Delegates Guide 9–14 March, 2018 Cultural Partners Supported by Friends of Qumra Media Partner QUMRA DELEGATES GUIDE Qumra Programming Team 5 Qumra Masters 7 Master Class Moderators 14 Qumra Project Delegates 17 Industry Delegates 57 QUMRA PROGRAMMING TEAM Fatma Al Remaihi CEO, Doha Film Institute Director, Qumra Jaser Alagha Aya Al-Blouchi Quay Chu Anthea Devotta Qumra Industry Qumra Master Classes Development Qumra Industry Senior Coordinator Senior Coordinator Executive Coordinator Youth Programmes Senior Film Workshops & Labs Coordinator Senior Coordinator Elia Suleiman Artistic Advisor, Doha Film Institute Mayar Hamdan Yassmine Hammoudi Karem Kamel Maryam Essa Al Khulaifi Qumra Shorts Coordinator Qumra Production Qumra Talks Senior Qumra Pass Senior Development Assistant Coordinator Coordinator Coordinator Film Programming Senior QFF Programme Manager Hanaa Issa Coordinator Animation Producer Director of Strategy and Development Deputy Director, Qumra Meriem Mesraoua Vanessa Paradis Nina Rodriguez Alanoud Al Saiari Grants Senior Coordinator Grants Coordinator Qumra Industry Senior Qumra Pass Coordinator Coordinator Film Workshops & Labs Coordinator Wesam Said Eliza Subotowicz Rawda Al-Thani Jana Wehbe Grants Assistant Grants Senior Coordinator Film Programming Qumra Industry Senior Assistant Coordinator Khalil Benkirane Ali Khechen Jovan Marjanović Chadi Zeneddine Head of Grants Qumra Industry Industry Advisor Film Programmer Ania Wojtowicz Manager Qumra Shorts Coordinator Film Training Senior Film Workshops & Labs Senior Coordinator Manager 4 5 Qumra Masters Bennett Miller Sandy Powell ‘Michael Collins’ (1996), ‘Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles’ (1994), and ‘The Crying Game’ (1992). She worked extensively with Derek Jarman, on ‘Wittgenstein’ (1993), ‘Edward II’ (1991), ‘The Last of England’ (1987), and ‘Caravaggio’ (1986). Her work can also be seen in Justin Chadwick’s ‘The Other Boleyn Girl’ (2008), Christine Jeffs’s ‘Sylvia’ (2003), Haynes’s ‘Far from Heaven’ (2002), Mike Figgis’s ‘Miss Julie’ (1999), and Anand Tucker’s ‘Hilary & Jackie’ (1998). In 2011, Powell was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for her services to the film industry. In 2016, along with its Oscar nominations, her work on Branagh’s ‘Cinderella’ and Haynes’s ‘Carol’ was nominated for BAFTAs and Costume Designers Guild Awards. Her more recent credits include John Cameron Mitchell’s ‘How to Talk to Girls at Parties’ (2017), for BENNETT MILLER is an Academy Award- was nominated for five Academy Awards, Costume designer SANDY POWELL has which she received a British Independent nominated film director best known for his including Miller’s second nomination for won three Academy Awards, for her work Film Award nomination, and Haynes’s narrative features ‘Capote’, ‘Moneyball’, and Best Director. on Jean-Marc Vallée’s ‘The Young Victoria’ ‘Wonderstruck’ (also 2017). ‘Foxcatcher’. Miller made his feature debut (2009), Martin Scorsese’s ‘The Aviator’ in 1998 with the critically acclaimed and (2004), and John Madden’s ‘Shakespeare in Powell recently completed work on Rob award-winning documentary ‘The Cruise’. Love’ (1998). She has also been nominated Marshall’s upcoming ‘Mary Poppins In 2005, he earned an Academy Award for Oscars nine times: for Todd Haynes’s Returns’, and is currently working with nomination for Best Director for ‘Capote’, ‘Carol’ (2015) and ‘Velvet Goldmine’ (1998); Scorsese on ‘The Irishman’, marking her starring Philip Seymour Hoffman in his Kenneth Branagh’s ‘Cinderella’ (2015); seventh collaboration with the director, Oscar-winning performance as Truman Scorsese’s ‘Hugo’ (2011) and ‘Gangs of New with whom she also previously worked Capote. Miller’s 2011 feature ‘Moneyball’, York’ (2002); Julie Taymor’s ‘The Tempest’ on ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’ (2013), ‘Shutter starring Brad Pitt, was also praised by (2010); Stephen Frears’s ‘Mrs Henderson Island’ (2010), and ‘The Departed’ (2006). critics, and went on to receive six Academy Presents’ (2005); Iain Softley’s ‘The Wings Award nominations, including Best Picture. of the Dove’ (1997); and Sally Potter’s Miller was honoured at the Festival de ‘Orlando’ (1992). Cannes in 2014 with the Best Director prize for his most recent feature film, Powell has collaborated numerous times ‘Foxcatcher’, starring Steve Carell, Channing with Neil Jordan, on ‘The End of the Tatum, and Mark Ruffalo. ‘Foxcatcher’ PHOTO: BRIGITTE LACOMBE Affair’ (1999), ‘The Butcher Boy’ (1997), 8 9 Gianfranco Rosi Tilda Swinton GIANFRANCO ROSI was born in Asmara, nominated for the European Film Award for Tilda Swinton started making films with the Love Factory’ (2002), the widely applauded Eritrea, and attended university in Italy Best Documentary. English experimental director Derek Jarman ‘I Am Love’ (2009), ‘A Bigger Splash’ (2015) before emigrating to the United States In 2010, Rosi directed ‘El Sicario, Room in 1985, with ‘Caravaggio’. They made seven and the soon-to-be-released ‘Suspiria’. in 1985 to study Film at the New York 164’, a film-interview about a killer-turned- more films together, including ‘The Last of She has also worked with Bong Joon- University Tisch School of the Arts. informer from a Mexican drug cartel. England’ (1987), ‘War Requiem’ (1989), ‘The ho on the international hits ‘Snowpiercer’ Following a journey to India, he produced Despite contrasting reviews, it won the Garden’ (1990), ‘Edward II’ ¬(1991) – for (2013) and ‘Okja’ (2017), and has featured and directed his first documentary, FIPRESCI Prize at the Venice Film Festival which she won the Best Actress award at in the Judd Apatow’s critically acclaimed ‘Boatman’ (1993), which was selected for and the Doc/it Professional Award for Best the Venice International Film Festival – and comedy ‘Trainwreck’ (2015), written by Amy film festivals including the Locarno Festival, Documentary, and was named Best Film at ‘Wittgenstein’ (1993), before Jarman’s death Schumer; Scott Derrickson’s Marvel Studios the Sundance Film Festival, and the Toronto DocLisboa. in 1994. blockbuster ‘Doctor Strange’ (2016), and International Film Festival. In 2013, ‘Sacro Gra’, won the Golden Swinton gained wider international David Michod’s ‘War Machine’ (2017). She In 2008, his first feature-length Lion at the 2016 Venice Film Festival, recognition in 1992 with her portrayal of the received both the BAFTA and the Academy documentary, ‘Below Sea Level’ won the becoming the first documentary to ever titular character of ‘Orlando’, based on the Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2008 Orizzonti Award at the Venice Film Festival, land the prize. novel by Virginia Woolf under the direction for Tony Gilroy’s ‘Michael Clayton’. as well as the Grand Prix and the Prix des His most recent documentary, ‘Fire of Sally Potter. She has established Swinton starred in and executive- Jeunes at Cinéma du Réel, the prize for at Sea’ (2016), won the Golden Bear at rewarding ongoing filmmaking relationships produced Lynne Ramsay’s ‘We Need to Talk Best Documentary at the One World Film the Berlin International Film Festival, as with directors including Wes Anderson, About Kevin’ (2011). The film debuted in the Festival in Prague, and the Vittorio De well as the European Film Award for Joel and Ethan Coen, Jim Jarmusch, Lynn main competition at the Festival de Cannes Seta prize for Best Documentary at the Best Documentary. The film was also Hershman Leeson, John Maybury, and Luca to huge critical acclaim and garnered Bari International Film Festival; it was also nominated for an Academy Award for Best PHOTO: BRIGITTE LACOMBE Guadagnino, with whom she made ‘The multiple honours, including Golden Globe Documentary Feature. and BAFTA nominations for Best Actress. 10 11 Apichatpong Weerasethakul Andrey Zvyagintsev when Konstantin Lavronenko became the first Russian ever to receive the festival’s Best Leading Actor award. Cannes also presented the international premiere of Zvyagintsev’s third film, ‘Elena’, which took the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section. ‘Leviathan’ (2014) was selected for the Official Competition at Cannes, and won the award for Best Screenplay. ‘Leviathan’ also became the first Russian film since 1969 to win the Golden Globe for Best Foreign-Language Film; it was nominated for the Academy Award in the same category, and took the Best Film award at the London Film Festival. APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL is Lyrical and often fascinatingly ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV was born in 1964 His most recent film, ‘Loveless’ (2017) recognised as one of the most original mysterious, Weerasethakul’s film works in Novosibirsk, and graduated from the has been nominated for an Academy voices in contemporary cinema. His six are non-linear, dealing with memory, and acting programme at the Russian University Award for Best Foreign Language Film, feature-length films, short films, and subtly invoking personal politics and social of Theatre Arts (GITIS) in 1999, under the and was selected for the Cannes Official installations have won him widespread issues. He has also mounted exhibitions tutelage of Evgeny Lazarev. He later went Competition, where it won the Jury Prize at international recognition and numerous and installations in many countries since on to take part in independent theatre Cannes. It also went on to be named Best awards, including the Palme d’Or at the 1998, and is now recognised as a major productions and had a few small parts in Film at the London Film Festival, making Festival de Cannes in 2010 for ‘Uncle international visual artist.