Lieven Corthouts is a self-taught filmmaker who travelled the world before living in Ethiopia for 10 years. There he made 2 feature documentaries: ‘My Future’ and ‘Little Heaven’. My Future (2009, 50’) won the prize Best Debut at Miradasdoc. Little Heaven (2011, 70’) premiered at IDFA, was sold by Taskovski and obtained the Bertha Britdoc Connect Fund. In 2016 he made the film The Invisible City [Kakuma] (2016, 70’), a coproduction with Canvas, that was selected for the Good Pitch 2016 and aimed at humanising the migration debate. Inspired by the film, Lieven created Find Me in Kakuma (2017), the first interactive doc that is funded by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund (VAF). Together with academy award winning director Orlando von Einsiedel he made the Netflix documentary Convergence: Courage in a Crisis (2021, 113’) Lieven Corthouts’s films were broadcast by ARTE, RAI, TV3, VRT, TV5, ZDF, Lichtpunt, RSI, Israeli Channel, TVI24.