https://www.pustnik.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1557285818893-IK4QRVBMYOHBYNSJQBJT/IMG_0591.jpg Home https://www.pustnik.com/about daily 0.75 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558590672919-DK9IC10ZGFE3YODMEMKD/DSC09892.jpg About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582192056151-SLTG2S34WA4TENRGQ3QS/andreea_bortun.jpg About - Andreea Bortun Co-Founder & Co-Curator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582192069537-VF4R5A6PAWYWZCXRMTZT/bryn_chainey.jpg About - Bryn Chainey Co-Founder & Co-Curator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9c0a8ee8-b144-41f0-ba2b-839d5a0b14b6/andreea_tanase.jpg About - Andreea Tanase Production Coordinator https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/ae416b70-1d41-402c-8370-97059ee24869/Oana+Furdea.jpg About - Oana Furdea Project Manager https://www.pustnik.com/2018-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558589867532-SR572CXGIASZLLNS6FLU/DSC08892.jpg 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558588418191-40KX75Y8SMOWE6Y09JSU/40679803_683095872051791_7331206245933645824_o.jpg 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558595355449-8HA6Z2T7H30HZAH5D4ND/DSC02144-2.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582892438440-ZRTGH2EYA7L3LCD1QN14/Gabi_Suciu.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558595136732-28PAA29L8TYFGR60D7FG/DSC03301.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558594860443-0S105IDKOBK61W1HS9BW/DSC03097.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582192897568-ATUK80GROQ2R0LNYZKW7/Borislav_Chouchkov.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582191472487-89FYQZS53WVJX58SP4RJ/nicolaeconstantintanase.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558593680445-ELPSNJTPT2J5GNTR1E8B/DSC00281.jpg 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558592245892-85MS6LJYXFNX9X2GSGYX/DSC01920.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558592733644-Y9NU0K3QJ14UU2JS2LBZ/DSC08132.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558594609097-AG7IGPYODV9Z3HI2FZQ7/39775345_672584476436264_8509852955376091136_o.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558592129108-LV6FHMGGXSH18QAWZSG9/DSC01193.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558594021453-1FW6OFMGFRCMHS2H2D1V/DSC01404.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558591906923-EH0TZPTCGAOGIR2QHNU4/DSC09141.jpg 2018 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558594404437-5XGE8SPZFU79EO1VORTP/DSC01950.jpg 2018 - 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. https://www.pustnik.com/2016-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1563263375320-CBWUP06CB7575IPHRGFZ/DSC00169.jpg 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330418933-RO8WWFU6AMA6SL4QK2NQ/20965e6faf25e6d73bb0728d1fe9ef1e.png 2016 - Oana Giurgiu Graduate in Journalism and Law, Oana Giurgiu has extensive experience as a producer of television programs, music videos and events as well as organizing Transilvania International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333087525-GVSZGBUY5NGB0DRJ2AD0/96e4690af77e8084ab6593c134ea5928.png 2016 - Daniel Mitulescu Daniel Mitulescu is a producer based in Romania. He has a Master degree in anthropology of consumption in Paris. He worked on several social studies including studies on film consumption. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333106398-SVHR0DVAQ8HGTA9GNFK5/a355e92bcd78a53a0842a84e5e58ff03.png 2016 - Anamaria Antoci Anamaria Antoci began working in film production after joining 4 Proof Film in 2012. In 2014, the EAVE graduate produced her first feature, Adrian Sitaru's ILLEGITIMATE, which premiered at the Forum in Berlin this year. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333142808-QMWE0S8YQC0O9FDAMDHK/f225cb7c7a71680c78f394859e37da9f.png 2016 - Gabi Suciu Gabriela Suciu graduated the Directing Class at the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) "I. L. Caragiale" in Bucharest, in 2010. Since 2008, she has consistently produced 6 to 8 titles a year, films of all lengths and genres. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333170098-MRNLKT9A5602QDJINQDB/e653114d23e83ccc9e95299e2dec253c.png 2016 - Radu Stancu Radu Stancu is a film producer, owner of the independent production company deFilm, based in Bucharest. His initiation in filmmaking started as Sound and Editing Department and Film Production (MA) graduate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333203031-QL1SKUVKQOZVOCVT5CJN/fa3b3a49b39fee953e7f171693d635f9.png 2016 - Anca Ionita Anca holds an MFA and a PhD degree from UNATC in Theatre Studies, along with a BS from Bucharest National Polytechnics University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1563193396190-A7SBNGGJVR6FHVAJIY10/Johan.jpg 2016 - Johan Knattrup Jensen Johan is a producer at Makropol working with founder Mads Damsbo. Johan studied at independent film school Super16 and his work has been selected for festivals and events all over the world including the New York Film Festival, Geneva International Film Festival, Festival Du Nouveau Cinema and all major Danish festivals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333534856-R5OQHJ812XE9X22O1N4C/Giacomo_Abbruzzese.jpg 2016 - Giacomo Abbruzzesse Born in 1983 in Taranto, Southern Italy. A graduate of Le Fresnoy, his short films have been screened at many international festivals including Oberhausen, Viennale, Clermont-Ferrand, Tampere, Indielisboa, Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, Leeds, Winterthur. They were presented at the Cinémathèque française in Paris, in museums like the Macro in Rome or the Mucem in Marseille and broadcasted in several TV-channels (Canal Plus, France 3, Sky Art, SVT, Pacific Voice). He received many awards including the Best Short film at theTorino Film Festival and at the Kustendorf Film&Music Festival, as well as a mention for Best Shortfilm Director at Nastri d'Argento, the Italian critics' prize. In 2012 he was artist in residence at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris and invited for the Berlinale Talents. With his feature film project Disco Boy he has been selected in 2013 for the writing residency of Cannes Film Festival (Cinéfondation) and in 2015 he got the Arte Award for best European film project at Festival Les Arc. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333665451-08LVUOT8YXHQ4ASV3M1F/Tudor-Botezatu.jpg 2016 - Tudor Botezatu Tudor Botezatu graduated from the Film Directing Program at The National University of Theatre and Film Ion Luca Caragiale, Bucharest in 2015 and Journalism and Communication Sciences at Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, Jassy in 2005. He wrote and directed several short films, commercials and music videos, participating in various national film festivals. His work includes the parody series Budăi Beer, the shorts Blană / Let It Rip, De Sfeștanie / The Consecration, Profesioniștii / The Big Boys, Puzzled and the documentary În căutarea lu’ Malone Muistu’ / Searchin’ for Prick Malone. He won the STEPdoc 2010 grant award for young documentary filmmakers from the Ion Rațiu Foundation in London. He also participated in the Media Lab Program 2011, Transylvania Talent Lab 2012 and Aristoteles Workshop 2012. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333408642-7ZZK852AC0PBZCKF283M/Anton+Breum.jpg 2016 - Anton Breum I write and direct movies and I am based in Copenhagen, Denmark. I was raised on three different continents, in five different cultures. My Viking heritage is therefore very well disguised. I started my film-career as a teenager working three glorious years behind the counter of a video-rental store. While still an undergraduate, I received production funding for my script “Heartpaint” from the Danish Film Institute. In 2010 I graduated from the European Film College and subsequently went on to also graduate from Copenhagen University with a master’s degree in political science (aka. The Study of Power). I then founded the production company “One More Film” and have since written and directed music videos, commercial projects, theatre pieces, and award winning short films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333278676-CZ35MSO3TTJDYPGBYEEU/0af481db40eca10311028e881554c303.png 2016 - Anca Buja Anca Buja is a scriptwriter and a producer born in august 1983, in Brașov, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, in 2006. Few years she worked as a copy-editor, proofreader, translator and bookseller. In 2013 she graduated also from the Faculty of Film, UNATC, Bucharest. She wrote and produced several short films (15 July screened at Berlinale shorts, 2011, or The camp in Răzoare screened at Cinefondation, Cannes, 2012). Her debut feature, directed by Cristi Iftime, produced by Ada Solomon (HiFilm) and Radu Stancu (deFilm), is now in postproduction. She is currently developing a feature film and in the process of fundraising for a short film written by her and produced by her own production company. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333573925-AKJG9BPL1881EKL651EA/Jacqueline+Lentzou.jpg 2016 - Jacqueline Lentzou Jacqueline was born in Athens, Greece in June 1989. She graduated with distinction from London Film School in 2013 with “Thirteen Blue” which won several awards in international film festivals. In 2014 she won the screenwriting competition in the context of PIFF and went into production for “LUZ”. The same year she participated in Sarajevo Talents as a writer/director, as well as in the RIFF Talent Lab, where she won the Golden Egg award. In 2015 she participated in Berlinale Talents as a writer/director and at the Berlinale Short Film Station with “FOX”. In the same year, she got funding from the Greek Film Center for “FOX” and funding from Athens Film Lab for “HIWA”. Along trying to make her latest shorts shine in the festival circuit, she also is in the writing stage of her debut feature film, entitled “SELINI 66”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333494653-UN4JUZWJ8LCK15N8362O/Emily+Marcuson.jpg 2016 - Emily Marcuson Emily hails from London but has also lived in Cape Town and Prague, where she studied screenwriting at FAMU International. Emily was selected for the prestigious Channel 4 Screenwriting Course in 2014 and last summer participated in the eQuinoxe Europe International Screenwriter Workshop, with her feature ONE UNDER. She is interested in telling stories that explore uncomfortable subjects or dilemmas, often via multiple character perspectives. She is currently developing a range of original projects across film and television, and has written three episodes of the BBC continuing drama Doctors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333598181-IAT1K95C3R6D6KYZN33L/PilarPalomeroPIC.jpg 2016 - Pilar Palomero Bachelor of Arts in Hispanic Literature by the University of Zaragoza and post graduate studies at the Madrid Film School-ECAM. During several years she worked as TV and film screenwriter and as university professor. In 2013 Pilar begun a DLA in filmmaking at Film Factory (Sarajevo) under the leadership of hungarian filmmaker Béla Tarr. Her short films have been screened in festivals such as Huesca Film Festival, Warsaw International Film Festival, St. Louis International Film Festival (SLIFF), Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival, among others. Her last short film project The Night of All Things (2015, Inicia Films) was selected for the European Short Pitch 2014 - Nisi Masa and supported by ICAA (Spanish Film Fund). Currently she is developing her debut film as director and screenwriter, Former Education, produced by Inicia Films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333326061-ZLDOTXMHOZA11SVITC5D/Andrei_Rautu.jpg 2016 - Andrei Rautu During my 20s, I had contact with electronic music. Daze was my dj name. Soon after, I got a job in journalism, as a reporter at Forbes Magazine and Top `500` Billionaires. I left the job after one year, being almost sure that I would become one of them by making films for their companies. It didn't take long to understand that I want to switch the focus on the spiritual side. As I felt that I prefer to express myself in multiple kind of mediums I decided to learn about cinema. I had the opportunity to study filmmaking, during a 2 months hands-on intensive workshop, at the New York Film Academy, in Los Angeles. One of the exercises was shot inside Universal Studios. After the `Hollywood` experience, back in Romania, I did `Ela, Panda and Madame`, a short fiction which is still living its festival life and it is being appreciated worldwide. Completely `dazed and amazed` about the world of cinema, I decided to continue my studies and enrolled in the Film Directing Bachelor’s degree program at the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L Caragiale”, in Bucharest. In my second year I was in Lisbon for three months with an Erasmus Scholarship. 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Ana Maria Gheorghe Ana Maria Gheorghe graduated the National University of Theatre and Film “I.L. Caragiale”, Bucharest, having gotten a B.A. in Audiovisual Communication and an 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 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. Currently, Ana Maria works for Saga Film as a film development and post-production manager. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1600532538919-FDKIE8PBUMS32IPRZQDJ/dora.jpg 2017 - Dora Nedeczky Dora Nedeczky (*1984) is a producer based in Budapest. Early in her career she worked next to producers András Muhi of Inforg Studio, and Ferenc Pusztai of KMH Film. Dora holds master’s degrees in film theory and history as well as art philosophy. In 2012 she began to focus on her own company, Mindwax and participating in such trainings as EAVE Producers Workshop and EAVE FMW, MAIA, Robert Bosch Co-Production Competition, Berlinale Talents and Sarajevo City of Film for instance. Dora’s films have been screened at Sundance, SXSW, Palm Springs, Clermont Ferrand, Sarajevo, BFI London, Guanajuato, Frameline LGBT San Francisco, Winterthur, and Hiroshima, to name a few. In 2016 she has started collaborating with Moviebar Productions, Hungary as a producer and strategist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330040816-TRZ4L3E6BBW4YRA4SW7Z/93b59e90297c112a15b36d78df52e1db.png 2017 - Giacun Caduff Graduated from Cal State Long Beach with a Bachelor degree in Film and Electronic Arts and went on to pick up a Masters degree in Creative Producing from UCLA in 2008. His thesis film “Etienne!” by director Jeff Mizushima played at more than 30 film festivals and won multiple awards. While in school, he founded box[ur]shorts™ Film Festival, which screens short films in movie jukeboxes at different venues around the world. In 2009 Caduff went on to create the Gässli Film Festival that takes place annually in a picturesque alley in his hometown Basel, Switzerland. In 2015 he had the opportunity to team up with director Timo von Gunten and produce a short film entitled “La femme et le TGV” starring Jane Birkin in the leading role. The film played multiple festivals and received an Oscar® nomination in 2017 for Best Live Action Short. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330139354-6MTIJ1BHAMIPGEKDCCSQ/6175d6a9ab5706c6504bbf0e97d46be0.png 2017 - Julie Billy Julie studied literature at the Sorbonne in Paris before obtaining a Master’s Degree in cinema in New York in 2007. She has been working at HAUT ET COURT (producers among others of the Palme d’Or The Class by Laurent Cantet) since 2010 supervising international co-productions such as Zero Motivation by Talya Lavie (2014 Tribeca Film Festival Best Narrative Feature award), The Kindergarten Teacher by Nadav Lapid (Critic’s Week 2014), The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos (Jury Prize in Cannes 2015). She also line produced Journey Through China by Zoltan Mayer, with Yolande Moreau, shot in China in 2014 and The Night eats the world by Dominique Rocher (in post production). She coproduced A Ciambra by Jonas Carpignano (Europa Cinema Award in Director’s Fortnight 2017) and produced Latifa, a theatrical documentary by Olivier Peyon and Cyril Brody (to be released on October 4th). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330224669-SLM6AI3X9F25PUM9NI1C/220ec94a21fb4a7d39faea3ae5fdc94f.png 2017 - Jurgen Willocx Jurgen recently produced among others ‘Le Pli dans l’Espace’ by director Ann-Julie Vervaeke (Best debut at the International Short Film Festival). ‘Maverick’ by Domien Huyge (Selected for Chicago Childeren film festival 2017) and the short movie ‘Camino Del Sol’ by director Jeannice Adriaansens, currently in post-production. His own directorial debut, the short movie ‘Dissonant’, played on several festivals such as Montreal World Film Festival, Cork Film Festival and Oldenburg in 2016. After his participation in the Maia Workshop in 2016, he was selected as a producer for the ‘Rotterdam Lab’ during IFFR 2017 with the feature project ‘Waterwolf’ by Ann-Julie Vervaeke. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330345243-I6USJEJP2H18GF43ZKTS/388ff57624da237dbba586f981054e58.png 2017 - Gabriela Suciu Gabriela graduated the Directing Class at the National University of Theatre and Film (UNATC) „I. L. Caragiale” in Bucharest, in 2010. Since 2008, she has consistently produced 6 to 8 titles a year, films of all lengths and genres. In February 2012, she graduated the Film Production Masters’ Program at the same university and founded “Atelier de Film”, a Romanian, Bucharest-­‐based production and distribution company, supported by the UNATC to produce works of the graduates in the Film Faculty, studying for her PhD in Co-­Production in the process. She currently manages Elefant Film Romania and Ultraviolet Media, while being also a constant collaborator on Axis Media Production and Dropia Film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330418933-RO8WWFU6AMA6SL4QK2NQ/20965e6faf25e6d73bb0728d1fe9ef1e.png 2017 - Oana Giurgiu Journalism and Law graduate, Oana Giurgiu’s credits include The death of Mr. Lazarescu 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 Purcarete (Karlovy Vary IFF 2012), Sieranevada (Cannes Competions 2016). Oana is also executive director of Transilvania International Film Festival. 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558330595155-H8VWZ9GO3QP99S8MO3TP/fd3a7db03bb8ef3d6619b6c25a3a84e4.png 2017 - Laurence Coriat Laurence Coriat was born in France and moved to London in her early twenties. She wrote Michael Winterbottom's Wonderland which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She went on to collaborate with Michael Winterbottom in 2006 on A Mighty Heart an adaptation of Marianne Pearl's account of her husband's kidnapping and murder “A Mighty Heart: The Daniel Pearl story”. The film starred Angelina Jolie who received a Golden Globe nomination for her portrayal of Marianne Pearl. She co-wrote Winterbottom's most recent release Genova, which starred Colin Firth as a man struggling to cope with the death of his wife. She is currently collaborating with Winterbottom on the television drama "Seven Days". https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332544735-9ELVB6ODFJKW394EPHM7/08be14c645f0d1e31602559dd912ecff.png 2017 - Octav Chelaru Among the short films that he directed, we mention "False Positive" (2014) - selected in the Transilvania Talent Lab 2914 and Timishort, the same year, also presented at FSK Kino in Berlin and in Tallin; "Occupied" (2015) - winner of the Best Romanian Short award at Timishort Festival in 2015, selected at Short Waves Film Festival (Poznań, Poland), ranked in the Top 5 European Shorts by Cineuropa; "Private Party" (2017) - winner of the The Pitch Award and Villa Kult Award at the NexT International Film Festival 2016, winner of the Best Pitch Award in the Sarajevo Film Festival, selected at NexT International Film Festival 2017, Anonimul 2017 and GoDebut European Film Festival 2017. His latest short film, "Black Clothes" (2017), financed by the Romanian National Film Center and produced by Radu Stancu (deFilm), was selected for the 2017 edition of the prestigious Locarno Film Festival. Currently, Octav is in development with a debut feature, which was born during his residency at the Villa Kult, in Berlin and continued throughout the Transilvania Pitch Stop at the Transilvania IFF in 2017. He will continue the development during the Pustnik Screenwriters Residency 2017. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332149968-KO6QH80R2MSAVFW2LVY2/8ab98fd21703431ec9d90c90f027319e.png 2017 - Szántó Fanni Fanni Szántó was born in Budapest and graduated from the Hungarian University of Theatre and Film Arts as a screenwriter. She wrote several short films, including Maflicsek and Playfellows, which have screened at numerous international festivals. Playfellows was awarded at the Watersprite International Film Festival, New Films Festival and Friss Hús International Short Film Festival. She runs a script - consulting company called Act One with her classmates from university. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332238594-GZPEF8A02VF5TJ72LLHR/bd4e916659cafbe5b822f483aade6d86.png 2017 - Caroline Ingvarsson Caroline Ingvarsson is a writer/director from Malmö, Sweden. Ingvarsson's latest short, Beneath the Spaceship (2015) premiered at Toronto International Film Festival and it won the “After Bergman” script award in 2014, an award by the Ingmar Bergman Center Foundation. In 2016 she was selected for Berlinale Talents. Ingvarsson was the recipient of the 2014 & 2016 Pixel Director Talent Award and the 2014 SWEA Los Angeles Film Grant. Ingvarsson’s short documentary The Dogwalker (2014) won 2nd prize for Best Documentary at Palm Springs Short Fest as well as the Audience Award for Best Film at Uppsala International Shortfilm Festival. Ingvarsson is currently in post production with her latest short We Were Three, which will have its world premiere in 2017. Ingvarsson holds a Diploma in Screen Studies from Sydney Film School, Australia, and a Masters Degree in Broadcast Journalism from City University in London, England. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332393953-X3YBAQXEHSVO07741G5U/ecec290e954ebb022a1854d2f30b9868.png 2017 - Iris Pakulla (Born in 1986, Paris) I hold a master in creative documentary “ Creadoc" from the Université de Poitiers and a degree in audiovisual communication from the UPF, Barcelona. Since completing my studies I widened my knowledge through seminars in different areas of anthropology and international politics. Since 2011 I live in Berlin working internationally for production companies such as Majade Filmproduktion, Polar Star Films, Sagamedia and Tondowski Films. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332516202-P7LW0BV2T2DFGDZR83UM/ee5d4161caa501150aaeeb88fbc5f7ae.png 2017 - Simona Sava Born in Vaslui, where I got the taste for stories. Went to film school, for a Master Degree in Screenwriting. Graduated with two shorts and many plans for future movies. Some of them are still waiting, others got their lucky draw, like this one I’m writing at Pustnik. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332478985-4LR8S92AK6ZVLYL9NDQ6/0edb23970d6c0b8e0cb32330fd301a95.png 2017 - Ioana Turcan Ioana Turcan is a cinematic storyteller living and working between Romania and USA. While she works interdisciplinary, her main focus is film; writing and directing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332431166-558TGYVFSDM0V972B07H/345b3010a84119c00650f841d2054854.png 2017 - Deben Van Dam Deben Van Dam is a Belgian filmmaker who stepped on to the international scene with his critically acclaimed short 'The Way Of All Flesh' in 2013. Since then he has been active as a screenwriter for hire and directed numerous commercials before and after joining Belgian production company HAMLET in 2015. As of now he is finishing his newest short film 'Remise' in post-production and writing on his first feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558332284996-L5N2HIWK7DQ6K3VSRO4Y/c71b0f8a87feba537059174e0ad5199c.png 2017 - Luca Zuberbühler As a filmmaker by nature, Luca was born by a cut in an emergency caesarean section in 1986. On the formal side, he got an education in communication sciences and went to filmschool (Zurich University of the Arts). His graduation short „Lothar“ brought him around the world and won a number of awards. During this inspiring period Luca became a professional cutter and director in the commercial film industry in Switzerland, where he is still active. In order to follow his passion for fiction filmmaking and eager to learn more Luca moved to Brussels in early 2016, where he is studying the masters in directing at Campus Sint-Lukas and taking workshops at l’Atelier de Direction d’acteurs with Beatriz Flores Silva. He is enthusiastic about directing entertaining films with a touch of fantasy and social criticism. https://www.pustnik.com/2014-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1563263189880-JJSE0ESR8R280N6M9TZR/DSC02816.jpg 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1563193502221-8F839AOT74LLGF48TMOC/image-asset.png 2014 - Philippe Barriere Philippe Barrière is a writer and script editor from France. He has a Masters in philosophy and formal logic at La Sorbonne University. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558334042321-J6LNJ59YSA3HEAV5EB78/Andreea+Bortun.jpg 2014 - Andreea Bortun Andreea Bortun is a Romanian writer and filmmaker, a graduate of UNATC, Bucharest and BARD College Berlin. Andreea’s debut short Blue Spring was selected in 2015 for the official competition of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival, and her second short film, Love Locker was purchased by France 3, to be broadcasted in 2016. She has been an active contributor for various film and art magazines, is an alumnus of several prestigious international training programs and since 2006 is the co-president of the biggest Theatre Festival for Youth in Romania (Ideo Ideis), an event supported by actors Jeremy Irons and Marcel Iures. She is the co-founder of Pustnik, an international writers’ residence. From time to time, she also works as a playwright. She had her debut in a theatre show directed by Neil LaBute, and her first play (Ashes Afar) was part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333991961-F9OYVXXE4JXWG0PDGDER/Bryn+participant.jpg 2014 - Bryn Chainey Bryn was born in London but, after the family’s roof blew off during the Great Storm of 1987, the Chaineys migrated to Australia for what is fashionably known as ‘a better life’. From here things got even worse and Bryn eventually became a filmmaker. He graduated from Griffith Film School at the age of 21. During his studies Bryn was also a coach and writer-in-residence for the youth drama school, the Australian Acting Academy. In 2009 he participated in the Berlinale Talents, where his screenplay Jonah and the Vicarious Nature of Homesickness received a production grant and then emerging director’s prize at the following year’s Berlinale. His next short, Moritz and the Woodwose was screened in more than 50 international festivals, including Edinburgh and Warsaw. Aside from short films, Bryn directs music videos, co-founded Pustnik Writers Residence, and continues to avoid storms and roofs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558334074949-6RGJQL518XY1SX6A56US/Nagy+V.+Gergo.jpg 2014 - Nagy V. Gergo Nagy V. Gergő studied sociology, aesthetics and screenwriting, and is currently a doctoral student in Film at the University of Theatre and Film Arts in Budapest. He has written for some major Hungarian cultural publicatons and a great many minor ones. He works as a critic and screenwriter. His films have been in competition in Cannes, Sarajevo and Sao Paulo. At the moment he is develoing a script with György Pálfi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333873888-QRBLDBZ2FPY1UTZTSZ3P/Arne.jpg 2014 - Arne Kohlweyer Arne Kohlweyer was born in 1981 in Wolgast (Island of Usedom) and grew up in Berlin. After studying literature in Frankfurt/Oder, film theory in Göteborg and photography in Graz, he finished in 2008 his post-graduate studies in film directing at FAMU in Prague. Arne has made various short films and directed for German television. He was a Berlinale Talent in 2009 (Script Station) and 2010 (Talent Project Market). Additionally Arne has been a participant of the European Short Pitch 2010, the Locarno Summer Academy 2012, the Reykjavik Talent Lab 2012, MIDPOINT's Training the Trainers-program 2013 and Torino Film Lab 2014. Arne is a member of the German Screenwriter's Guild (VDD) since 2010. He is currently in his fifth year coordinating the Script Station of Berlinale Talents and since 2014 he is also Head of Development for 42film in Halle/Saale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558333930149-BVZ77PZ6OBRHQVYZYNQO/frances+poletti.jpg 2014 - Frances Poletti In 2013 Frances completed her screenwriting masters from the National Film and Television School. Her graduation film MISS TODD won Gold at the 2013 Student Oscars. A first in 40 years for an animation in the Foreign Film Category, the film was then long listed for the 86th Academy Awards 2014. WOODLAND, which Frances wrote and directed, was in competition at Underwire Festival, where she was nominated for Best Director with lead Shannon Tarbet winning Best Actress. Stop-motion musical MISS TODD, exploring the life of the first female aeronautical engineer, played over 50 festivals worldwide, winning 16 awards, including a Student Oscar and a Royal Television Society Award. Frances and co-writer/ director Kristina Yee were part of the BAFTA and NFTS ‘Stars of Tomorrow’ showcase in 2014. They have just finished writing MISS TODD the feature. In 2015, MISS TODD AND HER WONDERFUL FLYING MACHINE was released as a children’s book. With publishers, Compendium Inc., Frances and Kristina brought Miss Todd’s story to life on the page. After the book’s success, they will be working with Compendium again, to celebrate the incredible story of how BOBBY GIBB became the world’s first female marathon runner. The book is due for release in 2017. Salon Pictures is producing Frances’ sci-fi feature MEET ME IN TEN YEARS. Sharon Horgan, (Pulling, Catastrophe, Divorce) is attached to direct. https://www.pustnik.com/apply daily 0.75 2026-03-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558590454074-VH2G3OH76WKGFTMENSGX/DSC08695.jpg Apply https://www.pustnik.com/2019-1 daily 0.75 2020-02-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632828682563-Z15Q6LPNA7EHBYZ934OM/Pustnik_2019.jpg 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582039260739-GLWGGQXPZ0YYBRBKZPK5/laurence.jpg 2019 - Laurence Coriat Laurence Coriat wrote Michael Winterbottom’s “Wonderland” which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She co-wrote Sandra Goldbacher’s “Me Without You”, starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. She went on to collaborate with Michael Winterbottom in 2006 on “A Mighty Heart”, an adaptation of Marianne Pearl’s account of her husband’s kidnapping and murder, starring Angelina Jolie. In 2016, she took part in a writers’ room with showrunner Hossein Amini and is writing for “McMafia”, Amini’s BBC series currently in production, directed by James Watkins. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582190616764-MLS9447C2JF35NUYIF0E/SoudadeKaadan3.jpg 2019 - Soudade Kaadan Soudade Kaadan is a Syrian director born in France. She studied theater criticism in the Higher Institute of Dramatic Arts in Syria and filmmaking in Saint Joseph University (IESAV) Lebanon. Her films have screened at several venues nationally and internationally and have received international awards. Her first feature fiction film “The Day I Lost My Shadow” was awarded The Lion of the Future Award for best debut film in Venice Film Festival 2018 and has been screened in several festivals: TIFF, BFI, Busan and IFFR. Her recent short fiction film “Aziza” won the Sundance Grand Jury Prize in 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1580884583742-QIN5K35ZE9LUROHE7VNO/marie_dubas.jpeg 2019 - Marie Dubas Marie Dubas started producing short films in 2008 in several production companies before founding Deuxième Ligne Films in 2014 in Normandy. She is an EAVE 2013 graduate and has taken part in the TorinoFilmLab script & pitch program in 2009 as a script-editor trainee. Her production company, Deuxième Ligne, aims at focusing on French and international emerging talents. It has co-produced John Trengove’s first feature film “The Wound” (South Africa) (Sundance 2016, Berlinale Panorama 2017) and recently finished Teona Mitevska’s fifth feature “God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunija” (Macedonia), winner of the Prize of the Ecumenical Jury at Berlinale 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558594860443-0S105IDKOBK61W1HS9BW/DSC03097.jpg 2019 - 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. She co-wrote Catalin Mitulescu's “Loverboy”, which premiered in 2012 at Cannes Film Festival in the section Un Certain Regard. She has produced Ivana Mladenovic’s documentary debut “Turn Off the Lights”, “Toto and His Sisters” by Alexander Nanau, the short film “A Country of Two” by Neritan Zinxhiria, and the feature film “Touch Me Not” by Adina Pintilie, awarded in 2018 with the GWIFF Best First Feature Award and the Golden Bear at Berlin International Film Festival. Bianca has most recently produced Alexander Nanau's latest documentary, “Colectiv”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582892438440-ZRTGH2EYA7L3LCD1QN14/Gabi_Suciu.jpg 2019 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558595355449-8HA6Z2T7H30HZAH5D4ND/DSC02144-2.jpg 2019 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200288725-FDKWRMTDZYNRJYGLZYSE/ori_aharon.jpg 2019 - Ori Aharon Ori Aharon is a scriptwriter and film director who was born and raised in Haifa and lives in Tel Aviv, Israel. He’s a graduate of The Steve Tisch School of Film and TV at the Tel Aviv University. His thesis film “Dolfin Megumi” [Rubber Dolphin] premiered at the 71st Cannes Film Festival as an Official Selection of the Cinéfondation 2018. “Osher” is his first feature film. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200299115-YI9SQTZPD1SBXB7L24SS/Phyllis_Grae_Grande.jpg 2019 - Phyllis Grae Grande Phyllis Grae Grande is a producer and director from the Philippines. She has produced and line produced films by Mikhail Red, John Torres, Jet Leyco, among others. Her most recent productions, “Billie” and “Emma” (dir. Samantha Lee) won the Audience Choice Award at the Inside Out Toronto LGBT Film Festival, while “Dog Days” (dir. Timmy Harn), won the Netpac Jury prize in QCinema IFF and had its international premiere at Rotterdam IFF. In 2017, Phyllis started directing her own projects. Her short film as a director, “Kun' Di Man” (“If Not”), won the QCinema IFF 2017 Audience Choice Award. Her first documentary feature, “Haunted: A Last Visit to the Red House”, was selected in the the Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival in China (2018). Phyllis is now developing her first narrative feature, “Everybody Leaves”, to be shot in Japan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200313124-8XTB76DNECL20FBT1HG0/Tess_Martin.jpg 2019 - Tess Martin Tess Martin is a filmmaker who works with hand-made animation techniques. Her work often blurs the boundaries between experimental/narrative and film/art. “Tracing Rita” is her first feature-length project after many short films and installations. She is based in Rotterdam where she also teaches and runs a regular animation event. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200325978-1ULI0E5DY7EOKGQJG056/Alexandru_Mavrodineanu.jpg 2019 - Alexandru Mavrodineanu Alexandru Mavrodineanu is a director and producer currently based in Bucharest. After graduating high school in southern Italy, he moved to Berlin where he completed his studies in 1999. He enrolled as camera operator and worked for Arte, Rai1, BBC, RTL, CNN etc. After returning to Romania, he shifted to directing. His first two short films “The Boxing Lesson” and “Music in the Blood” propelled him on the list of the up-and-coming talents in Romanian cinema. His feature-length directorial debut came in 2014 with “The Birdman”, a documentary produced in association with HBO Romania. His latest production “Caisă”, a feature-length documentary, is currently in the international festival circuit. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200339015-083UE56Y3QBT1KWKOHFJ/Kerstin_Neuwirth.jpg 2019 - Kerstin Neuwirth Kerstin Neuwirth is born in Wolfsberg, Austria. She first studied art history and Romance studies at the University of Vienna. She then studied film at the Academy of Media Arts in Cologne. Her short films, including “Anfang Juni” and “Die Bergfrau” were screened at international festivals. For “Anfang Juni” she received the NRW Competition Award at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. She was awarded the North Rhine-Westphalian Film Prize in the Film category. Her latest short “Die Bergfrau” received the prize for the Best Film at the Kyiv International Short Film Festival. She is currently developing her debut feature film. Kerstin Neuwirth lives in Cologne, Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200351647-M9CBKZ5A9UXTVFM7O01D/Jayisha_Patel.jpg 2019 - Jayisha Patel Jayisha Patel is an award winning British filmmaker, who works at the intersection of cinematic film and VR. Her films have screened at Toronto International Film Festival, Berlinale, Sundance, BFI London Film Festival and Locarno amongst others. Her works embody an intersectional female gaze and seek to give a platform to women of color fighting stereotypes, in bold and unconventional ways. Her short film “A Paradise” premiered at the Berlinale in 2014. Her short film, “Circle” screened at the Berlinale and Toronto International Film Festival amongst others. It was nominated for a One World Media Award, two Grierson Awards and won the David L. Wolper Award at the IDA’S. It also won the top short film prize at Academy Qualifying Chicago International Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200365458-C2X65BH7MRJ2541H6JO1/Diana_Voinea.jpg 2019 - Diana Voinea Diana Voinea was born and grew up in Constanta, a city by the Black Sea. She spent her summers reading more than going to the beach. At 16 she watched Andrei Rublev and this experience shaped her interest in arthouse cinema. Diana then studied screenwriting in UNATC and, until now, she wrote two short scripts that were turned into films, another one that is in production right now and a feature film that was on the brink of entering the national film funding contest. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1582200378437-K4TDKFGUAWTFPQDE1JSV/Jack_Wake_Walker.jpg 2019 - Jack Wake-Walker Jack Wake-Walker is a British film and theatre director, writer and video artist based in Copenhagen. Since 2007, Jack has made over 20 films and plays of various shapes and sizes. In 2014, his poetry film “Photon” was nominated for Best Poetry Film at Zebra Poetry Film Festival, Berlin, before being showcased at Berlinale. In June 2018, his Medellín-based narrative short “No Mileage” premiered at Oscar-qualifying Huesca Film Festival in Spain. In April 2019, Jack directed JB Priestley’s “An Inspector Calls” in Copenhagen’s Krudttønden Theatre. He is currently in production with another short, “Cuatros Cuartos”. https://www.pustnik.com/2020-1 daily 0.75 2022-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632828645223-FEDHZ5MC0GPKTUMCKI8M/Pustnik_2020.jpg 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055646220-BRC9XGX2T610JSZMU6A4/alexbaciu.jpg 2020 - Alexandru Baciu Alexandru Baciu was born in 1977, in Bucharest. In 1999 he graduated from the Bucharest Film Academy as film director. He continued his studies at the University of Bucharest, Communication and PR department, which he graduated in 2003. As a scriptwriter, Alexandru Baciu worked together with Răzvan Rădulescu and Radu Muntean for Muntean’s The Paper Will Be Blue (Locarno IFF 2006), Boogie (Cannes, Quinzaine des réalisateurs, 2008; Awarded Best Script at Hamptons IFF), Tuesday, After Christmas (Cannes, Un certain regard 2010), One Floor Below (Cannes, Un certain regard 2015; Awarded Best Script at Seville IFF and RiverRun IFF). Muntean's last film, Alice T., with a script by Alex Baciu, Răzvan Răduleascu and Radu Muntean premiered in Locarno IFF. He also teamed up with Răzvan Rădulescu for Gruber's Journey and Principles of Life (San Sebastian IFF, 2010). In 2011, he co-directed, along with Radu Muntean, Visiting Room, a documentary produced by HBO Romania. Together with his wife, Maria Popistașu, he co-directed, in 2017, The Seagull, a short based on a script by Maria Popistașu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055668648-5R8BUZX7J4MAM7W8GZ6A/philippebarriere.jpg 2020 - Philippe Barrière After studying philosophy and formal logic, Philippe shifted to script analysis and cinema project development. He was Head of Development at Mille et Une Productions between 2006 and 2009. Since 2010, he works as an independent script consultant in France. He was a story editor at the 2014 Torino Film Lab and Midpoint Training in 2015. As a script editor for the British Film Institute, he follows first feature films' development. This year, he returns to the Torino Film Lab Script Lab. Philippe is also the co-writer of "Made in Bangladesh", a feature by Rubaiyat Hossain, selected at Toronto Film Festival 2019. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055684133-9SRY70KKNO6URXH4BVJ9/juliebilly.jpg 2020 - Julie Billy Julie Billy has worked for Haut et Court for 10 years supervising international co-productions such as THE LOBSTER by Yorgos Lanthimos (Jury Prize Cannes 2015) or THE KINDERGARTEN TEACHER by Nadav Lapid. She also line produced JOURNEY THROUGH CHINA by Zoltan Mayer shot in China. She produced and co-produced several features, among them: the documentary LATIFA A FIGHTING HEART directed by Olivier Peyon and Cyril Brody (Rotterdam 2018), THE NIGHT EATS THE WORLD by Dominique Rocher (Tribeca 2018), A CIAMBRA by Jonas Carpignano (Italian entry for the Oscar 2018, awarded with Europa Cinemas Label in Director's Fortnight 2017) and THE COUNTY by Grimur Hakonarson (premiering @TIFF 2019). She also recently produced the first feature film GAGARINE by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (the buzzy title of the Official Selection Cannes 2020), and co-produced the latest short film by Jerry Carlsson NIGHT TRAIN with Verket Produktion in Sweden (premiering in Venice 2020). She currently coproduces A CHIARA by Jonas Carpignano with Stayblack Production in Italy, and VOUS N’AUREZ PAS MA HAINE by Kilian Riedhof with Komplizen Films in Germany. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055701578-YUREZ7Y2PRFNCBJYWWK5/biancaoana1.jpg 2020 - 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. She was head of development at Strada Film where she co-wrote Cătălin Mitulescu’s feature Loverboy, which premiered at Cannes 2012. She went on to produce documentaries including Turn Off the Lights and Toto and His Sisters, as well as Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, which won the Golden Bear at Berlinale 2018. She has recently finished production on Alexander Nanau’s latest film, Colectiv, plus the HBO Europe documentary, Golden Girl. Currently she is developing Adina Pintilie’s next project, Death and the Maiden, while working as a consultant in various industry programs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055717978-NKCT3SA9CLM32K9102WQ/timellrich.jpg 2020 - Tim Ellrich Tim Ellrich is a German film director, who is currently in his diploma year at Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Ludwigsburg. Since his childhood he has worked in a cinema in his hometown and studied Film-, Media- & Theatre Studies in Vienna before applying in Ludwigsburg. In his Films Ellrich tries to deal with the absurdities and tragedies of daily life. His films were screened at more than 400 film festivals and won several awards like the Jury Award at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival in 2016. His first feature documentary MEIN VIETNAM premiered at Hot Docs Documentary Film Festival this year and he is currently working on his first live-action feature film TAL DER KÖNIGE with ZDF Kleines Fernsehspiel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055733746-AQXYCVYC3EK418LNA4YL/cristinagrosan.jpg 2020 - Cristina Grosan Cristina Groșan is a Romanian-Hungarian filmmaker and visual artist. Since graduating from university, she has directed 6 short films, which toured the worldwide short film circuit, screening in Palm Springs IFF, Clermont-Ferrand IFF, Sarajevo IFF, London ISF, Helsinki IFF, Zubroffka IFF, Tirana IFF, St. Petersburg, Thessaloniki IFF, among many others. Her award-winning short “Holiday at the Seaside” exploring a mother-daughter relationship screened at more than 40 festivals, was distributed in several territories and recently premiered online, amassing more than 1 million views. She is looking forward to the distribution of her first feature, "Things Worth Weeping For", as soon as being together in a dark room is safe again. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055748136-9GDFJB3JHHLAP8KUP6SK/mikagustafson.jpg 2020 - Mika Gustafson Golden Beetle (Swedish Palme D’or) for best documentary Silvana (2018) screened at 80 international festivals. Bachelor in film directing at Valand Film Academy (2016) and winner of Nordic talents same year. Graduation film Mephobia won prices at: Lovers Film Festival and Premiere Plans, among others. Mephobia was part of the exhibition at Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneve: MIKA GUSTAFSON Mephobia & other short films (2018). Dragon Award Jury: Best documentary, Gothenburg International Film Festival. Linköping Art grant recipient and Sven Lyra Award in 2018. SISTERS was selected for the talent program - Stockholm Debut, as one of five projects. Part of BERLINALE TALENTS & SCRIPT STATION 2020. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055763155-19AFAA39XZ79DP0CG8SK/marknoonan.jpg 2020 - Mark Noonan Mark is a writer/director from Ireland now living in Berlin. His debut feature You’re Ugly Too (2015) premiered at the 65th Berlinale and was nominated for a European Film Academy award. His feature arts documentary Kevin Roche: The Quiet Architect (2017) screened at the Venice Biennale in 2018 and was released theatrically by Kino Lorber in North America and by Salzgeber in Germany. Mark has been a selected participant of the Berlinale Talents (2011), the Talent Lab of TIFF Toronto (2016), the Less is More script lab (2019), the Sam Spiegel Jerusalem Film Lab (2019), and awarded writing fellowships from the Centre Culturel Irlandais Paris (2016), the NIPKOW Programm in Berlin (2019) and Cité Internationale des Arts Paris (2020) among others. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055794055-Z3L69U979GVHVAVPXF36/Kerstin_Neuwirth.jpg 2020 - Razvan Oprescu I'm 32. By profession I am a civil engineer and for the last 10 years I worked on construction sites. I wore my helmet and my boots, but I was always closer to the stage than to a barrack. In high school I was part of a theatre company. In 2013, I attended a screenwriting workshop with Cristi Puiu. He made me forget everything I knew about film and that was a turning point for me. In 2018, with Alin Boeru and Vlad Ghinea, we founded Baia Băieților, an independent film production group. Every year we spend 2 weeks on the road filming and the rest in a small flat, editing. From old communist resorts to forgotten football stadiums, we have been telling stories that scream to be told within us. Our first product "The Trophy of Youth" (2018) was nominated for a Gopo Award and we just finished our second one, "You, with the Moustache!" (2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1611055820450-D39ZDMDL42ZGO3N57HJF/zhannaozirna.jpg 2020 - Zhanna Ozirna Zhanna Ozirna is a director and a screenwriter working between two cities - Kyiv and Lviv. She took part in the Berlinale Talents program 2020. The development and the teaser of her debut feature film Ground Zero were supported by Ukrainian Cultural Foundation. In 2017 she became a winner of Oppose Othering grant program in the frames of GoEast Film Festival with her short doc Bond which in a year got an award as Best Ukrainian film (86 IFF) and Jury Special Mention (Odesa IFF). Now Zhanna also works as a lecturer of Ukrainian Catholic University at Master’s Program in Media Communications and as a program coordinator of international short film festivals. She іs currently studying for script-doctoring. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/13deb383-c03f-4708-ae6d-6583d8bcda65/cenon_palomares.jpg 2020 - Cenón Obispo Palomares After he obtained his BA in Film and Audio-Visual Communication from the University of the Philippines - Diliman, Cenón Obispo Palomares worked as headwriter, writer, and creative group head in various local media networks, including ABS-CBN and Star Cinema. He was also a faculty at the UP Film Institute until 2014. His script, Kusina / Her Kitchen, won the grand prize at the 56th Palanca Memorial Awards for Literature. It was also a finalist at Cinemalaya Philippine Independent FF [2016] under his direction. His script for the short film, “Si Astri maka si Tambulah”, was a finalist at QCinema IFF [2017], and Tampere FF [2018], and won the Jury Prize at Cinemalaya FF [2018]. In 2019, he wrote the horror film “Clarita,” a blockbuster hit in the Philippines. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/7796d439-f76c-4d68-9206-3bc9fd153a65/xeph_suarez.jpg 2020 - Xeph Suarez Xeph Suarez is a Mindanaoan writer, director, and producer. In 2017, he won Best Director and received the Jury Prize for Best Short Film in Cinemalaya Philippine Independent FF for “Si Astri maka si Tambulah.” He is the producer of 2016 QCinema IFF Best Short Film,“Hondo.” His works have been selected in PÖFF Shorts - Tallinn Black Nights FF, Tampere FF, Lovers FF in Torino, Jogja-Netpac Asian FF among others. He is an alumnus of ASEAN-ROK Film Leaders Incubator by the Busan Film Commission. He is currently developing his first feature film “Dancing the Tides,” which participated in Full Circle Lab, Southern Voices Lab by the Film Development Council of the Philippines, Southeast Asian Film Lab by the Singapore IFF, and EAVE – Ties that Bind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/64cc3faf-b183-4eb1-97c8-918e20bfb7ca/lea_triboulet.jpg 2020 - Léa Triboulet Léa Triboulet grew up in the South of France. After receiving an honors Master’s degree in scenography at the art school Ecole Supérieure des Arts Decoratifs de Strasbourg (France), she joined the international programme Film Factory in 2013, which was led by Béla Tarr in Sarajevo (BiH). She has directed several short films which have travelled to film festivals worldwide. 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 further short film projects as well as feature projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/99af09c3-48f5-439a-9764-57d0c5b7c867/iva_brdar.jpg 2020 - Iva Brdar Iva Brdar is a playwright and screenwriter. She graduated from Dramaturgy Department at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts Belgrade and has completed a Master in Theatre Studies at Sorbonne Nouvelle Paris III. For her theatre plays she was awarded with Brücke Berlin Theaterpreis, Sterijino Pozorje Prize and Heartefact Fund Prize. Her plays were staged in Europe and US. She collaborated as a screenwriter on several short and feature films. https://www.pustnik.com/2021-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632831528000-XEQYL9P6SI1WMSS4KQOP/pustnik_2021_banner.jpg 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824820170-X7YBTYXV9IAGNZCZRB37/matthieu_taponier.jpg 2021 - Matthieu Taponier Matthieu Taponier is a Franco-American screenwriter, script consultant and film editor. After studying Modern Literature in Paris, he completed an MFA in filmmaking at New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. As a script consultant he has been tutoring in workshops such as the Critic’s Week “Next Step”, DFI’s “Hezayah Screenwriting Lab” and Le Groupe Ouest’s “LIM - Less is More”. He collaborated as a script and film editor on Son of Saul by László Nemes (Grand Prix Cannes 2015, Golden Globe, Oscar and BAFTA 2016); as a co-writer and film editor on Nemes’ Sunset (FIPRESCI Venice 2018); as a script and film editor on Beginning by Dea Kulumbegashvili (Cannes label 2020, FIPRESCI TIFF 2020, Golden Seashell San Sebastian 2020). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824843827-0GW97YXNOZK3461BJNV8/claudia_bottino.jpg 2021 - Claudia Bottino After moving to France to study Modern Literature, Claudia Bottino was on the writing team for the award-winning TV series AINSI SOIENT-ILS (ARTE). After receiving training at the TorinoFilmLab’s Script&Pitch program, she has been working as an independent script consultant and as a tutor for La Scénaristerie, a development hub for screenwriters based in Paris. Currently, she is working as a screenwriter on various international art-house projects, including the upcoming features of directors Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, Hugo Vieira da Silva and Senad Šahmanović – whose first feature, Sirin, was granted the Eurimages fund in June 2021. Claudia is a MidPoint Feature Launch and Sarajevo CineLink alumna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824864096-GBUHFYM5VP2SZR1FEJWK/julie_billy.jpg 2021 - Julie Billy Julie Billy produced around a dozen films at Haut et Court including Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (Official Selection Cannes 2020) or A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano (Director’s Fortnight Award 2021). She produced a wide range of films from the genre film The Night Eats the World by Dominique Rocher (Tribeca) to a social feature documentary Latifa by Olivier Peyon and Cyril Brody (Rotterdam). Her international co-production credits include Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher and Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra. Julie is co-founder and co-chair of Collectif 5050, which promotes gender equality and diversity in the industry. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824918082-FYQXJQ59DWAVPYJMY3YT/bianca_oana.jpg 2021 - Bianca Oana Bianca is a producer and writer based in Bucharest and Berlin. Since 2009, she has been working in developing, producing and promoting multi-awarded art-house films, including ‘Toto and His Sisters’ 2014 (San Sebastian IFF World Premiere, Angers Grand Prix, Zurich IFF Golden Eye), ‘Touch Me Not’ (Berlinale Golden Bear and Best Debut Feature 2018) and ‘Collective’ (Venice Official Selection, EFA Best Documentary, nominated for Best International Feature and Best Documentary at the 93rd Academy Awards). Currently producing Adina Pintilie's second feature 'Death and the Maiden' and co-producing Theo Montoya's 'Anhell69'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824933833-FB70JV2JEZ973DUPLV54/geo_doba.jpg 2021 - Geo Doba Geo is a writer-director who studied filmmaking in London and Bucharest, at The Screen Arts Institute, NFTS, and UNATC Bucharest. More recently, she graduated from the Serial Eyes 2021 writing program at Deutsche Film-und Fernsehakademie Berlin. To date, her portfolio includes web series, two short films, and an upcoming third one selected for the Co-production Forum at Brussels Film Festival 2021. She wrote for a late-night show at Comedy Central Romania and a Romanian animation series soon to be released. Geo also authored several short stories published in comic book anthologies and has a graphic novel in development. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824953700-QL7FNAX0DJIU26YV332F/mikael_gaudin.jpg 2021 - Mikaël Gaudin Mikael Gaudin has been studying in the Louis Lumière film school in France, and then has worked as assistant director for the past ten years with directors such as Jacques Audiard and Rebecca Zlotowski. He has directed four short films so far. LEVIRAT is his first project as a feature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824980122-2JM66RUXPFSA85MQU5GG/adina_istrate.jpg 2021 - Adina Istrate Adina Istrate is a writer/director based in London. Her fiction credits include ‘The Perfect One’ - segment of ‘RIGA 2041’ a 3D feature showcasing Riga as the European Capital of Culture, and ‘Terminally Happy’, a short developed through the Berlinale Short Film Station, Euro-Connections Clermont-Ferrand and Film London. This year, Adina has co-produced and co-directed '512 Hours', a feature documentary about iconic performance artist Marina Abramovic’s eponymous show at the Serpentine Galleries in London. The film premiered at CPH:DOX 2021 and is broadcast in the UK by Sky Arts. The fiction projects she is currently developing have received support from the Venice Biennale, IFP, the Wellcome Trust and Mother Tongues Awards. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632825006229-QOIRKRZCCI2WTJ04M9FH/jack_king.jpg 2021 - Jack King Jack is a self-taught film-maker from Bradford, Yorkshire, who started out making narrative music videos for indie and major record labels. His music videos have had racked up repeated Vimeo staff picks and millions of views online. Jack made a long string of low-budget shorts, and his last 'Prints' was shot in Northern Japan and selected for the 41st Clermont Ferrand Short film festival among others. Jack was recently selected to participate in the BFI development programme NETWORK@LFF, and was also a recipient of BFI Network early development funding for his first feature 'The Ceremony'. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632825037458-KBEDJFJJS4M8VWZGWPVQ/hilke_ronnfeldt.jpg 2021 - Hilke Rönnfeldt Hilke Rönnfeldt, born in Northern Germany with Danish-Icelandic roots, graduated as screenwriter in Sweden and is a part of independent film collective Super16 in Copenhagen as a director. Her films have successfully run the international film festival circuit, her latest film SILENCE OF THE FISH premiered at Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival 2019. She is a Berlinale Talents (2021), NISI MASA European Short PItch (2020), Screenwriting Lab Filmfund Hamburg (2019) alumna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632838706807-KUADMPAJANDWNQQ97V62/apoorva_satish_2.jpg 2021 - Apoorva Satish Born and raised in Chennai, a colourful conglomerate of urban villages, Apoorva was fascinated by the power of Tamil filmdom in state politics, igniting a passion for creating films that are socially and politically aware. Apoorva received her MFA from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing arts, Prague. Her graduation film Kanya premiered at Busan International Film Festival 2020 in the Wide Angle: Asian short film competition, followed by a successful festival run across the world. Apoorva is currently based in Prague, exploring short- and long-format film projects. Her passion lies in exploring personal stories around socially relevant contemporary ideas and themes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632831268515-4E8QKO9VF214G7CVUTRO/pedro_carneiro.jpg 2021 - Pedro Carneiro From a very early age, Lisbon-born filmmaker Pedro Carneiro was mesmerized by his city’s inherent cinematic qualities: its complex structure of hills and viewpoints and narrow streets; the intensity of the warmth and melancholy of its people and, above all, Lisbon’s inimitable light. His immense devotion for art and proudly conquered cinephilia was also a distinctive aspect of his upbringing. His most important formative experience was studying Film Directing at FAMU in Prague where, more than learning his craft, he was able to forge a new family of friends and deepened his passion for Cinema. Pedro is currently based in Lisbon, working and developing simultaneous film projects. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632825079758-6LIE2QN5QMTT727QTX8Y/meedo_taha.jpg 2021 - Meedo Taha Meedo Taha is a filmmaker whose work questions identity and memory. He’s interested in characters who challenge preconceptions of culture, history, and power systems. He grew up during the Lebanese Civil War in a family of doctors and video bootleggers. He has lived in England, Japan, Dubai, and the United States. His work includes the short film The Incident (award from the Directors Guild of America) and the novel A Road to Damascus (published by Interlink). His films have screened at Busan and Clermont-Ferrand, and have received support from the Doha Film Institute and Sundance Institute. He earned a PhD in Architecture from Tokyo University and an MFA in Directing from UCLA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632825107913-XYAGEBI4J3U29IVHCAYH/joana_vogdt.jpg 2021 - Joana Vogdt Joana Vogdt is a writer/director based in Berlin. She studied at Filmakademie Baden-Württemburg, Germany and La Femis, France. After her studies, she worked for several production companies in New York and Berlin, then in a freelance capacity as producer, script consultant and AD i.a. for Wim Wenders, followed by directing documentaries. In 2018 she was s a scholar of renown script program DrehbuchWerkstatt at HFF Munic. With her first fictional short script FLUID BORDER, she got selected to European Script&Pitch. The short was shown at numerous festivals, received several awards and is the German nomination for ESFAA 2022. EASTSHORE WILDWEST is her debut feature and supported by the regional fund MV . https://www.pustnik.com/may-2022-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1652701064656-49WMNP6NW28CR3CLOFN9/pustnik_2022_banner2.jpg May 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/6255eb7a-3391-49b8-8fde-eea5f9909819/bianca_oana.jpg 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/ccc75d16-2c25-47c3-96af-8d8270da6416/jeanlaurent_csinidis.jpg May 2022 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/0e47556a-7472-4084-bc86-f9432e6538da/dana_bunescu.jpg May 2022 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/af2cefed-0335-44dd-8e39-f0a0a9cf0e7d/zhanna_ozirna.jpg 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/079c977c-5ea8-40cc-8b2c-b3603dce85ca/kimie_tanaka.jpg May 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”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/ae2bbdbb-0fec-4081-99fc-6646921e4ed8/lea_triboulet.jpg May 2022 - 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». https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/e1914d12-e5be-4f92-8e30-33d55976243a/iva_brdar.jpg May 2022 - 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. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/79b1a7ea-4f09-4143-9d5c-ca12ff9e1630/ioana_turcan.jpg May 2022 - 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. https://www.pustnik.com/september-2022-1 daily 0.75 2022-09-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1663831608756-VKRPUTJ4JGFRB1YTSRQJ/2022_banner.jpg September 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/49cfa661-dcac-451f-a3c0-4daf6b8dea80/ana_agopian.jpg September 2022 - Ana Agopian Ana Agopian graduated from The National University of Film and Theater “I.L.Caragiale” (screenwriting and film critics) and the European College of Liberal Arts (ECLA) Berlin. She has a PHD in literature (University of Bucharest). She worked as a scriptwriter, together with Oana Răsuceanu and Iulia Rugină, for several short/medium length films and three feature films (Love Building, Another Love Building and Breaking News) which were shown at numerous national and international film festivals. Her most recent feature film, Breaking News (2017), premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Official Competition, Special Jury Mention for the actress Voica Oltean). The short film E.T. was here is her debut film as a director and it was shown at Transilvania International Film Festival (2018). As a scriptwriter she also collaborated with Media Pro Pictures (for four TV series and two TV movies) and HBO Romania (for one TV series). Ana has an important experience in cultural management. In 2009, together with Oana Răsuceanu and Iulia Rugină, Ana founded Control N Cultural Association and she was involved in all the projects developed by the association since then. Currently, Ana teaches screenwriting at The National University of Film and Theater “I.L.Caragiale”. She is also a trainer for scriptwriting workshops. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/11c42af5-5316-4139-9364-61d2e105a381/julie_billy.jpg September 2022 - Julie Billy Julie Billy produced around a dozen films at Haut et Court including Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (Official Selection Cannes 2020) or A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano (Director’s Fortnight Award 2021). She produced a wide range of films from the genre film The Night Eats the World by Dominique Rocher (Tribeca) to a social feature documentary Latifa by Olivier Peyon and Cyril Brody (Rotterdam). Her international co-production credits include Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher and Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra. Julie co-founded Collectif 5050, which promotes gender equality and diversity in the industry. In 2020, Julie co-founded the production company June Films with Naomi Denamur. By combining their complementary expertise in the marketplace and in production, June develops, produces and co-produces innovative, socially committed and intimate films with an international scope. June brings together the family of filmmakers it has met over the years and fosters the emergence of new talent, while offering a modern production model. June’s lineup includes the next features by Hafsia Herzi, Clémence Poésy, Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh, Emma Benestan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/230c1186-3078-46c8-9fbd-5e9d3ee09a30/bianca_oana.jpg September 2022 - Bianca Oana Dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, Berlin-based Romanian 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. Oana has been involved since 2009, in developing, producing and distributing multi-awarded art-house films including Collective by Alexander Nanau (double Oscar nominee in 2021 for Best Documentary and Best International Feature), Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, Toto and his Sisters by Alexander Nanau, and Turn off the Lights by Ivana Mladenović. As guest-expert and advisor, Oana held lectures at institutions and events such as Berlinale Talents, Berlin (2019), Consolidating European Cooperation Through Co-Production, Bucharest (2019 conference organised by MEDIA Creative Europe Romania), Days for a Creative Europe, Paris (2018 conference organised by the Council of Europe), International Conference on Women in Film Industry – Zagreb (2019), and others. She has served as a jury member for festivals and funding bodies such as IDFA Bertha Fund & IDFA Forum, Sundance Film Institute, Cinelink Sarajevo, Visions du Reel, InterFilm Berlin Script Pitch, and others. She is currently producing Adina Pintilie's second feature Death and the Maiden, and Theo Montoya's debut Anhell69. She is also the creative producer of the Romanian Pavilion of the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia with Adina Pintilie's You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2ea2e5eb-7b2c-45d2-a8ee-9596f53da3e3/delia_vasile.jpg September 2022 - Delia Vasile Delia Vasile is a communicator, psychologist and psychotherapist with a humanistic approach, based in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Psychology and since 2012 she has started her training in Transactional Analysis with Yorkshire Training Centre International. She has had learning experiences and professional training in Romania, Great Britain, Germany, France and the USA. She has a professional background in communication, public relations and entrepreneurship, which she uses in order to understand human and social experience from a wide range of perspectives. Since 2015, she has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist, with individuals and couples. Her therapeutic approach is a narrative one, being passionate about understanding life stories and the scripts people act out in their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/46bc6dbd-7555-47dd-936b-fb28291d71bf/hedda_bednarszky.jpg September 2022 - Hedda Bednarszky Hedda Bednarszky is a filmmaker from Romania. In her work, she tends to document little-known people and places by truly connecting with her characters and challenging the narrative. Her graduation film Catlady (2017) received a special mention at Transilvania IFF and the award for best documentary at Filmul de Piatra. After completing her BA studies at the Faculty of Theatre and Film in Cluj, she attended the Aristoteles Workshop, where she developed Wild Berries (2018) as co-director and editor. The short was awarded at Black Canvas FCC and Dokufest and was screened internationally. She’s currently studying Film Directing at the German Film and Television Academy Berlin (DFFB). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/50b0c746-4404-4361-bb4a-73f441392e3d/seemab_gul.jpg September 2022 - Seemab Gul Seemab Gul is a Pakistani artist and filmmaker with an interest in social-realism. Sandstorm is her latest short film and it’s been to over fifty festivals and won five awards. Her documentary Zahida won the Audience Award at Tasveer SAFF and was broadcast on Al Jazeera. Her films have screened at Venice, Sundance, Seattle, Uppsala, DokLeipzig and many international festivals. She attended the Venice Biennale College Cinema, La Fabrique Cinema (Cannes) and Berlinale Talents. Seemab is a graduate of the London Film School. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1a0ada89-7e2a-4a4c-ab59-96cb7508523a/sam_manacsa.jpg September 2022 - Sam Manacsa Sam Manacsa worked as Art Director on award-winning films such as Carlo Francisco Manatad’s WHETHER THE WEATHER IS FINE (Locarno Junior Jury Award 2021) and Giancarlo Abrahan’s PLEASE • CARE (2017) and SILA-SILA (2019), among others. Her short film, IF PEOPLE SUCH AS WE CEASE TO EXIST (2016), was selected in Clermont-Ferrand Competition as well as Kurzfilmtage Winterthur (Special Programmes) and SeaShorts competition. She is an alumna of SEAFIC Seed Lab and Asian Film Academy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2f7eb186-317c-420c-aca0-6d66bdc50abc/lauri_matti_parppei.jpg September 2022 - Lauri-Matti Parppei Lauri-Matti Parppei is a Finnish filmmaker and musician, and has graduated from ELO Film School Finland, Aalto University. They’ve directed and written numerous short films (some even award-winning) and the TV series A Strange Summer, released in August 2022. At the moment, Lauri-Matti is developing and writing two features and the second season of the series. Lauri-Matti’s works explore loneliness, friendship and love, combining visuality with intimacy and sensitivity. Aside from making films, Parppei has explored multiple other mediums, releasing six full-length albums with two different bands, working as graphic designer and illustrator, and making experimental and interactive visual art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/8c6cc7df-34b5-421e-a9f1-99de7d2f9d3e/emil_vasilache.jpg September 2022 - Emil Vasilache Emil Vasilache is a Bucharest based writer and project manager at Cinepub.ro. He holds an MA degree in Screenwriting from the Caragiale Academy for Theater and Film in Bucharest. Together with Lucia Chicoș he wrote four short films, among which, Contraindications (2019, d. Lucia Chicoș) - won the third prize at the Cinéfondation competition in Cannes 2020. Through his writing, he explores subcultures and anti-coming-of-age stories. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/a5426647-4dc8-48af-b905-a47a58f09e32/kate_voet.jpg September 2022 - Kate Voet Kate Voet is a Belgian writer and film director from Brussels. Having studied English literature, theater studies and film at the University of Amsterdam, LUCA and The New School, her roots have become international. Additionally she participated in various labs with her projects such as IFFR PRO x VRDays IFM Content, Stereopsia Booster lab, and European Short pitch. After her short films Les Homards Immortels and The Tears of Things, she is now writing her debut feature To Everything there is a Season, together with Nadja Dumouchel and developing an animated VR experience, The Time of a Moment, together with Victor Maes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/05e53642-e7b8-441d-9af7-90cde8aac04d/nadja_dumouchel.jpg September 2022 - Nadja Dumouchel Experienced in international production and co-production for ARTE (G.E.I.E) and in international sales for Premium Films, Nadja Dumouchel is now working internationally as a screenwriter, script consultant and tutor for several film labs. Based in Berlin, she's currently co-writing the debut films To Everything there is a Season with Kate Voet, Cheramy with Suzy Gillett and the series Berliners with Nicolas Ducray. Previously, she wrote the documentary series Art Stories, directed by Philipp Mayrhofer. She's also teaching script writing at Filmuniversität Konrad Wolf in Babelsberg and she is co-founder of script development programs La Scénaristerie and FULL CIRCLE LAB. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2ea6262b-e74e-4f79-aebe-ed05f178699c/kat_whalen.jpg September 2022 - Kat Whalen Kat Whalen is an independent filmmaker based in New York. Originally from Wyoming, she studied film and animation at Yale and later received an MFA in writing/directing from New York University. Her thesis film ‘Bird Dog’ had its premiere in 2017 at Clermont-Ferrand. Most recently, she has been working as a miniatures, stop-motion, and video producer. Her personal work examines memory and mental health, as well as the shifting face of the West and the development of western mythology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1a40a3f6-4f5b-40a6-a854-48167aad267d/kaki_wong.jpg September 2022 - Ka Ki Wong Ka Ki Wong graduated from the London Film School with, MA in Filmmaking in 2018. Her graduation film I Draw Inside A Sheep (2018) was selected at the BAFTA-qualifying Underwire Film Festival 2018. Her short film Dark Room (2019) was selected for the 72nd Locarno Filmmakers Academy. Her short film, Wild Child (2020) won the Fresh Wave Award at 14th Fresh Wave International Short Film Festival. She is also an alumnus of Berlinale Talents 2021, Locarno Filmmakers Academy and the 10th Golden Horse Film Academy. Fire Room will be her debut feature project and it has been selected to participate at Berlinale Talents Script Station 2021, Udine Far East Focus Asia All Genres Project Market 2022 and 18th Hong Kong Asian Film Financing Forum. https://www.pustnik.com/october-2022-1 daily 0.75 2022-10-19 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1666161814836-KEDM50SS3BFT8BW4TCCL/oct_banner.jpg October 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/230c1186-3078-46c8-9fbd-5e9d3ee09a30/bianca_oana.jpg October 2022 - Bianca Oana Dedicated to discovering filmmakers with a particular artistic view, Berlin-based Romanian 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. Oana has been involved since 2009, in developing, producing and distributing multi-awarded art-house films including Collective by Alexander Nanau (double Oscar nominee in 2021 for Best Documentary and Best International Feature), Golden Bear winner Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, Toto and his Sisters by Alexander Nanau, and Turn off the Lights by Ivana Mladenović. As guest-expert and advisor, Oana held lectures at institutions and events such as Berlinale Talents, Berlin (2019), Consolidating European Cooperation Through Co-Production, Bucharest (2019 conference organised by MEDIA Creative Europe Romania), Days for a Creative Europe, Paris (2018 conference organised by the Council of Europe), International Conference on Women in Film Industry – Zagreb (2019), and others. She has served as a jury member for festivals and funding bodies such as IDFA Bertha Fund & IDFA Forum, Sundance Film Institute, Cinelink Sarajevo, Visions du Reel, InterFilm Berlin Script Pitch, and others. She is currently producing Adina Pintilie's second feature Death and the Maiden, and Theo Montoya's debut Anhell69. She is also the creative producer of the Romanian Pavilion of the 59th International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia with Adina Pintilie's You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1b5b3bec-c50d-489f-8bdb-35a14c43b030/delia_vasile.jpg October 2022 - Delia Vasile Delia Vasile is a communicator, psychologist and psychotherapist with a humanistic approach, based in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Psychology and since 2012 she has started her training in Transactional Analysis with Yorkshire Training Centre International. She has had learning experiences and professional training in Romania, Great Britain, Germany, France and the USA. She has a professional background in communication, public relations and entrepreneurship, which she uses in order to understand human and social experience from a wide range of perspectives. Since 2015, she has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist, with individuals and couples. Her therapeutic approach is a narrative one, being passionate about understanding life stories and the scripts people act out in their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/6e5d08e6-af82-402a-9ea3-c165a467c26c/giacomo_abbruzzese.jpg October 2022 - Giacomo Abbruzzese A graduate of Le Fresnoy, his short films were selected and awarded in many international festivals including Clermont-Ferrand, Oberhausen, Viennale, Palm Springs, Mar del Plata, Tampere, Indielisboa, Nouveau Cinéma Montreal, Winterthur, Angers, Torino, and Leeds. He was an artist in residence at Cannes Film Festival Cinéfondation, at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, and at Clermont-Ferrand ShortFilm Festival. In 2022 he was nominated at César with his documentary America and he ended the shooting of his first feature film Disco Boy, a co-production between France-Italy-Belgium-Poland, starring Franz Rogowski. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/846d2661-1d78-4bea-80a7-cfb349eef90b/octav_chelaru.jpg October 2022 - Octav Chelaru Octav Chelaru (b. 1991) is a self-taught film director who started making amateur films at the age of 14, using his relatives and classmates as actors. A film school reject, he directed music videos and commercials, produced short films for other directors and was involved as an assistant director for various projects. He wrote and directed five short films out of which the last two, Black Clothes (2017) and The Parallel State (2020), both premiered in competition in Locarno. His debut feature film, the Romanian-German-Serbian co-production A Higher Law (2021) was in competition at the Transilvania IFF. The film was also selected in Thessaloniki IFF, Goa IFF and Ghent IFF. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/c5b3c7fb-2680-4b5a-855a-8c6539cfe9ae/mika_gustafson.jpg October 2022 - Mika Gustafson Mika Gustafson has a Bachelor's degree in film directing from Valand Film Academy in Goteborg, Sweden. Her debut documentary Silvana won the Swedish National Film Award. Mika also had an exhibition at The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Geneva. She finished shooting her feature fiction debut film Sisters, now in post-production and set to premiere in 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/b1189e43-da09-40d7-8fc8-7ba186ead117/alexander_ohrstrand.jpg October 2022 - Alexander Öhrstrand Alexander Öhrstrand is a Bachelor from Alma Screenwriters and Göteborg Acting School. Apart from a prestigious acting career, he co-wrote the feature film Sisters with director Mika Gustafson. Currently, he is developing plays for theater and co-writing The Last Generation, again in collaboration with director Mika Gustafson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/8cd66cf4-4e50-47fb-9e47-331aa27cfeb3/jacqueline_lentzou.jpg October 2022 - Jacqueline Lentzou Jacqueline is an artist whose cinematic language involves discovering poetry in -seemingly- mundane premises as well as embracing non-linear narration. Having directed six films until now, thematically her work touches upon non-traditional family systems and their consequences, duality, love, and most importantly, the lack of it. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including the Leica Cine Discovery Award by Semaine de La Critique for Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018), the Golden Hugo in Chicago IFF for The End of Suffering (A Proposal) (2020), as well as the Grand Prix in Reykjavik IFF and Sevilla Film Festival for Moon, 66 Questions (2021), her debut feature which premiered in Berlinale Encounters Competition. Retrospectives on her full body of work have taken place in Montreal, Vienna, Porto, and Ghent. Jacqueline is the New York Onassis foundation fellowship recipient for 2022. Finally, she was one of the three finalists for the prestigious Rolex Mentor&Protegé scheme 2022-2024. https://www.pustnik.com/2023 daily 0.75 2024-09-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/24b7ad41-d13b-40fc-84e3-3d4ae89335c3/B0054116.jpg 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/11c42af5-5316-4139-9364-61d2e105a381/julie_billy.jpg 2023 - Julie Billy Julie Billy produced around a dozen films at Haut et Court including Gagarine by Fanny Liatard and Jérémy Trouilh (Official Selection Cannes 2020) or A Chiara by Jonas Carpignano (Director’s Fortnight Award 2021). She produced a wide range of films from the genre film The Night Eats the World by Dominique Rocher (Tribeca) to a social feature documentary Latifa by Olivier Peyon and Cyril Brody (Rotterdam). Her international co-production credits include Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Lobster, Nadav Lapid’s The Kindergarten Teacher and Jonas Carpignano’s A Ciambra. Julie co-founded Collectif 5050, which promotes gender equality and diversity in the industry. In 2020, Julie co-founded the production company June Films with Naomi Denamur. By combining their complementary expertise in the marketplace and in production, June develops, produces and co-produces innovative, socially committed and intimate films with an international scope. June brings together the family of filmmakers it has met over the years and fosters the emergence of new talent, while offering a modern production model. June’s lineup includes the next features by Hafsia Herzi, Clémence Poésy, Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh, Emma Benestan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/0334d36a-3d36-478b-ae75-a0bccf07e440/Alexandra-Blue.jpg 2023 - Alexandra Blue Alexandra is an award-winning producer committed to bold, original and inventive storytelling. Alexandra’s short films have been Oscar-longlisted and received acclaim at festivals including BFI London, Clermont-Ferrand, Flickerfest and Palm Springs. Alexandra’s accolades include being selected as one of 12 producers for BFI Insight, Film London Lodestar of 2021, Emerging Producer of the Year (SASA), Best Emerging Filmmaker (Shorts Film Festival) and Short Film of the Decade at the Australian Academy Awards. Alexandra has been mentored by some of the top production companies, including a Screen Australia Talent Escalator placement with Element (‘The Lobster’, ‘Room’) and a six-month Producer placement with Warp (‘This is England’, ‘’71’). Alexandra also worked as a Development Executive at Heyday for Producer David Heyman (‘Harry Potter’, ‘Paddington’) until 2017, before collaborating with Eleven (‘Sex Education’) as a development producer with her own projects. Alexandra’s slate includes projects that have been developed with Film 4, BFI, Netflix and Screen Australia. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1632824843827-0GW97YXNOZK3461BJNV8/claudia_bottino.jpg 2023 - Claudia Bottino After moving to France to study Modern Literature at the Sorbonne University, Claudia Bottino worked as a script consultant for several independent film companies. During 2013-14, she was on the writing team for the award-winning TV series ‘Ainsi soient-ils’/’Churchmen’ (ARTE France/Germany). ‘Duo’, her first short film as a director, was selected for screening at numerous international festivals, including Palm Springs International ShortFest, Odense International Film Festival, London Short Film Festival and Sundance, where it played as part of Short Film Connection in 2016. She co-wrote ‘Sirin’, a first feature film directed by Montenegrin director Senad Sahmanovic, that premiered at the Sarajevo Film Festival in 2023. After directing her second short film, ‘Seul’, she worked on the screenplay of ‘Tender Age’, by Julien Gaspar-Oliveri, broadcasted on ARTE and screened in numerous festivals, including Clermont-Ferrand and Angers Premiers Plans. The short was a finalist at the 2021 César Awards. Recently, she co-wrote ‘Loin de la route’, Hugo Vieira da Silva’s fourth feature film produced by Paulo Branco. She also co-wrote the Netflix teen drama ‘Caught by a Wave’, directed by Massimiliano Camaiti, and she is currently working on Julien Gaspar-Oliveri’s first feature film, ‘La Frappe’, whose script was a finalist at the Sopadin Best Screenplay Award 2022. Her third short film, ‘À Trois’, screened at Clermont Film Festival in 2023 and broadcasted on Canal+. Claudia is a former alumna of Torino Film Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2ea2e5eb-7b2c-45d2-a8ee-9596f53da3e3/delia_vasile.jpg 2023 - Delia Vasile Delia Vasile is a communicator, psychologist and psychotherapist with a humanistic approach, based in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Psychology and since 2012 she has started her training in Transactional Analysis with Yorkshire Training Centre International. She has had learning experiences and professional training in Romania, Great Britain, Germany, France and the USA. She has a professional background in communication, public relations and entrepreneurship, which she uses in order to understand human and social experience from a wide range of perspectives. Since 2015, she has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist, with individuals and couples. Her therapeutic approach is a narrative one, being passionate about understanding life stories and the scripts people act out in their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/90696c79-01d8-437c-afde-b7d9482900bf/shalini_adnani_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Shalini Adnani Shalini Adnani is a Chilean-Indian writer and director based in London. Her latest short film WHITE ANT premiered at Sundance 2023. She is a Berlinale Talents and London Film School alumni. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/8dad17d6-2bc1-4f9e-8d93-87dc637744e4/andra_hera_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Andra Chiriac Hera Andra currently works as a film director in Bucharest, Romania. After obtaining her Master’s degree in International Law, she completely changed gears, graduating film studies at ESRA, in Paris. In 2017, her short film BORDERS premiered at the Gent Film Festival in Belgium, travelled worldwide and was nominated for the Gopo Awards in 2019. In 2021, she completed THE THINGS WE HIDE IN SILENCE, an unconventional therapeutic journey, following two characters who confront the way family patterns and the voices of others have shaped their identity. The documentary was also nominated for the Gopo Awards in 2022. She is also the founder of Meaningful Scripts, designed for people aiming to learn how to write a professional short film script and to enhance their creative potential through storytelling. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/4c46fdaf-1f31-45e0-8d32-26370ecd230c/gunhild_enger_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Gunhild Enger Gunhild Enger graduated from Edinburgh College of Art (2005), and The School of Film Directing, in Gothenburg (2012). She was nominated for a BAFTA with her graduation film BARGAIN and has since then screened her films at festivals around the world. Her film PREMATURE (2012) won best short at several festivals. PLAY SCHENGEN (2020) and THE COMMITTEE (2016) both premiered at Locarno Film Festival, and Chicago International Film Festival. In 2020 she co-directed a Norwegian animation feature film for children, TWO BUDDIES AND A BUDGER 2 — THE GREAT BIG BEAST. Gunhild also worked on casting THE SQUARE (2017), directed by Ruben Østlund. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/8e69cbb6-d068-433e-8ec8-6d25bab0183d/maria_hatzakou_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Maria Hatzakou Maria Hatzakou is a film director, producer and musician based in Athens. She began her career as a producer for Haos Film, a pioneering filmmaker-run production studio based in Athens, founded by Greek director Athina Rachel Tsangari. Maria’s producer credits include ATTENBERG, ALPS, THE CAPSULE, CHEVALIER & DIGGER. She was part of EFP’s “Producers on the Move” forum (Cannes Film Festival). She is a Sundance Institute alumna. In 2021, she wrote and directed and produced (through her newly founded production company Merricat) her first short film AMYGDALA which has been enjoying a successful festival run. She just finished her second short, 7Hz, and is in development of her third short STARFLYER and her first feature film, STRINGA (co-written with fellow filmmaker Alexandra Matheou). Maria is also a drummer in Someone Who Isn’t Me, an all-female electronic music band in Greece. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1e4ec898-1176-4a45-9ef2-0080698e4c06/katarina_jazbec_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Katarina Jazbec Katarina Jazbec, a visual artist working in film and photography, was born in 1991, in Slovenia, and has been living in Rotterdam since 2015. She received her BA from the Faculty of Economics in Ljubljana and her MA in Photography from the AKV | St. Joost art academy in Breda (NL). In her film works, Katarina uses interdisciplinary and collaborative artistic strategies, exploring the vulnerability and agency of human and non-human critters in the current economic system. Her previous short film YOU CAN’T AUTOMATE ME premiered at the International Film Festival in Rotterdam in 2021. Katarina is currently a resident at the international residency programme at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2bfd5480-40d6-4ba6-86a2-3e7ac2abc6be/ryushi_lindsay_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Ryushi Lindsay Ryushi Lindsay is a British-Japanese filmmaker based between the UK and Japan, working across artist’s moving image, documentary and fiction. His work has screened at festivals including Aesthetica and Short Shorts, as well as on MUBI. He is currently developing CREST, a contemporary western noir feature set in the Scottish Highlands, and SILK AND RUSHES, a cross-class romance set against the turbulent politics, all-out war, and the trauma of occupation, of 1930s, 40s and 50s Japan. He is also developing a feature documentary about pedigree Japanese dogs. As a filmmaker, he is particularly interested in form and aesthetics, and how to confront past and present fascism. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/b90352bc-3ecd-49be-b53a-0a95802f5162/alexandra_matheou_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Alexandra Matheou Alexandra Matheou is a writer and director. She holds a Law LLB and LLM from King’s College London, as well as an MA in Film Studies from University College London (UCL). Her short films have screened internationally and her latest, A SUMMER PLACE (2021), a Cyprus-France co-production with the support of the CNC, continues its festival run with selections and awards at major film festivals around the world. Alexandra is an alumna of Talents Sarajevo 2018 and a Fellow at Oxbelly Screenwriters and Directors Lab 2022. Her first feature film SHIBBOLETH is currently in development with the support of Onassis Culture and the Cyprus Film Fund. With SHIBBOLETH, Alexandra won the top award at Crossroads Co-Production Forum at Thessaloniki Film Festival as well as the Producer’s Network Award for Cannes Film Festival. The project has also been selected as part of the First Films First(FFF) script development programme (Goethe- Institut) and Mediterranean Film Institute Lab. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9d59fc0d-a898-47ee-b5c7-d700dd359b2a/raluca_manescu_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Raluca Manescu Raluca Mănescu is a Romanian screenwriter and playwright. She has collaborated with Romanian film directors Nicolae Constantin Tănase, Luiza Pârvu, Ivana Mladenovici. She wrote the feature THE WORLD IS MINE, which received the Special Jury Mention at Karlovy Vary IFF, 2015, and the Debut Award at TIFF, Romania. She was a participant in Midpoint Central European Script Center in 2014 and in the Mediteranean Film Institute’s development workshops as assistant tutor in 2015. She is a storytelling mentor in the SYAA Programme of Anim’est, a study programme meant to encourage and support female animation auteurs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/824ce660-ebc3-42e7-bc6e-37f9e10489ce/david_vajda_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - David Vajda David Vajda is a writer and director based in Vienna. He holds a BA in Philosophy from University College London and an MPhil in International Politics from Cambridge. He has published journalism and short stories in the Guardian, Edit, Reportagen and the FT Magazine. His first, nationally funded 51-minute film JESUS EGON CHRISTUS (co-directed with his brother Saša Vajda) premiered at the 71st Berlinale in 2021, followed by the IFFR Rotterdam and many other festivals. David is currently writing his debut feature supported by script funding from the Austrian Ministry for Art & Culture. He is also working on his first short story collection that will be published by Hanser Berlin in 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9ede6217-bb35-47e7-be82-b5ecd533062a/pedro_vaz_simoes_pustnik_2023.jpg 2023 - Pedro Vaz Simões Pedro Vaz Simões studied theatre at the University of Évora, and film at the Lisbon Film and Theatre School. He works in film and in the performing arts, mostly as a director, assistant director and writer. Pedro wrote and directed the short film ROAD TO HEAVEN, which premiered at IndieLisboa in 2020, and co-wrote FIRST AGE (dir. Alexander David), which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2023. Currently based in Lisbon, Pedro lived in Edinburgh and London for several years where he worked with various film and performing arts organisations, mostly in film and industry programming, and communications. https://www.pustnik.com/2024 daily 0.75 2025-08-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1728777634323-0T94CY716TU3F6PK1ENR/_AB_8836.jpg 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9ad13096-ee2b-4848-961a-259b9fdb96e5/Laurence+Coriat.png 2024 - Laurence Coriat Laurence Coriat was born in France and moved to London in her early twenties. She wrote Michael Winterbottom’s WONDERLAND, which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She cowrote Sandra Goldbacher’s ME WITHOUT YOU, starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. She went on to collaborate with Michael Winterbottom in 2006 on A MIGHTY HEART, an adaptation of Marianne Pearl’s account of her husband’s kidnapping and murder, starring Angelina Jolie. She co-wrote Winterbottom’s GENOVA, which starred Colin Firth as a man struggling to cope with the death of his wife. She worked with Marc Evans on PATAGONIA (2010), a Welsh-Argentine drama starring Mathew Rhys, and HUNKY DORY (2011), starring Minnie Driver. In 2012 Coriat continued her collaboration with Winterbottom on the film EVERYDAY, which charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife, and was shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time. The film was nominated for a Best Single Drama Bafta in 2013. 2015 sees the release of LADY GREY, set in South Africa, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Emily Mortimer and directed by Alain Choquart. In 2016, she took part in a writers room with show-runner Hossein Amini and wrote two episodes (5&6) of McMAFIA, Amini’s International Emmy award winning BBC series, directed by James Watkins. She worked on ICARUS, an Iain Softley project about British astronaut Michael Foale, who overcame a series of crises aboard the Mir space station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/fa53e1a2-c235-4e8b-8d19-e2545c4d4896/Joanna+Duncombe.png 2024 - Joanna Duncombe Jo is a film and cultural relations specialist, based between London and Marseille. Spanning creative production, film programming and new talent development, Jo has a wealth of experience developing innovative, international film and arts programmes. She cares deeply about connecting audiences to original storytelling through intrinsically global projects, and building thriving communities around creative culture. Through her work at British Council, she has developed a unique sensitivity to developing cultural programmes that connect artists and communities across many global contexts. Jo has presented programmes across numerous world-renowned festivals, and hosted talks and Q&As at events including Cannes Film Festival, London Film Festival and IFFR. Her current clients include British Council, BAFTA, the National Film & Television School and the Victoria Film Festival. At British Council, Jo is the senior consultant responsible for the Film Department’s New Talent programmes. She is also a senior consultant for the International Collaboration Programme, working with artists across multiple disciplines around the world to facilitate community and connections. Jo is a film festival expert and offers regular consultancies to short and early-career filmmakers, both privately, and through tutoring at film schools like the National Film & Television School. She has previously worked as a film programmer for the Independent Cinema Office in the UK, and was programme director at London Short Film Festival. She was the creative producer and programmer at Birds Eye View Films, where she helped to develop and launch their highly successful Reclaim the Frame programme alongside Mia Bays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/57b7536a-c449-4372-9dd7-f700c2a88c25/Len+Rowles.png 2024 - Len Rowles Len Rowles is a seasoned executive and producer known for her focus on visionary filmmakers and clear genre stories with global resonance. Her role at Climate Spring is to support film and international TV productions weave the climate crisis directly or indirectly into their projects, and provide editorial and market support from development through to distribution. Len joined Climate Spring from Protagonist Pictures, where she built and managed the company’s in-house development and production slate, and produced the inaugural title; Walter Mosley’s THE MAN IN THE BASEMENT, directed by Nadia Latif and starring Corey Hawkins and Willem Dafoe, for Disney-ESPN’s Andscape. Len also served on Protagonist’s EP team, which secured private finance and structured co-productions on slate projects including THE OUTRUN and THE DAMNED. Prior to Protagonist, Len ran the development slate at two-time Oscar nominated Wildgaze Films and was on the Creative Team at Pathé UK. Len has been drawn to climate storytelling since her earliest films; BIFA nominated SKYBORN and BAFTA and EFA nominated ORBIT EVER AFTER. Recognised as a Screen Star of Tomorrow and one of Moviescope’s One’s to Watch, Len's passion for impactful storytelling continues to shape her career. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2ea2e5eb-7b2c-45d2-a8ee-9596f53da3e3/delia_vasile.jpg 2024 - Delia Vasile Delia Vasile is a communicator, psychologist and psychotherapist with a humanistic approach, based in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Psychology and since 2012 she has started her training in Transactional Analysis with Yorkshire Training Centre International. She has had learning experiences and professional training in Romania, Great Britain, Germany, France and the USA. She has a professional background in communication, public relations and entrepreneurship, which she uses in order to understand human and social experience from a wide range of perspectives. Since 2015, she has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist, with individuals and couples. Her therapeutic approach is a narrative one, being passionate about understanding life stories and the scripts people act out in their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/0a17b6c0-34ad-46a8-8f05-83a07d85e321/Stella+Carneiro.jpg 2024 - Stella Carneiro Stella Carneiro is a Brazilian director and awarded screenwriter who has a degree in Cinema from FAAP/São Paulo and an M.A in Screenwriting through the Erasmus program Kino Eyes. The shorts she wrote were selected to over fifty film festivals around the world, such as PÖFF, Brussels International Short Film Festival and Odense International Film Festival in Denmark. As a director, she has secured funds for her next comedy short, PARTY PASTEL, while GOLDEN SHOWER, her directorial debut, premiered at IndieLisboa during the summer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/e44ceb65-67bd-4ca4-bce6-cd063cc6fed4/Denisse+Conn+Tu%CC%88bacu%CC%88.jpg 2024 - Denisse Conn Tübacü Denisse Conn Tübacü is a Bucharest-based filmmaker. After attending Transilvania IFF’s workshop for teenagers “Let’s Go Digital” in 2012, and NISI MASA - European Network of Young Cinema she studied Film Directing at UNATC Bucharest. Her first independent short LIKE MOTHER USED TO SING premiered in Transilvania IFF in 2021. She is also developing as a performing arts director, experimenting with the body as a theme and with direct connection with the audience, having her debut at The National Centre for Dance Bucharest with a performance piece about anxiety, “feelings are just visitors”. Currently, she is co-directing an independent documentary and is in post-production with a short film, ROSEBUDS, with the support of Romanian Film Centre and produced by Tangaj Production. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/97dd71e7-f8ce-473b-9027-7e6d8447e49d/Anthony+Foussard.jpg 2024 - Anthony Foussard With dual expertise in the fields of dramaturgy and ecological transition (development, management of natural spaces, design of sustainable projects), Anthony Foussard has been the director of Canopée since its creation. His work focuses on the link between health and nature, ecosystem services and the creation of new ecological narratives. He works with local authorities and institutions in mainland France, the French overseas territories and Europe. After a first career in multimedia storytelling, Anthony is back to defend his ecological convictions through fiction. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/417639ae-869d-4764-9775-4198e339d37d/Sai+Haval.jpg 2024 - Sai Haval Sai Haval is a writer and filmmaker from India. She graduated in Filmmaking from Srishti Institute of Art Design and Technology and has a post-graduate degree in Screenwriting from the University of East Anglia, UK. Sai has written many shows for Indian OTT platforms in various genres. Currently, she is developing a coming-of-age drama for Amazon India and an independent feature of her own through an Indian Fellowship for debut directors. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/5f873ff7-8be3-44cf-a0a9-bd0e9d5c590f/Christian+Legrand.jpg 2024 - Christian Legrand After studying philosophy at the University of Paris X-Nanterre, Christian Legrand became involved in societal issues relating to health and biotechnology (genome programme, biomedical research) in the early 1990s. For 15 years, Christian worked as a consultant in biomedical ethics for various institutions (Ministry of Research, health establishments, associations, etc.). From 2012, he worked with Les Films du Tambour (SIBEL, DÉGRADÉ, NOTRE-DAME DU NIL, GAZA MON AMOUR) and helped proofread over 50 scripts. Christian now writes his own screenplays, some in collaboration with Anthony Foussard. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/bc4852ef-ae96-401e-8162-976ddd6745a9/Hannu-Pekka+Peltomaa.jpg 2024 - Hannu-Pekka Peltomaa Hannu-Pekka Peltomaa is a Finnish filmmaker. He has graduated from ELO Film School Finland, Aalto University. Peltomaa has directed six short films, of which he has written four. Currently he is developing/writing three feature films and a few short films. His films often explore themes of loneliness, disconnection from others, and the search for one’s place in the world. He is particularly interested in characters who are shy, even fearful; bystanders who find the world challenging due to their own shortcomings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/629b88e8-c75f-4cf8-a35f-965c750bed55/DSC07442_edit_g.jpg 2024 - Gabriela Serrano Sisters Gabriela Serrano (director/writer) and Mariana Serrano (actor/writer) are a Filipino filmmaking duo. Together they founded Studio Dalaga, a Manila-based independent production outfit known to play with genre and form with a tender yet subversively feminist eye. Their cinematic/ audiovisual collaborations have won awards at international film festivals (Singapore, BIFAN, FNC Montréal), and have been featured on the Criterion Channel, Vogue Philippines, and Manila Community Radio. They made their debut in 2021 with DIKIT, a split-screen spin on Philippine folklore, and are currently developing their first feature, PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, a speculative call center drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/35cc04bd-b788-4e54-9a1a-8d3fe6b7b8c6/Mariana+Serrano.jpg 2024 - Mariana Serrano Sisters Gabriela Serrano (director/writer) and Mariana Serrano (actor/writer) are a Filipino filmmaking duo. Together they founded Studio Dalaga, a Manila-based independent production outfit known to play with genre and form with a tender yet subversively feminist eye. Their cinematic/ audiovisual collaborations have won awards at international film festivals (Singapore, BIFAN, FNC Montréal), and have been featured on the Criterion Channel, Vogue Philippines, and Manila Community Radio. They made their debut in 2021 with DIKIT, a split-screen spin on Philippine folklore, and are currently developing their first feature, PLEASE BEAR WITH ME, a speculative call center drama. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/bd6e63f8-844f-4d98-9fea-7327696b0a44/Victoria+Visco+Mendonc%CC%A7a.jpg 2024 - Victoria Visco Mendonça Victoria Mendonça is a screenwriter and director with a degree in Film from PUC-RJ, studies in Philosophy at UFRJ, and an MFA in Directing and Screenwriting from EICAR in France. Her short film SHE WALKS premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam and screened at festivals across the U.S. and Europe. After working as a researcher at RSA Films UK, she now collaborates with leading Brazilian production companies like Conspiração, RT Features, Biônica, and O2 Filmes. Victoria co-directed the short film CAIÇARA as part of INTERACTIONS, an initiative by Art For The World. She also directs advertising campaigns, music videos, and content for sustainability and human rights initiatives. Currently, she is completing the documentary SCAZZICARE, a Russia-France co-production, and developing AS ONDAS, a Brazil-Netherlands co-production, selected for the CoPro Market at DOK Leipzig and the Circle Women Doc Accelerator. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/449c3c2f-d3e5-4b0f-9fa6-6ae094a1b6d3/Yuan+Yuan.jpg 2024 - Yuan Yuan Yuan Yuan is a Chinese writer-director. Her previous short films won Best Student Film at DGA Student Film Award, Best Student Film at both the Palm Springs International ShortFest and the Aspen Shortsfest, and the Jury Prize at the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Currently, she is developing her first feature project, LATE SPRING, which has been selected by Sundance Screenwriters & Directors Labs, while it won Best Young Talent Project at Shanghai International Film Festival in China. Yuan is a recent graduate from NYU Tisch Grad Film Program. https://www.pustnik.com/2025 daily 0.75 2025-10-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/ef397ecf-3288-47ea-b0c3-20f49c3fa473/20250914_Pustnik+Residency_Sabina+Costinel-60.JPG 2025 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9ad13096-ee2b-4848-961a-259b9fdb96e5/Laurence+Coriat.png 2025 - Laurence Coriat Laurence Coriat was born in France and moved to London in her early twenties. She wrote Michael Winterbottom’s WONDERLAND, which was selected in competition at Cannes in 1999 and won the best British Independent Film award that year. She cowrote Sandra Goldbacher’s ME WITHOUT YOU, starring Michelle Williams and Anna Friel, which was unveiled at the Venice Film Festival in 2001. She went on to collaborate with Michael Winterbottom in 2006 on A MIGHTY HEART, an adaptation of Marianne Pearl’s account of her husband’s kidnapping and murder, starring Angelina Jolie. She co-wrote Winterbottom’s GENOVA, which starred Colin Firth as a man struggling to cope with the death of his wife. She worked with Marc Evans on PATAGONIA (2010), a Welsh-Argentine drama starring Mathew Rhys, and HUNKY DORY (2011), starring Minnie Driver. In 2012 Coriat continued her collaboration with Winterbottom on the film EVERYDAY, which charts the relationship between a man imprisoned for drug smuggling and his wife, and was shot over the course of five years, a few weeks at a time. The film was nominated for a Best Single Drama Bafta in 2013. 2015 sees the release of LADY GREY, set in South Africa, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Emily Mortimer and directed by Alain Choquart. In 2016, she took part in a writers room with show-runner Hossein Amini and wrote two episodes (5&6) of McMAFIA, Amini’s International Emmy award winning BBC series, directed by James Watkins. She worked on ICARUS, an Iain Softley project about British astronaut Michael Foale, who overcame a series of crises aboard the Mir space station. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/551d711b-d5c4-47a8-a16e-7789e1f0c5eb/Razvan+Radulescu_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-7.JPG 2025 - Răzvan Rădulescu Răzvan Rădulescu was born in Bucharest, where he studied at the Faculty of Foreign Languages and the Music Academy. As a screenwriter, he has collaborated with numerous Romanian directors, including Cristi Puiu, Radu Muntean, Călin Peter Netzer, Radu Gabrea and Lucian Pintilie. He has written numerous screenplays, including Stuff and Dough (2001), Niki and Flo (2003) and The Death of Mr Lazarescu (2005), which were co-written with Puiu, and The Paper Will Be Blue (2006), Tuesday, After Christmas (2010) and Întregalde, written in collaboration with Alexandru Baciu and Muntean. He also wrote and directed, together with Melissa de Raaf, First of All, Felicia (2010), and he published two novels: 2007’s The Life and Deeds of Elijah Cazane, which won the Romanian Writers’ Union prize for Best Debut, and 2006’s Theodosius the Small, which received the European Union Prize for Literature. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/e2ce572c-aa5d-4328-9876-7fde3da3123d/Joanna+Duncombe_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-5.JPG 2025 - Joanna Duncombe Jo is a film and cultural relations specialist, based between London and Marseille. Spanning creative production, film programming and new talent development, Jo has a wealth of experience developing innovative, international film and arts programmes. She cares deeply about connecting audiences to original storytelling through intrinsically global projects, and building thriving communities around creative culture. Through her work at British Council, she has developed a unique sensitivity to developing cultural programmes that connect artists and communities across many global contexts. Jo has presented programmes across numerous world-renowned festivals, and hosted talks and Q&As at events including Cannes Film Festival, London Film Festival and IFFR. Her current clients include British Council, BAFTA, the National Film & Television School and the Victoria Film Festival. At British Council, Jo is the senior consultant responsible for the Film Department’s New Talent programmes. She is also a senior consultant for the International Collaboration Programme, working with artists across multiple disciplines around the world to facilitate community and connections. Jo is a film festival expert and offers regular consultancies to short and early-career filmmakers, both privately, and through tutoring at film schools like the National Film & Television School. She has previously worked as a film programmer for the Independent Cinema Office in the UK, and was programme director at London Short Film Festival. She was the creative producer and programmer at Birds Eye View Films, where she helped to develop and launch their highly successful Reclaim the Frame programme alongside Mia Bays. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/230c1186-3078-46c8-9fbd-5e9d3ee09a30/bianca_oana.jpg 2025 - Bianca Oana Bianca Oana is a creative producer dedicated to boundary-pushing film and art. Her credits include Touch Me Not (Berlinale Golden Bear, 2018), Collective (two Oscar nominations, 2020), and Anhell69 (SIC Venice, 2022). She produced the Romanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale and is now working on Adina Pintilie’s second feature, Death and the Maiden. She’s an Emerging Producer (2016), Producer on the Move (2021), and member of AMPAS. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/2ea2e5eb-7b2c-45d2-a8ee-9596f53da3e3/delia_vasile.jpg 2025 - Delia Vasile Delia Vasile is a communicator, psychologist and psychotherapist with a humanistic approach, based in Bucharest, Romania. She graduated from the Faculty of Letters and the Faculty of Psychology and since 2012 she has started her training in Transactional Analysis with Yorkshire Training Centre International. She has had learning experiences and professional training in Romania, Great Britain, Germany, France and the USA. She has a professional background in communication, public relations and entrepreneurship, which she uses in order to understand human and social experience from a wide range of perspectives. Since 2015, she has worked in private practice as a psychotherapist, with individuals and couples. Her therapeutic approach is a narrative one, being passionate about understanding life stories and the scripts people act out in their lives. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/be7defd3-00b9-4bc3-97bf-820c4a7e88a3/Adelina+Borets_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-15.JPG 2025 - Adelina Borets Adelina Borets is a director, screenwriter, and dancer, as well as a laureate of the Sergei Parajanov Award and a recipient of the Gaude Polonia Scholarship from the Polish Minister of Culture. Born in Mariupol, eastern Ukraine, she holds a directing degree from the Warsaw Film School, the Krzysztof Kieślowski Film School in Katowice, and has completed the Script course at the Wajda School. Adelina is the founder and director of NGO STROOM, a creative organization producing films and documentary shorts. She is also an alumna of Esodoc 2022, Ekran+ 2022, and Film Independent 2024. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/75ac5b71-1aaf-4a86-a1cc-6fde317590e3/Amy+Omar_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-7.JPG 2025 - Amy Omar Amy is a Turkish-American writer-director from New York and currently based in Rome, Italy. Amy is particularly interested in female character driven narratives around Middle Eastern / Muslim characters and themes of cultural isolation, superstitions, and religion. Amy is a recipient of Wavelength Productions' WAVE Grant for BIPOC, first time female filmmakers and wrote and directed her first short film, Breaking Fast with a Coca-Cola which premiered at SXSW in 2023. Amy's second short film, Ayşegül on Tuesdays, was a top three finalist for the Tony Cox Short Screenplay Award at the 2023 Nantucket Film Festival and premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival in 2025. In 2024, Amy directed the pilot episode for the Film Independent & Sloan Foundation supported scripted TV series, The Feather Detective. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/9f97761d-c9e7-45de-865d-b6acc84063cf/Carla+Linares_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-5.JPG 2025 - Carla Linares Carla Linares works in cinema as a director, screenwriter, and actress. Her debut short film Daucus Carota premiered at Zinebi. As an actress, she has worked in movies like Creatura, awarded in Cannes and at the Gaudí Awards 2024, and several series in Spain. Currently, she is co-writing Underdog with Eva Pauné and the support of the Screenwriting Residency of the Catalan Academy of Cinema by Carla Simón. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/05c46d3c-4689-468f-a036-15e41aed964b/Christofer+Nilsson_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-12.JPG 2025 - Christofer Nilsson Christofer Nilsson is a writer-director based in Malmö, Sweden, drawn to portraying problematic characters through themes of loneliness, class and broken dreams in rural settings. His short The Ballad (SE-FR) was broadcast by ARTE France and SVT. Christofer’s latest short, Dancing Pigeons (also SE-FR), was selected for European Short Pitch 23|24, and was shot in late 2024 with support from CNC and the Swedish Film Institute. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/06a3bec1-277b-48d8-b76c-fc485bed1502/Hong+Anh+Nguyen_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-6.JPG 2025 - Hồng Anh Nguyễn Hồng Anh Nguyễn is a queer Viet-German screenwriter, director, and editor based in Frankfurt am Main and Hà Nội. Her short film Saigon Kiss premiered at the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, earning a Queer Jury Special Mention, the Saxon Film Prize at the Filmfest Dresden - the festival's highest endowed award and the Jury Award for Best Short Film at Chéries-Chéris Paris. She has directed documentaries for EST Eastern Standard Times, amplifying the voices of modern Vietnamese women. Supported by the British Council Vietnam, Goethe-Institut, and Asia-Europe Foundation, she is also an alumna of Torino Film Lab, a STEP writers' stipend recipient from Hessen Film & Media and a Kyoto Filmmakers Lab fellow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/3b69aea6-55c6-4f40-bd54-6f29272dda41/Leonardo+Balestrieri_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-2.JPG 2025 - Leonardo Balestrieri Leonardo Balestrieri trained between Italy and Scotland, graduating in Italian Literature and in film editing from Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Leonardo tends to explore human fallibility and fragility, which his short film Safari investigates in relation to issues known to the LGBT+ community. The short premiered at Alice Nella Città (Festa del Cinema di Roma) and was selected at the Nastri D’Argento. He has worked as an editing assistant under the mentorship of Walter Fasano (from Salvatore: Shoemaker of Dreams by Luca Guadagnino to, more recently, Dostoevskij, a Sky TV series by D’Innocenzo Brothers). He is now developing his first feature film, Unhappy Animals. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/7dbfd915-0e16-4618-871e-49bb9b2550e2/Octavian+Saramet_Pustnik_Sabina+Costinel-12.JPG 2025 - Octavian Saramet Octavian Saramet is a Romanian film director. With a strong background in theatre, he decided to pursue a career in filmmaking. The master degree short documentary Thy Will Be Done (2023) has premiered at Astra Film Festival. His first short-fiction film Fine (2024) was selected at Torino Film Festival. His latest short film Celebration Day (2025) was selected at Transylvania Film Festival. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/5735fe61-60b0-477f-8cfd-04512243e88c/58.png 2025 - Tatiana Delaunay Tatiana Delaunay is French by birth, Italian by blood, and from a bunch of other places, by choice. She is a comedy writer and film director. Her comedy short, Have a Nice Day Forever (2021) was awarded and shown at numerous international festivals including IndieLisboa, Glasgow Short Film Festival, Brest European Short Film Festival and Brussels Short Film Festival. Her second short film, We’re Here for You (2025) is supported by the Norwegian Film Institute and was shown internationally. She holds a BA in Performance Practice from Central Saint Martins and an MA in Theatre specialising in directing from Oslo National Academy of the Arts. As a playwright, she has received grants from The Norwegian Centre for New Playwriting and the Norwegian Arts Council. https://www.pustnik.com/produced-projects daily 0.75 2025-08-26 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1726163916238-Z8GC72R86TXF15QE3CNV/DSC01305.jpg Produced projects https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/0394eae5-9d29-4bea-be77-979807c8dfd9/Ghost+School.png Produced projects - Ghost School Written and directed by Seemab Gul Will premiere at the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/cc616343-dea9-49be-9528-b7654a9e3399/Rabbit+Trap.png Produced projects - Rabbit Trap Written and directed by Bryn Chainey Premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/355e0e11-b2d0-4e18-b27a-2f5f44b8fac2/Im+Haus+meiner+Eltern+.png Produced projects - Im Haus meiner Eltern Written and directed by Tim Ellrich Premiered at the 2025 International Film Festival Rotterdam, where it won the Special Jury Award https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/964f9cb6-8f97-4176-ae3b-49cd7ce4b938/The+Ceremony.png Produced projects - The Ceremony Written and directed by Jack King Premiered at the 2024 Edinburgh International Film Festival Nominated for the Raindance Maverick Award at BIFA 2024 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/88dcd15f-395b-4148-9b22-6e9890bbb035/Angry+Spirits.png Produced projects - Angry Spirits Written and directed by Iris Pakulla Premiered at the 2024 Festival Dei Popoli https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/fe318155-17dd-463f-b0ea-542c63a22921/The+Severed+Sun.png Produced projects - The Severed Sun Written and directed by Dean Puckett Premiered at the 2024 Fantastic Fest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/0bf4a592-e629-43ec-8060-d6229233f068/Paradise+Is+Burning.png Produced projects - Paradise Is Burning Written and directed by Mika Gustafson Premiered at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, where it won the Orizzonti Award for Best Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/16963893-ff0c-4ced-9d2b-6b396cc0c11c/Baby+Pyramid.png Produced projects - Baby Pyramid Co-written by Christina Øster Three nominations at the 2023 Danish Film Awards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/c0d02911-d0e4-4a61-ab47-6982a1612c5b/Moon%2C+66+Questions.png Produced projects - Moon, 66 Questions Written and directed by Jacqueline Lentzou Premiered at the 2021 Berlin International Film Festival https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/a5b51eae-3745-49ed-a691-292acfc5fbe4/Schoolgirls.png Produced projects - Schoolgirls Written and directed by Pilar Palomero Premiered at the 2020 Berlin International Film Festival 9 nominations and 4 wins at the 2021 Goya Awards, including Best Film, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1575ea3d-a444-43df-9a18-c75a68ab1e6c/Balaur.png Produced projects - A Higher Law Written and directed by Octav Chelaru Premiered at the 2021 Thessaloniki Film Festival https://www.pustnik.com/apply-banner daily 0.75 2019-07-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5cd2481bfb18200226f3c910/1558586294333-7YB0C5PZXMGC6S2HLDE0/DSC08757.jpg Apply Banner https://www.pustnik.com/festivals daily 0.75 2026-03-14