Région Grand Est Delegation - Cineuro
About the delegation
The CinEuro delegation, led by the Grand Est Region in partnership with Wallimage, brings together 10 professionals from the film and digital creative industries from France’s Grand Est region, Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Germany. It is part of a broader effort to foster cross-border cooperation and strengthen the audiovisual sector and the cultural and creative industries.
Its participation in the KIKK Festival aims to strengthen networking, encourage the development of new projects, and create opportunities for cooperation and co-production, particularly in the fields of immersive experiences and new media.
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Delegation participants
Freelance (FR)
Jeannie Brie
Jeannie Brie is a visual and video artist based in Nancy, France. She uses video as a “image-material” to create audiovisual performances and installations. Her work relies on image-manipulation techniques such as real-time processing, mapping, and interactivity to develop non-linear narratives that explore our relationship to time and memory.
La Bordée (FR)
Gaelle ROYER
Gaëlle Royer, a writer-director and artistic director, has developed a practice at the intersection of film, live performance, and digital creation. As the founder of the La Bordée collective, she conceives and leads documentary, immersive, and hybrid projects, from writing to artistic direction and team coordination.
Delphy Production (BE)
Patricia Kwende
Patricia Kwende is a producer, screenwriter and director, and the founder of Delphy
Production, an audiovisual production company established in 2014.
Her work sits at the intersection of audiovisual creation, production, communication
and cultural entrepreneurship. She develops fiction and digital creative projects that
explore social change and new ways of telling stories.
For several years, she has been exploring emerging technologies and their creative
potential, particularly generative artificial intelligence, virtual characters and new
audiovisual creation tools. Her approach goes beyond the purely technical use of AI,
exploring it as a genuine tool for storytelling and artistic experimentation.
Through Delphy Production, she develops projects between Europe and Africa, seeking
collaborations that bring together cultures, creative perspectives and technology.
Among her current projects, The Avatar explores the intersection of cinema, artificial
intelligence, digital characters and immersive storytelling. The project examines the
boundaries between the real and the virtual, and how emerging technologies can
transform our relationship with characters and narratives.
Patricia Kwende combines an artistic, entrepreneurial and experimental approach, with
a particular interest in projects that build bridges between audiovisual storytelling,
technological innovation and new imaginaries.
Unhinged (FR)
Joan Schonne Dondelinger
Joan Schonne Dondelinger is an interactive media developer and workshop facilitator based in Luxembourg. Working as UNHINGED, Joan creates interactive installations, custom electronics projects and hands-on STEM workshops combining sound, light and code. With a background in sound and music production, Joan explores the meeting point of digital creation, technology and audience experience.
Enoben (FR)
Callipeg, the 2D animation app for tablets, computers, and iPhones.
Combining traditional drawing with keyframing, Callipeg makes it easy to create feature films, music videos, and hand-drawn effects swiftly and, above all, anywhere. The app is compatible with most of the industry’s leading software and is constantly being improved.
Lise MENZIN
Co-creator of Callipeg
LuxidWorld (CH)
LuxidWorld is an immersive media company focused on creating artistic content and immersive storytelling.
The company was born from the creative partnership between Franco-American actress Sarah Demeestere and international media artist Jens Kull.
We are particularly excited about recent developments in WebXR, especially the advances in 3DGS and 4DGS technologies (Gaussian splatting). These technologies now make it easier to shape wondrous, reality-based worlds while enriching them through vibe coding and interactivity.
Jens Kull
Carlafilm (DE)
Carsten Boehnke
After studying philosophy, history and political science in Freiburg and filmproduction at the HFF Konrad Wolf Berlin, Carsten worked as producer, documentary director and script consultant. Up to now he has produced some award winning documentaries like Man from Midja or A Place Under the Sun (Robert Bosch Coproduction Prize). He produced film The Girl from Gori which was screened at the TIFF Kids Toronto.
INDEPENDANT / SAFIRE GRAND EST
Christophe Jarosz
Christophe Jarosz is a multidisciplinary writer-director working on an immersive project centred on a surrealist artist.
A member of Safire Grand-Est (France) and Balimage (Switzerland), in 2026 he attended Cannes Immersive, Immersity Angoulême, New Images Paris and Immersive Day Luxembourg.
Indépendante (FR)
Alessia Sanna
Based between Strasbourg and Paris, Alessia Sanna is an artist-researcher with a PhD in Art and Art Sciences. Her work explores artistic uses of data, staged at the heart of sensory installations combining sculpture, light, sound and programming. Her practice thus investigates the shift from data visualization toward sensitive forms of materialization, from which previously unexplored informational landscapes emerge.
Random Bazar (FR)
Henri Morawski
Henri is the artistic production director at Random Bazar, which promotes diversity in video games through education, the production and distribution of playful artworks, and the organisation of a festival in Strasbourg, France.
Random Bazar is currently producing two projects : Crash Party, a 360° immersive and interactive experience with Cookie Collective, and Cyber Architecture L, a monumental interactive cloud sculpture with artist Minuit.
The team is also preparing the next edition of the Random Bazar Festival in 2028.
Région Grand Est
Mélanie RIVIERE-THIMOTHEE
Mélanie RIVIERE-THIMOTHEE joined the CinEuro Film Lab – Greater Region as Project Coordinator in 2025. She oversees the development and implementation of cross-border initiatives that foster the emergence of film and audiovisual projects in co-production with neighbouring countries.
She supports film professionals in structuring innovative projects and promotes synergies among stakeholders across the Greater Region, particularly around innovative initiatives linked to digital creation.
Région Grand Est
GRAVOULET Marion
Based in Strasbourg, the organisation works across the fields of film, audiovisual media and digital creation. It supports the documentary sector through its funding programme, with three funding rounds per year, as well as through the distribution and promotion of works, notably via the Focus Film Grand Est.
It supports the development of the regional ecosystem by working with all festivals across the Grand Est region, some of which include a Grand Est Youth Jury. It also works with local television channels and film archives throughout the region.
In addition, it leads initiatives in digital creation, including the Culture and Digital Creation funding schemes and video game prototyping support. It also coordinates the regional RICCI event, dedicated to supporting professionals working in the digit
Correspondances Digitales
Christophe Salomon
With more than 30 years of experience in the audiovisual sector, including the production of around one hundred films for France Télévisions, Canal+ and Mediawan, Christophe Salomon joined Correspondances Digitales in 2019.
Formerly Head of Francophone and Digital Creation Development at Sunny Side of the Doc, where he contributed to the creation of PIXII, an international event dedicated to meetings and networking among digital culture professionals, he now develops Correspondances Digitales’ activities in France and internationally. He produces and coordinates numerous events and, drawing on his audiovisual expertise, contributes to a wide range of consultancy assignments. He also supports several leading French organisations in the production and distribution of large-scale digital experiences.
Christophe holds a degree in Computer Science and Multimedia Engineering, a Master’s degree in Spatial Planning and Development, and a University Diploma in Tourism.
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