WE MAKE IT HAPPEN in 2019

Event Producer, Film Festival Director and Film Curator with passion for documentaries, colourful surrealism and quirky comedies.After 8 years of experience in radio production she turned into producing art & film events in London.When judging short films she's looking out for stories that grasp attention, not predictable soundscape and good acting. She has founded InShortFF in 2014 in London.favourite film & quote: Něco z Alenky (Alice) Jan Švankmajer''Do. Or do not. There is no try.” Yoda The Empire Strikes Back.

Event Producer, Social Worker, Educator and Cultural Events Programmer.In 2014 Assistant of InShort Film Festival Director & Competition Coordinator.For 6 years of her professional experience she was responsible for concerts, festivals, large outdoor events, fairs; poetry, performance and film events and exhibitions as well. Also she was working as a social worker and event coordinator in educational and cultural oriented institutions and as a marketing specialist.
She loves movies since she was five when she saw for the first time "Cabaret" directed by Bob Fosse.
Katarzyna is a huge fan of Jennifer Reeves, Jerzy Skolimoski, Peter Greenaway, Quay Brothers, Jim Jarmusch, Roman Polański, Billy Wilder... and many others. 😉

Favourite film:
She recommend: "When it was blue" Jennifer Reeves (You should see it, man!)

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Aleks is a freelance Film Festival Programmer & Events Producer and Group Account Director with 12+ years experience working in content and film events across three continents. She was the Head of The Smalls Film Festival in London and Singapore for 3 years, where she set up The Smalls Film Fund, a £25k annual grant awarded to a member of the community to develop and produce a short film. She is currently part of Production and Event Teams at Sheffield Doc/Fest and BFI London Film Festival, in addition to being involved in programming of LOCO London Comedy Film Festival and Oxford Film Festival in Mississippi, USA.

Favourite quote: "The past is just a story we tell ourselves." - Her.

Duygu has worked in the film industry for the last 7 years. While studying MA in film at Birkbeck College she worked for several festivals and Sight&Sound. Duygu volunteered for OpenCity Docs festival as a pre-selector in 2012. In 2015 & 2016 she was in charge as a coordinator at International Akbank Short Film Festival in Istanbul, where she is currently based and works as a programmer at SinemaTv.

Lies (pronounced "lease") has worked in the film festival circuit for over twelve years. A Dutchie in Australia, she is the Programme Manager at Flickerfest International Short Film Festival on the Iconic Bondi Beach in Sydney, Australia and has programmed films for InScience - Dutch International Science Film Festival, been on the jury of the Drone Film Festival of Australia and New Zealand and has been part of the selection committees of Go Short International Short Film Festival in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and Sydney Film Festival's Dendy Awards for Australian Short Film.

She is currently in post-production for the short documentary Frytopia, about hot chips in the Netherlands, which she is producing with her brother Bram Bruines and will be released on the festival circuit early 2020.

Danny, born and raised South London, has been involved with a number of different festivals,helping program and curate short films for a number of years. He takes a keen interest in noand low budget cinema, and those from historically less represented areas of the world.Danny graduated with a BA Honours in Film Studies from the University of Hull in 2012, where he focused his studies on independent cinema.

Evangelos has been a film programmer in this year's Chronic Youth Film Festival in Barbican Centre and he was one of the members that set up the Youth Invisble-Call for Shorts section, its pre-selection, the final curated result and the organisation of the event.

He is also a filmmaker with film education both in UK(Middlesex University) and Greece (Hellenic Film & Television School Stavrakos).

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Alice is event manager of a community cinema in South London, where she previously assisted the director in the overall running of the cinema - including programming. In addition, she worked and volunteered for various film festivals whose focus was to celebrate uniqueness and diversity (London Feminist Film Festival, Open City Docs and Short Sighted Cinema's festival, among the others).

Lori is currently studying Film and Media Studies at Birkbeck University and is an assistant programmer at the David Lean Cinema. They are particularly interested in horror and avant-garde, as well as queer art and cinema.

Michel has BA in Film Studies and worked at International Film Festival Rotterdam for two editions, during that time being part of the content/programming team of their VOD-platform IFFR Unleashed, where he was involved in the selection, acquisition and material handling of the films shown on the platform. He was also responsible for the short film selection in collaboration with the festival shorts programmers. Recently he has joined Cork Film Festival as part of their International Shorts pre-selection committee.

Teodosia is a 24-year old MA student in Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking at UCL. She is also a Programming Assistant for New East Cinema, affiliated with Barbican Centre and HOMEmcr. As a Programming Assistant, she has been involved in the curation of multiple screenings, film seasons and events, introduced film screenings and led Q&As.

Special Thanks for every little help with the programme pre-selection process to:

Charel Muller
Chris Parker
Aagya Pradhan
Aysha Babur
Lara Peters
Yana Shapkina
Robyn Minshall
Storm Patterson
Marta Calderón
Dominika Wisniewska
Amy Wu
Aga Robak
Noor Daldoul

Total cinephile geek who misses academia. I love queer and camp coded cinema, archive films (especially relating to queer or racial work that corrects history!), and fiction films that blur reality and transgress filmic convention. I love films that uncover hidden realities or dream up brave new worlds. I view cinema with what theorist bell hooks calls the ‘oppositional gaze’, and have since being a child.
I’ve been welcoming guests and propping up bars at London arts venues for years, and finding audiences for InShortFF, Fringe! Queer Film & Arts Fest and Underwire Festival among others. Favourite film: How to Survive a Plague or The Celluloid Closet. Or Jackie Brown. Maybe even The Purple Rose of Cairo. No, Born in Flames!
Favourite quote: “There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ”
― Federico Fellini

Favourite poem: I have been to loads of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefullyBut I never actually fell overOh Lana Turner we love you get up
— from Frank O Hara’s ‘Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!]’