Jonas Parienté is a documentary filmmaker. His films explore questions and stories related to migration, identity and urbanization. Jonas studied in Paris (BA in Sociology, summa cum laude) and New York (MFA in Integrated Media Arts) – where he directed his first two short documentaries. In the first one we meet 75 year-old Richard, who has been living for half a century in a young men’s hostel. The next one, Bodies & Soul, is a portrait of his then-neighbor Joe, whose life incarnates the transformations of the Lower East Side, from the self-destructive punk era to the more gentrified current period. After his first hour-long documentary Next year in Bombay, he directed a webdocumentary for French public TV on Mumbai’s urbanization from the eyes and experience of a rickshaw driver (A rickshaw in the city, www.France5.fr).
Mathias Mangin was born in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and grew up in Paris. He graduated in finance from Edhec Business School, and later studied photography in Sao Paulo and filmmaking in New York. His short fiction film The Chance was selected in festivals in Paris and Toronto. He also directed Paris, Adeus, a short video art piece showed during the “Year of France in Brazil” and on TV Cultura. Mathias is actually part of a screenwriting workshop at the Fémis School of Cinéma in Paris. (www.mathiasmangin.com)