Panelists Africa-Day 2015

Rens van Munster, Copenhagen/ Denmark
is Senior Researcher and Coordinator for the research area on Peace, Risk and Violence at the Danish Institute for International Studies. His research focuses on the role of documentary film and images in framing global issues, including war, nuclear energy, climate change and international law. He is currently working on a book manuscript that explores the ideas, artefacts and images through which the world has been envisioned as one. He is the author of Securitizing immigration: The Politics of Risk in the EU (Palgrave, 2009), Politics of Catastrophe: Genealogies of the Unknown (with Claudia Aradau; Routledge, 2011), and the co-editor of Documenting World Politics. A Critical Companion to International Relations and Non-Fiction Film (with Casper Sylvest; Routledge, 2015).

Femi Odugbemi, Lagos/ Nigeria
was trained in Film & TV Production at Montana State University, in the United States. He is an award-winning filmmaker, writer and photographer. And runs his own TV and film production company Dvworx producing TV commercials and documentaries. He has been President of the Independent Television Producers Association of Nigeria and is a member of the Documentary Network Africa. He is one of the founding directors of the yearly iREPRESENT International Documentary Film Festival in Lagos which aims to strengthen a documentary cinematic culture in Nigeria. He recently chaired the jury of the Africa Magic Viewers Choice Award in Lagos.

Michel K. Zongo, Ouagadougou/ Burkina Faso
is director, cameraman and scriptwriter. He followed diverse training courses at the Burkina Faso National Cinematography Center (CNC), the Burkina Faso National Television (TNB), and was first assistant operator at Cinédoc Films Production in France. From 2003 to 2008, he was responsible for the Interactive Debate-Cinema at Cinomade, an association based in Burkina Faso whose objective is to create and distribute tools to increase awareness, notably through the cinema.?In 2010 he founds his own production company Diam Production and produces his first full-length documentary film “Espoir-Voyage”. Camilla Nielsson has an MA in visual anthropology and graduated in Culture and Media at New York University.

Camilla Nielsson, Denmark
has as an anthropologist focus on visual anthropology, media and communication in developing countries, primarily in a South Asian context. She has produced various communication materials concerning children's rights, developed guidelines for visual representation and produced public service announcements about child rights, health and education. Her film 'The Children of Darfur' (2006) won the Monte Carlo TV Festival, Grand Prix Award TV3 in Spain, and Mirada Doc Award. She has also worked as media consultant for UNICEF and UNESCO.