BALKAN DOX

Alessandro Stellino (1973), film critic and festival programmer, is the artistic director of Festival dei Popoli and of IsReal - Festival di Cinema del Reale. He teaches film courses at the Civica Scuola di Cinema in Milano, NABA Milano and CISA Locarno. He founded the online film quarterly Filmidee (www. filmidee.it).

Melis Behlil is an Associate Professor of Cinema Studies and Chair of Radio, Television and Cinema Department at Kadir Has University in Istanbul, Turkey. She has been a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a Research Associate at Stockholm University, and a founding member of European Network for Cinema and Media Studies (NECS). In addition to teaching and other academic duties, she writes film reviews for various publications, co-hosts a weekly radio show, and is a member of the Turkish Film Critics Association and FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics).

Marija Zidar is a Slovenian filmmaker. Her award-winning documentary Reconciliation premiered at CPH:DOX, and was selected for IDFA Best of Fests, Sydney FF, Sarajevo FF and ZINEBI, among others. The awards include Best Balkan Film at DokuFest Prizren, Best Female Director at Sofia DocuMental, and Best Documentary at the Festival of Slovenian Film. Her background is in Journalism (BA in Journalism; BA in English Language and Literature) and she has a PhD in Sociology at the University of Ljubljana. She is passionate about presenting thoroughly investigated social issue stories.