קירות חולמים: בתוך מלון צ'לסי

After­ studying­ film ­at ­the Belgian Film School ­IAD, ­Amélie ­worked ­as ­a casting director and assistant­ director with ­the 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 was the executive producer of her second feature, The Elephant &­ The Butterfly­ (2017)­ which premiered at ­­Tribeca ­and­ won­ the ­Grand ­Prize at ­Heartland­ International Film Festival. Amélie co-directed Dreaming Walls with Maya Duverdier and is currently working on a new fiction feature, to be produced by Les films du Fleuve.

After 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 co-directed with Amélie van Elmbt.