Le FIFA’s cartes blanches!

With a Master’s degree in Visual Anthropology from the University of Bern (Switzerland), Andreina Aveledo began her film programming studies at the French Institute in Spain. Just after the pandemic, she resumed her studies for a master’s degree in cultural management (France), which led her to coordinate the programming of the 40^th edition of FIFA. Formerly in charge of the professional meetings of the Festival du nouveau cinéma de Montréal, Andreina is now in charge of the year-round event programming of FIFA, as well as the ARTS.FILM platform.

Born in Aleppo, Syria, Layane Chawaf moved to Paris in 1981. Passionate about cinema, she joined the team at the Arab World Institute in 1992, after studying French Literature and Civilization, linguistics, and translation. As administrator and coordinator of the Arab Cinema Biennial in Paris (1992−2006), she contributed to all activities of the cinema department: screenings, premieres, festivals, round tables, symposiums, etc. Since 2013, she has been the Cinema Manager and General Delegate of the Arab Cinemas Festival, which held its first edition from June 28 to July 8, 2018.

She also coordinated and contributed to the writing of all cinema publications at the Arab World Institute, including ​“Egypt, One Hundred Years of Cinema” (Plume Editions, 1995). She has served on several festival juries and collaborated on the film programming of numerous festivals.

Louise Déry (Ph.D. Art History) is Director of the Galerie de l’UQAM, having previously been Curator at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, as well as Director of the Musée régional de Rimouski. She has curated over a hundred exhibitions in Canada and abroad, including works by Giuseppe Penone, Rober Racine, Nancy Spero, Dominique Blain, Françoise Sullivan, Michael Snow and Emmanuelle Léonard, to name but a few. She curated an exhibition by David Altmejd for Canada at the 52^nd Venice Biennale, and was awarded the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres de France and Compagne de l’Ordre des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Pascale Pronnier is in charge of artistic programming at Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains.

Since 1997, Pascale Pronnier has invited works by contemporary artists such as Bill Viola, Janet Cardiff, Michael Snow, Claudio Parmiggiani, James Turrell, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker, Johan Van der Keuken, Harun Farocki, François Morellet, Simon Hantai, Anri Sala, Clement Cogitore, Hicham Berrada, Kapawni Kiwanga, Saodat Ismailova, Enrique Ramirez, Mati Diop and others to take part in exhibitions.

Pascale Pronnier is also involved in Le Fresnoy’s program to disseminate its artistic productions (600 shows a year).

For example, Le Fresnoy has recently organized exhibitions in collaboration with the following institutions: Louvre Lens, TBA21, Pinault collection, Centre Pompidou. Since 2022, Pascale Pronnier has been a member of the FRAC Picardie acquisition committee.