Petr Lom & Corinne van Egeraat
(CA/NL)

Petr Lom – Director and Producer:
Petr Lom was born in Prague in 1968, and grew up in Canada. A former academic with a Ph.D. in politcal philosophy from Harvard, he gave up his university career in 2003 to become a documentary director and producer. His award-winning flms have been broadcast in over thirty countries and screened at the most prestgious internatonal flm festvals (Sundance, Berlinale, Locarno, Roterdam). His flmography: Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan (2004); On a Tightrope (2007), Leters to the President (2009); and Back to the Square (2012), a flm about injustice in the afermath of the Egyptan revoluton (nominated for the Prix Europa).

Corinne van Egeraat – Director and Producer:
Corinne van Egeraat (1966), Netherlands. An experimental fmmaker with a background in both theatre and documentary directng, Egeraat has long focused on personal storytelling, with a partcular interest in working with artsts and the subject of creatvity. Selected flmmaker of the year in Holland in 2004, she has made the several feature documentaries broadcast primarily in the Netherlands and shown in internatonal flm festvals: Lord of the Jungle (2000), Cowboys in Kosovo (2004), Speeding on the Virtual Highway ( 2007), Bridging the Gap (2008), and Dislocated, an online documentary project for the broadcaster HUMAN (2009/2010). She has also directed programmes on art for Dutch TV, and teaches documentary flm and community based workshops within her The Self-Portrait Video Project.

Lom and Egeraat, partners in private life, have worked together in Egypt since the beginning of 2011.