Current:

Berlinale Talents 2022
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Documentary Stipendium Recipient 2021
Essay Film Studio, Łodz, Production Grant Recipient 2021

Education:

Netherlands Film Academy 2017-2019
Master of Film: Artistic Research in and through Cinema
Art Center College of Design 2009-2013

Work experience

2022

Guest lecturer, Wagner College, New York
Berlinale Talents

2021

Guest lecturer, Göteborgs University, HDK-Valand, course coordinator Jyoti Mistry
External mentor, Master of Film Artistic Research in and through Cinema, Netherlands Film Academy, Amsterdam
Film programmer, New Talents, Eastern Neighbors Film Festival

2020

Jihlava Academy, selected participant, mentored by Khavn de la Cruz and Tan Chui
Jury assistant, STUDENT Competition, IDFA

Jury member European Competition of Documentaries,Szczecin Film Festival, Poland.

Editor, Trust in the Blockchain, Archis, funded by Filmfonds, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Film programmer, New Talents, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival
Professor film practices master students, International Politics through Film Practice lead by Prof. Dr. F.P.S.M
Ragazzi, Leiden University

2019

Jury assistant, FIPRESCI Jury, IDFA 2019

Pitch Looking for Horses, film in development,
Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Den Haag

Presentation: Looking for Horses film in development:
24H Nieuw, Wow Mistral, WOW-residency, Amsterdam

Films

2021 Looking for Horses

Feature documentary, 88 minutes
Bosnië & Herzegovina / The Netherlands / France
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/530420002

2018 When the dragon came

Short film, 20 minutes
Romania
Trailer: https://vimeo.com/267985843

Prices/Nominations

2021

Visions du Reel - Burning Lights Comp - Best Film Award
Doc Alliance Nomination
Sarajevo Film Festival - Special Jury Awar
Nancy International Film Festival - Special Jury Mention
Corsica.DOC - Grand Prix
RIDM - Grand Prix International Feature Length Competition
Kasseler Dokfest - Golden Key Feature Film Award
Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds Documentary Stipend
Trieste Film Festival - BALCANI CAUCASOTRANSEUROPA Award for Best
Documentary in Competition
Ismailia Film Festival - Special Jury Award
Ann Arbor Film Festival - Best Documentary
AMDocs - Best Internartional Feature
SEEFest - Audience Awards

2020

Young Art Fund, nomination, Amsterdam

2019

AHK End-price, Amsterdam
Szczecin Film Festival - Best European Film Award

2018

Balkan Beyond Borders - Special Mention

Festival screenings

2022

Trieste Film Festival
DocPoint, Helsinki
Santa Barbara IFF
Ismailia Film Fest
Ann Arbor Film Festival
AMDocs
Dokumentarfilmwoche Hamburg
Uniondocs, New York (special screening)
SEEFest
Taiwan International Documentary Festival
Ethnocineca, Vienna
One World Romania
Underhill Fest, Montenegro

2021

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

2019

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

2018

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