Renaud Després-Larose & Ana Tapia Rousiouk
Canada (Quebec), Ecuador, Ukraine

Renaud Després-Larose is a Quebecois filmmaker, actor and cinematographer, best known for the feature film The Dream and the Radio (Le Rêve et la radio, 2022). Co-directed with Ana Tapia Rousiouk, the film is a hybrid work blending experimental and political elements, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR). He studied philosophy in Montreal and has contributed to Hors Champ, the first French-language online film journal.

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Ana Tapia Rousiouk is an Ecuadorian-Ukrainian acousmatic composer, sound designer and filmmaker based in Montreal. In 2014, she directed the medium-length documentary film, Les pratiquants, a study of ritual aspects of practicing a musical instrument, seen through the eyes of music school students. In 2022, she co-directed the feature film Le rêve et la radio with Renaud Després-Larose, which premiered in the Tiger Competition at IFFR (Rotterdam).