All Participants

Co-author & co-director of the investigative film "The Brussels Business" (ARTE, RTBF, ORF, 2012 - developed at ESoDoc 2008).
PhD from EUI and lecturer at IE Business School. Data-visualization expert. Best Belgian TV Journalist Award 2014.
Author of "Homo Cooperans 2.0" (2015) and consultant about the collaborative economy. Author of the book "Webdoc. Survival Guide for Online Filmmakers" (2011) and "Le Cohabitat. Reconstruisons des villages en ville" (2012).

Specialties: Ideas generator and mind-solving problem.

Matthieu Lietaert
Not So Crazy! Productions (BE)

Jamie is a web-doc producer, director and designer. His earlier career included productions for television brands, videos and interactive projects for the likes of Channel 4 (emap), The National Gallery, Michael Franti and the BBC. He has since translated such skills into documentary and web-doc productions inclusive of user experience design. Jamie worked with Matthieu Lietaert on development of The Brussels Business and is currently co-author and co-producer on the related web-doc platform; We R Democracy together with arte France & Germany. (Winner of best cross media project at Sunnyside & official selection at Power to the Pixel, BFI, London). He is also currently developing mobile citizen journalism platforms with greenfilm Germany.

His projects have won awards such as the Promax International Gold, Best Interactive Project for RWC, and been a ‘soho shorts’ film festival finalist. Jamie’s work has likewise been featured in several creative industry publications such as: creative review, shots, stash and broadcast.

Jamie Balliu
Up Creative (UK)

In 1986 he founded his own production company Mestiere Cinema, Venice with which he directed and produced several documentaries.
In the last ten years he worked mostly in the capacity of Line Producer (Associate Producer, Co-Producer, etc.) for many international productions shooting in Italy such as: Lasse Halstrom’s DISNEY Prod. ‘Casanova’, George Lucas’ LUCASFILM Prod. ‘Star Wars Episode I, II and III’, F.G.Gray’s PARAMOUNT Prod. ‘The Italian Job’, Richard Attenborough’s NEWLINE Prod. ‘In Love and War’, Hugh Hudson’s SONY Prod. ‘I dreamed of Africa’, including directors like Woody Allen (Everybody says I love you), Otar Ioseliani (Lunedì Matin), etc.
Beside the production service activity, he has been trying to keep producing documentaries and commercials, co-producing – UK, Italy - the first feature film in 2004.
In the last years he became the executive producer for all the documentaries produced by AMREF.