to defend with public authorities and various institutional partners. Deputy head of the Actions Promotion Group for 5 years then head of the brand new 15/25 Years Committee, she collectively participates in the defense of auteur cinema, in the name of diversity, to allow works to always better exist in theaters and among audiences.
Audrey Bastide Banegas
After a Masters in Political Science, and some publications, Audrey Bastide Banegas trained in documentary filmmaking at the Ateliers Varan, then in production at the Lussas Documentary School. She has since been a reader for several production companies, participated in the creation of the Pépinière within the documentary village of Lussas and has worked for the past three years as a production manager for the documentary channel Lyon Capitale TV, in which she has worked. accompanied by several films from the DOCMonde collection.
- phone:06 20 67 28 84
- Email:audrey_bastide@hotmail.com
Bernard Soulage
General secretary
Bernard Soulage
General secretary
Bernard Soulage has held the responsibilities of vice-president in charge of Europe and international relations for the Rhône-Alpes region, of European deputy (2009) and various mandates (municipal councilor, vice-mayor, vice-president of the community of agglomeration) in Meylan and Grenoble. It has an establishment in Ardèche. He is also a member of the Board of Transparency International France.
- Email:bernardsoulage@gmail.com
Emmanuel Cornuel
Emmanuel Cornuel started in the performing arts world in 1999, working for the Pompe à tempo association in Montpellier (organization of jazz and world music concerts). After a break on Reunion Island, he worked in administration and music from 2004 to 2012: being administrator of Bizz'art Nomade on the one hand (Diffusion of world music) and musician of different projects on the other hand (in particular for the New Nose circus). He joined Ardèche Images in 2013, being an administrator of the international sector and coordinating the creation of Docmonde. He has been a director of La Cascade, Pole National Cirque Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes in Bourg-Saint-Andéol since 2014 as well as of the company Les Nouveaux Nez since 2018.
Joël M'baka Tchedre
Togolese Traveling Digital Cinema Association (ATCNA)
Joël M'baka Tchedre
Togolese Traveling Digital Cinema Association (ATCNA)- Email:tchedrejoel@yahoo.fr
Arevik Avanesyan
Up NGO
Arevik Avanesyan
Up NGO
Arevik Avanesyan studied at HayFilm filmmaking school between 2006-2008, while doing her MA in Math at Yerevan State University. In 2007 and 2005 she participated in two Film Trainings, conducted by Dr. Hasko Schneider from Germany (“Film Production” and “Film Language”). In 2011 she participated in the Creative Arts School in Alesund, Norway. She has worked in film production companies since 2010. She has participated in many workshops and trainings: in 2014 was chosen in Talents Sarajevo with a full-length feature film project. In 2012, she participated in the Producers' workshop organized by Golden Apricot International Film Festival's platform called Directors across Borders. In 2016 she participated in EurasiaDoc documentary scriptwriting workshop. In 2017 she participated in B2B Doc network pitching session at kyiv Media Week in Ukraine and in 2018 participated in a Baltic Sea forum pitching session. From 2015 to 2019 she worked at Bars Media Documentary Film Studio as a producer. In 2019 April she established her own film production company called “2+3”. And in 2022 funded the UP non-governmental organization for development of film industry.
- phone:00 374 94052451
- Email:arevikavanesyan@gmail.com
Edwige Tekam
Association of Cameroonian Documentary Directors (ARDC)
Nikolay Bem
Siberian Film Commission
Nikolay Bem
Siberian Film Commission
Nikolay Bem, Director, producer. Born in Neryungri, Republic of Sakha (Yakutia). Founder of the Siberia DOC project (since 2010) which influenced a whole generation of documentary filmmakers from all over Russia. Participant of the LAB "French-Russian Academy of Cinema 2012" in Paris. Since 2023, he is the director of the SiberiaDOC International Film Festival. Director: 2024 - "Bless Andrey!" documentary, 63 min. 2022 - "Ivan's Ladder", documentary, 60 min. 2015 - "Snowdrop", short fiction film 15 min. Producer: in production - documentary "Constellation", 82 min, director Arthur Sokolov. 2019 - documentary "Phalène", 52 min, director Arthur Sokolov. 2015 - producer of the documentary film "Halves", 90 min. Director Alexander Zarchikov. 2014 - producer of the documentary film "Territory of Freedom", 67 min. Director Alexander Kuznezov. 2010 - producer of the documentary film "Territory of Love", 64 min. Director Alexander Kuznezov.
- Email:bem@ya.ru
Vanina Lanfranchi
Multimedia Video Workshop (AVM) Guyana
Vanina Lanfranchi
Multimedia Video Workshop (AVM) Guyana
Director of the Atelier Vidéo Multimédia (AVM) association based in Saint-Laurent du Maroni in French Guiana, which develops video and multimedia, training, support for the creation, production and distribution of video works.
- Email:lanvanina@gmail.com
Lawrence Bitty
Continental films
Lawrence Bitty
Continental films
Laurent Bitty is a film producer at “LES FILMS DU CONTINENT”. He studied at the Master II documentary production and direction in Senegal in Saint-Louis at Gaston Berger University. He also completed the Master II in museology in management of intangible cultural heritage. Holder of a higher diploma in theater, he is now a theater teacher at the National Higher Institute of Arts and Cultural Action (INSAAC). Laurent made a documentary film: “BALLA”
- phone:+22509594346
- Email:laurentbitty@gmail.com
Baptiste Brunner
WIDE Productions
Baptiste Brunner
WIDE Productions
Baptiste Brunner is a producer within Wide Productions, which is part of the Wide Group, an entity which brings together 8 audiovisual production companies in France. Since 2018, he has participated in numerous international co-production meetings. He is passionate about documentaries with a strong author's point of view, films that echo the social and environmental issues of our time, and creative and atypical films.
Maud martin
The image after
Maud martin
The image after
Maud MARTIN founded the production company Picture after in 2008 in Tours after obtaining a master's degree in cinema philosophy and spent five years as a cultural administrator within a collective of directors. Today, she has produced about fifteen films (documentaries, animated short films, essays) and is currently developing numerous projects. His work within the collective of producers of The Picture After is based on the desire to defend an inventive cinema and directors who design each of their films as a new space for research and experimentation.
- phone:06 80 84 17 34
- Email:maudmartin@limagedapres.fr
Philippe Djivas
Dynamo Production
Philippe Djivas
Dynamo Production
Created in 2003, Dynamo Production is an independent French film production company. Its main objectives are to defend an author policy through unique and innovative artistic projects. Our team works with the trust of our partners, in France and abroad, to allow productions to exist and be broadcast. The subjects produced are the result of constant questions about life in society, shared with emerging or established authors. Stimulating the viewer's curiosity in their knowledge of the world is a permanent quest.
Jerome Amimer
Leitmotif Production
Jerome Amimer
Leitmotif Production
Since 2001, Leitmotiv Production has produced short and long documentary films for television and cinema. Documentaries of society, history, memory, cinema, films by authors with a strong aesthetic bias from French and foreign directors, confirmed or emerging. What matters to us is a desire for shared cinema finding its expression from reality to unfold in different forms. We support these attempts to explore the human through the eyes of artists from different cultures and approaches. Leitmotiv Production is developing international co-productions with Eurasia and the Middle East. Leitmotiv Production belongs to the Eurodoc, PEÑA (Produire en Nouvelle-Aquitaine) and Docmonde networks. Leitmotiv Production is a member of the Agence du Court Métrage, Unifrance and TËNK, an S-VOD platform for author documentaries. Jérôme Amimer is a producer and director of autobiographical films. Selective filmography: Blockade by Hakob Melkonyan (65 mn, 2020, France-Armenia) News From Chantal Akerman by Martine Lancelot (44 mn, 2020, France) Camille Senon, the lady of the red country by François Perlier (52 mn, 2017, France ) The Inner City by Jérôme Amimer (49 min, 2017, France) The Green Loop by Sophie Bensadoun (52 min, 2016, France) Cité-Hôpital de Naruna Kaplan De Macedo (52 min, 2012, France)
- phone:07 68 300 303
- Email:jamimer@gmail.com
samuel aubin
France
samuel aubin
France
Samuel Aubin was born in 1967. He published “Le pommier rouge d'Alma-Ata”, his first novel, with Éditions Turquoise in the spring of 2017. He is the author of documentary films and short fictions. With, in particular, "The dark room of Khuong Mê" in 2001, "Epic" in 2004, "More love stories" in 2014, "Ara Güler, once upon a time in Istanbul" in 2017. He leads training courses at documentary in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Armenia and Turkey, within the Docmonde and Lumière du monde networks. He is also a producer of auteur documentaries within the company Rhizome (www.rhizome-production.fr). He is also the founder and artistic director of D'Écran Libre, an association that has been organizing filmmakers' residencies and documentary training since 2005 (www.ecranlibre.fr). Resident in Istanbul from 2013 to 2017, he lives again in Lyon.
- Email:samuelaubin@wanadoo.fr
Juliette Cazanave
France
Juliette Cazanave
France
After studying History and Art History in Paris and Madrid, then the Berlin Film School (DFFB), Juliette Cazanave wrote and directed a dozen documentaries, all broadcast by the Arte channel. Juliette takes an intimate look at strong and complex themes such as exile, absence, identity. But Arte also regularly calls on his gaze to deal with social issues and to create portraits of artists. His critically acclaimed documentaries have won accolades at various international festivals. Eager to share her experience, discover new talents and gain independence, Juliette Cazanave founded her own company with César Diaz six years ago. Together they have produced or co-produced since Kepler22's beginnings more than a dozen documentary and fiction films. Juliette Cazanave also works as a documentary teacher, among others at the Beaux-Arts de Lausanne (ECAL), and more recently in Russia, South-East Asia, Africa and South America for the DOCMONDE association. She is also part of the LUMIERES DU MONDE association, the EURODOC network, the ADDOC, the SPI, the Association des Amis du Cinéma du Réel and EDN.
Vladimir Leon
France
Vladimir Leon
France
Born in 1969 in Moscow, Vladimir left the USSR at the age of six. French education, but great Russian holidays, which allow to maintain bilingualism and to experiment the nuances of the system from Brezhnev to Andropov, Andropov to Chernenko and from Chernenko to Gorbachev. He returned to Russia at the time of Putin to film the Brahmin of the Komintern. Previously, he will have immersed himself a lot in Russian political history with a previous film, Nissim dit Max, co-directed with his brother Pierre in 2004, the first part of a “Family Trilogy” which he will continue with Adieu la Rue des Radiators (Nina) in 2008, and finally My dear spies in 2020. Vladimir Léon has also directed fictions: Far from the front, with Harold Manning and the Angels of Port-Bou medium-length film shot in the footsteps of the philosopher Walter Benjamin. In 2013, with the choreographer Julie Desprairies, he shot a dance and architecture film, Cinq points de point de vue Autorités sur les Courtillières, before completing in 2014 a portrait of the sculptor Raphaël Zarka, the Polyèdre et l'Eléphant, co-produced with the Center Pompidou. Vladimir Léon is an actor for Louis Skorecki, Serge Bozon, Jean Paul Civeyrac, Eric Rohmer, Pierre Léon, Christine Laurent, Pascal Bonitzer, Axelle Ropert.
- Email:vladimirleon@orange.fr
Eve Tailliez
France
Eve Tailliez
France
After studying literature and anthropology, she worked in various positions in film shooting and editing. After several years in the SaNoSi productions team, she specialized in the design and writing of projects with authors and co-founded the association Écritures Documentaires. Today she collaborates with production companies and authors. She intervenes in several training and workshop settings, on creative and fiction documentary projects, where she continues to deepen what she is passionate about: the links between word and image, the challenges of narration, the relationships between reality, point of view and imagination.
- Email:evetaill@gmail.com
Vincent sorrel
France
Vincent sorrel
France
Filmmaker, teacher and researcher, Vincent Sorrel co-wrote with Jean-Louis Comolli the book Cinema, manual, From film to digital published by Editions Verdier in 2015 and teaches cinema and its practices at the University from Grenoble, to Lussas, and in particular the writing and development of documentary works. He has participated in residencies and co-production meetings organized by DocMonde in Cambodia and Madagascar. His latest films concern cinema and its practices: The filmmaker is an athlete. Conversations with Vittorio De Seta (2011), The New World (2017) and Artavazd Pelechian. The Filmmaker is a Cosmonaut (2018). Fields of intervention: Documentary cinema, process of writing and directing documentary and experimental cinema.
- Email:vincent.sorrel@gmail.com
The coordination team
Aline abt
Administrator
Aline abt
Administrator
After a double course in political science (international relations) and employment law, Aline Abt first worked as a consultant in employment law. It was at the headquarters of the NGO Handicap international (9 years old, in the Human Resources Department) that she developed her taste for intercultural relations and international action. Since 2014, she has been in charge of the management, administration and animation of the associative life of Docmonde in Lussas.
- phone:04 27 52 90 23
- Email:docmonde@lussasdoc.org
Bianca Fontez-Eymenier
Programme manager
Bianca Fontez-Eymenier
Programme manager
Bianca Fontez-Eymenier studied political science in Brussels and Salamanca and human and social sciences at the Institut des Hautes Etudes d'Amérique Latine in Paris. She subsequently developed her career in arthouse cinema in Mexico, notably in film festivals, the organization of professional meetings as well as international distribution and sales: IMCINE, Mantarraya Films, Morelia International Film Festival, FICUNAM Festival... After her 12 years in Mexico, and an edition at Séries Mania Forum in Lille, she joined the Docmonde association in early 2024 as Program Manager. In this capacity, she coordinates and implements the training, meetings and dissemination activities of the association in its various regional programs: Impala, Eurasiadoc, Doc Amazonie Caraïbe...
- phone: +33 6 83 58 23 72
- Email:bianca@docmonde.org