BLUE MERIDIAN
ABOUT
Following the Mississippi River from Cairo, Illinois to Venice, Louisiana, Blue Meridian is a captivating journey through the dilapidated and worn out Deep South of the United States of America. A cinematographic encounter with people living among the traces of natural disasters, economic decline and a turbulent history.
SOFIE BENOOT lives and works in Brussels. Her films are patchworks of different stories, which are carefully puzzled together to reveal hidden connections. Fronterismo (2007), Blue Meridian (2010) and Desert Haze (2014) played at internationally renowned film festivals such as Visions du Réel, Cinema du Réel, Camden International Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, Doclisboa and BAFICI. Victoria (2020), co-directed with Liesbeth De Ceulaer and Isabelle Tollenaere won the Caligari award at the Berlin film festival. She teaches at LUCA School of Arts in Brussels.