Meet our team

Biljana Tutorov, Program Director

Biljana Tutorov is a director, producer and curator. After graduating Art History (UCL, Belgium) she studied Film Anthropology (EPHE) and Drama (Jacques Lecoq School) in Paris. She was first director’s assistant to Yugoslavian film director Želimir Žilnik. In 2010, she founded Wake Up Films in order to produce talents from the CEE region. Biljana established and programmed Regional competition for fiction and docs at FREE ZONE Film Festival in Belgrade until the 2017. In 2018 she created a new platform for women filmmakers - CIRCLE Women Doc Accelerator - which she is the head of. Her feature documentary When Pigs Come (2017) won several awards and was screened in Sarajevo, Hot Docs, Vision du Reel, Cinemed, DokuFest among many other festivals. Biljana was a member of the 59. Festival dei Popoli, Florence, international jury. She is among EAVE 2021 Producers workshop participants, Chicken & Egg 2021 grantees and is alumna of EURODOC and Producers On The Move, and a member of DOK Serbia, Documentary Association of Europe (DAE), European Women Audiovisual Network (EWA) and European Film Academy (EFA).

Letícia da Rosa, Project Manager

Letícia da Rosa is a Brazilian film producer based in Berlin, driven by a strong passion for connecting filmmakers from the Global South with valuable opportunities. With a background in Film Production in Brazil and Cultural Management in Germany, Letícia alternates between working on film and series productions and collaborating with festivals such as Berlinale, Filmfest Munich, and the Duhok International Film Festival. Notably, Letícia programs and coordinates the EFM Doc Toolbox program, an initiative aimed at providing training and support to underrepresented non-fiction producers looking to enter the international film market.

Letícia's work is deeply rooted in a decolonial approach, as she actively works to challenge and rectify historical biases within the film industry. In 2018, she founded the Furora Film Festival in Berlin, a platform dedicated to showcasing innovative and audacious international cinema created by female and gender non-conforming filmmakers.

Thaís Omine, Project Assistant

Thaís Omine (she/her) is a queer Okinawan-Brazilian visual anthropologist and film curator from São Paulo, based in Berlin. Her work moves towards interdisciplinary explorations with moving images and researching on diasporic narratives with a focus on Asian diasporas in Latin America. She has curated interdisciplinary film programs for Sinema Transtopia Berlin, moderated debates and conversations for Oyoun and PFF, working within the migrant, queer and POC focused programs.

Thaís also has a deep expertise in Digital Marketing and Digital Anthropology, freelancing for a diverse range of cultural institutions and independent artists in digital content strategy and creation.

Bojan Schuch, Financial Manager

Bojan Schuch is an experienced executive with expertise in business planning, programs and financial management. He was Executive Director of the Institute of Documentary Film from 2012 to 2018 and Director of CEE Animation from 2019 to 2023. During this time he was responsible for the management and implementation of more than 50 projects supported by various funding programs from different Creative Europe MEDIA grant schemes, the Czech Ministry of Culture and the Czech Cinematography Fund.

He has proven experience in coordinating activities and is responsible for all standard services required for effective project and financial management, including the preparation of evaluation and monitoring data and statistics as well as figures on the programs and projects implemented. Long-standing cooperation with the authorities of the Czech Republic, EC and the EEA in areas relevant to the implementation of the programs, as well as audit support.Bojan holds the position of Finance Manager at Circle.

Module 1 - Evia Island / Greece

Luka Venturin, Program Coordinator

Luka gained formal education at the College of Entrepreneurship (VERN) in Zagreb. While studying Production on the Academy of Dramatic Art in Zagreb, Luka started working as an assistant producer and production manager with many production companies. While working in various aspects of audio-visual production, such as animation, TV show, TV series, event organizing, workshop production, short film production, he became delegate producer and partner in Sekvenca, where he develop film projects by young, perspective writers and directors. His biggest success in Sekvenca was the short film Picnic, that premiered on the Berlinale 2015. In the Generation section, and subsequently won the European Film Award for Best European short film of 2015. From 2018. he started working full time as a freelance producer and organizer. The most recent success came with a 2021 documentary production Factory to the Workers, which premiered at Sheffield documentary festival and was declared best Croatian film in 2021. by Croatian film critics association. He is a Berlinale Talents, Maia Workshop, Ex-oriente and Sarajevo Talent campus alumni.

Since 2017, Luka also works as an organizer of cultural events on many markets and forums, including WEMW Trieste, Zagrebdox, Far East film festival Udine, Connecting Cottbus, Meeting Point Vilnius, Cinelink Sarajevo, SAFFF Singapore.

Virginia Eronico, Production Assistant

Virginia Eronico holds a Master Degree in History of Arts and Conservation of Artistic Heritage, with a specialisation in contemporary art. Through the course of her formation she studied cinema, visual culture and visual anthropology both in Frankfurt Am Main and Paris. She worked as a gallery assistant in Paris and Venice, and for the PR Office at the 80th Venice Film Festival.