The Power of Programming: Fueling Emergence!

Florian has been working in the field of audiovisual and digital creation for several years, with a strong interest in innovation and new storytelling formats. Currently a Commissioning Editor in the Arts team at ARTE France, he contributes to the development and oversight of documentaries that explore societal changes through the lens of visual arts, performing arts, and the digital revolution. His role involves guiding these projects at every stage, ensuring their editorial coherence and impact on the audience. Previously, he held the same position in ARTE’s Digital Creations Unit, where he contributed to the development of a wide range of projects, including video games, hybrid series, and short-form fiction. His career in audiovisual production began at Webspider Productions, where he served as Head of Digital Development. There, he supported projects blending storytelling and digital technologies, collaborating with producers and authors eager to experiment with new formats. In the same spirit of exploration, he created ​“La Dernière Pièce”, illustrated by Constance Daire. This project offers an immersive experience on Instagram, where players delve into the mind of a young woman undergoing a unique hypnosis session. Through his various experiences, Florian is committed to supporting works that challenge the way stories are told and experienced today, whether they are linear or interactive.

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Silvia Lucchesi is an art historian, lecturer and contemporary art curator. She has published books, essays and curated exhibitions on modern and contemporary Italian art. She has been director since 2008 of Lo Schermo dell’Arte Cinema and Contemporary Art Festival in Florence, which she co-founded. In its 17 years of activity, it has established itself as a reference subject for the international debate on the practice of moving images, confirming its international role in the scouting of new talents and in deepening new expressive languages. Since 2000 she has been a consultant to the directorship of International Project Ars Aevi-Museum of Contemporary Art Sarajevo. She has been in the Board of the Fondazione Fabbrica Europa per le Arti Contemporanee, Florence, and of Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea L. Pecci, Prato. She has collaborated with Festival dei Popoli as curator of the section ​“Cinema e Arte” (1992−1998 and 2005 – 2007). Among others, she curated film and video shows as Atlanti Futuri. Visioni sugli scenari a venire (Florence, CCCS, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, 2008), Before and After the Revolution: Italia Anni 1962 – 72, (Minneapolis, Walker Art Center, 2001). In 2000 she produced Losing the Thread a film directed by Jonathan Nossiter, that was shown at Torino Film Festival, IFFR-Rotterdam, It’s All True-São Paolo, Odisseia nas Images-Porto and broadcasted by RAISAT and Sundance Channel.

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Daughter and granddaughter of filmmakers, and a passionate admirer of auteur cinema from an early age, Zoé Protat holds a Master’s degree in film studies from the University of Montreal. In 2019, she became the director of programming at Montreal’s Festival du Nouveau Cinéma. A film critic for over 15 years, she is a member of the AQCC (Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma) and serves on the editorial board of Ciné-Bulles, where she has authored major articles on the cinema of Paul Verhoeven, Andrzej Wajda, Miloš Forman, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. She has also worked as a radio host and columnist, made numerous podcast appearances, and created her own blog. She loves Eastern cinemas, grand romantic gestures, revolutions, Dostoyevskian ​“hysterical” intensity, geometric formalism, and gothic rock.

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Philippe U. del Drago has worked in the field of arts and culture for over twenty years, striving during this time to create bridges between artists and their audiences. Specializing in the management of cultural enterprises in fields as varied as classical music, theatre, dance and technological arts, he is passionate about artistic creation and its related processes. A graduate of the Institut National de l’Image et du Son (INIS), where he obtained expertise in film production, he also holds a master’s degree in administration. Del Drago has developed a career as a designer, producer, videographer, photographer and creative director, which has brought him to work on projects around the globe.

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Durant ses 10 années d’expérience dans l’audiovisuel, Fany Fulchiron a exercé diverses fonctions visant notamment à développer des plateformes digitales, en intervenant sur les aspects techniques, éditoriaux, ainsi que sur le développement des audiences et les partenariats de distribution. En 2018, elle s’installe au Mexique où, parallèlement à ses activités professionnelles, elle coréalise son premier film documentaire, Les arbres meurent debout, primé d’une Etoile de la Scam en 2024. Fany rejoint l’Opéra national de Paris en 2022 pour lancer la plateforme de streaming vidéo Paris Opera Play (POP), vitrine digitale des nouvelles formes d’expressions audiovisuelles de l’Opéra de Paris. POP a pour objectif de faire découvrir les œuvres du répertoire lyrique et chorégraphique à un large public, en France et à l’international, et de donner un accès privilégié aux coulisses des spectacles.

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Anne Georget is a French documentary film director working mostly for public broadcasters such as Arte. She was chairwoman of LaScam, French author’s guild (2015−2017). She is currently chairwoman of FIPADOC, international documentary film festival taking place in January in the city of Biarritz.


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Gavin Humphries is Managing Director of global online arts and culture video platform NOWNESS, part of London based Dazed Media and Meta Media in China. Based between London, Shanghai and Hong Kong, Nowness commissions numerous films each year both editorially and in partnership with international cultural partners and brands. The Nowness creative community includes its founder Jefferson Hack, Björk, Jenn Nkiru, Es Devlin, Luca Guadagnino, Crystal Moselle, Benjamin Millepied, Baloji and Cao Fei. Several Nowness commissions have premiered at international festivals, including Sundance, Tribeca, BFI London, Shanghai, Rotterdam and Clermont Ferrand. Himself a BAFTA and BIFA nominated producer, Gavin’s worked on film, television and digital projects with the British Film Institute, Google, Film4, Tate Modern, the Young Vic Theatre and the BBC. His productions have premiered at Venice Film Festival; been shortlisted for the Evening Standard Film Awards; nominated for 3 British Independent Film Awards as well as by the London Critics’ Circle; and four of his short films have premiered Sundance with one winning at Cannes Directors’ Fortnight.

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