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Maël Delorme
Screenwriter, is assisting the project "Deep Fake"
Annecy Festival Residency: The 2022 Mentors
A two-step mentoring was offered to the artists: the first step working on the script remotely, and the second step on-site and focused on the projects’ graphic development. These mentorships are co-designed with the artists themselves, to identify the profiles best adapted to their graphic universes or their technical aspirations.
The first assistance provides the chance to question the film’s storyline beforehand, to make some adjustments and fine-tune it to ensure that the artistic work can start.
The second assistance aims to advise and push each artist in their creative process. This stimulation is necessary to explore and draw out maximum benefit from their time at the residency.
Discover the mentors who agreed to assist our residents by immersing themselves both in their stories and their visual universes.
Anita Doron
Screenwriter and Director, is assisting the project Hanta.
Born into a family of engineers and mountaineers from Transcarpathia, Anita Doron is a Canadian-Hungarian Screenwriter and Director. Her films have screened at the Toronto International Film Festival, South by Southwest, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. The Lesser Blessed, which she wrote and directed, received a Canadian Screen Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Anita wrote the Oscar and Golden Globe-nominated screenplay for The Breadwinner, and won a Canadian Screen Award, an Annie Award nomination, and a Humanitas Prize for her work on the film. Anita is a Senior TED Fellow, on an initiative bringing together international visionaries to collaborate in any discipline to create positive change in the world.
Laurent Sarfati
Author, Screenwriter and Writing Director, is assisting the project Dino Doom on Desert Planet
As Author, Screenwriter, and French Writing Director for cinema, fiction, and animation, Laurent Sarfati has to his credit: the feature film It Had to Be You by Marc Gibaja, the television dramas La Minute blonde, Scènes de ménages and RIS Police scientifique, but also the animated series CO2, Nina Patalo, and Chronokids. Since 2016, a close collaboration with Director Jérémie Périn led him to work on the comic-strip adaptation of Lastman in two successful seasons, and to co-write the deliciously violent series Crisis Jung as well as the long-awaited feature film Mars Express.
Pierre La Police
Artist, is assisting the project Dino Doom on Desert Planet
Pierre La Police has been working since the early 1990s. An iconoclastic and unclassifiable artist, he calls on irony and science fiction to caricature the failings of mass culture. His work takes many forms and is inspired by the world of comics and contemporary art, granting legitimacy to one and "freeing up" the codes of the other.
Sepideh Farsi
Director, is assisting the project Hanta
Born in Tehran, Iran, Sepideh Farsi moves to Paris in 1984 to study mathematics. After several years doing photography, she starts making short films and documentaries, which include Harat and Tehran Without Permission (presented at Locarno). Her first feature films Dreams of Dust and The Gaze are selected at Rotterdam, then she directs The House Under the Water (Fipresci Prize at Moscow) and Red Rose (released in France in September 2015). Her documentary 7 Veils wins the Grand Prix at the FID Marseille in 2017. Her latest feature film I Will Cross Tomorrow, shot in Greece and Turkey, is presented at the Thessaloniki Festival in 2019. Sepideh is in the process of finishing her animated feature film The Siren.
Guangli Liu
Producer, is assisting the project Deep Fake
Guangli Liu was born in 1990 in Lengshuijiang, China. He currently lives and works in Paris. Passionate about technology, Guangli has developed techniques in video, 3D animation and virtual reality. By creating virtual universes, his work tries to question how the computer medium is interlaced with contemporary narration and the reconstruction of our collective memory.
The winning projects in 2022
A member from each of the three projects has been hosted in Annecy by CITIA to join this second Annecy Festival Residency from 4th April to 30th June 2022.
The 2022 winning writers
Discover the writers of these future animated feature films who has been joined the Annecy Residency in April.
