Team & contact

A member of Visions du Réel’s Selection Committee since 2009, Emmanuel Chicon has been a journalist, a documentary film critic at L’Humanité and has produced around twenty radio documentaries for France Culture, RFI and RTBF. A regular contributor to the Cinéma/Cinéma du réel department at HEAD-Genève in the field of sound composition, he is also actively part of the Tours- based filmmakers’ collective Sans Canal Fixe and La Fabrique documentaire in Paris.

Anne Delseth studied journalism in Fribourg, where she quickly became involved with the FIFF: first as a volunteer, then secretary, executive assistant, and finally programmer. After a degree in cultural management, she moved to Paris, where she was quickly scouted by Édouard Waintrop and invited to join the programming team of the Cannes Directors’ Fortnight, on which she spent ten years (2012-2022). Sharing her time between Paris and Lausanne, she was also head of the Masters in Cinema at the ECAL (Lausanne) and the HEAD (Geneva). She now works as programmer for the Marrakech International Film Festival, artistic director of the Ulaanbaatar International Film Festival, consultant for the Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival, programming delegate for the Zürich Film Festival, and manages the CityClub cinema in Pully. She is also an active member of numerous Swiss cultural and cinema organisations.

After studying socio-anthropology and documentary film, Aurélien Marsais worked at the Cinéma du Réel festival in Paris as a programming assistant and participated in the creation of the professional platform ParisDoc in 2015. He then coordinated the États généraux du film documentaire in Lussas from 2014 to 2017, and has since contributed to the “Expériences du Regard” selection. Based in Geneva, he was co-head of the programming office at Visions du Réel from 2017 to 2020, and has been a programmer for the online documentary platform Tënk.fr since its creation.

Mourad-Anis Moussa joined the Visions du Réel team during his studies in Literature and History of Art, which were followed by an M.A. in Film studies (Filmwissenschaft) at the Freie Universität – Berlin. Over the years, he has held various positions at the Festival, including publications manager, programme coordinator and Member of the selection committee. He is currently Co-Head of the programming office and Member of the selection committee.
At the same time, Mourad-Anis Moussa has worked for a number of festivals, including the GIFF (Geneva International Film Festival) and the FIFF (Festival International de Films de Fribourg) as press officer, and the FdS (Festival artistique des affects, des genres et des sexualités – Lausanne) as film programmer.
He has also worked in the music industry, notably as a programmer for the live club La Gravière (Geneva) and organising show cases for RTS (Radio Télévision Suisse).

Alice Riva was the co-programmer and co-exhibitor of Cinéma Spoutnik in Geneva from 2015 to 2019. In 2018 she worked in the Locarno Pro department (Industry Office) of the Locarno Film Festival. In 2019, she took up a teaching post in the Cinema Department of her alma mater, the University of Art and Design (HEAD) in Geneva. Alice has also worked on several films, including Cemetery of Splendour by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, where she was a behind-the-scenes assistant.

Jasmin started to work at Visions du Réel while studying Film History and Aesthetics at the Lausanne University, where she obtained a Master in Arts. Since then, she has also been collaborating as programmer and Industry consultant with several festivals: Ambulante Mexico, FIFDH Geneva, Animafest Zagreb, NIFFF Neuchâtel, Solothurn Film Festival, Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur and Fantoche, among others. She has also worked with the Cinemathèque of Tangier-Morocco, the Centre for the Image La Virreina Barcelona, the Croatian Audiovisual Center, the French Cinémathèque, the Centre Pompidou and the Forum des Images in Paris. Co-founder and board member of Pro Short, the Swiss association for short films. She was an appointed expert for the Swiss Federal Office of Culture and a board member of the Geneva Film Commission. In 2017, she also started to work on different documentaries as associate producer. Currently, she’s in charge of the Master in Film Studies joint program of the ECAL Lausanne/HEAD Geneva.

Gudula Meinzolt has been working in film areas such as programming, promotion, festivals, distribution, exhibition and production. She was manager of the Mannheim Meetings and Head of Industry at Visions du Réel. For 20 years she has been working as producer in Germany with Autentika Films and recently also in Switzerland, now specializing in audience development and outreach/impact strategies. She offers training for pitches, project development, production and audience design and is asked for consultancy and as jury member worldwide. With Ciné-Doc she organizes the annual documentary month all over Switzerland Let’s Doc!. As “Green Consultant” she commits to a sustainable film production and distribution in Europe and is co-founder of AGF Green Film action, a network for a sustainable film and culture scene in Switzerland. She selects film projects in Switzerland and Latin America.

After graduating with a dissertation on “Eurimages and the New European Cinema” and her initiation to the festival circuit at the Cineteca di Bologna, Rebecca De Pas joined FID Marseille, where she served for 11 years as programmer as well as co-head of the FID Lab, the international co-production platform. Currently serving as programme advisor for the Viennale and as a member of the Selection Committee of Berlinale Talents, she has been mentor for the Feature Expanded Training Program, artistic director of the Journées Cinématographiques Dionysiennes, manager of the training programme Ex Oriente Film, she collaborated in the programming of La Roche sur Yon International Film Festival, and has been a matchmaker for the Orizzonti section of the Venice International Film Festival, the Riviera Maya Film Festival in Mexico and the Environmental Film Festival of Paris.

After graduating in film & production studies in University of the Arts – London, Mateo Ybarra started working since 2019 for Visions du Réel. He has been working first as coordinator and now as manager for VdR–Industry, for which he also serves on the project selection committee. In addition to this, he also works as an independent filmmaker and producer for L’ARTIFICE in Geneva.

Violeta Bava has worked at Visions du Réel’s Industry division since 2018 and continues her collaboration with the festival as a new member of the Selection Committee. The Argentinian producer worked at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival (BAFICI) for 20 years, both as a programmer and as Co-Director of the Buenos Aires Lab (BAL). She is founder of Ruda Cine, which has produced films by Milagros Mumenthaler, Martín Rejtman, Dominga Sotomayor, and Eduardo Williams. Violeta Bava is the Latin American Consultant for the Venice International Film Festival and the Venice Market; currently she is also Head of Studies at the Torino FeatureLab, International Guest Curator at the New Zealand International Film Festival, Programmer of International Film Festival & Awards Macao and programme advisor at New York Film Festival.

Documentary filmmaker Katy Lena Ndiaye lives between Dakar and Brussels. Her films put on screen a contemporary Africa, the relationship it has with history, memory and legacies. Her previous documentaries “Time is on our side” (2019) Awaiting for men (2007) Traces women imprints (2003) have been screened in numerous festivals and museums IFFR, FESPACO, FIFA, (Montreal), States General of Documentary Film Lussas, Journées Cinématographiques de Carthage, NYAFF, INPUT, FIPA, TFF (Greece), ânûû-rû âboro (New Caledonia), DOCKANEMA (Mozambique), Pitcha (DRC), Filmer à tout prix (Brussels), Real Life festival (Accra), Luxor film festival…
Metropolitan Museum of New York, the Guggenheim Museum of Bilbao, the Museum of Fine Arts of Montreal, the European, Museum of Photography of Paris, Haus der kulturen der Welt of Berlin. Since 2019, Lena has dedicated herself exclusively to IndigoMood films, a company founded in 2013 and based in Senegal. IndigoMood films is a new challenge and a continuation to Katy Léna pathway, accompanying new voices on cinema, exploring new narratives. Pushing also further her desire for cinema.

Shaunak Sen is an Academy award nominated filmmaker and writer based in Delhi.
His film ‘All That Breathes’, received nominations at the 2023 Academy and BAFTA awards. The film won awards at Cannes, Sundance, BFI London, IDA and Cinema Eye, and 24 other film festivals.
Cities of Sleep (2016), his first feature-length documentary, was shown at various major international film festivals and won 6 international awards.
Shaunak has received grants from Sundance, Tribeca, IDFA – Amsterdam amongst others. He has received the Pro Helvetia residency in Switzerland, the Sarai-CSDS grant, the Charles Wallace grant as visiting scholar at Cambridge University. Shaunak holds a PhD and has published in journals including Bioscope and Widescreen.

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