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Beldocs is one of the Balkans largest documentary film festivals. Since its first festival edition in 2008, the Beldocs team has been endeavoring to create a unique space where the specificity of documentary film will be celebrated and the pressing issues facing humankind will be discussed outspokenly. This is the space for freedom of expression and free thinking, promotion of courageous, young authors, celebration of established great names of film, as well as acquainting the local audience with the constant evolution of film language and film forms. We support a free film that extends the boundaries, the truth and courage of expression. We unreservedly support the Serbian film, considering that with the making of a brand we assume a certain amount of responsibility towards the Serbian a

Ana graduated film and TV directing at ESRA – Bretagne and French language and literature at UKIM – Skopje. She holds an APP degree of directing from FAMU – Prague and an MA degree in General and Comparative Literature at Sorbonne – Nouvelle, Paris. Her authorial professional debut, the short documentary “Consuming Contemporary” (25’) premiered internationally at Hot Docs Canadian IFF, won the Grand – Prix at FeKK – Ljubljana (2020) and the bronze egg at Kustendorf Film and Music Festival (2021). Ana has participated at Ji.hlava Academy (2021) and Future Ecologies workshop with Ben Rivers (2020). Currently working on “Hide and Seek”, a short animated documentary in financing stage. The film already has funding from North Macedonia. Searching for co-producer and international sales agent.

Has been working in film production for 20 years. Has produced more than 35 films which produced in Russia and jointly with other countries. Collaborated with cinema studios ROCK, SREDA, SALTSTUDIO, REPUBLIQUE

Emily Allen is a Brooklyn-based filmmaker and photographer from Utah. She has worked with directors including Sebastian Junger, Liz Garbus and Jem Cohen. Her work explores the connection of characters and story to environment and place. She directed and shot the short films 81 Bowery, about Chinese immigrants living in a tenement house in downtown Manhattan, and They Came in Softly: Life in the Shadow of a Mine, about a gold mine in Papua New Guinea and its impact on local highland communities. Cisco Kid is her debut feature film.

Giulia Amati is an Italo-French producer and filmmaker, born in France and presently based in Rome. She graduated in Philosophy and studied Digital Video Production at the New York University. In 2013 she founded the production company Blink Blink Prod and since then she has produced and directed short films, social media campaigns and two long feature length documentaries: This is my land… Hebron, which won more than 20 international awards, and Shashamane which was co produced with Rai Cinema in 2016.Her studies and her work have led her to live in different countries including France, Italy, the United States of America, Denmark, Serbia and Ethiopia. She has filmed on her own in difficult contexts such as in the Occupied Palestine Territories, in Africa, in Jamaica and others.

Violena Ampudia (Cuba, 1993) Actriz & Documentary Filmmaker Graduated in 2012 from the National School of Arts in Cuba, specializing in Acting. Graduated in 2020 from the International Film and TV School of San Antonio de los Baños (EICTV) in the specialty of Documentary Filmmaking. Her films address the complexity of interpersonal relationships and growth processes, focusing on women’s problematics: motherhood and gender identity; and have been selected in several festivals such as Jihlava IDFF, Cinélatino Rencontres de Toulouse, Curta Kinoforum São Paulo ISSF, Potiers IDFF and Doc Buenos Aires. She is currently finishing DocNomads, a MA in Documentary Filmmaking, between Lisbon, Budapest and Brussels.

GonzoDocs is a Norwegian Documentary Production company. We make participatory and performative documentaries related to global human and societal topics.

Danai Anagnostou is a producer and researcher based in Helsinki and Athens. She co-founded Kenno Filmi, a cooperative film production house in 2019. She is a Berlinale and Sarajevo Talents alumna and has been featured in the Emerging Pros: Finland Focuses section of European Short Pitch in 2020. She is a Ph.D. student at Aalto ELO and Kone Foundation fellow for 2022- 2025. Kenno Filmi is a cooperative production house in Helsinki, proposing reconfigurations of film and media art production practices through creative exchanges.

It all began in 2006. Back then, Prague's two biggest arthouse cinemas, Aero and Světozor, decided on The Child, a film by the Belgian duo the Dardenne brothers which became the first title distributed by the newly established company Aerofilms. In selecting this film, we took the same approach that we still use today in that we primarily put our faith in our many years of experience running arthouse cinemas, constantly building relationships with our beloved audience, a detailed knowledge of the local milieu, and a considerable number of contacts all over the world.

Giorgio is a filmmaker, architect and musician. He made his directorial debut with the documentary "OWNED: A Tale of Two Americas," a film about the legacy of racial injustice of the US housing economy. The film premiered on Independent Lens/PBS and garnered over 1.5M viewers. Giorgio went on to collaborate with the animator on OWNED, Arthur Jones, on their next film, "Feels Good Man," which premiered at Sundance 2020 and won a Special Jury Prize for Emerging Filmmaker. The film went on to win an Emmy. A strong believer that all good art is political, Giorgio's documentary work often deals with systems of injustice, but always with a focus on creating cinematic experiences.

Giulia Angrisani (Naples 1988) is a visual anthropologist. Her research-based approach in- cludes both documentary and contemporary visual practices, with particular attention to hu- man phenomena of the mental and affective mechanism, both from the relational and experimental point of view. After graduating in Sociology with an anthropological and communication address at the Federico II of Naples, she moved to Lisbon (PT) to undertake a research project with the CRIA - Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, focused on the Anthropology of Emotions. In 2018 she obtained a Master in Plastic, Visual and Space Arts at the Ecole Supérieure des Art – Ecole de Recherche Graphique in Brussels (BE).