Sebastien Wielemans

As an independent Belgian filmmaker, Sebastien Wielemans has been directing and producing movies since 2003, mainly in Europe, North America and Africa. Indeed, concerned by social and environmental issues, he directed several short documentaries for the Canadian web contest "Müvmedia 2008" for which he won the Big Prize. He also directed two documentary features (« Tchissete, the mirror of the Tuareg » and « A cycle of fences ») that have been acclaimed in several festivals. In 2009, he co-created with Brieuc de Goussencourt « Grizzly Films », a production company based in Brussels that focus on fiction and documentary projects. Intrigued by the impact of new online technologies, Sebastien launched in 2014 "Connected Walls", a web documentary experience about border walls for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. This project won several prizes in different web festivals. Today, Sebastien is mainly focusing his professional activity on fiction projects. "Sleeping Silence" is his first short film as a writer/director.