A panel of renowned female filmmakers give their perspective on quotas imposed by film institutions. Do quotas work, or is it simply about ticking boxes?
Presented by Mastercard
Speakers
- Aida Begić, Director, Film House Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović, Director, Croatia
- Bianca Oana, Producer/Writer, Manekino Film / Monogram Film, Romania
- Agustina Chiarino, Producer, Mutante Cine, Uruguay
Moderated by
- Amra Bakšić Čamo, Producer, SCCA/pro.ba, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Aida Begić
Aida Begić was born in Sarajevo. Her debut feature Snow had its premiere at the Festival de Cannes in the Semaine de la Critique, where it won the Grand Prix. Her Children of Sarajevo premiered at Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. Her short Album was part of the omnibus film Bridges of Sarajevo, which also had its world premiere at Cannes as a Special Screening. Begić is a professor at the Academy of Performing Arts Sarajevo. Her feature film Never Leave Me won numerous awards at festivals worldwide. A member of AMPAS, EFA, UFRBiH and SACD, Begić is currently in post-production with her new film A Ballad.
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović is a writer and director born in Dubrovnik and based in New York City. Her short Into the Blue was nominated for a Student Academy Award, and won awards at the Berlin International Film Fesival, the Sarajevo Film Festival, the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and the Festival de Premier Plans d’Angers, among many others. Kusijanović’s first feature-length film MURINA was developed with support from the Cinéfondation Résidence du Festival de Cannes, the Goethe-Institut's First Films First and the Jerusalem Film Lab, and was produced by Martin Scorsese’s Sikelia Productions, RT Features and Antitalent. Kusijanović holds an MA from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Zagreb and an MFA in screenwriting and directing from Columbia University. She is an alumna of the Berlinale Talent Lab, Talents Sarajevo, the La Fémis Producing Atelier and the Marcie Bloom Fellowship, and is member of the Academy.
Bianca Oana
Bianca Oana is a producer and writer based in Bucharest and Berlin. Since 2009, she has been working in developing, producing and promoting multi-award-winning art-house films, including Toto and His Sisters, which had its world premiere in 2014 at the San Sebastián International Film Festival and won the Grand Prix at the Angers European First Film Festival, and the Golden Eye at the Zurich Flm Festival; Touch Me Not, which won the Golden Bear and was named Best Debut Feature at the Berlin International Film Festival in 2018 and Collective, which was an Official Selection of the Venice International Film Festival, won the European Film Award for Best Documentary and was shortlisted for the Best International Feature and Best Documentary prizes at the 93rd Academy Awards. Oana is currently producing Adina Pintilie’s second feature, Death and the Maiden.
Agustina Chiarino
Renowned Uruguayan producer with more than 15 Latin-American feature films released in the most prestigious film festivals worldwide, that have obtained more than 100 international prizes and have been released in over 30 territories such as: Gigante, 3, So much water, El 5, The waves, The heiresses, My friend from the park, History of fear, Monos and Bosco. She is tutor at Biennale College, Br Lab and PUENTES (also co-organizes it with EAVE). She is part of the selection comittee at San Sebastián’s Co-production Forum and has been project advisor Sundance FI, Doha FI, TorinoFilm lab, Ventana Sur.
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.