THE HUNCHBACK

Gabriel Abrantes

Gabriel Abrantes (USA, 1984) has written and directed fourteen short and medium-length films so far, including A History of Mutual Respect (2010), which won the Golden Pardino in Locarno; Palácios de pena (2011), which participated at the Venice Film Festival; and Toprobana (2013), Prix UIP Berlin at the 2014 Berlin Film Festival. In 2015, he attended Torino Film Festival with the choral feature film Aqui, em Lisboa (2015).

FILMOGRAFIA

Gabriel Abrantes, Ben Rivers:
The Hunchback (cm, 2016).

Ben Rivers

Ben Rivers studied fine arts at the Falmouth School of Art, initially focusing on sculpture and later shifting his interest to photography and film production, with a special eye on documentaries and their contamination with fiction. In 1996, he was one of the founders of the Brighton Cinemateque. He received numerous international awards, including the FIPRESCI Award at the 2011 Venice Film Festival for his first feature film, Two Years at Sea, and Best Documentary at the 2013 Torino Film Festival for A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, which he directed with Ben Russell. He made his comeback in Torino in 2015 with the short A Distant Episode (2015).

FILMOGRAFIA

This Is My Land (cm, 2006), The Coming Race (cm, 2006), Ah, Liberty! (cm, 2008), I Know Where I’m Going (cm, 2009), Slow Action (cm, 2010), Two Years at Sea (2011), Phantoms of a Libertine (cm, 2012), A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness (coregia/codirector Ben Russell, 2013), Things (cm, doc., 2014), The Sky Trembles and the Earth Is Afraid and the Two Eyes Are Not Brothers (2015), A Distant Episode (cm, 2015).