Pieter-Paul Mortier is one of the co-founders and the current artistic and financial director of Courtisane, a platform for film and audiovisual arts that organises a yearly festival in Ghent (Belgium), many programs and screenings throughout the year and publishes Cahiers on a regular basis (www.courtisane.be). He studied Audiovisual Arts / experimental film & video (Sint-Lukas Brussels) and Media (Sandberg Institute Amsterdam). 

From 2005 to 2010 he taught a course Screenplay non-fiction at Sint-Lukas Brussels and is currently a teacher at the Media Arts programme of KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent. From 2005 to 2013 and in 2019 he worked as a curator for media, sound & visual arts at STUK arts centre and Artefact festival in Leuven.