Guests

		Alison McMahan Alison McMahan, Ph.D., is a writer and filmmaker. She is president of Homunculus Productions, a company that producers training films, industrial and documentaries. Her latest documentary is Bare Hands and Wooden Limbs (2010), about a village of landmine survivors in Cambodia, narrated by Sam Waterston. She is the author of The Films of Tim Burton: Animating Live Action in Hollywood (Continuum 2005) and Alice Guy Blaché, Lost Cinematic Visionary (Continuum 2002), which won the Women in Film Award, 2004, St. Louis International Film Festival, and was translated into Spanish by Plots Ediciones. The book is based on her Ph.D. Thesis, which won the Circle of Scholars Award from Union Institute & University in 1997. She is currently working on a novelized biography of Alice Guy Blaché. She maintains a website on Alice Guy Blaché and blogs regularly on issues relating to early cinema in general and Alice Guy Blaché in particular (www.AliceGuyBlache.com). To Alison McMahan article in Artforum

		Betty Schiell Born 1969 in Rheinhausen, Germany. She has a Master of TV and Film Studies from Ruhr University Bochum, Sorbonne Paris, and the University of Glasgow. Since 1996 she has been working freelance as a journalist and film programmer mostly for the Dortmund\|Cologne International Women’s Film Festival. Schiel founded Häuserl Film Production in 2003. Curated a number of programs for various festivals and symposia, mainly on documentary films. Published different publications for radio and print magazines. Director of the documentary Lena, Stella, Ümmü and the Others.

		Lee Hyae-Kyung Lee Hyae-kyung was born in 1953 in South Korea. She studied social work at Ewha Womans University, Seoul, and completed the doctor’s course in sociology, majoring in Sociology of Art and Cultural Theory, at the Free University of Berlin. Hyae-kyung is a member of many steering and cultural committees dedicated to the advancement of women. Since 1997 she is a Director of the Women’s Film Festival in Seoul. Since 2004 she is a member of the Planning and PR Committee for Korea Foundation for Women, and since 2005 she is Chairman of the Steering Committee of Cheongpung Film Commission.

		Yonghi Yang Yonghi Yang is a second-generation Korean who was born and raised in Japan. She holds a master of Arts degree in Media Studies in New School University in NYC. Since 1995, Yang has been working as a radio host in Japan. She made TV news programs and TV documentaries about Japan, Thailand, Bangladesh, China and other Asian countries. Her first film Dear Pyongyang (2005), received NETPAC Award in Berlin Film Festival 2006, and the Special Jury Prize in Sundance Film Festival 2006. Filmography Dear Pyongyang (2005), Sona, the Other Myself (2009)

		Ruxandra Zanida Director of the movie Ryna Born in 1975 in Bukarest, Romania. 1998 Receives degree from the Institute HEI (Hautes Études Internationales) in Geneva. Has worked on various films. Attended a one year programme at FAMU (Filmová a Televizní fakulata Akademie múzických umení), Prague.

		Eléonore Faucher Director of Sisters and A Common Thread Eléonore Faucher was born in Nantes, where she finished her studies at the preparatory school for cinema Guist’hau before entering the cinema department in Louis Lumière School in 1991. While studying she filmed her first short film Le toilettes de Belle-Ville for which she won the jury prize in the “20 Short Films” festival in Paris. In 1997 she directed another short film named Ne prends pas le large, and served as camera assistant in The Life of Jesus, Bruno Dumont's first film, and in Dieu seul me voit and Kennedy et moi. In 2000 she started working on the script for her first fiction full-length film Brodeuse, and received a prestigious writing grant from CNC. The film premiered in Cannes festival 2004 and granted her good critique and the first prize of the festival’s Critics' Week. She then wrote a script in the frame of the writing workshops of Fémis school, based on the correspondence between her parents during the war in Alger. However, this project did not find the needed financing for its realization. She adapted and directed Sisters (2009), based on the autobiographic novel by Sylvie Testud. She published the children book Un petit quelque chose de différent at Syros publication. During 2010 she supervises the editing of the Algerian correspondence of her parents (Fayard publication) and is now writing the script for Les déferlantes, based on Claudie Gallay's book.