Picture this Post continues to be WOW’d by the quality and range of creative shorts in the Flying Film Festival—and even more by the brilliant idea of the festival itself.
For months the captive audience on Swiss trans-Atlantic flights not only have the usual spate of Hollywood popular films, but also an array of imaginative shorts to choose from. If you too have suffered long flights by watching films you would never even consider on terra firma—the Flying Film Festival is the antidote you seek. How great too that these talented filmmakers who pour their hearts into these shorts get more love than short filmmakers might otherwise expect.
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Here are the filmmakers whose work is part of Flying Film Festival 2019.
TILDA COBHAM-HERVEY - Tilda Cobham-Hervey is an Australian actress and director who has a background in circus and physical theatre.
JORGE JÁCOME - The work of Jorge Jácome is based on films made from narrative drifts, unexpected relationships and unusual encounters
KARIN BERGER - Karin Berger studied social anthropology and political science in Vienna and she currently works on projects such as documentary films and teaching filmmaking.
NARA NORMANDE - Nara Normande lives and works in Recife. Her last film, Guaxuma (2018) , awarded the Best Animated Short at SXSW.
ALEKSANDRA RYLEWICZ - Aleksandra Rylewicz graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow. Apart from the animation, she deals with illustration and design.
CHANDNA RISHI - Rishi Chandna is an independent filmmaker based out of Mumbai and Tungrus is his first independent short film.
NICOLAS KEPPENS - Nicolas Keppens (Aalst, BE, 1989) graduated in 2012 at KASK / School of Arts Ghent . He studied at the film academy of Luca School of Arts in Brussels. He works as new media manager for Studio Hans Op de Beeck.
MATTHIAS PHLIPS - Matthias Phlips (Aalst, BE, 1982) studied Graphic Design at Luca School of Arts Ghent. After graduating, Matthias started working as a graphic designer in Ghent, while developing his career as an illustrator and cartoonist.
JUŠ JERAJ & ATILA URBANČIČ - Juš Jeraj and Atila Urbančič are long time friends who have decided, with much conviction, to enter the world of film-making. Trahere is their first film, but most definitely not the last.
PABLO GONZÁLEZ - Named one of the Filmmaker Magazine’s “25 New Faces of Independent Film” for 2015, Juan Pablo González is an emerging Mexican filmmaker whose work has screened at Cannes, IDFA, the Lincoln Center of New York, Slamdance, Ambulante, Morelia among others.
NICOLAS PÉGON - After graduating in Ecole Estienne, Nicolas Pégon joins the Animation section at Gobelins, where he meets students with which he co-directs Todor & Petru and Les chiens isolés. They become the collective CRCR after graduating.
ÉLÉONORE SAINTAGNAN - Éléonore Saintagnan was born in Paris and lives in Brussels. She graduated from le Fresnoy National Studio in 2008.
VICTOR OROZCO RAMIRES - Graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Hamburg with a master’s degree in Fine Arts in the area of documentary film making.
LUCREZIA FOLETTI - Lucrezia Foletti, born in Milan in 1993, after graduation in foreign languages she attended the Beijing Film Academy and Civica Scuola di Cinema Visconti where she graduated in Directing in 2018. She lives between Italy and Argentina.
