Industry Professionals

Aleksandar Trajkovski
Filmologist, Cinematheque of North Macedonia

Aleksandar Trajkovski is born in 1986 in Skopje. In 2011, he graduated on the Faculty of Philosophy in Skopje, at the Department of Art History. He received his master’s degree at the Department of Film Production at Europa Prima University in 2022. Since 2013, he has been employed at the Macedonian cinematheque as a Filmologist, in charge of receiving and processing films on a digital media, as well as a supervisor of the projects for digital restoration of the Macedonian film heritage. In 2014, as a ACE (European Federation of Cinematheques) scholarship receiver, he took part in the Summer School for Film Restoration in Bologna. In 2015, he became part of the editorial board of the film magazine Kinopis, where he regularly writes articles on film criticism and film theory. He is active in the field of film production and organization, as a producer of feature and documentary films, as well as an organizer of events related to the presentation of film culture. In 2017, he participated in the founding of the association for the development and promotion of film culture and literacy, Kino Balkan Skopje, as well as the Beach Film Festival, the festival for new European film. In 2021 he founded the Silent and classic film festival.

Anne Georget
Chairwoman FIPADOC

Anne Georget is a French documentary film director.
She was chairwoman of LaScam, French author’s guild (2015-17).
She is chairwoman of FIPADOC, international documentary film festival taking place in January in the city of Biarritz.

Bojana Marić
Lightdox, Co-Founder, Sales and Acquisitions

Bojana holds MA in Archaeology from University of Belgrade, Serbia. Interpreting human’s past has a lot to do with storytelling and Bojana was naturally driven to documentaries as another form of creative research. Her passion brought her to Lightdox, a Swiss and French based international sales and distribution agency representing powerful and transformative documentary storytelling.

We are passionate about high-quality author-driven documentaries with a distinctive cinematic language and emotional impact. We tend to each film with an individual approach and partner with filmmakers in every step of the way, through festival, theatrical and non-theatrical distribution, marketing and impact campaigns.

Chiara Liberti
Co-Artistic Director, Biografilm Festival

Chiara Liberti works as consultant on distribution and outreach for documentary films and since 2022 is co-Artistic Director at Biografilm Festival, Bologna. She has previously collaborated with the Italian distribution company I Wonder Pictures, from its foundation in 2013, and with the Oscar®-Nominated production company Final Cut for Real. Chiara has worked in Italy, UK, Ireland, Germany and Denmark, through various roles (from festival and event management and curation to production, writing and lecturing). She holds degrees in Film Studies, Visual Arts Curation and Audiovisual Management and has had the opportunity to receive training in entrepreneurship while living in London.

Clothilde Bunod
La SOCIETE DU SENSIBLE, Producer, France

After studying literature and then film in France and Canada, Clothilde Bunod found her passion for creative documentary, and in 2017 obtained her Master in Artistic Creation – Production specialization, at Lussas in Ardèche. Two years as a production assistant in various production companies throughout France (Paris, Bordeaux, Orléans) were enough for her to give in to the temptation of co-founding a production company ; La Société du Sensible, in Marseille. In this company, she produces feature-lengthdocumentaries, television documentaries and short fiction films. Her most recent film, Derriere le Soleil, directed by Dhia jerbi, wasselected for numerous festivals, including Visons du Réel (Switzerland) and the Istanbul Film Festival (Turkey).

She is currently treasurer of the SUD Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regional producers’ association. Since 2022, she has been a jurorfor the Montpellier Metropolitan Council’s cinema grant fund.

Enikő Gyuresko
Festival Director, Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

Enikő has over 15 years of experience in project coordination gained in the cultural and civic sphere. Since 2016, she has been working full time on VERZIÓ, first as Festival Coordinator; from 2021 as Managing Director, and since 2024 as Festival Director. She is responsible for the festival development strategy, supervision of the festival team, fundraising, partnerships, and year-round programs. Since 2020 she assists the KineDok Hungary team with rights clearance and editing. Since 2022 she is a board-member of MADOKE, the Hungarian Documentary Association.

Èric Motjer
Head of Industry and Training Docs Barcelona

Èric Motjer (Manlleu, 1988). MA in Documentary Cinema and Cinematography from ESCAC (Universitat de Barcelona). He has served as a non-fiction director and cinematographer, as well as Head of Production for multiple major festivals and events. He also served as Head of the Technical Production Department at DocsBarcelona Film Festival (2015-2023) and Artistic Director of Manlleu Film Festival (2018-2023). Founder of Sabir studio, specializing in film production and event services. In 2023, he was appointed Head of Industry and Training at DocsBarcelona.

Eriona Vyshka
Albanian National Film Archive

Eriona Vyshka joined the staff of the Albanian National Film Archive in 2001. She is in charge of the cataloguing and office management department. Eriona has edited several catalogues and periodicals published by the Albanian Film Archive. She has collaborated with the Albanian National Film Center and served as the Albanian representative to several Southeast European Cinema meetings, an international cinema network that the Albanian National Film Center joined in 2003. As an experienced archivist, Eriona represents the archives at several regional and European professionals’ meetings and serves as the liaison and project coordinator between the Albanian Film Archive and other collaborators or initiatives AQSHF works with, dedicated to preserving, restoring and promoting Albanian film heritage. Eriona holds an MA in Literature from Tirana University; her research is focused on the adaptation process from novel into film.

Ieva Ūbele
Creative producer

Ieva Ūbele has an extensive portfolio encompassing production of documentary films with focus on social and environmental issues. Since 2019 she runs her production company, Baltic Balkan Productions, dedicated to producing and co-producing films emphasizing powerful personal narratives and social issues. From 2020 to 2023, she served as the Head of Industry Programme at Beldocs IDFF in Serbia. Since January 2024, she has taken on the role of Forum Producer at the Baltic Sea Docs in Riga, Latvia. In addition to her roles in production and industry event management, Ieva also serves as an expert and tutor in the field, acting as a tutor and matchmaker at documentary film training events, including Agora Lab at the Thessaloniki International Documentary Film Festival, BDC Discoveries, and ESoDoc.

Igor Angjelkov
Film Critic

Igor Angjelkov (1974) graduated from the Interdisciplinary Studies in Journalism, and completed his master’s degree in Media and Communications at the Faculty of Law at the University of “St. Cyril and Methodius” in Skopje. He has been actively dealing with film art in the media since the 1990s through reviews in various daily, weekly and monthly newspapers, and then, as the author of the film radio show “REDRUM” on Channel 103. He is probably most known for his “Filmopolis” film show that run on the national TV Telma. He was a jury member at several national film festivals, and in 2019 he joined the oldest association of film critics in the world, FIPRESCI, allowing him to also participate in international festivals ever since. In addition to the six prose works, he has also published three books of film essays: “Film.mkd” (2015), for which he received the “Mito Hadzivasilev Jasmin” State Publication Award, “Filmski Grad” (2018) and “Filmotopia” (2022).

Ilija Tiricovski
Producer

Ilija Tiricovski is film and TV producer based in Skopje, working on development and production of TV series, animation, fiction and documentary films. His recent works include producing the short film “Solo Mode” (2021) by Oscar Nominated director Tamara Kotevska (premiered at Sarajevo Film Festival) as well as co-producing her feature documentary “The Walk” (2023) (premiered on DOC NYC). He is an alumni of MIDPOINT Institute, Torino Film Lab, BelDocs Industry Days, winning awards on European Short Pitch, Industry@Tallinn & Baltic Event, Evia Film Project by Thessaloniki Film Festival and CineLink Drama at Sarajevo Film Festival.

Ingibjörg Halldórsdóttir

Director, IceDocs

Ingibjörg is the co-founder and director of Iceland Documentary Film Festival (IceDocs), She helmed the festival’s fourth edition this summer as well as being part of the festival’s programming committee. IceDocs is Iceland’s first and only film festival dedicated solely to international creative documentaries.The festival aims at bringing quality documentaries to the local market as well as being a creative hub for filmmakers in the near future. It is part of the newly founded Time for Docs festival network. Ingibjörg serves in a selection committee for the Icelandic film and TV academy’s Edda awards.

Iva Rosandić
Film Critic, Dokumentarni.net

Iva Rosandić obtained her master’s degree in comparative literature and philosophy at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Zagreb. She is currently working on several projects in the field of culture, with an emphasis on film criticism and film analysis. In her work she is especially focused on national and regional documentary scenes. Rosandić is also the deputy editor-in-chief of two film criticism websites – Dokumentarni.net and Zona filma, the latter being the official website of the Croatian Film Critic’s Association, of which she is an active member. Her work has been published in prominent magazines and websites such as Hrvatski filmski ljetopis, Novosti, Kulturpunkt.hr, Zarez, Zapis and radio show Filmoskop.

Jeroen Stout
Sound Designer, Commissioner for Dutch documentary tv-programme

Jeroen Stout graduated in 1993 from the University of Amsterdam in Political Science. He started his career as a journalist and a film critic for Dutch national broadcaster NTR at Radio 1. Simultaniously he realized several radio documentaries for NTR and VPRO.

In recent years Jeroen has specialized in radiodrama, soundwalks and -installations and sound recording for film. In 2006 he won the Prix

Italia for his radiodrama Lee the Forest – spirit of the pioneer. As initiator, director and main writer, he directed and headed in 2009/2010 the writer’s team for the succesfull 70 episode Radio 1 serial De Moker. A second serial, The Spider, followed in 2014. Commissioned by IFFR 2012 he wrote and directed the Hive, a soundwalk in the Rotterdam district ‘Kop van Zuid’, followed by other sound installations like Een Haagse affaire and Een betere stad. Next to his soundworks Jeroen is senior editor at the Radio 1 Cultural Magazine Kunststof and a commissioner for the Dutch documentary tv-programme Uur van de Wolf.

Jordanco Petkovski
Producer

Jordanco Petkovski is a film producer. He was born in Skopje on June 26, 1983, and since 2003, he has been living and working in Belgrade. He earned his degree as a Graduate Manager for Artistic Production from the Faculty of Contemporary Arts in Belgrade. Since 2003, he has been working as a producer, executive producer, and assistant director on numerous feature and documentary films, series, TV commercials, and music videos. He is the founder of two production companies: “FILMOSKOPIJA” in Serbia, established in 2013, which he has been leading since then, and “NEST PRODUCTIONS” in North Macedonia, founded in 2023.

Karsten Krause
Producer

Born 1980 in Freiburg, Germany. He studied visual communication at the Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg. His films have been shown at numerous international festivals and awarded various prizes. With DIE FRAU DES FOTOGRAFEN he won the German Short Film Award 2011 and with YOU AND ME the experimental film competition at the International Short Film Festival Vila do Conde 2010. He was artist in residence at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2014 and founded in 2016 together with Frank Scheuffele a new film production Fünferfilm, where films such as DRIFT, HUMAN FLOWERS OF FLESH (both by Helena Wittmann), OLANDA (Bernd Schoch), LA EMPRESA (André Siegers) and SKILL ISSUE (Willy Hans) were realised.

Louis Beaudemont
Les Steppes Productions

After studying in France (political science, history of Soviet cinema), the United Kingdom and Russia (public administration), Louis Beaudemont began his career as a project manager for Franco-Russian university cooperation at the French Embassy in Moscow. Back in France, he worked for the documentary production company Les Poissons Volants, as production assistant and assistant director, on unitary, series and Virtual Reality projects. He then founded Les Steppes Productions with Nicolaï Yarochenko to devote himself to the production of author-driven documentaries, seeking to make this format a laboratory of forms for a wide audience, favouring authors wishing to convey an artistic, social and/or political message in the present time. In parallel, Louis worked on Neil Beloufa’s artistic and immersive exhibition projects, trying to put new technologies at the service of a new relationship between producers and consumers of cultural works. Close to filmmakers from Ukraine and Belarus, Louis is now trying to support the voices that will shape the reconstruction of the world after the war.

Maëlle Guenegues
CAT&Docs

After working with various festivals, Maëlle moved into international distribution, first with Point du Jour and Doc&Co before launching CAT&Docs with Catherine Le Clef.

CAT &Docs represents a catalogue of handpicked creative documentaries with an international appeal.
After working at different festivals in France (Les Rencontres du Cinéma, Sunny Side of the Doc, FIPA…), Maëlle moved into international distribution, first with Point du Jour International and Doc&Co before joining Catherine Le Clef to launch CAT&Docs in 2009.

CAT &Docs represents a catalogue of handpicked creative documentaries with an international appeal.

Recent titles include: My Stolen Planet, Apolonia, Apolonia, Between Revolutions, Children of the Mist, The Earth is Blue as an Orange…

Magalie Armand
COLORS FILMS France

Following a double master’s degree in physics and communications, Magalie Armand first worked as a projectionist in art-house cinemas, before wanting to take part in the fabrication of films. She trained as a line producer at the Filmhaus in Cologne, gaining experience as production manager before taking part in the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris, a European programme for young producers between Fémis (France) and Filmakademie (Germany). She then worked for one year at Unifrance as Territory Manager, before joining CNC’s International Unit in 2012. As head of the ‘Coproduction, Cooperation and Cinémas du monde’ department, she coordinated support schemes (Cinémas du monde, Mini-treaty, bilateral funds, etc.) and defends French projects within the Council of Europe’s Eurimages fund. She developed partnerships with authors and producers in many countries, particularly in Africa, and in connection with author residencies or industry sections of festivals. She developed and coordinated the “Fonds pour la jeune création francophone”, launched in 2017.

In 2023, she left the CNC for new adventures in production, and since then has worked as head of development, line producer and consultant.

Marion Czarny
Head of Fipadoc Campus, FIPADOC

Marion Czarny is a programmer, curator and project manager for educational activities.

Holder of a postgraduate degree in Cultural Project Management from la Sorbonne Nouvelle University, she did part of her studies in the USA and Ireland.

She worked as an editorial assistant for 3 cinema magazines and as a programmer for several festivals before joining FIPA in 2008. Head of Campus at Fipadoc, she supervises all editorial content for the young audience, students and emerging directors. She oversees the different education and training programs such as the Young Europeans Jury or First Films Pitches and also curates the New Talent selection of the festival.

She is currently involved in 3 European film festivals networks, developing and designing innovative European training programmes based on documentary films.

With her work, Marion is constantly involved in empowering the youth through the prism of documentaries.

Martina Droandi
Sales Agent, DysFlims

Martina Droandi is a sales agent for documentary films, and she is currently setting up DysFlims, a sales company specialised in documentaries distribution.

Previously, she worked for four years at Autlook Filmsale as Acquisition and Sales manager, just after finishing an internship at mk2 Films. She holds an MA in Documentary Film Directing (DOCNOMADS) and a BA in Social Anthropology and Music.
She is alumni of the Atelier Ludwigsburg-Paris and Locarno Film Industry Academy.

Nadja Tennstedt
Director, DOK Industry at DOK Leipzig

Nadja Tennstedt is director of DOK Industry at DOK Leipzig. Nadja held positions in marketing, sales and acquisitions at US distributors Zeitgeist Films and Milestone Films. After her return to Europe in 2011 she worked for international film festivals and markets such as the Locarno Film Festival and the EFM of Berlinale.

Sashka Cvetkovska
Producer, Investigative Reporting Lab/Story Lab

Sashka Cvetkovska is an internationally awarded investigative journalist and producer at the Investigative Reporting Lab/Story Lab. Cvetkovska has worked on a number of national and cross-border investigations that have uncovered domestic and international crime, corruption, illicit trade of arms, and disinformation wars in the US elections . She has been part of global teams like Panama Papers, Swiss leaks, while her stories has been published in The Guardian, Buzzfeed, Süddeutsche Zeitung and others. Her current responsibilities are focused on increasing the impact of investigative reporting by creating new narratives of stories through film. Inspired by the cooperation with the film industry, Cvetkovska and her team launched IRL Story LAB – the first non-profit film production focused on making films of public interest. The IRL story lab is producing fictional and documentary films shaped in an engaging way with potential to make meaningful changes, while still remaining true to the highest professional film standards.

Susana Fernandez
Co-Head DOK.forum Marketplace

Born in Spain, Susana lived for 13 years in Montreal, Canada, where she worked in multiple organisations and film festivals, including the direction of the FNC Forum at the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal and the direction of the Forum RIDM (Montreal International Documentary Festival). Over the years, Susana has contributed to launching film industry initiatives such as the FNC Nouveau Marché co-production market or the Premières Œuvres pitch, in partnership with Netflix, and collaborated with Lunenburg Doc Fest, DOK.fest München, FIDADOC or Cannes Docs. She regularly participates as a jury member and selects projects in different stages of development at markets and festivals.

In September 2023, Susana became Co-head of DOK.forum Marketplace München.

Trifun Sitnikovski
Director, Producer, Writer

Trifun Sitnikovski is a young and established director, writer and producer in the Balkans, based in Skopje. Known for his work on numerous film and TV projects, he gained wider attention for his work in public interest filmmaking, which involves collaborating with investigative journalists to tell complex issues like environmental crime, corruption, and information wars. His latest short film “A Joke” was selected in official competition at the prestigious Oscar qualifying Odense Film Festival. However, his most acclaimed work comes as director of the award winning docu-series “Newsroom”, with which he has positioned himself among the leading regional voices in this genre of documentary filmmaking that later served as a model for such projects in the Baltic region. “Newsroom” was produced by the Investigative Reporting Lab, and with them Sitnikovski co-founded Story Lab – a film production company focused on making films in the public interest.

Vladan Petković
Journalist, Film Critic, Festival Programmer

Vladan Petković is a journalist, film critic and festival programmer. He is a senior writer at Cineuropa, correspondent for the territories of former Yugoslavia at Screen International, contributing editor for IDFA’s website and programme advisor for short films at IDFA. He is a programmer for ZagrebDox, Eastern Neighbours Film Festival in the Hague and Rab Film Festival (Croatia), and the founder and head of studies at GoCritic!, the training programme for emerging film journalists and critics in collaboration with Cineuropa.

Wouter Jansen
Square Eyes

Wouter Jansen is the founder of the sales company Square Eyes. The company represents bold, author-driven features and shorts, and in close collaboration with the filmmakers it devises bespoke festival distribution and sales strategies. In the past Wouter has worked for 10 years as the head of programming for the film festival Go Short. He is an expert for Locarno Open Doors and First Cut Lab, and has been giving lectures at schools like Le Fresnoy, HEAD Geneva and Netherlands Film Academy.