CIRCLE Fiction Orbit 2026
Mentors
Bianca Oana
Head of Studies
Dedicated to supporting boundary-pushing cinema and art making, Bianca Oana has been building an expertise in handling challenging filmmaking processes, at the unpredictable border between fiction and reality, cinema and exhibition spaces, and with complex international co-production structures: Golden Bear winner 2018, Touch Me Not by Adina Pintilie, Collective (Oscar nominee for Best Documentary and Best International Feature 2019) by Alexander Nanau, and Anhell69 by Theo Montoya (Settimana della Critica - Venice International Film Festival 2022, winner of the Golden Dove DOKLeipzig 2022). She is the creative producer of the Romanian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with Adina Pintilie's You Are Another Me - A Cathedral of the Body, curated by Cosmin Costinaș and Viktor Neumann, and is currently producing Pintilie's second feature, Death and the Maiden - a German-French-Austrian-Romanian-Czech co-production and Theo Montoya’s second feature False Positive (currently in Cinefondation). Bianca is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), an Emerging Producer (2016), and Producer on the Move (2021).
Dominique Welinski
Producer
In 2012, after distribution for 20 years, Dominique Welinski founded DW, a production and consulting company. Since then, she curates and produces the Factory program which became Next Step Studio with Critics Week in Cannes. She's a consultant for various workshops and labs. She did co-produce films from Sri Lanka, Iran, Israel, India, Brazil and Philippines.
Dana Bunescu
Editor, sound designer and director
Dana Bunescu is a Romanian editor and sound designer. She co-directed with Mona Nicoară the feature documentary The Distance Between Me and Me (2018). Dana is a winner of the Silver Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution at the 2017 Berlinale for Călin Peter Netzer’s film Ana, mon amour. She has been working in the field since 2000. Known for editing The Death of Mr Lazarescu directed by Cristi Puiu (awarded the “Un certain Regard” prize in Cannes 2006), Cristian Mungiu’s films 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days (Palme d’Or, Cannes, 2007), Andrei Ujica’s documentary The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceaușescu (for which she also did the sound design), screened at Cannes in 2010. She is also known for the sound design and editing of Child’s Pose by Călin Peter Netzer, winner of Golden Bear for Best Film at Berlinale 2013, as well as for the sound design of Aferim, I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn by Radu Jude. She edited and did the sound-design of numerous documentaries. Bunescu was nominated and won several Gopo Awards for Best Editing and Sound Design.
Myriam Sassine
Producer, Screenwriter
Myriam Sassine produced award-winning films such as Costa Brava Lebanon by Mounia Akl (Venice - TIFF 2021), 1982 by Oualid Mouaness (TIFF 2019), Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano by Cyril Aris (KVIFF 2023) and Diaries from Lebanon by Myriam El Hajj (Berlinale 2024). In 2016, she co-founded Maskoon Fantastic Film Festival, the only genre festival in the Arab region. She’s also the head of Tatino Films’ international training program Full Circle Lab Nouvelle-Aquitaine Hessen and the program curator of the Arab coproduction platform AFLAMUNA Connection. In 2025, she received with Abbout Productions the Raimondo Rezzonico Prize at Locarno Film Festival, awarded to independent producers who have played a major role in international production. That same year, she joined producer Sophie Erbs within the France-based companies Gaïjin and Sarmadi, consolidating her presence within the European production landscape.