Accused #2 - Walter Sisulu

Gilles Porte
Director of photography/Filmmaker
Gilles Porte has worked as director of photography on more than thirty feature films, including Time Regained directed by Raoul Ruiz (1999), The Conquest directed by Xavier Durringer (2010), In the Forests of Siberia directed by Safy Nebbou (2015) and The Royal Exchange directed by Marc Dugain (2017). In 2004, he co-directed When the Sea Rises starring Yolande Moreau, which notably won France’s César award for Best First Work and the Prix Louis Delluc. In 2010, he directed the documentary Dessine-toi (Draw Yourself) and a series of 80 shorts entitled Portraits/Autoportraits (Portraits/Self-portraits) combining live action footage with animation. In them, he asked children from all over the world to create their own self-portrait on a pane of glass, using the same approach as Georges Clouzot in The Mystery of Picasso. In 2015, he directed Tantalum, an interactive production featuring binaural sound and starring Jean- Luc Bideau and François Marthouret. In 2018, he worked as director of photography on the movie All That You Know, directed by Safy Nebbou and starring Juliette Binoche.

Nicolas Champeaux
Author/filmmaker
Based in Paris, Champeaux is a French-American director, screenwriter and journalist. He has been using archives as a starting point for productions throughout his career.  He wrote and co-directed “The State Against Mandela” with Gilles Porte in 2018, and has two documentary films in production, and two comic books for Dupuis publishers. Champeaux recently produced two radio drama documentaries for France Culture. « Ahmed and Sylvia, Letters of Apartheid » is based on the correspondence between Ahmed Kathrada, one of Mandela’s inmates,  and fellow activist Sylvia Neame. “La cavale de Bram Fischer” recounts the 290 day manhunt to capture Mandela’s lawyer and struggle comrade. His interest in South Africa stems for his three years in Johannesburg as Southern Africa Bureau chief for Radio France Internationale. Champeaux frequently travels to the USA. He is the author of two 4 hour radio documentary series. “Free Stupid White Male”  and “New York I love catastrophe”, both produced in 2020 and 2021 for “La Série Documentaire”, France Culture’s flagship documentary program. 

Music: Aurélien GODDERIS-CHOUZENOUX ■ Design : Oerd VAN CUIJLENBORG ■ Artistic direction : Michaël BOLUFER ■ Coproduction : ARTE France, Radio France, INA, UFO Production, Rouge International ■ Animation : Oerd VAN CUIJLENBORG, David DEVAUX, Matthieu GUERITTE, Mathieu RATIER 

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