Filmmakers of Children's Visions

Edition 2023: Education is Essential

Matilde Simas is a visual journalist based in Boston. She graduated from Suffolk University with a BS in Psychology and Women’s Study and attended Rhode Island School Design to study digital photography. Matilde’ works as a photographer, guided by her primary role of humanitarian, has taken her around the globe. Her work’s primary focus is human rights, with the goal being to leverage storytelling to inform, provoke discussion, and ultimately inspire action.  She achieves this through public speaking and exhibiting her work in galleries and public spaces. 

www.MatildeSimas.com 

Matilde Simas

Filmmaker and Founder of “Capture Humanity”
USA

Bia Goldenberg is a Creative Producer and a Filmmaker, and one of the founders of Raiz de Oito, a production company based in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil that seeks to address relevant subjects in various artistic forms.

Executive Producer and Editor of the TV series Reconstructing, about the housing situation in Brazil; of the documentary Living Memories, that portrays the lives of the indigenous tribes Arara do Rio Branco and Cinta-Larga;  and ofthe feature documentary Nós Por Todas, by  Maria Eduarda de Carvalho, based on a historic research about female desire and the women's "place" in society.

Director and Editor of the autobiographical short film What if it’s positive?, awarded Best Experimental Film in the Unified Filmmakers Film Festival; and the webseries 5 To Five, to Grupo Globo, in which she was also narrator.

Executive Producer and Production Manager in several TV Shows for major cable TV Channels in Brazil, such as Globo, Multishow, GNT, MTV Brazil, Canal Brazil in major Brazilian Production Companies, as well as international projects in association with production companies from California / USA. She also worked in major events, such as the Olympic and Paralympic Games Rio 2016 and UNDP, a UN Award at Rio+20.

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Bia Goldenberg

Filmmaker & Creative Producer
Brazil

Matheus Ramalho is a Filmmaker and Photographer, and one of the founders of Raiz de Oito, a production company based in Rio de Janeiro / Brazil that seeks to address relevant subjects in various artistic forms.

Director and Editor of the TV series Reconstructing, about the housing situation in Brazil; of the autobiographical short film What if it’s positive?, awarded Best Experimental Film in the Unified Filmmakers Film Festival; and of the documentary Living Memories, that portrays the lives of the indigenous tribes Arara do Rio Branco and Cinta-Larga.

Editor of the feature documentary Nós Por Todas, by Maria Eduarda de Carvalho, based on a historic research about female desire and the women's "place" in society.

Photographer of the piece Jewel, which combines film and digital techniques, and has been shown in the Paraty In Foco International Photography Festival, in 2016, and at Experimenta! The Other Photography, in Rome – Italy, 2023.

Executive Producer of several projects for Brazilian Television and Web; of international projects in association with production companies from California / USA, of several Film Exhibits in Brazilian Cultural Houses, and in the  Commercial Coordination of Conspiração Filmes, responsible for budgeting campaigns for Coca-Cola Latin America, L’Oréal, Banco do Brasil, Unilever, P&G, Petrobras, and others.

Matheus Ramalho

Filmmaker, Photographer
Brazil

Duncan Longden, is a commercial photographer/videographer from the UK who is currently based and working out of Taiwan. He has spent many years involved in the industry and has great experience having worked with all kinds of clients from individuals all the way through to some of the world's largest brands.

Duncan Longden

Photographer, Filmmaker
Taiwan

Iryna Prudkova (Harikova) is a director and producer living in the region of Donetsk, Ukraine. Since 9 years  living and working  there under dangerous circumstances, made her a very strong woman. In her sunny sides of life, she shot for the Oscars, Cannes & Berlinale.

At Unified Filmmakers, she is responsible for the ukrainian part - Donbass & Ternopil - of Childrens Visions Education. 

Iryna Prudkova

Director, Producer
Ukraine

Willie Workman Oga is an actor, an award winning filmmaker and artist of the movie The Widow's Son, The Plastic Collector, Mother Nature music video, Rape of Justice, voice over artist, music video/ documentary director whose works have spanned over 20 years. Some of his production credits includes a documentary for Ports and Terminal Operations Nig Ltd, Seplat Petroleum Development Company Plc, EmzorPharmaceutical Plc, Shonibare Estates Ltd, and the OSUN OSHOGBO festival. 
As a Nollywood actor Willie workman has acted in 28 blockbuster movies namely Fullmoon 1 part 1 and 2, Deadlock, Sisters on the run, Day Break, just to mention a few.

 willie4workman@gmail.com

Willie Workman Oga

Filmmaker, Musician, Founder of  Adwef Foundation

Nigeria

Mikias Mulugeta is a director living in Addis Ababa, working as a festival director for the ethiopian part of FOCUS ON ABILITY. 

He is also founder of IDEAL PLATFORM.

Mikias Mulugeta

Producer and Director of
“Focus on Ability”
Ethiopia

Yogi Tujuliarto is a journalist, film maker, climate change believer. He has been working as a journalist since 2006 and specializes in news investigating, in-depth reporting & live report. He has made some stories about borders peoples, mining, palm oil plantation, fish industries, biodiversity, and other social issues.

He has traveled across Indonesia and some overseas countries, from the beauty under the Indonesia sea to the top of Indonesia summit in Jayawijaya mountain. He has made some short documentary films that were granted as nominees and also considered the best in the world.

tujuliarto@gmail.com

Yogi Tujuliarto

Journalist, Filmmaker
Indonesia