Sofie is an award winning actress who lives in her hometown Copenhagen. In the past decade, Sofie has worked extensively in film and television both in Denmark and Internationally. Sofie is best known for playing Detective Sarah Lund in the critically acclaimed series The Killing which won several awards including a BAFTA for Best International Drama. Her other TV projects include Fortitude (Sky Atlantic), Liberty (DR), The Other World (DRFiktion) and Nikolaj Og Julie for which she won Best Actress Award at Copenhagen TV Festival 2003 and it secured an INTERNATIONAL EMMY for Best Drama Series.
More recently Sofie has starred in Us (BBC), Gentleman Jack (BBC), The Undoing (HBO) and Prisoner (BBC). Sofie has also featured in films including SORT HØST (Black Harvest) written and directed by Anders Refn, The One and Only directed by Susanne Bier, Flickering Light alongside Mads Mikkelsen and directed by Anders Thomas Jensen, The Day will come which won six Robert Awards in 2017 and Lars von Triers The House That Jack Built alongside Matt Dillon and Uma Thurman. More recently Sofie starred in Rose written and directed by Niels Arden Oplev.
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Olivier Abbou is a screenwriter, director and producer through his production company Jack n’a qu’un œil. After working on several short films, he caught the eye of CANAL+ who gave him free rein to direct Madame Hollywood. He then directed two feature films, Territories (2011) and Get In (2019), as well as series for Arte and Netflix: Maroni (2 seasons) and Les Papillons Noirs, a great critical and audience success. In 2023, he directed Drone Games for Prime Video.
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Amine Bouhafa started his musical career very early on, at the age of 12, as a pianist and arranger. At 15, he composed his very first score for a short film. He claims and always balances his two cultures and therefore developed a very unique style by playing with the orientalism clichés. In 2015, he was chosen to compose the score for Timbuktu for which he received a César for Best Original Score. The same year, he was awarded the Grand Prize France Musique–Sacem. In 2017, he scored the music of Beauty and the dogs by Kaouther Ben Hania (Best Sound Creation at the Cannes Film Festival). He then scored many films such as Looking for OumKulthum, You Will Die at 20, Ason, Gagarine, The Man Who Sold His Skin, The Summit of the Gods... He also worked for series, whether it be fictions with Kingdom of Fire, Le Monde de Demain and Tapie or documentaries such as Histoires d’une Nation (France 2), or even animated series with the three seasons of The Adventures of Paddington (Studio Canal). More recently, he worked on the score of Four Daughters by Kaouther Ben Hania, selected at the 2023 Cannes Film Festival where it received the Golden Eye Documentary Prize, but also honored by the César for Best Documentary and running for the Oscars.
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Brazilian born actress Alice Braga, received critical and international recognition for her performance in Fernando Meirelles’ City of God, and is best known for her captivating portrayal as Teresa Mendoza in USA network’s drama series Queen of the South. An adaptation of Arturo Perez-Reverte’s bestselling novel La Reina Del Sur, the acclaimed series ran for five successful seasons. Braga is also one of the only few actors to portray characters for both the DC Extended Universe and Marvel Entertainment. She starred alongside an ensemble cast including Margot Robbie, Idris Elba and Viola Davis in Warner Bros’ The Suicide Squad, directed by James Gunn and portrayed Dr. Cecilia Reyes in Disney’s The New Mutants, with Ana Taylor-Joy and Charlie Heaton.
She was most recently seen in A Murder at the End of the World, FX’s limited mystery series created, written and directed by Brit Marling & Zal Batmanglij. Braga will next be seen in Apple TV+’s Dark Matter based on the adaptation of Blake Crouch’s acclaimed sci-fi novel in which she stars alongside Joel Edgerton, Jennifer Connelly and Jimmi Simpson. In 2020, Braga starred in Luca Guadagnino’s crucially acclaimed HBO drama series, We Are Who We Are, also starring Chloë Sevigny and Jack Dylan Grazer, and lent her voice to the Academy Award-winning Pixar feature Soul alongside Jamie Foxx and Tina Fey.
Braga has worked with some of Hollywood’s best directors and leading actors in films including Stuart Hazeldine’s The Shack alongside Sam Worthington and Octavia Spencer; Kieran-Darcy Smith’s The Duel opposite Woody Harrelson; Fernando Meirelles’ Blindness with Julianne Moore and Mark Ruffalo; David Mamet's Redbelt alongside Chiwetel Ejiofor and Emily Mortimer; Wayne Kramer's ensemble film Crossing Over, led by Sean Penn and Harrison Ford; Francis Lawrence’s blockbuster I Am Legend opposite Will Smith; Neill Blomkamp’s futuristic drama Elysium opposite Matt Damon and Jodie Foster; Walter Salles’ On The Road alongside Kristen Stewart, Kirsten Dunst, Amy Adams and Garrett Hedlund; Mikael Hafstrom’s thriller The Rite opposite Anthony Hopkins; Miguel Sapochnik’s thriller Repo Man opposite Jude Law and Forest Whitaker; Nimrod Antal’s sci-fi Predators opposite Adrien Brody; and the riveting drama Lower City. Braga is fluent in Portuguese, Spanish and English and is an environmental activist who works regularly with the organization Greenpeace.
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Macarena García made her film debut with Pablo Berger in Blancanieves a movie for which she received the Silver Shell for Best Actress at the San Sebastián Film Festival, as well as the Goya Award for Best New Actress. Later on, she has starred in titles such as El arte de volver directed by Pedro Collantes — presented at the 77th Venice Film Festival as part of the Biennale College — and La llamada directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi. She has also worked in other films like Todos están muertos directed by Beatriz Sanchís; Palmeras en la nieve directed by Fernando Gómez Molina — for which she was nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the Union of Actors Awards — and Ventajas de viajar en tren directed by Aritz Moreno.
She has trained with Juan Carlos Corazza, Andrés Lima, Fernando Piernas, Lorena Bayonas, and Ivana Chubbuck, among others. Additionally, she has taken singing lessons.
Macarena also starred in the play La llamada at the Teatro Lara, directed by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, earning her the Fotogramas de Plata for Best Theater Actress. In terms of television, Macarena has worked in series such as La Mesías created by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi —premiered at the 71st San Sebastián Festival and earning her a nomination for Best Leading Actress at the 2024 Feroz Awards — Las de la última fila created by Daniel Sánchez Arévalo; Paraíso created by Fernando González Molina; Paquita Salas created by Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi, and El Ministerio del Tiempo created by Pablo and Javier Olivares.
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After studying at the Conservatoire National de Paris, Alix Poisson first worked on stage with, for instance, Matthias Langhof, Philippe Adrien, Muriel Mayette, Carlo Ceci, or even Daniel Mesguich.
2009 was a turning point in her career as she met director Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (who had previously received an Oscar for his documentary Murder on a Sunday Morning) to play the leading role in the very note worthy Parcours meurtrier d’une mèreordinaire: l’affaire Courjault. It marked the beginning of a successful collaboration as they will regularly work together on several acclaimed films and series (Vanished, 3 X Manon, The Inside Gameseason 1 and 2...). Since then, she acted both in dramas such as The Returned by Fabrice Gobert, The Disappearance by Charlotte Brandström,The Unexpected Child (for which she won the Best Performance Prize at the Luchon Festival), The Collection (Amazon Prime), Germinal directed by David Hourrègue; as well as incomedies including Quadras by Melissa Drigeard, or Parents mode d’emploi, a multi-year success story. She has also worked in cinema with directors such as Bertrand Tavernier, Jan Kounen, Noemie Saglio, Xavier Gens...
Recently, she played the role of Christine in Samber, which was as critically acclaimed as it was an audience record on France Télévisions and received the Prix du syndicat de la critique this year. She has directed a short film, 1432, which entered many festivals and was then featured on Telerama and Figaro, as part of the campaign against sexual violence. While working on her future acting projects, she is currently writing a feature film.
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Henriette Steenstrup, an award-winning actress and comedian, has also worked as a creator and screenwriter in recent years. She achieved her breakthrough with the Viaplay series Pørni, where she also plays the lead role. After completing her education at the Norwegian Theatre Academy, she made a name for herself in productions of Ibsen and Shakespeare at the National Theatre before later venturing into the world of comedy. She has had prominent roles in several films, including those directed by the critically acclaimed filmmaker Dag Johan Haugerud. Her latest film, Be Aware of Children, received 12 Amanda Awards and the Dragon Award for Best Film at the Gothenburg Film Festival, where Henriette was also honored with the award for Best Acting. She has also hosted TV programs and appeared in several comedy shows and TV series as an actress, including Lilyhammer and Ragnarok. Currently, she is working on completing Season 5 of Pørni while also developing two new TV series.
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In 2007, Pénélope Bagieu created “Ma vie est tout à fait fascinante”, an online blog where she reports about her daily life with humor and originality. Her work then branched outto advertising, press and, first and foremost, to the bookshops through her comic books and graphic novels (Cadavre exquis, California Dreamin’, Culottées, Sacrées sorcières...) which have been translated all over the world and received many awards. A significant success that also reached cinema and television with the adaptation of Joséphine and Culottées.
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Nathan Stewart-Jarrett can currently be seen as the leadin fantastic new Disney+ series Culprits and incredible LGBT thriller/horror feature Femme opposite George MacKay. For his performance alongside McKay, the pair won the Best Joint Performance Award at this year’s BIFA’s. Femme follows Jules (Stewart-Jarrett), a drag artist, who is the victim of a horrific homophobic attack which destroys his life and career. A few months later, Jules encounters the ring leader of his attackers (McKay) in a gay sauna and a dangerous game of revenge ensues.
Nathan recently starred in Jordan Peele’s racially charged reboot of the classic horror film Candyman for Universal and Lena Dunham-Produced HBO Max dramedy series Generation. On stage, Nathan last starred as Belize in the Tony/Olivier Award-Winning play Angels in america from playwright Tony Kushner starring alongside Andrew Garfield. Nathan is perhaps most recognized for his lead role as Curtis Donovan in the E4 hit series Misfits. Additional notable credits include BBC’s Doctor Who, AMC’s Soulmates and Channel 4's Utopia.
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Ovidie is an author as well as a fiction and documentary director, with a PhD in Literature and Film Studies. She specializes in body issues, feminism and sexuality. She started exploring the concept of feminist pornography, through film fictions, during the 2000s. In 2010, she started directing TV documentaries and fictions for France 2, Arte and CANAL+, including Pornocracy (2017), Everything’s Better than a Hooker (2018, winner of the Amnesty International Prize for Best Documentary), or Tu enfanteras dans la douleur (2019). She also created and directed the series A very ordinary world (2022) for which she received an International Emmy Award. At the same time, she created several documentary radio programs including L’éducation sexuelle des enfants d’Internet and Qu’est-ce quipourrait sauver l’amour?, but also podcasts such as La Dialectique du calbute sale.
Ovidie is also known for her essays, such as La Chair est triste hélas (Julliard) and her graphic novels including Les Cœurs insolents which received the 25th Prix des lycéens des Hauts-de-France.
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Award-winning UK Film & TV Producer Alex Boden has specialised in international production with Europe, Japan and the US since launching Pistachio Pictures in 1999. Recent productions include TOKYO VICE (Max) from J.T. Rogers, starring Ansel Elgort and Ken Watanabe; the fantasy adventure series CURSED (Netflix) from Tom Wheeler and Frank Miller; and the ground-breaking series SENSE8 (Netflix), directed by the Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer, for which he was nominated for a PGA Award.
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After studying anthropology, Julien Cernobori became a director and reporter. He has worked for Radio France for several years, where he created, directed and hosted many original shows and programs. A sensitive interviewer, passionate about the art of storytelling, he likes collecting anonymous journeys, being a witness to people’s everyday lives, and prompting encounters with the audience thanks to meticulous editing. He created numerous podcast series, such as Superhéros, Le Centre du monde or even Rives de Seine. Today, he has become an independent producer and has been directing his podcast saga CERNO L’anti-enquête since 2019.
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