VdR–Rough Cut Lab

In 2017 she created WALDEN, a space for documentary creation. She has been a member of the World Cinema Fund (Berlinale) since 2011, and works as a tutor for Eurodoc, Torino Film Lab, Visions du Réel, DocMontevideo and DocSP.

Okta Film, an Italian film production company founded by Paolo Benzi, sets out to be a revealer of visibility, a “mariner’s warning” of our restless, fast-changing times. Firmly biased towards the kind of filmmaking that is in love with reality, Okta Film proposes auteur-driven films in which the activities of looking and listening intersect with the search for narrative forms that are new, skilful, experimental and enjoyable. With a strongly international political outlook and intellectual perspective, Okta Film believes in filmmaking which creates connections and reverberations, which works on analogies and on memory, and which stimulates the imagination. With this in mind, Okta Film chooses creative indiscipline, blends of genres, friction and the conflict of languages.

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VdR–Rough Cut Lab – Editor/Mentor

Sarajevo Film Festival started during the war and siege of Sarajevo. Today, 27 years later, it is the leading film festival in the region, recognized by both film professionals and the wider audience. It is an international event with a special focus on the region of South-East Europe. High-quality programming, a strong industry segment, an educational and networking platform for young filmmakers, generated the presence of the international film industry, film authors, and media representatives alongside a paying audience of over 100,000.

Myriam Sassine joined Abbout Productions producing several films such as Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl (Venice Film Festival Official Selection/TIFF 2021), All This Victory by Ahmad Ghossein (Venice Critic’s Week 2019), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019). From 2016-2020, she was the COO of Schortcut Films dedicated to co-producing international films such as Félicité by Alain Gomis and Beauty and the Dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania. In 2016, she cofounded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival and acts as the festival’s executive director. Since 2021, she’s the artistic director of Beirut Cinema Platform, Beirut DC’s copro platform. Myriam teaches film producing at the Lebanese Academy of Fine Arts and ESA Business School. She’s also a producing mentor for several institutions such as Doha Film Institute, Produire au Sud Agadir, Full Circle Lab Nouvelle Aquitaine and Hot Docs Blue Ice Lab.