Tutors
Gabrielle Brady
Gabrielle Brady is an Australian film maker currently based in Berlin. Her work involves creative collaborations with non- professional actors.
Gabrielle’s latest feature film THE WOLVES ALWAYS COME AT NIGHT premiered in competition at TIFF 2024 and has since been shown world wide in festivals including, London FF, Zurich FF IDFA, CPH: Dox and Marrakesh.
Gabrielle’s award-winning debut ISLAND OF THE HUNGRY GHOSTS received critical acclaim after its world premiere at Tribeca film festival where it won Best Documentary. The film was shown internationally at over 80 film festivals and went on to have theatrical releases in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. The film has received over 30 international awards including the Byens-Chagoll Award at Visions du Reel, Human Rights Award at IDFA, and the Grand Jury prize at the Mumbai Film Festival. The film was nominated for an Independent Spirit award, BAFTA, and at the Australian Academy Awards (ACCTA’s).
Gabrielle’s work has been featured at the Museum of Moving Image NY, ACMI, Institute of Contemporary Arts London and The Eye in Amsterdam and has been selected as a ‘Critics Pick’ by the New York Times. Gabrielle’s short film THE ISLAND was commissioned for The Guardian shorts.
Gabrielle studied Documentary Direction at La Escuela Internacional de Cine in Cuba.
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Romain Compingt
Romain Compingt is the youngest graduate of the CEEA (European Conservatory of Audiovisual Writing).
POPULAIRE by Régis Roinsard (5 nominations at the 2013 César, Public Prize at COLCOA, as well as at the Tokyo French Film Festival & San Francisco International Film Festival), is his first work to be released on screens. He then co-wrote DIVINES with director Houda Benyamina, working also as Artistic collaborator on the film. DIVINES won the Golden Camera at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival and the 2017 César for the Best first film. The same year, Holy Fatma’s PLEASE LOVE ME FOREVER Romain co-wrote, won the award for Best short film at the Screamfest in Los Angeles. He collaborates again with Régis Roinsard for EN ATTENDANT BOJANGLES (2022) and signs the adaptation & dialogues of MAGNETIC BEATS, Vincent Cardona’s first film (SACD prize at 2021 Cannes Director’s Fortnight, Ornano Valenti Prize at Deauville film festival 2021, 3 nominations at the 2022 César).
Romain is also a consultant – LA FILLE DE BREST by Emmanuelle Bercot (2016), and TREAT ME LIKE FIRE by Marie Monge (2018 Cannes Directors’ Fortnight), among others – and a playwright for Tutu, a contemporary dance show by Philippe Lafeuille (Public Prize – Avignon 2015).
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Violette Garcia
After studying literature and geography, which took her to the Israeli-Palestinian region, Violette joined the screenwriting department at La Fémis, graduating in 2019.
Since then, she has co-written several short films, as well as Pierre Schoeller’s upcoming feature film Rembrandt, alongside Anne-Louise Trividic. She also collaborates with Fabienne Berthaud on Sauvagines and Rosa Bonheur, as well as on Staying Alive by Guillaume Fabre-Luce.
At the same time, she is developing the short film MQ-9 Reaper with Fair Play Production and is currently writing two feature-length projects, Panique au tribunal and À part faire des grillades il ne se passait rien.
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Nolwenn Guiziou
Born in 1977, in Brittany. She has a Master Degree in Modern French and English Litterature (University of Western Brittany, Brest, and University of Wales, Swansea). She also has studied set-building in Larkin Art School (Dublin). In 2004, in Dublin, she creates a street theatre company : The Pirate Puppet Company. She has travelled with it in Ireland, England, Spain and Portugal. In 2018, she writes and directs a stop-motion serie for the Breton speaking television (An Dorioù). She has just finished a short stereoscopic 3D film, TxanTxangorri, with marionettes and live actors. She is currently working on Birds of a feather, a feature film in stereoscopy 3D.
She is a writer and a director and she also teaches Breton and English. She has been a consultant for Le Groupe Ouest since 2014.
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Bohdan Piasecki
Bohdan Piasecki is a poet from Poland based in Birmingham. A committed performer, he has taken his poems from the upstairs room in an Eastbourne pub to the main stage of the Birmingham Repertory Theatre, from underground Tokyo clubs to tramways in Paris, from a bookshop in Beijing to an airfield in Germany, from niche podcasts to BBC Radio. He enjoys the creative chaos of big field festivals just as much as the composed concentration of literary events. Bohdan was awarded the Forward Prize for Best Single Poem: Performed in 2023, the category’s inaugural year.
Bohdan founded the first poetry slam in Poland before moving to the UK to get a doctorate in translation studies. He has worked as Director of Education on the Spoken Word in Education MA course at Goldsmiths University, and was the Midlands Producer for Apples and Snakes between 2010 and 2017. He is Assistant Professor in Creative Writing at the University of Birmingham. He also works as Creative Producer, and sits on the board of the Poetry Translation Centre.
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Jan Schomburg
Jan Schomburg, *1976 wrote and directed movies (« Above us only sky » 2011, « Forget my Self » 2014, « Divine » 2020), wrote screenplays together with Maria Schrader (« Stefan Zweig – Farewell to Europe », « I’m your man ») and wrote two novels (« Das Licht und die Geräusche », 2017, « Die Möglichkeit eines Wunders », 2024).
Secretly he even wrote and directed sketch comedy for German Television.
His films were shown at Berlinale, Locarno, Rotterdam, New York, among others. He was awarded the German Film Prize for the screenplay for « I’m your man », the film « Stefan Zweig – Farewell to Europe » won the Audience Award of the European Film Academy.
In 2024, he is the head author and showrunner of « Other people’s money » (WT), an eight-part international TV series for ZDF and DR airing in March 25.
Jan Schomburg collaborates with Le Groupe Ouest since 2023.
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Development Angels’ Dancing Partners
Simão Cayatte
Simão Cayatte is a writer/director from Lisbon with Portuguese and Finnish background. He studied theatre at Goldsmiths University London and earned an MFA in film from Columbia University in New York where he also worked as a script development trainee at Darren Aronofksy’s Protozoa Pictures. His practice as an actor has had a strong influence on his writing and he has worked with directors such as Carlos Marques-Marcet, Cristèle Alves Meira, Ivo Ferreira, and Werner Schroeter. His short films include A Viagem (The Trip), selected at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival Cinefóndation, and Menina (Young Lady), winner of the Portuguese Academy Award for Best Short and selected by the Académie des César for the Les Nuits en Or programme. His first feature film Vadio (Drifter), co-produced with France and Poland and developed at the 2017 edition of LIM | Less is More played and won awards at several festivals internationally including São Paulo International Film Festival, Oslo Film Festival and Lisbon Film Festival. He also directs television; notably, Vanda (Legendary Pictures) which was selected for the Berlinale Series Selects 2022 and distributed worldwide by Canal+, Hulu and Lionsgate. He is currently in post-production on his second feature film The Boatman produced by Leopardo Filmes.
Simão combines his work as a filmmaker with his practice as a script-consultant, has collaborated with Le Groupe Ouest for several years, and is one of the Development Angels’ Dancing Partners in 2025.
Gemma Pascual
For more than seven years, Gemma Pascual worked as Head of Development – Feature Films at Filmax, one of the most successful audiovisual companies in Spain, where she was charged with the development of films such as the action thriller “Cross the line” (David Victori, 2020), the spicy comedy “The More the Merrier” (Paco Caballero, 2021), the melodrama “Lemon and Poppy Seed Cake” (Benito Zambrano, 2021), or the supernatural drama “The Chapel” (Carlota Pereda, 2022), amongst others.
Gemma has more than fifteen years’ experience in scripted development – fiction and animation – having worked in films and television series in the United Kingdom, New Zealand and Spain. She has overseen the development of projects from their initial idea to the first day of principal photography, and has also worked as a jury member and as a mentor for various organisations, having assessed hundreds of scripts and project proposals during her career and creatively accompanied dozens of creative teams.
Since october 2024, Gemma works as a freelance development professional and screenwriter, collaborating with screenwriters, directors, producers, private organizations and public institutions through her own company, Script Ally. In 2025, Gemma is one of the Development Angels’ Dancing Partners.
