Female Solidarity in Film Industry: How to Get There?
Presented by Mastercard
TIME
Thursday,August 18th, 2022
16:00 – 17:00 (CET)
LOCATION
Hotel Europe Atrium
How do women get to tell their own stories and create their own representations? Through the lenses of director, producer, and casting director, we gathered powerful female voices from different backgrounds, generations, and experiences to navigate how female solidarity in the film industry can be achieved.
Speakers
- Anamaria Antoci - Producer / RO
- Teona Strugar Mitevska - Director / MK
- Timka Grin - Casting Director / BA
- Marta Popivoda - Filmmaker / RS
Moderated by
- Amra Bakšić Čamo - Producer, SCCA/Pro.ba, BA
ANAMARIA ANTOCI
With a background in choreography and cultural management, ANAMARIA ANTOCI stepped into the film industry in 2012. The first feature she signed as producer was Adrian Sitaru‘s ILLEGITIMATE (2016, Berlinale Forum - CICAE Award), an independent production that brought her a GOPO Award for Best Newcomer in the Romanian film industry. Her filmography includes a wide range of shorts, features and documentaries, one of the latest titles - MALMKROG by Cristi Puiu, for which she served as delegate producer, opened the Encounters section of Berlinale 2020. Anamaria is an active producer on the European market, being part of the most important industry networks like EAVE, ACE Producers, European Producers Club, and since 2016 also a European Film Academy member.
MARTA POPIVODA
MARTA POPIVODA is a filmmaker, video artist, and researcher living and working between Belgrade and Berlin. The main concerns in her work are the tensions between memory, history, and ideology, as well as the relations between collective and individual bodies. Popivoda approaches them from a feminist and queer perspective. Her first feature documentary, YUGOSLAVIA, HOW IDEOLOGY MOVED OUR COLLECTIVE BODY, premiered at the 63rd Berlinale and was later screened at many international film festivals. The film is part of the collection of MoMA New York. She received the prestigious Berlin Art Prize for the visual arts by Akademie der Künste Berlin and Edith-Russ-Haus Award for Emerging Media Artist. Her latest feature documentary, LANDSCAPES OF RESISTANCE, premiered in the Tiger Competition of the 50th International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2021 and by now won more than ten awards.
TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA
Macedonian born TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA started as a child actor, trained as a painter and graphic designer and studied film at NYU-Tisch School of Arts. She directed her first short, VETA, in 2001, and has been making films ever since: HOW I KILLED A SAINT, 2004; I AM FROM TITOV VELES, 2007; THE WOMAN WHO BRUSHED OFF HER TEARS, 2012; TERESA AND I, 2013; WHEN THE DAY HAD NO NAME, 2017 and most recently, GOD EXISTS, HER NAME IS PETRUNYA that premiered in competition in Berlin Film Festival 2019, where it was awarded the Ecumenical Prize, as well at the German Guild Film Prize. The film has received more than 30 awards internationally, most notably the 2019 LUX Prize by the European Parliament and was sold for theatrical release to over 40 territories world-wide. Teona’s newest film THE HAPPIEST MAN THE WORLD will have its world premiere at the 2022 Venice Film Festival. She is currently in pre-production of MOTHER, a film to be shot on the end of 2023. In 2022 she made her first medium length film: MAKEDONIUM, an experimental hybrid work, a collaboration with the contemporary artists: Hristina Ivanoska and Yane Calovski. Teona Strugar Mitevska lives between Skopje and Brussels with her son Kaeliok.
TIMKA GRIN
TIMKA GRIN had an intense experience of working on more than 50 feature films and shorts, many of them awarded. Presently, Timka’s experience in TV productions is growing rapidly. Her most valuable lessons came through working with some great directors, just to mention a few: brothers Dardenne, Jean-Luc Godard, Danis Tanović, Aida Begić, Jasmila Žbanić, Marion Haensel, Marco Bellocchio and many others. Timka is President of International Casting Directors Network (ICDN); also a member of Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), European Film Academy (EFA) and Casting Society of America (CSA).
AMRA BAKŠIĆ ČAMO
AMRA BAKŠIĆ ČAMO is one of the founders of SCCA/pro.ba, an independent production company based in Sarajevo. She has produced and co-produced award-winning shorts, documentaries, television programmes and feature films. Since 2003, she has been Head of CineLink at the Sarajevo Film Festival and since 2019 one of the curators at the TorinoFilmLab. Bakšić Čamo is a member of the European Film Academy as well as ACE and EAVE producer networks, and is a long-time collaborator of the Berlinale Co-Production Market and the Biennale College. She teaches producing at the Academy of Preforming Arts in Sarajevo.