LOST FOR WORDS
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TEAM
HANNAH PAPACEK HARPER
Author/Director
Graduated in Aesthetics and Cinema Practice, from the universities of La Sorbonne Pantheon, and La Universidad de Lima, in 2015, Hannah has been directing since 2019. Initially a Steadicamer, she started by telling stories through the moving image. Now both a writer and a director, she is developing several projects on the subject of ecology, intertwining science with art. The other side of her research is geared toward displacement, identity and transgeneration memory. Profoundly interested in communication, transmission and sensorial approaches to film, she continually searches for new empathetic ways to touch a general public. Her roots are in experimental video and from 2021 to 2023, two of her experimental short films, Just Listen To The Storm and Vegetative, travelled festivals worldwide. Lost For Words is her documentary feature debut.
TESS BARTHES
Director of Photgraphy
Tess studied cinema at ESEC school during three years in Paris. Once she graduated, she spent seven years assisting directors of photography in long featured movies. She then decided to focus on making the photography on documentaries, mostly about nature or activism but also on olympic athletes where she had to operate her camera on ice skates or snowboard. Among her contributions, she was focus puller on plenty of long featured films.
She was Director of photography on Bigger than us by Flore Vasseur, selected « For the Climate » at Cannes festival in 2021; and Camera Opérator for the serie Orelsan, montre jamais ça à personne that received the best audiovisual creation prize at Victoire de la musique in 2021.
ZOE IRVINE
Sound Creator
Zoë is an artist primarily working with sound, exploring voice, field recording and the relationship between sound and image. She is also a sound designer for moving image and a lecturer in sound for film and sound art.
Her artworks range from carefully crafted individual pieces for broadcast and installation, to participative events. As a field recordist, Irvine has a particular love of soundscapes and composition in which distance, context and power relations become perceptible.
Her large scale works include DIAL-A- DIVA, a global 24 hour live phonecast concert experienced by phone that took place in 2005 & 2007, and Magnetic Migration Music a suite of works over a 10 year period exploring found cassette tapes from all over the world.
From 2013 – 2015 Irvine was artist in residence at the Scottish Parliament, collaborating with composer Pippa Murphy.
JULIE MARECHAL
Sound Engineer
Passionate about sound documentaries, Julie first became interested in sound creation, and became involved in several radio associations ("récréationsonore" radio campus, Paris / Radio parleur). Sound recording, editing, mixing, these sound practices nourish her and give her the desire to meet the image. She then worked on a few feature-length creative documentaries (in production) with sound recording, always in contact with nature, preferring the encounter with the living sound.
BECKY MANSON
Image Editing
Creative and collaborative filmmaker, based in Edinburgh. With an interest in the transient moments that shape our lives, and our connection to the spaces we inhabit, I use film to tell small stories that touch on universal themes.
With a BA(Hons) in Animation, and an MA in Film Directing (Documentary), I’m an experienced self-shooting director, editor, producer, and animator. With over eight years experience of working in digital production for key arts organisations (Tate, National Galleries of Scotland), I have extensive practical experience of commissioning and producing content for the visual arts sector.
GABRIELA SAWAYA
Production Manager
Gabriela has a degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo, Brazil, and a Masters in Environmental Studies and Anthropology from EHESS, France. Her research has focused on key themes such as environmental justice, health and immigration. Her commitment to understanding people's lives and stories led her from anthropology to film. Since 2022, she has worked as a documentary production manager at Retroviseur Productions, contributing to various projects including "Lost for Words" and "An instance of non-existence".
HEATHER ANDREWS
Mix - Sound Design
Heather Andrews is a dubbing mixer and sound designer with 14 years of experience in broadcast, theatre, and film. She works full-time at Blazing Griffin, focusing on documentaries and films. Passionate about storytelling through sound, she contributes to meaningful projects like the Refugee TV scheme at CCA (pre-COVID). In 2020, she co-directed a 16mm documentary with Julia Parks, premiering at the RE-Drift Festival. That same year, she was selected as a Lux Scotland/BBC Arts Now and Next artist and co-produced an audio docu-drama.
Dorian Blanc
Dorian Blanc is a French documentary producer working across television, cinema, and podcasts. Since 2018, he has produced films like Trance (2022) and collaborated with producers Paco Poch, John Archer, Jean-Luc Azoulay, and Pierre Olivier Bardet. He has created mythology podcasts with Amélie Nothomb for Audible and documentaries for France TV. In 2023, he produced We Call Them Vikings with NotaBene for HistoireTV, sold internationally by CLPB. He also produces dance and music shows for Mezzo, including exclusive performances with flamenco artist Rocío Molina.
John Archer
John Archer is an award-winning film and television producer, known for The Story of Film: An Odyssey (Peabody Award 2014), sold in over 30 countries. He has produced over 600 hours of television, including global tours of Billy Connolly and the acclaimed The Director’s Place. As Head of Music and Arts at BBC Scotland, he tripled network arts production. Founder of Hopscotch Films, his works include My Name is Alfred Hitchcock, Women Make Film, and My Old School. A former CEO of Scottish Screen, he played a key role in funding Cannes-winning films. Hopscotch now co-produces dramas and comedies with Channel X.
Rohan Berry Crickmar
Rohan has over a decade of experience in the film industry. He has programmed for film festivals such as EdinburghIFF and CorkIFF and has been on juries and industry panels at many more around the world. His work in a variety of production roles brings a wealth of industry experience to his projects including the Canal+ / Bongo Media Polish television series Europa filmowa (2018), the award-winning film These are my Hands (2018) and The Tomorrow That’ll Come (2022). He founded the production company Everything was Decided in Movement Productions in 2021 in Edinburgh and is currently producing and developing a number of new documentary projects.