DISOBEDIENT IMAGES: THE PERSISTENCE AND IRREVERENCE OF POST-COLONIAL CINEMA

Inadelso Cossa is a film director, producer and DOP, member of the (AMPAS) Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science since 2020. Founder of 16mmFILMES a production company focused on creative documentary and feature films. The Nights Still Smell of Gunpowder is his second feature film.

Laura Huertas Millán is a Colombian-French filmmaker and artist. A graduate from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris and Le Fresnoy, she is currently a PhD candidate at the Ecole Normale Superieure rue d´Ulm and the Beaux-Arts de Paris (France). Since 2014, she is also a fellow at the Sensory ethnography lab and the Film Study Center at Harvard University (USA). Her films have screened internationally in numerous art venues including the Guggenheim Museum New York, Palais de Tokyo, Museo de arte Moderno de Medellin, Villa Arson, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires and Instituto de Visión. They have been shown as well in cinema festivals as FIDMarseille, Curtas Vila do Conde, Tampere and l’Alternativa, among others. She was the recipient of a Resartis residency prize at Videobrasil 2013, of a special jury mention at the Moving Image Biennial 2014 in Argentina and was awarded the special jury mention of the Grand Prix of the French competition at FIDMarseille 2016.

Jesse Cumming (he/him) is a curator, writer, and researcher. He is an Associate Curator with the Wavelengths section of the Toronto International Film Festival, in addition to a consultant with the Berlinale Forum and Open City Documentary Festival.

Shanida Scotland is an award-winning commissioning editor and executive producer, working within documentary film and audio. Shanida is the new Global Head of Film at Doc Society. Shanida is interested in the intimate & resonant in docs; qualities that remain meaningful through time.