BBB Preselection Committee 2023
BBB Preselection Committee 2023
Beth Privitera
Beth Privitera
Beth has curated panel discussions and creative workshops at the BFI Southbank, and has been part of pre-selecting teams for the many festivals including BFI London Film Festival, and the London Short Film Festival. She currently lives in Paris where she is studying Film Theory.
Valentin Neuroth
Valentin Neuroth
Valentin Neuroth is pursuing a MA in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent in Paris, focusing on film and modernity. With a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy and Economics from the University of Bayreuth and experience in artist management for BASA Berlin, he is a lateral entrant into the professional film and festival realm. Currently, he is working as partner and event manager for the European Independent Film Festival.
Eneos Çarka
Eneos Çarka
Eneos Çarka is a Los Angeles based filmmaker. He graduated from DocNomads Masters on Creative Documentary and he is currently a PhD student and Annenberg Fellow in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Southern California. His films have screened at numerous festivals, galleries, and cultural events such as IDFA, FIPADOC, HotDocs, GoShort, Festival dei Popoli, DokuFest, among many. They focus on character studies and often deal with memory and identity, paying particular attention to issues of representations and experimenting with various approaches to cinema.
Mladen Ivanović
Mladen Ivanović
Mladen Ivanović was born on April 8, 1987 in Podgorica. He completed his undergraduate studies at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Cetinje. He enrolled in the Master’s studies at the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb, majoring in Documentary Film in the class of Professor Goran Dević. The debut “Between the River and the People” in December 2015 was the winning debut film at the BaNFF (Balkan New Film Festival) held in Stockholm, Sweeden. He is currently working on a feature-length documentary “Rear Admiral” about Krsto Djurovic, who was killed in the Yugoslav war because he refused to shell Dubrovnik. He received support from the Film Center of Montenegro and the Croatian Audio Visual Center, together with Articulation Production and Restart production from Zagreb. At the last DOKSrbija he won the award as the best project in development. He is in the production phase of a film with the working title “Petrova Gora” about one of the most important modernist monuments in the former Yugoslavia, which is the work of Vojin Bakić. The monument to the uprising of the people of Banija and Kordun and the neglect of it, which belongs to the very top of the world cultural heritage, speaks not only about the society that lost that spirit during the transition, but clearly dissects and diagnoses. The film is being produced by the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb. He is also a psychotherapist in education modality transactional analysis with a large number of workshops and therapeutic groups.
Albana Nila
Albana Nila
Albana Nila is a director/writer born in 1999 in Peje, Kosovo. To enhance and perfect her passion for film and visual arts, she has broadened her studies in both Kosovo and Czech Republic. She graduated from the University of Prishtina as a BA of Film and TV Directing. She has had a one semester Erasmus+ICM exchange as a BA in Masaryk University Film and Audiovisual Culture, Czech Republic. In 2022 she won the first production grant in the support of the new wave of Kosovo filmmakers. In which she directed and produced the short film “Sisters”. Additionally she has written the concept, synopsis, screenplay and directed five short student films and two short documentaries in the past three years. Some of which screened in national and international festivals such as “Dokufest (International Documentary and Short Film Festival)”, “Pravo Ljudski Film Festival”, “Zoom International Film Festival”, “Tirana Film Fest”, “FEMART” etc In 2020 she started working as Video editor at Jellysmack/Ikonë Studio. After that she shifted into the position of assistant director in the making of E-learning documentaries funded by Jahjaga foundation and produced by ASHA agency. She is currently working as a project manager at Piar Creations.
Angeliki- Irini Mitsi
Angeliki- Irini Mitsi
She was born in Romania and grew up in Thessaloniki. She is Art Work Maintainer and photographer. She photographed many theatrical plays, events and Festivals in Thessaloniki and Athens. She was production assistant at TV broadcast MONOGRAMMA & Logo-Texnia. She was production manager for independent films. She is coordinator at National, International Student, National Student and Pitching Lab of Drama International Short Film Festival, Jury assistant at International Thessaloniki Film Festival. She is actress, columnist and radio producer (TheatricalDROPS)
Claudia Alexandru
Claudia Alexandru
Claudia Alexandru is a filmmaker with a bachelor’s degree in Film Studies from the Faculty of Theatre and Film of Babeș-Bolyai University. Her graduation film Hellen was screened as part of the Llendes section in the 57th Gijón International Film Festival. Currently, she is enrolled in the Performance Arts and Film MA program.
Oana-Miruna Balaci
Oana-Miruna Balaci
Student and film / theater critic. She collaborates with the Romanian publications LiterNet, AperiTIFF and Films in Frame. She was present at the Cannes Film Festival as a journalist in 2022 and 2023. She worked on the student short films and his letters, as a screenwriter and location assistant, and Different Leaves, as a screenwriter and production assistant. She was an extra and casting assistant for the feature film R.M.N. of the Romanian director Cristian Mungiu and introduced films for Les Films de Cannes à Cluj. She was a part of the jury for the 2022 GOPO Awards.