The 53rd Karlovy Vary IFF (June 29 – July 7, 2018) will dedicate a special section to the Austin Film Society (AFS), the non-profit film organization founded in 1985 which has grown into one of the USA´s key film institutions. “A tribute to AFS represents an exciting chapter in KVIFF´s long-lasting focus on American independent film production. Richard Linklater and his colleagues have been a huge inspiration to film communities around the world and we´re delighted to embrace the incredible achievement of the organization with a selection of outstanding films from Texas filmmakers that have been supported by AFS,” says Karlovy Vary IFF´s artistic director Karel Och.

The Austin Film Society, founded in 1985 by Richard Linklater, began as a film club that attracted students, artists and cinema die-hards. AFS quickly grew into an institution supporting film culture and film production in a vibrant and growing Texas film community. Since its inception, AFS has awarded over $2 million in filmmaker grants that have supported the production of hundreds of Texas films and jump-started the careers of filmmakers like David Lowery (A Ghost Story, Pete’s Dragon), Athina Tsangari (Attenberg), Kat Candler (Queen Sugar) and the Zellner brothers (Damsel; Kumiko, the Treasure Hunter). Today, AFS operates a studio facility that supports film production in Austin; a community media and film education center where independent filmmakers, youth and the community can access filmmaking equipment and production resources; and the AFS Cinema, a two-screen art house and repertory theater, which is home for Austin’s cinephiles.

Founder and Artistic Director Richard Linklater commented on the Karlovy Vary honor with the following: "I'm so proud that AFS is receiving this incredible honor from the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. KVIFF is fully committed to the discovery of new voices. It's deeply humbling that they've chosen to tribute AFS by shining a light on the community of independent artists that we've worked so hard to nurture. With this series of films, KVIFF celebrates creativity and uniqueness of vision, which have been the only consistent themes in the many wonderful films that have come out of Texas over the past 40 years."

Made in Texas: Tribute to Austin Film Society will present nine feature-length films and two programs of short films. Slacker, the iconic first feature of the Austin Film Society’s founder Richard Linklater, takes us to roam around Austin’s streets during an ordinary hot Texas day, meeting one-of-a-kind locals and eccentrics. Contemporary western action El Mariachi, the debut feature by Robert Rodriguez, tells the story of a kind-hearted musician who accidentally gets entangled in a web of violence.

Offbeat indie The Slow Business of Going by Greek writer-director Athina Rachel Tsangari showcases a more experimental side of film production coming from Austin. The documentary scene will be represented by Laura Dunn’s The Unforeseen, a striking, deeply poetic take on the clash between greedy developers and the local community defending the environment of the recreational area in Barton Springs.

Among the recent films from Texas, the festival will show Take Shelter, the award-winning psychological thriller of Cannes favourite Jeff Nichols, David Zellner’s minimalistic drama Kid-Thing, Bob Byington’s witty comedy Somebody Up There Likes Me and Andrew Bujalski’s retro stylised drama Computer Chess, set in a software programmers’ community, as well as a program of contemporary short films by notable up-and-coming Texas filmmakers.

The section will also include Last Night at the Alamo directed by a pioneer of Texas independent film scene, Eagle Pennell, and shot two years before the foundation of the Austin Film Society. Other early works will include a program of six shorts originally curated by Jonathan Demme as a snapshot of the punk and new wave scenes of Austin in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

 

 

Flying in from all over Europe the group of ten outstanding acting talents finally arrived to start their busy days in Berlin. Presented at the Berlin International Film Festival, EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS is celebrating its 21st edition. The programme supports young acting talent from across Europe. Their tailor-made schedule of events include industry panels and meetings with casting directors, agents and important players in the industry, and culminates with the awards ceremony on Monday night, which provides the young talents with a very special Berlinale moment. 

EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS is widely regarded as an important stepping stone towards an international career - with past Shooting Stars including Alicia Vikander, Pilou Asbæk, Alba Rohrwacher and Daniel Craig. EFP's talent platform is financially supported by the Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union and participating EFP member organisations and our loyal partners. 

The EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS Award will be donated by Leysen1855 (formerly Tesiro), official Berlinale partner since 2009. In spring 2017, Tesiro was delighted to announce a corporate merger with the Warrant Holder of the Court of Belgium, Leysen1855. And Leysen1855 is going to celebrate the 10th anniversary during the upcoming festival and carries on the support of the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS, that helped to develop this initiative into an important networking-platform. Tesiro CEO Richard Shen will present each actor with a personally designed gift made by "Blue Flame" - also a Tesiro brand - as a splendid reminder of their very special Berlinale experience. Tesiro will also honour their own three Brilliant Stars, to support rising young acting talents from across Asia.

AUDI Deutschland once more backs the EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS buy providing 

 

 

Two coproductions of Polish company Message Film will have their world premieres at the International Film Festival in Berlin. Russian/Polish/Serbian DOVLATOV by Russian director Alexey German Jr will be presented in the Competition. Ukrainian/Polish/Macedonian production WHEN THE TREES FALL by Marysia Nikitiuk, a debuting director and scriptwriter, will be premiered within the Panorama 2018 programme.

The Polish producers of both films are Dariusz Jabłoński, Izabela Wójcik and Violetta Kamińska, with many years’ experience in international projects: It’s a great joy for us to hear that this year Berlinale has appreciated two films coproduced by us. Both films were created out of passion for cinema and for discovering still new directions and personalities.

DOVLATOV is a continuation of our cooperation with one of the most outstanding Russian directors Alexey German Jr and a great friend producer, Artem Vasiliev. In 2015 "Under the Electric Clouds” received the Silver Bear at Berlinale for "Outstanding Artistic Achievements".  

WHEN THE TREES FALL is a debut by Marysia Nikitiuk, a Ukrainian film director, scriptwriter and writer, who impressed us with her talent, charisma and energy from the very first meeting. Her imagination combined with the artistry of one of the best Polish cinematographers, Michał Englert, brought a truly magical effect.

DOVLATOV
premiere February 17th 2018

The film charts six days in the life of brilliant, ironic writer who saw far beyond the rigid limits of '70s Soviet Russia. Sergey Dovlatov and poet Joseph Brodsky, both of whom would emigrate to New York, fought to preserve his own talent and decency while watching their artist friends getting crushed by the iron-willed state machinery.

Alexey German Jr. returns to Berlin, where his previous film UNDER THE ELECTRIC CLOUDS won a Silver Bear in 2015. The son of maverick Russian director Alexey German, who battled the censors and prevailing notions of hero/anti-hero until his final masterpiece HARD TO BE GOD (2015), German Jr. made DOVLATOV partially as an homage to the '70s Leningrad intelligentsia of his father's generation. This loosely connected group of friends fought for creative freedom during Brezhnev's period of stagnation. German Jr. had already explored the stifling grip of Soviet culture in his third feature PAPER SOLDIER, which won a Silver Lion in Venice in 2008.

German Jr. leaves behind some of the more well-known actors he has been working with for a group of relatively unknowns, most notably the young Serbian actor Milan Marić, who does an excellent job of portraying the outsider status of the Jewish-Armenian Dovlatov, who encountered casual anti-semitism on a daily basis. Brodsky is played by the Russian actor Artur Beschastny, who already played the poet in the theater. In Russia, actor Danila Kozlovsky (David, artist-turned-black marketeer) is more established.  

German Jr's approach is one of strong stylization, not quite the hyperrealism of his father and certainly not the typical bio pic genre. Having coached powerful performances from his actors, he has created a fictional world, amplified by stunning cinematography by Oscar nominated Łukasz Żal (IDA) and meticulous art direction by Yelena Okopnaya. 

DOVLATOV - BERLINALE SCREENINGS:
17.02.2018 9:00  Berlinale Palast Press 
17.02.2018 15:00  Berlinale Palast Gala Premiere 
18.02.2018 9:30  Friedrichstadt-Palast 
18.02.2018 17:55  CineStar 1 (Market Screening) 
18.02.2018 21:30  Haus der Berliner Festspiele 
18.02.2018  22:30 International 
22.02.2018  11:45 CinemaxX 10 
25.02.2018 17:15  Haus der Berliner Festspiel

WHEN THE TREES FALL
premiere February 20th, 2018

In a godforsaken village in Ukraine a rebellious little girl learns about life watching her teenage cousin’s romance with a young criminal. But when he flees after a murder, her cousin is forced to marry someone else, and this little heroine has to understand just how important it is to fight for your dreams.

WHEN THE TREES FALL aroused the interest of the international film community as early as the script stage, winning the 10th Krzysztof Kieślowski ScripTeast Award for the Best Script from Eastern Europe, presented at Cannes Film Festival  2016.

The camerawork was carried out by Michał Englert, rewarded at Berlin and Sundance festivals (BODY/CIAŁO), and Mateusz Wichłacz. The film was edited by the outstanding Polish editor Milenia Fiedler as well as Blaze Dulev (Macedonia) and Ivan Bannikov (Ukraine). The creative team also included the set designer Vlad Dudko (Ukraine); Tetyana Khoroshun and Tetyana Bovt (Ukraine) who were the make-up artists; the composer Mykyta Moiseiev (Ukraine) together with Aleksandre Pejovski (Macedonia); whereas the costume design was prepared by Kostyantyn Kravets (Ukraine).

WHEN THE TREES FALL -  BERLINALE SCREENINGS:
20.02.2018 22:30  CinemaxX 7 (Premiere) 
21.02.2018 17:45  CineStar 3  
22.02.2018 22:30  Cubix 7 
23.02.2018 20:00  CinemaxX 7
24.02.2018 14:00 International

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DOVLATOV
Director: Alexey German Jr.
Writers: Alexey German Jr., Yulia Tupikina
Cinematography:  Łukasz Żal
Editing: Sergey Ivanov, Darya Gladysheva
Set decoration: Elena Okopnaya
Costume design: Elena Okopnaya
Make up: Natalya Ratkevich
Sound design: Ivan Gusakov
Cast: Milan Marić, Danila Kozlovsky, Helena Sujecka, Artur Beschastny, Anton Shagin, Svetlana Khodchenkova, Elena Lyadova, Piotr Gąsowski, Eva Gerr
Producers: Dariusz Jabłoński, Izabela Wójcik, Violeta Kamińska, Miroslav Mogorovich, Rushan Nasibulin, Eduard Pichugin, Maxim Lojevsky
Production company: SAGaCo-production: METRAFILMS, Message Film, Art&Popcorn
Executive producer: Andrey Savelyev, Artyom Vasilev, Konstantin Ernst
Supported by: Polish Film Institue, Eurimages, Russian Federation Ministry of Culture, Russian Film Fund, Filmski Centar Srbije
World sales: Alpha Violet, http://www.alphaviolet.com
Festivals: Berlinale 2018 Competition, world premiere

WHEN THE TREES FALL

Written and directed by: Marysia Nikitiuk
Cinematography: Michał Englert, Mateusz Wichłacz
Music: Mykyt Moiseiev
Editing: Blaze Dulev, Milenia Fielder, Ivan Bannikov
Set decoration: Vlad Dudko
Costume design: Kostyantyn Kravets
Make up: Tetyana Khoroshun, Tetyana Bovt
Production manager: Dmytro Chervonyi
Cast: Anastasia Pustovit, Sonya Khalaimova, Maksym Samchyk, Maria Svizhinska, Petro Pastukhov, Mariia Trepikova, Yevgenii Grygoriev, Aelita-Viktoriia Avierman, Alla Samoylenko, Ivan Blindar
Producers: Igor Savychenko, Roman Klympush, Volodymyr Fillipov, Serge Lavrenyuk (Ukraine), Dariusz Jabłoński, Violetta Kamińska, Izabela Wójcik (Poland), Darko Basheski (Macedonia), Antonio Saura, Oscar Alonso, Juan Torres, Marta Hernando (Spain)
Production company: Directory Films
Co-production: Message Film, Latido Films, Fokus In, Solar Media
Co-financing: Ukrainian State Film Agency, Polish Film Institute, Macedonian Film Agency
World sales: http://www.latidofilms.comFestivals: Berlinale 2018 Panorama, world premiere

 

MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia announced + Meet us at Berlinale

We are very pleased to announce the first intensive workshop in Belgrade aimed at the Serbian film professionals. Thanks to a partnership with Film Center Serbia, this 4-day workshop has been made possible.
Hungarian writer, director and script consultant Csaba Bollok will act as Core Tutor, and the workshop consists of both group feedback, individual consultations, and plenary sessions and meetings with international decision makers.
MIDPOINT Intensive Serbia runs parallel with Feature Launch's second workshop, which is also supported by Film Center Serbia, and it takes place on April 29 – May 2, 2018.
4 feature film projects will be selected, and Serbian creative teams of writers, directors and producers can apply. The deadline is March 23, 2018.
Read more and apply here.

Meet us at Berlinale 2018

From tomorrow Friday 16, we will be in Berlin and we'll be happy to meet you. Please reach out to set up a meeting, or find us at Martin-Gropius-Bau around the Central European Cinema Stand no. 137.

We would also like to congratulate our friend and Feature Launch lecturer Katriel Schory, producer and executive director of Israel Film Fund, on the honorary award he will receive at Berlinale. And equally congratulations to Czech director and actor Jiri Menzel.

MIDPOINT team at Berlinale:

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You can also meet our artistic advisors, Head of Studies of Feature Launch Danijel Hocevar and Artistic Director Pavel Jech.

 

LIVE PITCH! Iikka and Mikael will conduct a live pitch and Q&A – OPEN LECTURE
Saturday March 3 | 17:30-19:00 |Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
A welcome session to deep-dive in one of the hottest topic of the workshop Ex Oriente Film: Ikka Vehkalahti and Mikael Opstrup will give a realistic simulation of a professional pitch. Food for thoughts for the following days waiting the final East Doc Forum presentation.

WORKING WITH SALES AGENTS IN 2018 – WHAT HAS CHANGED AND WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW – OPEN LECTURE
Sunday March 4 | 10:00 - 11:30 |Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
We will go through a sales agent´s contract and explain all things important to know. In a new digital era, distribution has changed so what are the new distribution rights. An interactive session with distribution & financing consultant Peter Jaeger CEO of Jaeger Creative.

LET’S PLAY! A JOURNEY INTO THE DYNAMICS OF EDITING – OPEN LECTURE
Sunday March 4 | 18:00 - 19:30 |Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes  
Editor, actress and producer Dounia Sichov has worked with masters of contemporary cinema such as Sharunas Bartas, Denis Coté and Abel Ferrara. Among other she edited the last film by iconic Magnum Photographer Antoine d'Agata, Atlas, of which she also edited the installation version. Her versatile profile makes her a unique figure in nowadays international cinema. In her masterclass, she will share with us her experience in the editing room in both documentary and fiction and tell us about the journey it takes to arrive to the final cut of a movie.

THE PERFECT PREMIERE, FESTIVAL STRATEGIES – OPEN LECTURE
Monday March 5 | 10:00 - 11:30 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
A session dedicated to producers and directors to orientate them in the International Film Festival Galaxy. Since the first pitch to the release of your film, festivals are offering a vast array of possibilities to independent filmmakers. How to capitalize those opportunities? How to exploit the marketing and communication chances? How to use them to reach the ultimate goal of all filmmakers, to be seen by a regular audience? From markets to rough-cut labs to premieres and beyond, young veteran Vanja Kaludjercic (Holland Film Meetings, Sarajevo IFF, Rotterdam IFF, Les Arcs IFF among many others) will guide the audience in the fast changing world of international film festival.  Coming Soon! 

HOW TO BRING YOUR VR PROJECTS TO LIFE? Financing and distribution models for VR/ AR/ XR (or immersive content) – OPEN LECTURE
Monday March 5 | 18:00 - 19:30 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
Virtual reality is the current buzzword attracting many creators, including documentary filmmakers. Exciting opportunities to tell the stories in a new way brings also questions how to finance and distribute this kind of content. An insight to the new media landscape, emerging distribution channels and financing options for Immersive Content presented by Liz Rosenthal (Power to the Pixel, Venice VR section at The Venice Film Festival).

CREATING AUDIO VISUAL MARKETING MATERIALS – OPEN LECTURE
Tuesday March 5 | 11:30 – 13:00 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
Marketing expert Fraser Bensted (EAVE) will speak avout the theoretical and creative process of producing audio visual marketing materials and the impact they have on the positioning of a film and it's reception by it's chosen target audience. Covering sales promos, mood reels or taster tapes, and teaser and regular trailers, this will be an in depth examination of the thoughts and considerations being made when the time comes for a film to be pitched or sold to potential financiers, buyers or the general public. With a focus on documentary trailers but also looking at drama we will see how a film can be shaped into various marketing materials in order for it to be presented in a way that creates maximum engagement with an audience.

CZECH DOCS… COMING SOON – PUBLIC PRESENTATION
Tuesday March 6 | 14:00 - 15:15 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
An event dedicated to Czech documentary projects within East Doc Platform programme. Five upcoming feature documentaries will be presented to an audience of the invited representatives of prestigious film festivals, sales agents, distributors and to the wide public. This event is organized in cooperation with the Audiovisual Producers' Association (APA).

NEW RESISTANCE; Media, Film and Politics – PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION
Tuesday March 6 | 16:00 - 17:30 | Cinema 35, French Institute
Critical filmmaking is becoming a risky business, not only in the Central/Eastern Europe. Populistic governments discover once again the charm of propaganda, media manipulation, and censorship - the old beasts we all believed to be safely locked in 1989. How does it affect the life and work of documentary makers and is their stubborn refusal to close an eye really more important than ever?

IF/THEN SHORT DOC PITCH COMPETITION – PUBLIC PRESENTATION
Wednesday March 7 | 10:00 - 12:00 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
A brand new pitching competition of the best short documentary films from the Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2010, five Polish shorts have been nominated for Oscars, one won. A Hungarian short received the Academy Award in 2017. What makes Eastern shorts so successful that Tribeca Film Institute decided EDP to be the only European pitching with price worth $20.000?

GET YOUR SECOND BREATH - PUBLIC PANEL DISCUSSION
Wednesday March 7 | 15:00 - 16:30 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
Where to seek financing for your film outside the traditional national funding and co-productions? What outcomes has brought the research of new alternative/equity funding opportunities? Is the American financing model a complete science fiction or could it be an inspiration for Europe? Why is it especially documentary to be ideally positioned for attracting alternative finance? A panel discussion of the representatives of key international funds (Tribeca Film Institute, Chicken and Egg Pictures, IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, Whicker´s World Foundation), and Media Deals, the pan-European investor network.

MASTERCLASS: KIM LONGINOTTO
Wednesday March 7 | 17:00 - 18:30 | Cinema Hall, Institute Cervantes
A masterclass of one of the foremost documentary filmmakers working today, Kim Longinotto is renowned internationally for creating extraordinary human portraits and tackling controversial topics with respect and sensitivity. Kim Longinotto has won numerous awards for her work, including a Peabody Award and the Cannes Film Festival’s prestigious Prix Art et Essai for Sisters in Law, a Special Jury Prize at the International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam (IDFA) for Hold Me Tight, Let Me Go, a BAFTA Award for Divorce Iranian Style, World Cinema Grand Jury Prize in Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival for Rough Aunties. For Dreamcatcher she has won the Directing Award – World Cinema Documentary at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.

EAST DOC FORUM – PUBLIC PRESENTATION – only for accreditations
Thursday March 8. | 9:30 - 13:30 | Image Theatre
For the eighteenth time, the prestigious pitch of the best Central and East European documentary projects will take place. In the seventeen years of its existence, the East Doc Forum has welcomed more than 700 filmmakers and supported 150 documentary projects, including award-winning films from key international festivals, such as Brothers, The Domino Effect, Blind Loves, At the Edge of Russia, Rabbit a la Berlin, Village Without Women, and Bakhmaro.

 

 

The international documentary event EAST DOC PLATFORM takes place March 3 – 8, 2018 in Prague. The week-long event will host leading film professionals, distributors, TV and festival programmers. Filmmakers will present documentary projects from Central and Eastern Europe that can win one of several prizes worth a total of EUR 35,000 for further film development.

This year’s EDP wants to open up a debate on the rise of nationalism and totalitarian tendencies in the region, as well as on the efforts to stifle critical voices in the media and independent documentary filmmaking that, in varying degrees of intensity, face and reflect on these challenges.

The theme “NEW RESISTANCE” implies the unwillingness of documentary filmmakers to suck up to totalitarian regimes or accept fascisizing symptoms (for instance, attacks on gays in Russia, university shutdown in Hungary, criminalization of abortion in Poland). Their resistance is manifested as dogged persistence with which they pursue these issues while maintaining critical thinking. They are resistant to the dangers they report on and immune to suggestions their work might be undesirable.

These issues are important on an international level as well, with similar troubling developments in the United States, the UK and across Europe. In Central and Eastern Europe, democracy is much younger and considerably more vulnerable. On the other hand, this region has a first-hand experience of totalitarian systems. We should now talk about this experience and draw on it at a time when freedom of speech is being restricted for political reasons.

While European cinema relies heavily on public funding, it is directly dependent and susceptible to any shifts in political climate. Once the authorities start restricting public funds and media, documentary filmmaking with its focus on current social issues is usually the first target. There are signals to that effect in Poland, Hungary and Russia.

We’d like to open up a debate, for instance, about the fact that the social media vox populi has propelled to power populists representing “the majority voice” and political hardliners promoting easy solutions. We’d like to invite Polish filmmakers who have lost funding because of a critical interview, Hungarian filmmakers who have moved to Portugal after making a cinéma vérité film set in a courtroom, as well as Russian filmmakers who often find themselves in personal danger.

 

Institute of Documentary Film - TEAM

Pavlína Kalandrová
IDF Creative Director

Pavlína Kalandrová graduated from Faculty of Arts at Palacky University in Olomouc (Theatre Studies and Czech Philology) and from Film and TV School of Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (Film and TV Production). She co-founded the production company Duracfilm where, until 2014, she produced mainly documentaries (Clouds, In Sight, The Tripoint – screened at FID Marseille, Ji.hlava IDFF, One World Prague, Shanghai IFF, Beijing IFF or Jaipur IFF), but also fiction films (short Kites or feature film Children – screened at Beijing IFF or Thessaloniki IFF). From 2014 to 2017, she was head of the Creative Europe Desk CZ – MEDIA. She is selector for the festival Finale Plzeň and member of expert commissions of the Slovak Audiovisual Fund.

Tereza Šimíková
East Doc Platform Manager

Tereza is Head of Industry of the East Doc Platform, the largest co-production market and pitching forum focused on the Central and Eastern European region, which takes place every March in Prague. After graduating with a degree in documentary filmmaking from FAMU, Prague in 2009, she directed short documentaries, including the award-winning Double Life of Saint Vitus. From 2012 to 2016, she was Program Manager of the international rough-cut workshop dok.incubator and served as the Program Director of its local workshops (DOK.Restart in Poland, DOK.SK in Slovakia and dok.elevator for Nordic producers). She serves on a number of selection committees, including the programming team of the Karlovy Vary IFF, and the IDFA Forum. As an international consultant, Tereza tailors international strategy for the grantees of Chicken and Egg Pictures, a US-based international fund and training for female documentary filmmakers. Within EDP, she is one of the selectors of interesting projects, invites renowned tutors and jury, and co-organizes open program that includes panels on alternative distribution, on TV formats, campaigns and new trends in narration.

Rebecca De Pas
Ex Oriente Film Manager

Rebecca De Pas started working for festivals in 2004, in the Bologna Film Archive. In 2009, she joined FID Marseille in the selection committee as well as co-head of the FID Lab, the international co-production platform. Beside her engagement in FID Marseille is currently in the selection committee for the Berlinale Talents, where she also advice for the participants producers and advisor for the Feature Expanded Program. In the past, she has been artistic director of the Journées Cinématographiques Dionysiennes and she collaborated with La Roche sur Yon IFF, the Orizzonti section of the Venice IFF, the Riviera Maya Film Festival and the Environmental Film Festival of Paris. She joined Ex-Oriente Film as manager in December 2017.