Mieke Vanmechelen is an artist filmmaker, working at the intersection of moving image media and documentary film. With a BA from Trinity College Dublin and an MA from Crawford College of Art & Design, she has been Kerry Filmmaker in Residence since 2017. Her work has screened at film festivals, theatre and gallery venues in Ireland and internationally, including New York Independent Film Festival, RAGFF New York, the Glucksman Cork, Verbeke Foundation (Belgium). Dupont Underground (Washington D.C.), Kerry International Film Festival, Dingle International Film Festival (Kerry), and Void Derry (Northern Ireland).
Dr. Tony Langlois is a composer and sound artist. He received his Phd in 1997 from The Queen’s University, Belfast, for his thesis on the Rai Music of Algeria and Morocco. He has since taught at the University of Ulster, Trinity College, Dublin; the Open University and University College, Cork. He has also worked in the cultural diversity section of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council. Research interests include: Music and New Media, North Africa, Film Sound, Islam and Globalisation, Ireland, Cultural Politics.
Sean Rea is Sean Rea is a writer and film director based in Tralee Co. Kerry, with an Honours BA in Design for Interactive Media from IT Tralee, he works in 2D & 3D animation, stop motion animation, storyboarding, illustration and writing. He was programme coordinator for Dingle International Film Festival 2016 – 2018, and has broad experience in film festival programming and administration. His short film The Stranger was shortlisted for both the Killarney Student Festival and The Charlie Chaplin Comedy Festival. The film was also featured at the 2015 Kerry Film Festival, where it was described as a masterclass in both film-making and history. Since 2018 Sean Rea has been collaborating with Mieke Vanmechelen. Working on Bó and on an experimental short, Residual Minority, which screened at Luminous Void Experimental Film Festival, Cork and travelled to the Scottish Royal Academy, Edinburgh as well as being shorlisted for The Florence Film Awards and Intimate Lens Ethnographic Film Festival in Caserta Italy in 2020. Sean is a founder member of the Kerry Film Forum.