Dreaming Walls

RIFF 2022

Documentaries

Director:

N/A

Country:

Belgium, France, Netherlands

Genres:

Documentary

Producer:

Language:

English

Length:

min

Writer:

Year:

2021

Edition

RIFF 2022

Dreaming Walls

90 Minutes | Belgium, France, Netherlands, Sweden | 2021

Documentaries / Heimildarmyndir Features

Synopsis

The legendary Chelsea Hotel, an icon of 1960s counterculture – former residents and regulars have included Patti Smith, Jim Morrison, Robert Mapplethorpe and the superstars of Warhol’s factory – an artists’ refuge for over a century, will soon reopen as a luxury hotel.

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Director’s Bio

Amelie van Elmbt

After studying film at the Belgian Film School IAD , Amélie worked as a casting director and assistant director with French director Jacques Doillon. In 2011 she directed and self-produced her first feature, HEADFIRST, which screened in Cannes’ ACID section and won the main award in New York First Time Festival. There she met Martin Scorsese, who executive produced her second feature, THE ELEPHANT & THE BUTTERFLY (2017) which premiered at Tribeca and won the Grand Prize at Heartland International Film Festival. Amélie codirected DREAMING WALLS with Maya Duverdier and is currently working on a new fiction feature, to be produced by Les films du Fleuve.

Maya DuverdierAfter a bachelor in arts in France, Maya Duverdier obtained her Master’s degree in cinema at the Ecole Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne with her documentary JEANNE SANS ARC (2014). Next to her work as a director and writer for Cinema and Documentary, she’s also active within various positions of film, television and advertising production. DREAMING WALLS is Maya’s first feature documentary, which she codirected with Amélie van Elmbt.