LabDoc 2021

Shu Aiello lives in Marseille. She alternates between director and production manager. She has worked alongside directors as diverse as Jean Louis Comolli, Yossif Pasternak, Yvan Lemoine, Yves Anchar, Jean Yves Collet... As a director, she has written and directed some twenty documentaries for television, many of them devoted to questions of identity and society raised by the colonial history of France and its overseas territories. She has also directed a number of children's fiction series and reports for channel 5.

Moroccan director, screenwriter and producer of documentary and fiction films. She will accompany the winners throughout the second edition of Lab Doc. Born in Casablanca, Morocco, in 1970, Leïla KILANI studied economics in Paris, obtaining a DEA in History and Civilization of the Mediterranean before preparing a thesis at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales. Leïla Kilani has always dreamed of being a clown. Today, she lives between Paris and Tangier.‍

A freelance journalist since 1997, she turned to documentaries in 1999, with a number of highly acclaimed films: "Tanger, le rêve des brûleurs", 2002, about would-be immigrants to Europe, "Zad Moultaka, passages", 2002, "D'ici et d'ailleurs", a documentary on industrial memory in France, and "Nos lieux interdits" (2008). She then directed "Sur la planche" (2011), her 1st feature-length fiction film, which was selected for the Directors' Fortnight at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival and at over 80 festivals. She is currently working on finishing her second feature film: Indivisions.

Claire Dixsaut has been training audiovisual, film and multimedia professionals in the art of pitching for 23 years. She teaches at the Fémis, SCAM, INA, production companies and broadcasters. She shares tips and tricks on her website lepitch.art.

Claire Dixsaut has worked for Arte, for Canal+ documentaries, and as head of international co-productions at Turner/TimeWarner. She then oversaw multimedia content at Microsoft France.

Production manager at Cinéphage.

Tina Baz, sometimes credited as Tina Le Gal or Tina Baz Le Gal, is a French-Lebanese editor born in 1970 in Beirut.

She is a regular collaborator of Naomi Kawase and Sébastien Lifshitz. For the latter, for example, she edited Adolescentes, which won her a César for best editing.

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