'I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.' Abbas Kiarostami
Guy De Troyer obtained a master's degree in Political and Social Sciences (Communication Science) at Ghent University and worked for many years as a journalist, television reporter and podcaster on VRT, the flemish public broadcaster in Belgium. Together with a fellow journalist, he has won twice the Belfius Press Prize, the most important journalistic award in Belgium. Once for the television report 'The Divided Class', in which a famous American social experience about racism was repeated in an Antwerp class. The second press prize went to his podcast series 'The girls of the night', about human trafficking in Nigerian prostitution in Brussels. Out of a desire to think more profoundly about his position as a storyteller, he left his job and went to the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound (RITCS) in Brussels. Two of his Bachelor's short films have been selected at festivals: 'Léon Trouet Mokuna' was shown at the Leuven International Short Film Festival and 'Hallebaan 3' was selected at the Independent Brussels Film Festival. His master film 'Et si pas maintenant, quand? (And if not now, when?) is an intimate essay documentary into the world of Paulette, one of the last remaining Jews in Marrakech, from what in 1940 was still a thriving community of 25,000 Jews. The world premiere was at the International Filmfestival Docville in Belgium (Sabam night) in march 2022.
Official Selection
Léon Trouet Mokuna
Afrika Film Festival
Leuven
2023
Official Selection
Léon Trouet Mokuna
Toronto Black Film Festival
Toronto
2023
Award for Best Script Documentary
And if not now, when?
International Filmfestival Tangier
Tangier
2022
Selection National Competition
And if not now, when?
International Shortfilmfestival Leuven
Leuven
2022
Selection SABAM night
And if not now, when?
DOCVILLE (SABAM)
Leuven
2022
Official Selection
Hallebaan 3
Independent Brussels Filmfestival
Brussels
2020
Official Selection
Léon Trouet Mokuna
Internationaal Kortfilmfestival Leuven
Leuven
2019
Shortlist november 2022
And if not now, when?
Global University Film Awards
Hong Kong
Birth City
AALST
Current City
BRUSSELS
'I've often noticed that we are not able to look at what we have in front of us, unless it's inside a frame.' Abbas Kiarostami
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