Ocean Heart Productions is a film company that strives to tell stories that bring multicultural identities and artistic expressions to life. The first film of our production company is Nocturno, a feature documentary about finding hope thanks to music in sickness or at an elderly age. We are a team based in Luxembourg formed by Rudi De Bouw and Isabel Rivero-Vilà.

Rudi De Bouw is a Belgian-Luxembourgish composer and a conductor. He spent his childhood in a musical environment, and it was only natural that he made music his profession. He studied first at the Conservatory of Luxembourg, then at the Royal Conservatory of Liège where he obtained between 1988 and 1995 several Masters degrees with distinction.

After his studies he worked as an euphonium/tuba player in several orchestras such as the Liège Philarmonic Orchestra, the Opéra de la Monnaie as well as the Belgian Air Force Orchestra, he then conducted in several orchestras while continuing to teach at the Conservatory of Esch-sur-Alzette, until 2016.

For more than 15 years, he has been the guest conductor in well-known orchestras such as the Royal Oman Symphony Orchestra, the Emporda Chamber Orchestra or the Leopoldinum Chamber Orchestra with which he premiered several of his compositions. In 2016, he became the Director of the Music School of the City of Differdange. In the last few years, he has turned to composition and several of his pieces have already been awarded in various international competitions and used as soundtracks for films.

Isabel Rivero-Vilà is an Independent Filmmaker and Professor of World Languages and Cultures at American University (Washington, D.C). She has recently been named Chevalier de l’ordre des Palmes Académiques by the Ministère de l’Éducation Nationale in France for her work promoting education in the French language and Francophone cultures. She has a PhD in Francophone Cinema and multimedia and a Master’s degree in Creative Documentary and she specializes in West African cinema.

In 2016, she filmed and produced the web series “5 mois à Nantes, ville vivante”. Since 2019, she has filmed several short films and interviews with artists, politicians, musicians, and educators in Senegal. Her first feature documentary  "AFRYKAS et la boîte magique" (2022) filmed in Senegal, has received numerous international awards (Cannes, Berlin, Paris, Venice, Amsterdam, London, Dallas, Toronto, Montreal, Helsinki, etc.) and it has been nominated in festivals in San Diego, Cape Verte, Houston, Geneva, Saint Louis in Senegal and Montreal.

Isabel Rivero-Vilá regularly collaborates with fellow filmmakers and organizes Film Festivals in Washington D.C with the French Embassy to promote diversity, equity and inclusion through film.