Director, Leviathan
Nominated for: Stella Artois Truer Than Fiction Award

Véréna Paravel and Lucien Castaing-Taylor are filmmakers, artists, and anthropologists, who work at the sensory ethnography lab at Harvard University. Their work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the British Museum, and has been screened at the AFI, BAFICI, Berlin, CPH:DOX, Locarno, New York, Toronto and Viennale film festivals, and exhibited at London’s Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Centre Pompidou, the Berlin Kunsthalle, the Marian Goodman Gallery, the X-Initiative and elsewhere.

Paravel’s previous films include Foreign Parts (2010, with J.P. Sniadecki), Interface Series (2009-10) and 7 Queens (2008), and Castaing-Taylor’s include Hell Roaring Creek (2010), The High Trail (2010), Sweetgrass (2009, with Ilisa Barbash), In and Out of Africa (2001, with Barbash), and Made in USA (1990, with Barbash).