GUESTS
may 2022
Bianca Oana
Dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, Berlin-based producer Bianca Oana has been building, over the past 10 years, a solid expertise in handling challenging, unconventional filmmaking processes, at the unpredictable border between fiction and reality, and with complex international co-production structures. Besides producing Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not, she has been involved in developing, producing and distributing multi-awarded art-house films including Collective by Alexander Nanau (double Oscar nominee in 2021), Toto and his Sisters by Alexander Nanau, and Turn off the Lights by Ivana Mladenović. She has served as a jury member for festivals and funding bodies such as IDFA, Sundance Film Institute, Visions du Reel, InterFilm Berlin Script Pitch.
Jean-Laurent Csinidis
Jean-Laurent Csinidis was born in 1981 in Marseille (France). Vexed by having been rejected by film schools, he studied musicology, which turned out to be fascinating. Nevertheless, he created Films de Force Majeure in 2010, a production company focused on auteur films and international collaborations. Since then, he has (co)produced 30 films, most of which have been shown in Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, Venice, IDFA, Visions du Réel... He has experienced periods of crisis and doubt, which workshops such as EAVE & Eurodoc have helped him to overcome. He has been managing Films de Force Majeure since its creation. He needs to work in a team if only to be able to talk about his children all day.
Dana Bunescu
Dana Bunescu is a Romanian film editor and sound designer. She is known for editing Cristian Mungiu’s films 4 Month, 3 Weeks, 2 Days and Tales From the Golden Age which screened at the Cannes Film Festival, and The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (d. Andrei Ujică) which also screened at Cannes. She contributed to the editing of the Oscar-nominated documentary Collective, by Alexander Nanau. As a sound designer Dana worked on Child’s Pose by Călin Peter Netzer, winner of Golden Bear for Best Film at Berlinale 2013, and Aferim by Radu Jude (winner of Silver Bear at the Berlinale 2015). Dana Bunescu was also nominated and won several Gopo Awards for Best Editing and Sound Design. For Călin Peter Netzer’s film Ana, mon amour, she received the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival.
residents
may 2022
Zhanna Ozirna
Zhanna Ozirna is a film director and a screenwriter from Kyiv. Berlinale talents 2020 alumna. A member of the Ukrainian Film Academy and Ukrainian Guild of Directors. Her last short fiction The Adult was presented in the special program ‘The State of a New Generation’ within Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur. Her animation short project Anna & Gravity won Jury Special Mention for the best script’ pitching' within interfilm Berlin Script Lab 2021. She is currently working on the development of her feature debut Ground Zero which was supported by the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation, Pustnik and ScripTeast workshops, Cinemart (IFFR) 2021, and La Fabrique Cinema 2022.
Kimie Tanaka
Kimie Tanaka was raised in Nagoya, Japan. MFA in New York University Tisch Asia School of the Arts. B.A. in Economics at the University of Tokyo. After working in a bank in Tokyo and research companies in India and Chile, she decided to become a filmmaker and moved to NYC, Singapore, and Paris. Her debut short film “KOTOBUKI” won the Best Short Award in Short Shorts FF, followed by “HIDE & SEEK” which had its international premiere at the Toronto IFF. She also co-wrote and directed “JOSE’S TOUR DE TOKYO” for the Tokyo government. Her latest film is COFFEE MEN, produced by Haut les Mains productions. She received a grant from CNC to rewrite her feature “PARIS SYNDROME”.
Léa Triboulet
Léa Triboulet is a filmmaker and scriptwriter. After receiving an honors Master’s degree in scenography at the art school ESAD of Strasbourg, she joined the international programme Film Factory in 2013, which was led by Béla Tarr in Sarajevo. Her short film «The brother» (CNC quality prize) was selected for the Rotterdam IFFR, Clermont-Ferrand, Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Uppsala, Leeds, Hamburg, Sarajevo FF, Sarasota FF, New Orleans amongst international others. She is currently developing her feature projects «Maïssa» (with Les films de la Capitaine) and «I will drink with the bees».
Iva Brdar
Iva Brdar is a screenwriter and a playwright. She completed studies of Dramaturgy at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade and Theatre Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle. She is the recipient of Brücke Berlin Prize, Heartefact Prize and Sterija Award. Her plays have been produced in theatres in Europe and U.S.
Ioana Turcan
Ioana Turcan identifies mostly as a farmer but is present through her work as a filmmaker, interdisciplinary artist, and sometimes a cultural producer with a formal education in Cinematography for Film and TV (BA), Documentary Filmmaking (MA), and Film/Video Production (MFA), the latter accomplished under a Fulbright scholarship. Her medium-length documentary THE OTHER LIFE OF CHARON (2015) screened internationally, was nominated for Best Short Film at the Romanian Gopo Awards and in 2021 she finished her first fiction short film EMPIRIC depicting the situation of a young textile worker during the communist period in Romania. In the past years, she has co-developed local initiatives to foster access to visual/art education and cultural production, facilitating workshops on analogue photography, creative writing, contact sports, and filmmaking. Since 2021 she is part of a duo called Uncertain Space, dealing with topics of caregiving, rituals, and physical dependency.