EDUCATION
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Netherlands Film Academy (2017-2019)
MA Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema

Art Center College of Design (2009-2013)
BA Film Directing (cum laude + Provost List)
Los Angeles, USA

Art Institute of San Francisco (2008-2009)
BA Film & Video
San Francisco, USA

TEACHING
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Wagner College, BA Film Department, New York, USA (2022)
Ethnocineca Film Festival, Master class, Vienna, Austria (2022)
University of Bern, Social Anthopology, Guest Lecturer, Bern, Switzerland (2022)
Göteborgs University, HDK-Valand, Master of Film, Göteborg, Sweden (2021)
Netherlands Film Academy, Master of Film, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2020-present)
Leiden University, International Politics through Film Practice, Leiden, The Netherlands (2020)
University of Amsterdam, Visual Anthropology, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019)

AWARDS/SCHOLARSHIPS/RESIDENCIES
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Berlinale Talents (2022)
BALCANI CAUCASOTRANSEUROPA, Best Documentary in Competition Trieste Film Festival (2022)
Special Jury Award at Ismailia International Film Festival (2022)
Best Documentary Film at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2022)
Best International Feature at AmDocs, Palm Springs (2022)
Audience Award at SEEfest Los Angeles (2022)
Feature Film Special Mention at Faito Doc Festival (2022)
Special Mention in the Feature section by the Youth Jury at Faito Doc Festival (2022)
Cimbricum Veronense Curatorium Award in memory of Piero Piazzola and Mario Pigozz for the best film by a young filmmaker at Lessinia FF (2022)
Best Foreign Film Award at Aegean Docs (2022)
Prins Bernhard Cultuur Fonds Documentary Stipendium Recipient, The Netherlands (2021)
Essay Film Studio, Łodz, Production Grant Recipient (2021)
Burning Lights competition, Best Feature Award, Visions du Réel 2021
Special Jury Award, Competition Programme, Documentary Film, Sarajevo Film Festival (2021)
Special Jury Mention, Festival international du film de Nancy (2021)
Grand Prix at Corsica.Doc 2021
Grand Prix at International Feature Length Competition, RIDM (2021)
Golden Key Feature Film Award at Kasseler Dokfest (2021)
KAMEN Artist Residency, Bosnia & Herzegovina (2020)
Young Art Fund, finalist, Amsterdam (2020)
AHK Graduating Price (2019)
Aristoteles Documentary Workshop, Romania (2017)

FESTIVAL SCREENINGS (SELECTED LIST)
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Trieste Film Festival (2022)
DocPoint, Helsinki (2022)
Santa Barbara IFF (US Premiere) (2022)
Ismailia IFF (Egypt Premiere) (2022)
Ann Arbor Film Festival (2022)
American Documentary and Animation Film Festival – AmDocs (2022)
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg (2022)
South East European Film Festival Los Angeles – SEEfest (2022)
Taiwan International Documentary Festival (2022)
Ethnocineca (2022)
One World Romania (2022)
Underhill Fest (2022)
Faito Doc Festival (2022)
Lessinia FF (2022)
Asincronie Festival di Cinema Documentario e Fotografia (2022)
Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries (2022)
Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht (2022)
Aegean Docs (2022)
Ethnofest Athens (2022)
Aux Écrans du Réel (2022)

Visions du Reel (2021)
FID Marseille (2021)
Sarajevo Film Festival (2021)
Nancy International Film Festival (2021)
Beldocs (2021)
Corsica.DOC - Grand Prix (2021)
DOK Leipzig (2021)
Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (2021)
MIDBO International Documentary Film Festival Bogotá (2021)
Cork International Film Festival (2021)
RIDM, Montréal, Canada (2021)
Cambridge FF (2021)
Kasseler Dokfest (2021)
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam (IDFA) (2021)
Porto/Post/Doc (2021)
This Human World, Austria (2021)
Human Rights FF Zagreb (2021)
Guangzhou Documentary Film Festival (2021)

Szczecin Film Festival, Poland (2019)
La Guarimba International Film Festival, Amantea, Italy (2019)
Pärnu International Film Festival, Estonia (2019)
Krakow International Film Festival, Poland (2019)
New Lights Film Series, FC Hyena, Amsterdam (2019)

Netherlands Film Festival, Utrecht (2018)
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, The Hague (2018)
Balkan Beyond Borders, Novi Sad, Serbia (2018)