Louisiana Mees
- Director
- Writer
- Cinematographer
Louisiana Mees-Fongang is a Belgian fiction and documentary writer and director. She studied directing at KASK ( Royal Academy of Fine Arts (Belgium). An education that focuses strongly on the development of a filmmaker's personal language.
Louisiana research focuses on the different forces that are at play within youngsters that are uprooted, unguided, disconnected or have uncertainties about their future because of their social background, or social/political reasons. Her humanitarian and poetic work is always injected with humor and a hint of surrealism.
Her short film 'Waithood' won the prestigious VAF wild card for fiction price in 2018. In fall 2023 she her first feature documentary 'How Do You Spell Home?' premiered at IDFA 2023. Her short film 'Fikri' premieres at International Short Film Festival Leuven. Her fourth short film Igor, where is Igor? is still in the making.
Louisiana research focuses on the different forces that are at play within youngsters that are uprooted, unguided, disconnected or have uncertainties about their future because of their social background, or social/political reasons. Her humanitarian and poetic work is always injected with humor and a hint of surrealism.
Her short film 'Waithood' won the prestigious VAF wild card for fiction price in 2018. In fall 2023 she her first feature documentary 'How Do You Spell Home?' premiered at IDFA 2023. Her short film 'Fikri' premieres at International Short Film Festival Leuven. Her fourth short film Igor, where is Igor? is still in the making.