Guests
2018
Len Rowles
After a two year stint as a Production Manager and Animation Producer for Digimania, Len Rowles has worked in house as a Development Executive at Pathe Productions („Sufragette”, „Selma”), and is currently Head of Development, Film & TV at Wildgaze Films („Brooklyn”, „An Education”). Rowles also runs her own production label Humdinger Films, which has produced BAFTA and Student Oscar-nominated shorts.
Oana Giurgiu
Journalism and Law graduate, Oana Giurgiu directed TV documentaries before moving to film, as part of the production team of “The death of Mr. Lăzărescu” directed by Cristi Puiu (Un certain regard - Cannes 2005), production manager of “Delta” by Kornél Mundruczó (FIPRESCI award - Cannes 2008) and produced Tudor Giurgiu’s “Love sick” (Berlinale 2006 - Panorama), “Of snails and men” (Romanian boxoffice hit in 2012) and “Why me?” (Berlinale 2015 - Panorama); Peter Strickland’s “Katalin Varga” (Silver Bear, Berlinale 2009, Best European Discovery – EFA Awards 2009), “Somewhere in Palilula” debut film of Romanian acclaimed theatre director Silviu Purcărete (Karlovy Vary IFF 2012), “Sieranevada” (Cannes Competion 2016). Oana is also executive director of Transilvania International Film Festival and documentary filmmaker. Her debut feature documentary, Aliyah DaDa was released at Astra FF in Romania and at Jerusalem JFF, received GOPO Award for best Romanian documentary in 2015.
Gabriela Suciu
Gabriela Suciu graduated UNATC with a BA in Directing, an MA in Production and is now working on her PhD thesis on Co-production. Since 2008, she has consistently produced 6 to 8 titles a year, all lengths, genres and formats. In 2012, she founded Atelier de Film, a production and distribution company to support debut films, under the umbrella of the University. In 2017, she took over the company to continue the work started in an independent, professional system. She is also a guest lecturer at UNATC at the Film Production Masters program and a programmer forArkadia Shortfest.
Aneta Zagórska
Aneta Zagórska lives and works in Krakow, Poland. Since 2003 she runs the Barton Film production studio. Since 2012, she presides over the Cracow Film Society, whose goal is the realization of ambitious, artistic documentaries and establishment of film related collaboration with organizations and creators. She is the general director of the Krakow Film Cluster, which she co-established in 2015. As a producer and as executive producer she realized several feature and documentary films.
Bianca Oana
Bianca Oana is a writer and producer dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, regardless of the medium they choose to explore. Since 2009, she started developing projects as head of development at Strada Film, starting with Florin Șerban’s debut feature, If I Want to Whistle, I Whistle (Jury Grand Prix and Alfred Bauer Award winner at Berlinale 2010). She co-wrote, together with Cătălin Mitulescu and Bogdan Mustață, Mitulescu’s Loverboy, which premiered in 2012 in Un Certain Regard at the Cannes Film Festival.
Borislav Chouchkov
Borislav Chouchkov is born in 1975. He did his first steps in cinema as a child acting in several films. He graduated The National Music School and then Drama in The National Film School. He graduated MS in European Audio-Visual Management in Media Business School in Ronda, Spain. He established his first film music production company SIF309 in 1994. In 2003, he established (together with Viktor Chouchkov Jr.) the production company CHOUCHKOV BROTHERS, with the main aim to produce feature films. In 2014 he established Elemag Pictures (based in Leipzig, Germany), together with Tanja Georgieva and Jan Kruger (“The Green Wave” – Sundance 2011, “Jack” – Berlinale Competition 2014). He is also a member of ACE (Ateliers du Cinéma Européen) and European Producers Club.
Nicolae Constantin Tănase
Nicolae Constantin Tanase started his film studies at FAMU (Czech Republic), and finished the directing department of the UNATC (Romania) in 2009. His student films and the first independently produced shorts toured the festival circuit and won several awards including 'Best Romanian Short' Award at the TransilvaniaIFF in 2012. His debut feature – “The World Is Mine” – premiered in Transilvania Film Festival and was awarded 'Best Romanian Debut' in 2015. The International Premiere was in Karlovy Vary's Section for first and second features – East of West – where the film received the Special Jury's Mention. Nicolae’s second feature “Heads and Tails” had its World Premiere in Prague International Film Festival. In 2016 Nicolae directed his first theatre play, “Lungs” by Duncan Macmillan, which was selected in the National Theatre Festival, as well as other independent theater festivals. In 2017 Nicolae also staged “Every Brilliant Thing”, by the same author.
residents
2018
Marylise Dumont
After having completed her acting studies in a French state school (ENSATT, Lyon), Marylise Dumont came to Berlin and worked as a second assistant for the theatre production of “Lulu”, directed by Thomas Ostermeier at the Schaubühne. She studied screenwriting at the German film and television state school (dffb) and directed a short film, “Counting sheeps”. Over the last years, a short film she wrote, “A night in the car”, was bought by ARTE and she has been working as a co-writer with several directors. She is currently developing her debut feature film, “Black Dog”, together with the French production company Shellac Sud.
Andrei Epure
Andrei Epure is a screenwriter living and working in Bucharest. He graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Audiovisual Communication followed by a Master’s Degree in Screenwriting at the National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest. Since university, he has written scripts for four feature length films and various short films, while working in advertising as a copywriter. His latest written short, “Old, Luxurious Flat, Located in ultra-Central, Desirable Neighborhood”, directed by Sebastian Mihăilescu, premiered in the Pardi di Domani Competiton of Locarno IFF in 2016. He is an alumnus of Berlinale Talents, Talents Sarajevo and TorinoFilmLab Extended. He is currently in development with two features and one short film.
Ana Maria Gheorghe
Ana Gheorghe graduated the National University of Theatre and Film, “I.L. Caragiale”, with a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication and a M.A in Screenwriting. She has written three feature length scripts and a number of short films, which received several awards and nominations in both national and international film festivals. Her latest short, “A night in Tokoriki”, directed by Roxana Stroe, received a Special Prize from the Generation 14plus jury at the 2016 Berlinale and was screened at almost 90 festivals such as AFI Fest, San Sebastian, Karlovy Vary, Namur.
Vlad Ghinea
Vlad Ghinea is a Romanian director and the co-founder of mc² film, an independent production company. His latest short film, Sete // Thirst, an allegory on depression within the Romanian rural areas, was selected at Curtas Vila do Conde - International Film Festival.
Gale Osorio
Gale Osorio started as an art director for an advertising agency. Following this, she did freelance AD work making industrials and commercials. Gale first got involved in film as producer for Keith Deligero’s “Iskalawags” in 2012. She has since collaborated closely with Deligero as writer/producer and together they organize the annual Binisaya Film Festival in Cebu City. Their latest work together, “Babylon” was selected in the 68th Berlinale International Film Festival Shorts Competition. Gale is currently studying in Busan Asian Film School developing film projects and learning about international co-production.
Christina Øster
Christina Øster is a Danish screenwriter. She has a bachelor in film studies, has been studying in Amsterdam and is now a part of the independent film school Super16, based in Copenhagen. She has been working at DR Drama, Nordisk Film, TV2 and Meta Film. She is now working on her first feature film.
Dean Puckett
Dean Puckett is a writer/director based in Plymouth. For ten years he took a Gonzo approach to documentary filmmaking, often living with and immersing himself in his subjects. He has shown a passion for telling gripping stories about people living on the edge of mainstream society. In 2015, with backing from Creative England and the BFI, he made the move into fiction with an award-winning short film called “Circles” and then most recently, “The Sermon”, a rural set folk-horror dealing with sexuality, faith and oppression, which had its world premiere at BFI Flare and has screened at The Overlook Film Festival, Palm Springs International Film Festival & Palm Springs ShortFest and many more.
Kimie Tanaka
Kimie Tanaka was born and raised in Nagoya, Japan. MFA in New York University Tisch Asia School of the Arts. BA in Economics at the University of Tokyo. Starting from a business analyst in India, she moved to Chile, New York and Singapore and along the way, she started to pursuit a career of directing movies. In 2015, her latest film „Hide & Seek” had its international premiere in Toronto International Film Festival and won the Best Short Award in Sguardi Altrove Film Festival in Italy. Currently developing next screenplays, one of which will be her debut feature film. Based in Paris.