Fem.Cine.Anarchy - The Filmmakers

tHE FILMMAKERS

diana belova

Diana Belova was born in St. Petersburg, the cultural capital of Russia. From an early age she was fond of art, graduated from art school in 2009 and entered the St. Petersburg State University at the faculty of psychology. Later she received second education in the Saint-Petersburg State University, Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences (the program of St. Petersburg state University and Bard College), on specialization in film and electronic arts. "Spaced" is the Director's debut work.

ZOé SALICRUP JUNCO

Born and raised in Puerto Rico, Zoé is an award-winning director, writer, and producer. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, her short films have screened in festivals including Tribeca, Palm Springs, Clermont Ferrand, and HBO NY Latino Film Festival. In 2012, her film “GABI” garnered her top prizes like the King Screenwriting Award, the Wasserman Directing Award, the National Board of Review Student Grant, and a spot in The Independent Magazine's "Top 10 Filmmakers to Watch" list. Moreover her commercial body of work includes creating content for brands like Sony, ESPN, Bausch & Lomb, and more. Zoé is a 2013 Cinefestival/Sundance Latino Screenwriters Project Fellow, a 2016 Sundance Women’s Financing Intensive Project Fellow, and an 2012 HBO/DGA Directing Fellowship Semifinalist. She's also an active member of the New York Women in Film & Television Organization and the NYC Women's Filmmakers Group.

SARA KOPPEL

NAKED LOVE FILM & KOPPEL ANIMATION is an animation studio based in Copenhagen, run by multi-award-winning animator Sara Koppel, who is still animating on paper, a craft she have been perfecting since she as a 14 year old punk started in the growing Danish animation business in 1984.

eileen o'meara

Eileen O'Meara is an American artist known for her hand-drawn films “Agnes Escapes from the Nursing Home” and “That Strange Person”. She received the National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship and Women in Film Foundation’s Hollywood Film & Video Grants. She has produced and directed commercial animated spots for clients including Warner Home Video, Motown, HBO, and WEA Latina.

alecia orsini lebeda

Alecia Orsini is an award winning multi-media professional with more than 10 years experience working in the film industry. She is the CEO of video agency Good Natured Dog Productions LLC. Alecia is a lifetime member of the Girl Scouts, and in that spirit of sisterhood, she is the current President of Women in Film and Video of New England. You can catch her teaching Video Production & Social Media all over the country. In 2012 she was named one of the Cape & Plymouth Business 40 Under 40 for her volunteer work & entrepreneurship. She is also one of the voices working behind the scenes for the grassroots organization Save MA Film Jobs.

carlota pereda

Carlota Pereda has spent her career working in TV fiction. She has been a screenwriter and script supervisor for series such as Periodistas and Motivos Personales, has directed series,”El secreto de Puente Viejo”, LEX and Lalola and has worked as [realizadora] on series such as Los Hombres de Paco, Red Eagle, Luna, the Mystery of Calenda and B&b, de boca en boca. Her fist short, The Blondes, was selected in over 137 festivals worldwide and/or awarded in prestigious festivals such as Medina del Campo, La semana del Corto, Certamen Internacional de Cortometrajes Ciudad de Soria or CortoEspaña. “Piggy” is her second short film as a director and already has several selections in screenwriting festivals such as Oaxaca Film Festival (nominated for “Perfect Page” and “best international Screenplay”), Austin Film Festival, Busca Film Festival, Shriekfest, GenreBlast,Austin Revolution Film festival and WeScreenplay, amongst others.

christina raia

Christina Raia is a New York City based Writer/Director and the Founder of CongestedCat Productions. She tends to focus on character-driven narrative projects that explore social issues through humor and horror. Her work, consisting of over a dozen short films, a web series, and two feature films, has screened at film festivals around the world and gained a large online following through multiple crowdfunding campaigns and coverage on press outlets such as Indiewire and BuzzFeed. Through a desire to support other filmmakers, she works for Seed&Spark as the Head of Education, teaching and empowering creators to build their audience and crowdfund their work. She also runs IndieWorks, a monthly screening and community-building series showcasing short films by other New York filmmakers. At the 2019 Queens World Film Festival, she won the Lois Weber Pioneer Award for her leadership in film.

clara santaolaya

Clara Santaolaya has directed two short films previously: “The Damocles’s chains” (2011) and “Pangea” (2015) and various videoclips, video-arts and video-essays that have been exposed at the CCCB (Centre de Contemporary Culture of Barcelona) as “Llull movement” or “The voice of the people “. She has been Assistant director in several series and fictions including “Central Hospital”, “The Secret of Old Bridge” and “The victim number 8”.

chell stephen

Writer/director Chell Stephen was raised in Toronto on healthy doses of music videos, The X-Files and teen dance movies - influences which shaped her debut short film CRYSTAL (SXSW, 2014) a dark comedy about a be-spandexed 17-year-old jerk. Its follow up, Shauna is a Liar, is based on a true story from Chell's youth and features poppy camp visuals, a dash of surreal, plus an earnest beating heart at the center- aka Chell's wheelhouse. Chell was a Sundance Fellow selected to participate in the 2017 New Voices Episodic Short Form Lab with her series, Kidnapping Brihanna. She also directs fashion and music content for global brands with production family Think/Feel, and presently reps the motherland from "fourth largest Canadian city," Los Angeles.

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