HUMAN RIGHTS DOX

Rina Kika is a human rights lawyer and researcher. She successfully represented the case of Blert Morina, one of the first trans people to seek legal gender recognition in Kosovo. In 2020, she was awarded a Fellowship from Duke Law School and worked with Amnesty International, with whom she continues to closely collaborate. She works in different human rights issues with a strong focus on women’s rights, LGBTIQ+ rights and the rights of Roma, Ashkali and Egyptian. Rina holds two master’s degrees, from the University of Zurich in Switzerland and Duke University in the U.S.

Heleen Gerritsen (The Netherlands, 1978) studied Slavonic Languages and Economics in Amsterdam and St. Petersburg. She moved to Germany in 2003 where she completed a course in film production and started freelancing as a documentary producer for various companies and broadcasters. Heleen curated film programs and produced award-winning experimental short films. In 2009 Heleen produced her first feature length documentary and set up her own production company. From 2014 to 2016 she was festival director of the European Documentary Film Festival dokumentART in Neubrandenburg. Since October 2017 Heleen is at the helm of goEast –Festival of Central and Eastern European Film which is organized by the German Film Institute (DFF). She is a founding member of the Documentary Association of Europe and a member of the European Film Academy.

Pieter Paul Mortier is one of the co-founders and the current artistic and financial director of Courtisane, a platform for film and audiovisual arts that organizes a yearly festival in Ghent (Belgium), many programs and screenings throughout the year and publishes Cahiers on a regular basis (www.courtisane.be). He studied Audiovisual Arts / experimental film & video (Sint-Lukas Brussels) and Media (Sandberg Institute Amsterdam). From 2005 to 2010 he taught a course Screenplay non-fiction at Sint-Lukas Brussels and is currently a teacher at the Media Arts department of KASK / School of Arts in Ghent. From 2005 to 2013 and in 2019 he worked as a curator for visual arts, media & sound art at STUK arts center in Leuven.