Catherine
Le Clef
Fortissimo Films has appointed Catherine Le Clef as senior
vice president, TV and ancillary sales. Le Clef joins
Fortissimo from Paris based Doc & Co, an international
distributor of documentaries. In this capacity, she oversaw
international distribution of "The Staircase" by
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade; "Salvador Allende" by Patricio
Guzman; "The Mother's House" by Francois Vester; and
"Hothouse" by Shimon Dotan. Prior to this, she was with
Film Transit International in Canada where she worked for
15 years.
Frans
Lefever
Frans Lefever was born in Belgium, Poperinge (1946) and
lives now in the centre of Brussels. He studied languages
and philosophy at the Catholic University of Leuven. Since
1971 he works at the VRT (Flemish Radio and Television),
first as a cultural journalist at Radio 1, and since 1978
as a programme buyer for Flemish Television VRT. In
that function he was responsible for the acquisition of
foreign productions, e.g. feature films, documentaries,
short films and co-productions. He recently retired but he
is still active as an independent consultant.
Elke
Lambrechts
Elke Lambrechts (°1982) studied Ho2c Audiovisual art
– Documentary at the Department Rits, Brussels,
Belgium.
In 2004 she was Interim Researcher for the Dirk Vandersypen
Award and in 2004, 2005 & 2006 she worked as Reporter
for ‘Man Bijt Hond’: ‘Wordt
Gevolgd’ (Production house: Woestijnvis, Zaventem,
Belgium)
In the summer of 2005 she was volunteering in
Huancayo-Peru, with Mosoq Ayllu. She was a teaching
assistant and animator in orphanages and poor communities.
Currently she is studying Conflict and Development at the
University of Ghent.
Marc Van Glabbeek
Marc Van Glabbeek (°1948, Antwerp) has a degree in Germanic
Languages ( KUL , 1970). He used to teach Dutch in Belgium
and he was studying in Mexico (1978/1979). From 1980 on, he
has been working at the VRT as a journalist in the Radio
News Department. Since 1993, he focuses on Latin America.
For his job, he traveled to almost all countries in Latin
America and he made numerable radio reportages for Radio 1
and Radio 3.
Tom
Bleyaert
Tom Bleyaert (°1975, Bruges) has a degree in Political and
Social Sciences (RUG) and in Communication Sciences. He
started his carrier at the Social Security Service. Since
2000 he has been working for VRT television, First of all
at the Sports Department, and since 2001 he is responsible
for the acquisition of foreign documentaries at Canvas.
Leo
De Bock
Leo De Bock (°1959) is chairman of the Dirk Vandersypen
Award jury. For
years he was a documentary filmmaker and jury member at
numerous festivals.
Before moving to the news department of VRT, he was channel
manager of
Canvas and Ketnet, the second television channel of VRT.
Presently he is an independent tv producer and media
consultant.
Claire
Colart
Claire Colart (°1946) was an assistant for the Radio News
Department RTB from 1965 to 1972. She then worked as a
script-girl for the Television News from 1972 to 1974,
later on she wrote scripts for the Jouth Department until
1979. Until 1982 she was an assistant to the director of a
cultural magazine for Television: "Point de mire" and she
worked at the Historical Department for "Ordre nouveau" by
Maurice Dewilde.
From 1984 until 1996, she was an assistant for the
Documentary Department. Since 1996, she is a producer,
responsible for the acquisition and the programmation of
all documentaries at RTBF.
Anna
Van der Wee
Anna Van der Wee, with degrees in Criminology and Political
and Social Sciences at Leuven University, started her
career at Leuven University in the department of
Criminology. After serving as an attaché to the Minister of
Social Affairs and Culture of the Brussels Region, Van der
Wee became a journalist. She reported on social and
cultural issues for various magazines around the world such
as Playboy, Humo, Intermediair and New Art in Europe.
Her books include Growing in Life Time and a self-help
manual on ageing.
Van der Wee now heads Wild Heart Productions in Brussels,
Belgium, an audiovisual production company she founded in
1994 in Montreal, Canada.
She is an accomplished multi-award winning director and
producer. Her documentaries include 'The dead are Alive.
Rwanda, an eyewitness account.' 'Power of the North',
'Seeing is Believing', The man who wanted to classify the
world'.
Between 1997-2001 Van der Wee was the Series Editor for a
monthly 30-minute television magazine that Wild Heart
Productions produced together with UK-based Worldwide
Pictures for the European Commission. The magazine series
was distributed to broadcasters in 170 countries.
