BIO
Personal Profile
Dea Gjinovci is a Swiss-Albanian director-producer based in between Paris and Geneva. She participated in the 2021 UnionDocs lab in NYC, the 2019 Sundance Talent Forum and is a 2019 Film Independent Fellow. Her award-winning documentary short 'Sans le Kosovo' won Best National Film at Dokufest in 2017. Her debut feature-length documentary ‘Wake Up on Mars’ was co-produced by the Radio Television Suisse with the participation of France Television and received support from the Sundance Film Institute, the Ford Foundation/JustFilms, the Doha Film Institute, XTR and many other funders and won the RTS pitch award at Visions du Réel 2018. It premiered virtually at the 2020 Tribeca Film Festival and Visions du Réel in Switzerland, and was selected in more than forty international festivals. She was awarded "Best New Talent" mention at Biografilm Festival 2020 and at ZagrebDox 2021.
FILMS
Réveil sur Mars
COMPLETED 2020
Sans le Kosovo
COMPLETED 2017
Feature documentary «Réveil sur Mars»
Directed by Dea Gjinovci
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Produced by Dea Gjinovci, Mélisande Films (France), Alva Film (Switzerland) in association with Amok Films
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Executive produced by Heidi Fleisher and XTR
Co-produced by Radio Télévision Suisse & France Télévision.
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"Wake Up on Mars" was awarded Sundance Documentary Fund grants in April 2018 and January 2020.
Short documentary «Sans le Kosovo»
Writing, directing and editing
Completed January 2017
Shooting locations: Italy, Croatia & Kosovo
AWARDS &
SELECTIONS
Réveil sur Mars
Sans le Kosovo
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World Premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2020
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European Premiere at Visions du Réel 2020
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Awarded special Mention for Best New Talent at Biografilm 2020
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Awarded special mention for Best New Talent at ZagrebDox 2021
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Winner of the "Perspective d'un doc" award at Visions du Réel 2018 organized by Radio Télévision Suisse
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Awarded Impact Day Pitch Award at FIFDH 2019
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Nominated for "Prix de Soleure" and "Opera Prima" at Solothurner Tage 2020
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Selected and presented in more than forty festivals internationally
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Best National Film Award, Dokufest, Kosovo, August 2017
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Winner of «L’Institut français» Prize, Festival Cine Zaragoza, December 2017
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Third Prize in the professional filmmaker category, Global Migration Film Festival, December 2017
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Global Migration Film Festival, December 2017
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This Human World, International Human Rights Film Festival, Vienna, December 2017
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Sole Luna Documentary Festival in Palermo, July 2017 and Treviso, September 2017
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Seanema Film Festival, Ulcinj, Montenegro, September 2017
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Paris Short Film Festival, Paris, May 2017
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International Film Market and Media Library, Visions of the Real, Nyon, April 2017
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Sheffield Festival’s Doc / Player, June 2017
PRODUCED BY
Red Herring
(working title)
Sisters Act
Une Fille Bien
New World
Tamoul Kitchen
Red Herring (in production) feat. length documentary directed by Kit Vincent
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Produced by Ed Owles and Dea Gjinovci
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Supported by the BFI Doc Society, Whickers Awards and the Sundance Documentary Fund
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Participated in the Edinburgh Pitch, Sheffield Meet Market and IFP/Gotham
Sisters Act (in development) feat. length documentary directed by Dea Gjinovci and Antoine Goldet
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Produced by Chachi Hauser, Dea Gjinovci and Antoine Goldet
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Supported by Field of Vision and Fork Films
Une fille bien (in development) feat. length narrative film directed by Maxime Kathari
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Produced by Chachi Hauser and Dea Gjinovci
New World (in development) feat. length documentary directed by Hugo Sobelman
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Produced by Dea Gjinovci
Tamoul Kitchen (in development) feat. length documentary directed by Darius Kaufmann and Eytan Jan
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Produced by Dea Gjinovci and Kavad Films
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Supported by BrutX
ASSOCIATE
PRODUCED BY
In the Heat of the Cold Years
The Finance Curse
Peace for Nina
In the heat of the cold years (in production) feat. length documentary directed by Darius Kaufmann and Eytan Jan
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Produced by Amok Films
Associate produced by Dea Gjinovci
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Supported by Ciné+, CNC and Ile de France regional fund
The Finance Curse (in production) feat. length documentary directed by Leo David Hyde and Nick Shaxson
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Produced by Pip Films
Associate produced by Dea Gjinovci
Peace for Nina (in post-production) feat. length documentary directed by Zhanna Dovhych
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Produced by Zhanna Dovhych
Associate produced by Dea Gjinovci
PRESS &
REVIEWS
Variety
Variety
Cineuropa
Women & Hollywood
Kosovo 2.0
Brut (France)
TV Debate (France)
The Film Stage
Film Threat
The Hollywood Reporter
The Moveable Fest
Cineuropa
Universal Cinema
Indiewire
Visions du Réel
GET IN TOUCH
Reach out to me if you’re looking for a director (non-fiction and commercial work), a consulting producer (on fundraising, festival strategy and distribution) or for general feedback on pitch decks and rough cuts.