FIND ME IN KAKUMA | Cassette for Timescapes (BE)

EMMY OOST – Producer, Cassette for Timescapes (BE)

Emmy Oost produces films and crossmedia projects that combine innovative vision and social engagement. Johan Grimonprez’s award-winner Double Take (BERLINALE and SUNDANCE 2010); was released in 5 countries, broadcast by ARTE and Channel4 and exhibited in museums worldwide. Currently in production is the international co-production Problemski Hotel (fiction by Manu Riche), the crossmedia project KAKUMA (Lieven Corthouts), the doc series  Barber Shop by Luc Vrydaghs & feature documentaries No man is an island (Tim De Keersmaecker) and Johan Grimonprez’s The Shadow World (producers Anandil Hussain & Joslyn Barnes). Oost teaches at LUCA, school of arts.

LIEVEN CORTHOUTS – Director, Cassette for Timescapes (BE)

Born in Belgium, raised in a suburb of Brussels, he lived and played chess in Allepo, Syria and then lived in Ethiopia for 10 years, where he made:

* My Future (2009, 50’) received prize best debut at Miradasdoc an a special mention at film festival D’Abruzzen.

* Little Heaven (2011, 70’) was selected for the Good Pitch in 2012 and screened at IDFA (world premiere)

Lieven Corthouts’s films were broadcast by ARTE, RAI, TV3, VRT, TV5, ZDF, Lichtpunt, RSI, Israeli Channel, TVI24.