LabDoc 2020

Jean-Robert Viallet is a film director and journalist. He was awarded the Albert Londres prize in 2010 for his trilogy La mise à mort du travail (The Death of Work), an immersion into the heart of large global corporations. His work focuses on the gray areas of power, the fractures of contemporary society and environmental issues. He has worked on the business of teenage reform camps in the USA (Les enfants perdus de Tranquility Bay), and international arms trafficking (Une femme à abattre). He has now turned his attention to the dangerous links between arms dealers and French political parties in a documentary series of six 52' episodes, about which the daily Le Monde writes: "As breathless, convoluted and humanly powerful as the best fiction series, Manipulation, une histoire française deserves to be revisited by watching all six episodes in succession, the better to savor its exhilarating and terrifying dramaturgy. After a film at the heart of France's bangs and those forgotten by the global economy (La France en face), he co-wrote with Alice Odiot a diptych about two families facing justice (Jusqu'à ce que la mort nous sépare, Le mauvais œil ). He then produced a worldwide investigation into the commodification of higher education (Etudiants: L'avenir à crédit). In 2019, he will complete L'homme a mangé la terre, an all-archival fresco that tells a counter-history of progress. Des Hommes, his latest film co-directed with Alice Odiot, a feature-length documentary selected for ACID-CANNES 2019, was released in cinemas in February 2019.

Victor Ede was editor (In Libris Editions), chief editor, then producer from 2015 at Cinephage productions, the company he founded with Jean-Robert Viallet. Trained at Eurodoc, he has produced seven films, including three international co-productions and one feature-length film, and is developing a line of documentaries with a strong international focus. Victor Ede is a reader and deputy member of the CNC's FAI commission, and an additional member of the PROCIREP ANGOA commission. Member of the Eurodoc network, DAE, president of the SUDPACA producers association (LPA).

Filmography (producer):

• L’homme a mangé la Terre - Jean Robert Viallet, 98min, 2019
• Leoforio - Catherine Catella et Shu Aiello, 2019
• La Zone Rouge - Tristan Thil, 2018
• Privacy Of Wounds - Dalia Khury, 2018
• Loin des Quartiers Nord - Benjamin Géminel, 2017
• Congo Paradiso - Benjamin Géminel et Tristan Thil, 2016
• Boy Saloum - Audrey Gallet, 2015

She has been making films for over 25 years, collaborating with directors from France, Switzerland, the USA, Colombia, Mexico, India, Israel, Serbia, ...

In addition to editing, she works as an editing and scriptwriting consultant, notably for Rough Cut Service, Doc Montevideo, Circle, Visions du Réel, Dok Incubator, Ex Oriente, Doc Aviv, and Doc Point. She worked as an editing lecturer at HEAD/ Cinéma du Réel in Geneva from 2008 to 2018. She was recently invited to be a member of the Academy of the Oscars in the field of documentary. Her most recent works include: Dans tes yeux je vois mon pays by Kamal Hachkar 2019, Radio Silence by Juliana Fanjul 2019, Advocate by Rachel Leah Jones and Philippe Bellaiche 2019, D'Angelo-The chosen one by Carine Bjilsma 2019, The Edge of Democracy by Petra Costa 2019 (consultant Montage et Scénario), One more Jump by Manu Gerosa 2019 (editing supervisor), Rétrospective by Jérôme Bel 2019, Soeurs Jarariju by Jorge Cadena 2018, Las fantasmas del Caribe by Felipe Monroy 2018, Disappearances by Anat Even 2016, Machines by Rahul Jain 2016, The wonderful kingdom of Papa Alaev by Noam Pinchas and Tal Barda 2015, Muchachas by Juliana Fanjul 2014, Jugando con los pajaros by Simona Canonica 2014. From 1995 to 1999, she worked as editing supervisor for various feature films in the USA, including Lisbon story by Wim Wenders, Girlfight by Karin Kusama, Hamlet by Michael Almereyda... She has directed two feature-length documentaries: Not for Sale, 2003; The Rabbi's 12 children, 2007; as well as various shorter formats for television.