BABYLON 2015 Selected Projects

AUSTRIA

XOXO
Writer/director: Johanna Lietha
Writer/Director: Iliana Estanol

WOODEN RIFLE
Writer/Director: Alfoz Tanjour

DIE DIEBIN (The Thief)
Writer: Sonja Romei

GERMANY

THE NOBLE JACQUES
Writer/Director: Carsten Unger
Producer: Reza Bahar, Gifted Films

NIEMANDSLAND (No Man’s Land)
Writer/Director: Peter Evers

GREECE

HAUNTED BY CITY LIGHTS
Writer/Director/Producer: Stratis Chatzielenoudas, Margot Filmhouse
Co-Writer: Syni Pappa
Producer: Vangelis Fakinos, Margot Filmhouse

ISRAEL

KIDS AND KINGS
Writer/Director: Tal Haring
Producer: Efrat Cohen, Gaudeamus Productions

ITALY

JAMAL AFINA
Writer/Director: Yassine Marco Marroccu

UK

SHEBA
Writer/Director: Christiana Ebohon
Producer: Sandra McIver

THE PLACE BEHIND HER EYES
Writer/Director: Vika Evdokimenko
Co-Writer: Oliver Shuster  

BABYLON 2015 Participants

Oliver Shuster

Oliver Shuster

Oliver began his training as a medic before deciding his real passion lay with visual art. In 2013 he completed his master’s degree in illustration with distinction having illustrated and designed his graphic novel WE ARE HERE. He production designs and art directs...

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Vika Evdokimenko

Vika Evdokimenko

Vika was born in the Soviet Union during the perestroika. But as her popstar mother and physicist father fled the country, she spent her early years as an immigrant in Northern Ireland. After graduating from Cambridge University she performed with a jazz orchestra and...

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Christiana Ebohon

Christiana Ebohon

Christiana was born and still lives in South East London. She has directed two single dramas for television: “Single Voices” for Carlton Television (which won Best Actor at the EMMAS 2001) and “Dogma TV: Alister Meek Gets a Result” for Channel 4. In 1998 her short,...

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Efrat Cohen

Efrat Cohen

Efrat Cohen is a BA and MFA graduate in Film Directing & Production from the Tel Aviv University Film & TV Department. Efrat graduated with honors and received a full MFA scholarship. Efrat is currently the CEO and Head of Productions at "Gaudeamus...

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Tal Haring

Tal Haring

Tal Haring, 1986, is an Israeli independent young filmmaker and new-media artist with a BA in Film Directing from the Tel Aviv University Film & TV Department. Tal's enthusiasm for the art has led him to rely mostly on on-hands experience and make over 10 short films...

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Stratis Chatzielenoudas

Stratis Chatzielenoudas

Stratis Chatzielenoudas was born in Athens in 1982. He studied drawing, painting and Electrical Engineering in Technological Institute of Larissa. Since 2006 he has been working as an assistant director in cinema and television. As a film director he is best known for...

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Reza Bahar

Reza Bahar

While studying economic science at the University of Cologne, Reza Bahar founded a PLC to advise broadcasters and production companies in the field of interactive entertainment concepts. In 2002 he and his company produced their first film. Between 2002 and 2004,...

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Carsten Unger

Carsten Unger

Carsten Unger studied feature film direction from 2001-2007 at the Film Academy in Baden-Wuerttemberg. He also took part in the masterclass “The Hollywood Perspective” at UCLA in Los Angeles in 2004. During his studies he wrote and directed numerous short films and...

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Sonja Romei

Sonja Romei

Sonja Romei was born in 1973 in Lower Austria, the daughter of an Austrian and a Turkish guestworker. The gap between the double cultures, backgrounds and faiths with which she grew up, soon led to a quest for self-expression through creative activities in theatre and...

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Johanna Lietha

Johanna Lietha

Johanna Lietha was born in Zürich and studied Film-making at the London University of the Arts. Since 2009 she has been working on various film projects in many different countries. Since 2011 she is based in Vienna where she also works assisting directors in feature...

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Iliana Estañol

Iliana Estañol

Iliana Estañol was born in Mexico City. She studied Film Direction at the University of the Arts in Zürich (ZHdK) and at the prestigious International Filmschool in Cuba (EICTV), as well as Experimental Film & Media at the University of the Arts in Berlin (UDK). Since...

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Alfoz Tanjour

Alfoz Tanjour

Alfoz Tanjour was born in Salameih, Syria in 1975, and studied Filmmaking at the Academy of Fine Arts in the Republic of Moldova. He has made several projects as director, director of photography, editor or executive producer, including more than fifteen documentaries...

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