Stéphanie Lippens
Graduated with a BA in Anthropology from ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Stéphanie has also got a Master in Theory & Practice of Documentaries from Universitat Autonoma in Barcelona. After working for 4 years in the production of documentaries, Stéphanie co-directs and produces « Lagja Djhete », a documentary on the rom population of a neighbourhood in Tirana. She has helped produce a documentary on artist Francis Alÿs, and has recently won a subsidy from the European commission to develop an educational audio-visual program.(www.fastenseatbelts.eu)

Ariane Lippens
After graduating with a BA in Psychology from ULB (Université Libre de Bruxelles) in September 1999, Ariane obtains the New York Film Academy diploma in November 1999, where she directs her first 16mm short film « The Cake ». She then studies at the London Film School where she works on many short films as a film director, editor, set designer… and graduates in 2002 as the producer and editor of the short-film « Trick ».
Between 2002 & 2007, Ariane has been working on several feature films (mainly on their making ofs), shot her first ‘professional’ short film « Le Devoir » and co-wrote her first feature film « Vedra ».(www.arianelippens.com)

Amandine Cumps
After working at the ADAC for 2 years (Association des Arts et de la Culture), Amandine goes to Barcelona where she creates the Barcelona Future Shorts (it became Short Escape Barcelona in 2006). She has also starred in several shows and short-films.

Eric Pecher
Graduated in Editing and Multimedia tools at IAD (Institut des Arts de Diffusion in Louvain-la-Neuve) in 2002, Eric quickly started working for Escape Lab sprl in Brussels owned by Jean-Dominique Vandenberghe and Jean-Christophe Deroubaix. There he created DVD menus and programming for feature film distributors in Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Germany, UK and several other distributors around the world. He became the technical support for the Short Escape project, compiling movies and taking care of quality and technical issues. (www.escapelab.com)

Aurian de Wouters
After graduating with a BA in business and management at ICHEC (business management school) in 2004, Aurian obtains the digital film making diploma at SAE Belgium in 2006. He then works for one year at Imagefields as a cameraman and editor. He now works freelance on various projects as cameraman and editor.

The SHORT ESCAPE team select films according to their own taste but always in order to touch a larger audience.
The selection is open to all types of films without exception (video clip, 3d, experimental, documentary, animation…) the only criteria is that films have to last from 1 to 30 minutes.

The films are compiled on a DVD and this, thanks to the very generous collaboration of Escape Lab sprl (www.escapelab.com).
The rights of the screenings are asked each month to the directors and/or producers.

As far as possible, the directors, actors or producers are invited to come to present their work in order to share their experience with the public. The public is invited to vote for the short they preferred.

Send us a copy of your short film on DVD:

Stéphanie Lippens – Short Escape
125 Rue Marconi
1190 Bruxelles
Belgium

or at :

Amandine Cumps – Short Escape
95, Rue du Prince Royal
1050 Bruxelles
Belgium

For any other information, please contact us.

- stefka@skynet.be
- amancumps@gmail.com
- arianelippens@gmail.com