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Jeremiah is a founding member of Kidam.
He developed all his work around pop/rock music, and participated to the booming of the famous « take away shows » initiated by Vincent Moon and the Blogotheque.
He has directed documentary films, music videos and live shows for musicians such as REM, Christophe, Coming Soon, Piers Faccini, Sophie Hunger, Jeffrey Lewis, Seb Martel, Erik Truffaz or Camille. He is now heading towards fiction.
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Born in Paris in 1977, Vincent Moon is the alter ego of devil-does-all Mathieu Saura. Music pounds like a central vein running through his body of work. Famous for introducing the concept of 'Take away shows' and the website La Blogotheque with his friend Chryde.
In a year, he shot over a hundred clips with bands like REM, Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Beirut, Grizzly Bear and many more. He perfected a style immediately recognizable of intimate, fragile, dancing and shadowing long shots. He also directed larger video or web projects with The National, Arcade Fire and REM.
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Matias Meyer was born in Perpignan (France) in 1979, and made his studies at La Sorbonne University in Paris. He got graduated from the Centro de Capacitación Cinematográfica (Mexico) in 2006. In 2002, he received a special price from the UNAM for the documentary 'San Vicente de chupaderos' and in 2003, he started attending the documentary department in the FEMIS. His first feature film, 'Wadley', was premiered at Rotterdam in 2008. 'El Calambre' is his second feature film. He is now developing 'Los últimos cristeros' : this project has been selected by Open Doors (Locarno 2008), got the best project award in Rondas Ficco 2008 and is supported by the Hubert Bals Fund.
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Winshluss, alias Vincent Paronnaud, is a French comics artist and filmmaker.
He is best known for cowriting and codirecting with Marjane Satrapi the highly acclaimed animated film "Persepolis" (2007), for which they received numerous awards including the Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Animated Feature.
With his friend Cizo, he took the reins of the Revue Ferraille (Requins Marteaux ed.) and became a major player in the independent French-language comics. His last book, a very personal version of "Pinocchio", got the Fauve d'Or award (Best Album) at the Festival International de la Bande Dessinée in Angoulême.
With "Villemolle 81", Winshluss questions the place of zombies in the French society today...
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After a decade of travels, Helene Lee joined french daily Liberation as a reggae and world music specialist. She published 'Rockers d'Afrique' (Albin Michel, 1987), 'The First Rasta' (Laurence Hill Books, 2001), 'Voir Trench Town et mourir' (Flammarion 2003) and several translations. She authored 'Jimmy Cliff, Moving on' for Arte, and directed 'Bons Baisers de Barbès' (France 3), 'Une voix sur le Maroni' and several 26’ for Arte.
'The First Rasta', now being developed by Kidam, is a documentary on L. P. Howell, the founder of the Rasta Movement.
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Born in Mulhouse, France, in 1973, Yvan Schreck began his first films by travelling in Spain, Alaska and Nepal. In Sevilla, he started a long collaboration with flamenco artists, such as Israël Galvan and co-directed « Paquera Sensei », a documentary film shot in Tokyo with the famous signer La Paquera de Jerez. Since then, he dedicates his personal work to Spain and spanish musicians or dancers.
As a cameraman, he also worked on various documentary and feature films directed by Dominique Abel, Karim Dridi, Sophie Fiennes, David Teboul or Sylvie Veyrhede.
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After studying cultural management in Paris, she started working as an assistant producer in various companies (Les Films de la Perrine, Mondo Films…). As a journalist (for Ubik, Numéro), she did a short subject on the set of 'The Card Player' by Dario Argento. She also interviewed Richard Kern on various occasions and modeled for him. 'Llik you Idols' is her first documentary film.
She's now finishing her new documentary about Bruce Labruce called THE ADVOCATE FOR FAGDOM.
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Born in France in 1980, Nicolas Engel grew up in Hong Kong and London, where he developed a taste for musicals. In 2005, he directed his first musical short, The Sailboats of The Luxembourg (Les films du Bélier / ARTE – 2006 Bronze Bear award at the Nations Festival, Ebensee). He has taken his work in the musical genre to a new level with Copy of Coralie (Crescendo films / ARTE). Premiered in the competition of the Critic’s week – 2008 Cannes festival, his second musical short film has been selected by more than 30 international festivals in France, US, Brasil, Ukraine, Russia, Spain, Japan…, and got the in Cannes the Short Golden Rail award, the 2008 Fujifilm award in Grenoble, the 2009 Ellen Award for the most original film at the Aspen Shortsfest, and has been selected for the 2009 Cesar and the 2009 Lutins du court métrage. Nicolas Engel is currently preparing his third musical short film, Sam 1, with the support of Haute-Normandie Region and Sacem.
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Born in France in 1980, Vincent Jaglin studied film editing and worked as assistant for the France 3 tv show 'Strip-Tease'. In 2002, he directs his first documentary film, 'Ma Gare, ma petite indépendance'. In 2004, he becomes the assistant of the famous editor Sophie Brunet, working with her on various feature films such as 'Holy Lola' by Bertrand Tavernier. From 2002, he directs several independant short films and starts an important production of video letters, a genre that became the main inspiration of his works, of which his coming long documentary film « La découverte ou l’ignorance » (Discovery or Ignorance), produced by Kidam with the support of CNC.
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The talented François Nabos has directed a few Take Away Shows for Kidam and a parody of the music video Stress by Justice, with Musique Post-Bourgeoise.
He mainly works as editor : he worked on the animated feature 'Persépolis' by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, and signed the editing of 'Villemolle 81' by Winshluss.
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Born in 1970 in Rennes, France, Nicolas Ruffault is a real chameleon : he worked as a director, he wrote for french channels ARTE, Canal + or France 3 and also worked as a programmer. He directed music videos for Guillaume Cantillon (Wagram), Micky Green (Polydor/Universal), Déportivo (Barclay), and documentaries about Les Vieilles Charrues festival (Barclay/Universal) and « De l’Ombre à la Lumière about the french band Kaolin (Wagram).
He also directed the shooting of french actress Valérie Lermercier’s one-woman show, and short films such as “Les Yeux d’Anna” with Anna Karina and Philippe Katerine (Universal) or “Une histoire de K” (Quartier libre/ les Inrockuptibles). Finally, he directed EPKs for Emir Kusturika, Cat power, Claire Diterzi, Eiffel, Ronan Luce, Micky Green, Neïmo and Grace.
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Vincent Moon & Jeremiah have decided to work together for the project R.E.M. This is not a show. They both have followed the entire production of the album, following the band during some live performances, capturing some scenes on video and working on several websites.
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At 36, Fred Mortagne works on various projects as directing TV projects, commercials, skateboard clips, music videos, lives, planning exhibitions of his own photos projects, and editing work.
He works regularly with Vans (shoes), Cliché & Flip (skateboard), Wesc (clothing), Fuel TV and some international press magazines.
He also works with the french band Coming Soon since their beginning, making their photos and some videos.
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ThomR (Thomas Rabillon), born in Angers in 1987 is a handyman ; not one of those genious handymen repairing or building concrete things from nothing, but a little film and image-maker, keen on music and interested in movement, fragility, and the dance of bodies…His experience with dancers, in particular with his film entitled "Nos seules empreintes sont les fracas…" (Clatter is all that Matters), has enabled him to experiment with different types of editing as well as with a particular way of approaching the body which he has continued exploring through his various projects with musicians like the Mansfield.Tya duet, Laetitia Sheriff, Les Thugs or during his recent collaboration with Vincent Moon, in Athens.
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Born on december, 6th, 1979, Helena Klotz began her career in theater with Bruno Bayen as an assistant director and sound creator. Then she worked as a casting director for Nicolas Klotz, Laurend Achart, Katell Quillevere and Eva Ionesco's feature films... In 2003 she directed her first feature Le Léopard ne se déplace jamais sans ses taches (35 min, 35mm). The film has been selected at the Locarno festival et won some prizes at Aix en Provence, Côté Court, Créteil, Dignes-les-Bains... In 2006, she directed Les Amants cinéma (doc., 66min). The film has been in french (Brives, Pau) and foreign festivals (Buenos Aires, London, New-York, Sao Paulo, Chicago, Vienna, Montreal, Copengague). In 2009 she directed some music videos et began to work as an editor for a documentary about musician Turzi. Actually, she's finishing the writting of her first feature film. She is also developping a featurette with kidam as a producer
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Nathanaël is an instinctive director. Passionate by moving pictures and always looking for new sounds, he likes travelling around the world to meet bands that will make tomorrow's actuality. His camera follows emotions and tells stories. Director on The Take-away Shows, he also worked on Arcade Fire's DVD Miroir Noir.
Recently, he has worked on my Bloody Valentine, Mogwai and Animal Collective's latest projects.
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This section concerns collective work with many directors
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