Thom Andersen was born in 1943 in Chicago. In the early 60’s, he studied at the USC (School of Cinematic Arts) in Los Angeles. In 1975 he directed Eadweard Muybridge, Zoopraxographer, a documentary film about the photographer Muybridge known for his early use of multiple cameras to capture motion. In 1995, his second film Red Hollywood shows how the communists of Hollywood were sometimes able to surreptitiously express their ideas in the films they wrote and directed. His latest movie, the 2003 Los Angeles Plays Itself, analyzes how nearly 100 years of cinema has depicted Los Angeles. It won the National Film Board Award for best documentary at the 2003 Vancouver International Film Festival. He has also lectured at the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and Ohio State University.
Born in Havana, 1949. Having graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Havana, in 1974 he joined the Centre for Cinematographic Information in the ICAIC (The Cuban Institute of Cinematographic Art and Industry), where he was a film critic. Two years later he began to work as a production assistant on films such as Río Negro (1976) by Manuel Pérez and Leyenda (1981) by Rogelio París and Jorge Fraga. He worked as assistant director to Pastor Vega in Retrato de Teresa (1979) and Habanera (1984) and to Rogelio París in Canto a la vida (1983). In 1984 he made his debut as a director of documentary films, in which capacity he has won numerous awards at international festivals.
Enrique was born in Mexico in 1976. He studied Industrial Engineering and after working in the banking industry in Mexico and in the United States he decided to study cinema. He has worked in different areas related to the cinematographic production, from the photography to the art. As Director he has conducted two short films: Nidra and Schhht!. In February 2005 he worked as First Assistant of Direction in the feature film La Influencia, a film by Pedro Aguilera shown in the Director's Fortnight in Cannes. In 2008 his first feature film, Parque Vía, received several awards among which the Golden Leopard in the Locarno Film Festival, and the best Latin-American film and the audience award at the Mexico City International Contemporary Film Festival (FICCO).
Born in Madrid in 1978, Irene Visedo began to train to be an actress at the age of 14. Since then she has studied in various schools with different methods and under different teachers. Among the former were the Cuarta Pared, Ángel Gutiérrez’ Chamber Theatre, the Schinca Studio and, above all, the Abadía Theatre directed by José Luis Gómez (where she attended workshops and courses taught by Théâtre de la Complicité, Will Keen, Jacques Lecoq and Darío Fo) and the Juan Carlos Corazza Studio. Her teachers have included Bob McAndrew, María del Mar Navarro, Sergei Ostrenko, Eduardo Recabarren, Arnold Taraborelli and Ana Vázquez de Castro.