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TEAM
Founders Iege Vanwalle & Katrien Coupez
Graphic Designer Eddy Vergauwen
Intern Fauve Lagae
and many partners
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Katrien Coupez
Co-founder
film / promo / website / production / finances
katrien.coupez@gmail.com

Katrien studied sinology at Ghent University and Nanjing University (南京大学) and wrote her thesis on Chinese movies in the 20th century. After her master she spent two years studying, working and travelling in China, Taiwan and Southeast Asia. Back in Belgium, she worked as a freelance interpreter and translator for various companies and public institutions and also translated Chinese literature, among which the novel ‘Under the Hawthorn Tree’ by Ai Mi - filmed by Zhang Yimou. Passionate about film from an early age and fascinated about Chinese culture, she founded in 2019, together with colleague Iege Vanwalle, Made in China Festival, for which she programs feature films, documentaries and short films. Katrien has been working in the cultural scene in Gent for more than 25 years and has been a member of the selection committee of Film Fest Gent for the Chinese and Southeast Asian submissions since 2009.
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Iege Vanwalle
Co-founder
literature / poetry / VR / production
iege.vanwalle@telenet.be

Iege is Master in Sinology (UGent). She also studied two years at the Central Academy of Drama (中央戏剧学院) in Beijing and did a Master at the University of Leiden. She founded the company IKARO with Katrien Coupez, specialized in translation and interpreting, was co-founder and editor of Het Trage Vuur, magazine for Chinese literature in translation and translated and published modern and contemporary Chinese poetry and some novels into Dutch for various publishers in the Netherlands and Belgium. Iege teaches Chinese language and culture at various schools and online (www.d-teach.com ).
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Eddy Vergauwen
Graphic Designer
Eddy Vergauwen studied Publicity @Sint-Lucaspaviljoen in Antwerp, got his master's degree in 1992 and has been working as a Graphic Designer ever since.
He likes to create a 'brand' from start to finish: logo, house style, branding, communication... in short, everything to launch and maintain a ‘brand' in a professional manner.

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Fauve Lagae
Fauve Lagae is working as an intern at Made in China Festival. After her Bachelor of Arts in Oriental languages and Cultures - China (UGent), she decided she still wanted to learn more about the Chinese culture and language, and right now she is finishing the last year of her Master. In the first semester of her last master year, she went on a five-month-long exchange to Taipei, Taiwan to further improve her Chinese skills and first-hand explore the life in a vibrant city. Since she has always been interested in gender issues and feminism, she is going to finish her studies by adding an extra year of the Master Gender and Diversity (UGent).

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