Contributors of Nisimazine

Adrien Lenoir is a student at the HEC Paris Business School, specilized in the management of cultural activities. He directed a short film in 2008. He also writes reviews for a blog site he and some of his friends created: http://neufruedeshalles.blogspot.com. Adrien lives and studies in Paris.

Conception and making of the website.

Atso Pärnänen is a producer and director. He has written, directed and/or produced various short films, story edited, developed and written feature films. He has been active in film festival organizations especially in the United Kingdom and Finland having for the past few years divided his time between them and recently also France and Italy.

Claudio Sánchez Castro is an anthropology student at UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia. He has worked since 2005 as a journalist in Radio Cristal. In 2008 he started hosting and producing Cine con Cristal, a radio show specialized in film criticism and information about movies. Since 2008 he has published film reviews in the newspaper La Prensa. In 2009 he began working as a film critic for the magazine La Esquina de la Cinemateca of the Fundación Cinemateca Boliviana.

Dominika Uhríková is a student of translation and interpretation at the English and Italian departments of the Comenius University in Bratislava and at the French department of the University of Prešov, Slovakia. In 2005, she released a book of poetry entitled “Ten Decagrams of Decadence” and since December 2007, she has been a part-time reporter at The Slovak Spectator, the country’s only English-language newspaper. She covers culture, her main focus being cinema and music.

Dominika has been regularly publishing translations of various literary works and she has translated into Slovak several movies screened at the Košice French Film Festival, which she co-organises as a member of the Alliance française de Košice administrative council. Her interest in cinema, however, is not limited to the linguistic level. She has taken part in various film events both in her homeland and abroad, including the “60 in Cannes” workshop at the Cannes International Film Festival in 2008. Dominika lives alternately in Košice and in Bratislava.

Jorge is from Lima, Peru and is currently studying Filmmaking at the Universidad de Lima. He has taken some courses at NYU shool of Arts Tisch. He has written articles for his high school and his college newspaper. At the moment he is as a film critic for a local radio and has his own blog where he publishes movie articles. He has made two short films in college and assisted in the making of a Peruvian film called "Mañana te cuento 2".

Working in the NISI MASA office in Paris since 2007, since then I’ve been regularly involved in Nisimazine as coordinator, editor, proof-reader, translator, and (very) occasional writer. So far it’s taken me across three different continents!

Laslo Rojas graduated from the Computer Science Deparment of the Catholic University of Peru, and now works as a web editor in Lima. He is one of the founders of Cinencuentro, a group of cinephiles that, since 2003, bring together their love for movies with personal and professional interests. In 2005 they created Cinencuentro.com, a movie blog that has become one of the referents for the region’s film community. He has covered several editions of film festivals in Lima, and once in Buenos Aires, at BAFICI 2008.

Maartje (born in Holland in 1983) was once pulled across the ocean to study art on the american Great Plains. After this first quest, she returned to her home country to study Sociology, Archaeology and Cinema, in which she graduated in 2008. Now based in Paris working fulltime for NISI MASA as project manager and graphic designer, she is also developing as a photographer working on an international project called ’Flakes of Identity’, making a photo diary.

Martha Cotoret studied journalism at the Santa Rosa University, in Caracas. In 2005 she began her career in the editorial group “Bloque Dearmas”, where she worked as editor of fashion health and beauty magazines. Two years later, Martha joined TalCual, a daily newspaper of national circulation, where she is currently working as a journalist in the cultural section. There she writes criticism, reviews and interviews on national and international cinema.

Mary Carmen Molina Ergueta (La Paz, 1987) is a Literature student at UMSA in La Paz, Bolivia. Since 2008, she works in Cine con Cristal, a radial show specialized in information about movies and film criticism. She works in projects of investigation on Bolivian contemporary literature and in the development of cinema clubs projects. She is one of the members of the Publishing Council of digital magazine Cinemas Cinema.

Pierre – Anthony Canovas is a French freelance journalist now based in Paris. After a double B.A in Law and Political Studies, he recently graduated with a master’s degree in European studies. His passion for cinema has begun early on when he used to spend hours watching movies in the theatre next to his mother’s work. Moviegoer, he has been among others things, the co-producer of a short American documentary on World War II consciousness objectors and has directed a few making of and video reports in France and abroad.

Sabrina Fidalgo is a Brazilian filmmaker, screen writer and producer and has collaborated with several Brazilian and European magazines and websites writing articles about cinema and music. She lives between her hometown Rio de Janeiro and Berlin, Germany.

Silviu Pavel is a photographer from Romania. His photographic experience began in 2005 after his graduation in computer programming, as a result from a childhood passion for visual arts that was not fulfilled. Since then he graduated from two Romanian photography schools and has been involved till now more into cultural projects for documenting the life of Romanian communities around the country. Some of these projects were finalized with exhibitions in Bucharest and others are still on going. He is more oriented towards street photography and photojournalism than commercial photography and intends to develop more projects into cultural environments.

Toprak Coskun Deniz graduated from the Department of Translation Studies of the University of Istanbul. He works as a freelance translator and as a coordinator in a contemporary art gallery in Istanbul. He has a personal blog site where he publishes his film reviews. As a member of NISI MASA Turkey, he was the manager of NISI MASA 8th European Script Contest. He also participated in NISI MASA Film Journalism workshops in Istanbul and Lima in 2009. Toprak lives and works in Istanbul.

Vivian Murcia studied Journalism and Sociology at Universidad Mayor del Rosario in Bogota, Colombia. During her university years, she was part of several film critic groups and started to write reviews, especially of Colombian films. Nowadays, she is working as cultural editor in Journal El Nuevo Siglo of Colombia, in which she has published various articles concerning cinema. She has been an active participant in the film festivals of Cartagena and Lima.

Zsuzsanna Kiràly, born 1985 in Transylvania/Romania, studied communication sciences in Vienna/Austria and Berlin/Germany. After working in Public Relation agencies, she specialised in film – in particular on film festivals and film production. Currently Zsuzsanna Kiràly is living in Berlin/Germany and working as a freelancer in film production.